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268 PAROCHIAL ACCOUNT
and was in all probability the first native who actively
propagated and fostered the views of the Welsh Metho-
dists in Llanidloes. In those days the Tyddyn appears
to have been the central station of the locality, and
there is preserved in the Trefecca meetings an account
of a meeting held there August 22nd, 1745, when the
Rev. Daniel Rowlands, William Williams, and Mr.
Howel Harris were present as the leaders of the move-
ment ; Benjamin Thomas, William Richards, James
Williams, and Richard Tibbot, as superintendents ;
William Evans, John Williams, Evan Jenkins, Evan
Morgan, Benjamin Rowland, Thomas Meredith, David
John, Thomas Jones, Evan Dafydd, Andrew Whitaker,
and Reinallt Cleaton, as exhorters. The office of ex-
behind, with provision for a school-room to be erected at a future
time. The first space is enclosed by a handsome boundary wall
surmounted by ornamental railings, with gates to match. Pro-
vision has been made for heating the chapel with one of
Whitaker's patent apparatus, and every attention has been paid
to the gaslights and windows, the latter being filled with obscure
sheet-glass relieved by a considerable display of painted glass."
Whittakers are an ancient family, originally from Lancashire.
