Diary for the period 9-16 August 1747. On 13 August, William visited the 'itinerant charity school that is kept at this time in Caban house' where the children are taught to read Welsh. The school was one of the 'circulating schools' of the type first established by Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, in 1731. William notes that the school is 'chiefly supported by South Wales Gentlemen & Englishmen. The clergy are generally all against these itinerant Schools & do all they can to depreciate them, calling them the nurseries of the Methodists, but they keep their ground in severall parts of the Countrey in spite of all the resistance they give them'.