His next removal was to Northolt, a pleasant village in the neighbourhood of London.
He held none of his curacies long, either losing them from the caprice of his principals, or being compelled to resign them from the parsimony which they practised towards him.

In the year 1756 he was living in a garret in London vainly soliciting employment in his sacred calling, and undergoing with his family the greatest privations.

At length his friend Lewis Morris, who had always assisted him to the utmost of his ability, procured him the mastership of a government school at New Brunswick in North America with a salary of three hundred pounds a year.

Thither he went with his wife and family, and there he died sometime about the year 1780.
He was the last of the great poets of Cambria and, with the exception of Ab Gwilym, the greatest which she has produced.

His poems which for a long time had circulated through Wales in manuscript were first printed in the year 1819.