As we stood with our hats off in the sacred edifice, I asked Pritchard if there were many Methodists in those parts.
"Not so many as there were," said Pritchard, "they are rapidly decreasing, and indeed dissenters in general.

The cause of their decrease is that a good clergyman has lately come here, who visits the sick and preaches Christ, and in fact does his duty.

If all our clergymen were like him there would not be many dissenters in Ynis Fon." Outside the church, in the wall, I observed a tablet with the following inscription in English.
Here lieth interred the body of Ann, wife of Robert Paston, who deceased the sixth day of October, Anno Domini.
1671.
P.
R.

A.
"You seem struck with that writing ?" said Pritchard, observing that I stood motionless, staring at the tablet.
"The name of Paston," said I, "struck me; it is the name of a village in my own native district, from which an old family, now almost extinct, derived its name.

How came a Paston into Ynys Fon?
Are there any people bearing that name at present in these parts ?" "Not that I am aware," said Pritchard, "I wonder who his wife Ann was ?" said I, "from the style of that tablet she must have been a considerable person." "Perhaps she was the daughter of the Lewis family of Llan Dyfnant," said Pritchard; "that's an old family and a rich one.