Probably his stay at the University was brief, and that he left without
taking his degree, for I have been unable to find anything further
recorded of his academic career. {0a} The Rev. Edmund Prys, Vicar of
Clynnog-Fawr, in a prefatory englyn to Ellis Wynne's translation of the
"Holy Living" says that "in order to enrich his own, he had ventured upon
the study of three other tongues." This fact, together with much that
appears in the Visions, justifies the conclusion that his scholarly
attainments were of no mean order. But how and where he spent the first
thirty years of his life, with the possible exception of a period at
Oxford, is quite unknown, the most probable surmise being that they were
spent in the enjoyment of a simple rural life, and in the pursuit of his
studies, of whatever nature they may have been.

According to Rowlands's Cambrian Bibliography his first venture into the
fields of literature was a small volume entitled, Help i ddarllen yr
Yscrythur Gyssegr-Lan ("Aids to reading Holy Writ"), being a translation
of the Whole Duty of Man "by E. W., a clergyman of the Church of
England," published at Shrewsbury in 1700. But as Ellis Wynne was not
ordained until 1704, this work must be ascribed to some other author who,
both as to name and calling, answered to the description on the title-
page quoted above. But in 1701 an accredited work of his appeared,
namely, a translation into Welsh of Jeremy Taylor's Rules and Exercises
of Holy Living, a 12mo. volume published in London. It was dedicated to
the Rev. Humphrey Humphreys, D.D., Bishop of Bangor, who was a native of
the same district of Merionethshire as Ellis Wynne, and, as is shown in
the genealogical table hereto {0}, was connected by marriage with his
family.