| Disgrifiad | References to shipwrecks near Holyhead and the disposal of salvaged material (979-985); steps taken to prevent the plundering of wrecks (a very prevalent practice) on the coast of North Wales by the appointment of local agents (987, 993-5, 1003). The question of the rights of lords of manors to wreckage, comes up with a report from the Holyhead official of the seizure of wine washed up at Malltraeth by an agent of Col. Bulkeley and by Mr Fuller Maryeick (1016-1020) Dr O.O. Roberts writes from Bangor in April, 1847 soliciting either for himself or for Mr James Rees of Caernarvon, the post of Receiver of the Droits of the Admiralty in the Caernarvon district, a post hietherto held by his brother (W. Lloyd Roberts) who had just died (1069). It is evident from his remarks that the ertwhile radical opponent of Sir Charles Paget was now a dependable political ally of Plas Newydd |