| Description | The general alarm occasioned in North Wales during the early 19th century by any proposal to relieve the Roman Catholics finds expression in Anglesey in 1813 in the county petition prepared by Paul Panton of Plas Gwyn and forwarded to Parliament. While professing to abhor all religious persecution, the petitioners pray that any further relief to Catholics may be tempered with a due regard for the safety and integrity of the Constitution. IN 1829 again, there was intense opposition to the Catholic Emancipation Bill in the island, and a county meeting was summoned for the purpose of petitioning the King to withhold his sanction to the Bill |