| Disgrifiad | Among the more notable and interesting subjects touched upon are the Catholic Emancipation Question and the considerable agitation which it aroused in the borough in 1828, leading to a dangerous rift between Lord William Paget, who had voted for emancipation in 1827, and the radical anti-Catholic section led by Dr. O.O. Roberts. The predominant feelings of the burgesses on the question find expression in the petition addressed to the Marquess for presentation to the House of Lords in 1821, and there are references also to two other petitions sent up in 1825 and 1827 (1886-1909); the Recordership of Caernarvon and the conflict in 1823 between Lord Anglesey and some of the burgesses over the right of appointment to the post, the former claiming the appointment as being in his gift as Mauyor and Constable, the latter as being vested in the burgesses at large (1820-1847); the Deputy Mayoralty (vacnat in 1829) and the endeavours of Lord Anglesey, convinced that "the affairs of the Corporation have lately fallen into hands by which they are not likely to be upheld with dignity and advantage", to secure for the post a man who could be relied upon to guard and uphold the Plas Newydd interersts in the borough (1910-1919). The disturbed state of borough politics in this period is further manifested in the papers relating to the appointment of a new bailiff in 1831 - "amidst a greater uproar and confusion than took place at any part of teh (Borough) Election " (1938-1948). Other letters and papers in this section relate to the management of corporation property and include proposals for improvement, presentments of nuisances and encroachments; the movement to establish a National School in the town between 1815 and 1819 (1785-1795). Others again touch on the Caernarvonshire slate trade (1860-1862) the renovation of St. Mary's church (1878-1885), the repair of the Eagle Tower (1865-1877) and of Bangor Cathedral, the affairs of Caernarvon Savings Bank (1965-1975) etc. |