| Description | Llanddeiniolen is worth £300 a year and attracts two candidates only - the Rev. William Lewis Jones, Rector of Llanengan and Rice Robert Hughes, son of Sir William Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch. In strong support of the former are Col. Love Jones Parry of Madryn and John Trevor, late editor of the Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald.
Trevor's letter to Lord Uxbridge contains a strong plea in favour of Jones on the grounds of political advantage; "the situation of Llanddeiniolen being crtitical" will give Jones an "interest and influence among a class of voters now in the opposite camp". And what if he should be suspected of pluralism; the writer fails to understand why, until the system is altered by law, Tory parsons should alone benefit by existing abuses (1781). Sanderson, however, although favouring Jones' claim, is doubtful if the living |