| Description | Detailed reports from a Llandeilo physician (3504 and 3505) on the state of health of John Price, the mine agent - note the treatment prescribed. 1811 brings news of a typhus [typhoid] epidemic in Bangor and Caernarvon believed to have strated at the Bangor Free School (3510-3512) Lord Uxbridge dies the following year; William Roberts, a joiner on the estate feels aggrieved that he is not to have mourning (3513-3521). In the news for May is the Nantlle Railroad Bill, and its progress through Parliament; opposition is particularly stout from George Bettis, tenant of the Uxbridge Arms and one of the proprietors of the Nantlle quarries. Having failed to stop the passage of the Bill through the Commons, Bettis & Co., are said to be bent on opposing it in the Lords, a course which if successful would ruin the trade of Caernarvon. Lord Anglesey, however, does not share this apprehension (3522-3525). 3533 reflects the reaction of Welsh nonconformists bodies to the Maynooth Grant in 1846. In this year, too, was launched the celebrated enquiry into the state of education in Wales, and the Marquess is requested by the Home Secretary to prepare the wasy for Henry Vaughan Johnson, one of the Commissioners for North Wales, when he visits Anglesey (3534-3537). 1851 brings news of the Madoc Eisteddfod to be held at Portmadoc in October, the last occasion, so the committee apprehends, on which a similar meeting may be held in that end of the Principality. Lord Anglesey accepts the honour of the Presidency (3538-3540). This is three years begore his death; on May 6th, 1854 the town of Caernarvon goes into mourning (3542) |
| AdminHistory | John Price, the mine agent, died in 1804 of (if the diagnosis is to be trusted) an "obstruction of the liver". |