Description | Some sidelights on the progress of the new Holyhead Road (4700, 4703-4) and on the Malltraeth Drainage Scheme (4702,4705,4714); 4713 is a petition from three residents of Waenfawr who, having built cottages on the common there, have been disposessed by neighbouring freeholders; most eccentric is the application of John Evans, a tailor of Llaneilian-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, for the tenancy of the Jubilee Tower built by Lord Anglesey; he is prepared to become a hermit for 7 years and will do anything required "in letting the Hair, Beard, which will be of no difficulty and Nails grow"/ being "of hairy Nature and Black complexion" (4715) |