Account of Mr David Williams, solicitor with the executors of the late Thomas Parry Jones Parry, Esq.

The left hand columns are brimful of interest, with their references to the bag of gold, value £230, left in David Williams's office by TPJP a short time before his death; the rents collected for the Executors, with the names of farmers and farm.

These accounts are quite overshadowed by the election accounts of 1835 when the heir of Madryn was returned as M.P. for the county and which were paid "out of the funds of the executors" of his father's will. they supply interesting sidelights on electioneering methods just after the passing of the reform bill and before the ballot agitation and effectively started.

The following are typing entires of expenses :

p. 2 - Donation towards the Infant School at Bangor £3

p. 4 - Persons employed to assist in canvassing and other purposes £13

p. 4 - Bailiffs of Carnarvon towards erecting the hustings £50

p. 5 - Advanced Dr O. O. Roberts for special purposes £15

p. 5 - Advanced Mr O. O. Roberts at the request of Col. Jones Parry £200

p. 5 - Donation to prisoners in county gaol at the request of Mrs Col. Parry £2.3.0.

p. 5 - Mr Hayden subscriptions towards the organ in St. Mary's Chapel. Carnarvon

p. 6 - paid myself to different persons and in different ways in the course of the canvassing at Carnarvon, Bangor and Pwllheli £16.14.0

The total paid on account of the election of Col. Parry out of the Executors' fund was £2,207.15.5 (p. 7)

The election of 1835 was an especially bitter one in Carnarvonshire, as witness the terrific diatribe that was subscribed by "A Welshman" and bearing date "January 6, 1835". It was addressed to the electors of the Carnarvon Borough (printed by J.T. Jones, Carnarvon).

Dr O. O. Roberts was the Bangor radical and revolutionary.

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