File MC1/113. - W[illiam Carey], bishop of St Asaph, from St Asaph, to Viscount [Clive],

He thanks his lordship for a copy of Sir James Graham's Bill. Upon some points it appears to be very objectionable, but he is afraid that opposition to it will be of little avail. He hopes, however, that exertions will be used to amend it. Surely the revenues arising from sinecure rectories ought to be applied, as is so well urged in Lord Powis's speech, to the augmentation of their poorer livings, and surely the canonries in the Cathedral establishments of North Wales ought not to be confined to two, nor should the income of the deaneries be diminished, when it has been enacted that no cathedral establishment in England shall consist of less than a dean and four canons and that no deanery in England shall be reduced in value below £1,000 per annum. He says nothing of the cathedral establishments in South Wales becaue they have always been on a different footing. With regard to the archdeaconries, he proposed in a note to Sir J. Graham that there should be two in the diocese of St Asaph with an annual income of £150 secured to each from the present revenues of the archdeaconry. He is prepared to carry this arrangement into effect immediately. Perhaps it may not be necessary to provide for this specially in the present Bill as he presumes that the Queen in Council can order it.