File MC3/322. - W[illiam Howley], Archbishop of Canterbury to The Rt Rev. [William Carey], Bishop of St Asaph,

He acknowledges the memorial addressed to him by the archdeacons, rural deans, and parochial clergy of the diocese of St Asaph. He feels deeply indebted to the memorialists for their expressions of kindness and respect towards himself personally and cannot but approve their very temperate language. Were the measure to which they object at this time under consideration he would hardly be justified in pressing it forward in opposition to the opinions of so highly respectable a body of clergy, but it forms part of an arrangement which received the sanction of the legislature several years ago and he feels a difficulty in engaging to aid in the undoing of what was then deliberately done. He wishes he could acknowledge the memorial in a manner more satisfactory to his lordship as well as to the clergy of the diocese.