File MC3/360. - Willam Walker, Slingsby, near Whitwell to the Earl of Powis,

He thanks his lordship for his admirable stand in favour of the bishopric of St Asaph. The venerable and holy men who established the bishopric when their population was very thin must have been better judges than they can be of the fitness of its limits and he must be a bold man who would destroy a holy institution which has worked well for perhaps fifteen centuries. The headquarters of the sixth Roman legion were at York for three hundred years and some of its officers were probably acquainted with the first bishops of St Asaph. But where is that legion now? But St Asaph remains, one of the glories of the land. If some remains of the sixth legion could be found, how careful the Duke of Wellington would be to honour it and keep it a separate band. Would he amalgamate it with other legions? No. Then why this rash unhallowed invasion of St Asaph. No human power can deprive the Church of this bishopric. It may be torn from the Protestant Church for a time or perhaps for ever. If this lamentable catastrophe is to happen the bishopric will pass into the hands of the corrupt Church of Rome and become a record of the impiety of this age when perhaps all things else have been forgotten.