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Legal notebooks of Paul Panton, senior, 1745 (NLW MS 2063B), [early 1750s] (NLW MS 2062B).

A letter, 178S, from Evan Evans to Paul Panton, urging him to seek financial support from Sir Roger Mostyn, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and others for Evans's proposal to publish some of his transcripts (pp. 3-14); Evan Evans's account of his tour, 1778, through parts of South Wales (pp. 25-59); transcripts by Evan Evans of an account by Sir John Wynn, Gwydir, of the administration of early Wales (pp. 69-75), of a list of some of the 'antiquities', i.e. muniments, at Gwydir (pp. 77-79), of letters exchanged between Sir John Wynn and Thomas Williams [i.e. Wiliems], physician (pp. 80-82), of 'Englynion i ofyn chwech o ellynnod it parchedig Mr. Rys Anwyl o Hendre'r Mur A.M. tros Sion Prys o Bennant Mowddwy' by Rhys Jones, Blaenau (pp. 95-99), and of 'Instructions to be observed by Mr. David Edwards of Rhyd Gors in the County of Carmarthen gen. deputy to ... Clarencieux ... 1684' (pp. 101-103); 'Trioedd Taliesin' (pp. 121-122); English prose translations of two poems by Iolo Goch to Owen Glyn Dwr, sent by Richard Davies, Holywell, with a letter, 1786, to Paul Panton (pp. 125-130), with a copy by Evan Evans of both letter and translations (pp. 105-120); etc.

Legal notebooks of Paul Panton, senior, 1748 (NLW MSS 2058-2059B), and Paul Panton, junior, [early 1780s] (NLW MSS 2056-2057B, 2060B).

Miscellaneous papers, including 'An Elegiack Dialogue [between 'Passenger' and 'Beaumorice'] dedicated to ye memorye of ... Mr Richard Bulckley [of Baron Hill, died March 1639/40] lately deceased' by 'Geo: Dib' [?George Dibdall], [1640] (pp. 113-128); translations from Horace, Cicero, and Martial; and miscellaneous Latin and English poems, including some by Paul Panton, senior.

A volume containing one hundred and twenty-one letters, 1774-1791, from Thomas Falconer, classical scholar, to Paul Panton, [?]junior, Plas Gwyn (ff. 7-254), and three letters, 1774-1775, from Falconer to ... Plymley [?Joseph Plymley, Archdeacon of Salop] (ff. 1-6).
Loose in the volume (ff. 255-273) are additional papers, 1775-1810 and undated, including a letter, 1775, from Daines Barrington to Paul Panton, senior (ff. 256-257); a copy of a letter, 1809, from W. Jones, Beaumaris, and of his 'proposal' regarding the demolition of North Wales castles (ff. 267-268); notes [by Richard Fenton] for a tour 'From Llandilo by way of Swansea Neath Margam & Ewenny to Cowbridge', [1812] (f. 271); etc.

'Nugæ Antiquæ', being summaries, with, in some instances, annotations and transcripts, made by Paul Panton, senior, of Wynn of Gwydir papers and other letters and papers at Plas Gwyn, Anglesey (NLW MS 2067iiE: items 1-367; NLW MS 2067iB: items 368-562).