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Papers relating to a petition, [c. 1715], to have the Great Sessions held in towns in Anglesey in addition to Beaumaris, with a printed Case of Most of the Considerable Gentlemen, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the County of Anglesey; a statement concerning the parliamentary representation of Newborough; notes by Paul Panton on electoral law; draft letters by Paul Panton, 1801; letters by W. Bulkeley, 1715, and Daines Barrington, 1769-1770; notes, by Richard Fenton, for an itinerary in South Wales, [1812] (pp. 85-88); notes by Evan Evans on Cadnant and Gorsedd Nigri; printed votes of the House of Commons including an order on the petition of the Grand Jury of Anglesey on a bill to discourage the commencing of frivolous actions in the Westminster courts; and a copy of the charter of Englefield, Flintshire, 1242.

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.