# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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My Lord

We have received your Graces letter of the 26^th of August in
answer to that we wrote to you on the 25^th. of July in which we informed your Grace
that in pursuance of the powers vested in us by the 12. George 1^st. We were
willing to Treat with you for the Purchase of the Isle of Man, and to receive
from you a Proposal for that purpose; your Grace acquaints us, that
uninformed as you are at present from the short Possession you have had of
this Island, it is impossible for you to fix upon what you should think an
adequate Price for it, that you cannot therefore at present make any Proposal
but that you shall always be ready to receive such as shall come to you
from Us.

Your Grace must be sensible, that this objection, which you alledge
against making a Proposal on your part, must operate much more strongly
to prevent our making any to you, and that We, who have not even an
opportunity of informing ourselves of the Value of this Possession, cannot, possibly
fix upon a Price, which as Trustees to the Publick we should think ourselves
authorized to propose; but as your Grace informs us that when the Purchase
of this Island was on former occasions under consideration, the late Duke of
Atholl gave to M^r Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle a true and precise
State, of the nature of this Possession, and of the Revenue arising from it, We
think it proper to desire that, if your Grace now intends to treat with us, you
would in like manner transmit to us, an exact and accurate Rental of the
said Revenue specifying the several kinds of which it consists, the annual
amount of each, and with respect to any Customs or Import Duties which
you