# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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Divided things Placed in Columns
into what was required for the
Public revenue the purposes intended
while the Confidential Agent of the
Family M^r Luag [above line: returned by the [illegible] was made Clerk of the Rolls]
whatever was required of him by
M^r Luttridge the Receiver Gen^l of
the Crown being himself in the
most unenviable situation under
the Gov^r Viz; Clerke of the Rolls
without applying first to his Employer
and without his knowledge or Sanction
The D: of Atholl [above line: a & in respect to the Treasury] of the second
made some feeble Attempts to recover
some of their Rights rapaciously seized
on one Side and given up without Wreck [?]
by his Confidential Agent —
[above line: * produced in our before Deemster]
and ~~to the~~ ~~Revenue~~ among others
that of the R: Norton — whose Opinion
is of the more value as He was Att^y
Gen^l: at the time of the Revestment
and drew the Act — and his Opinion
given about 60 years ago is uniformly
in favour of the D: of Atholls claims
and expressly states they ought to
be settled by a further Act if any
Doubts remained and which was
intended to be brought to settle any
points that were left in any Dubiety
from the Rapidity with which
the Revesting Act was necessarily
carried into effect — In Private
conversation with me He said I

knew

[in 1786 [?]]