# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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[obscured] Majesty's Courts and as disjunctive from the Lo[obscured]
[obscured] the Governor who is a public & the most supreme
[obscured] the Isle had a Legal Right with two of the Principa[obscured]
[obscured] full Consent & Confirmation to such Deeds It is
[obscured] that these Deeds should still by the Law as it
[obscured] Sanction of the Sovereign or his Governor & fi[obscured]
[obscured] the Archives of the Crown.

[obscured] Atholl it was suggested that the [obscured] Lycence
[obscured] of the Lord is no more than what is generally required
[obscured] Courts in the neighbouring Kingdoms for the
[obscured] Duties & Customs payable to the Lord of the Franchis[obscured]
[obscured] Admissions & Entries of the Tenants, & as may be
[obscured] Purport & Intent of the before recited Statutes — That
[obscured] when their Titles were invaded several Deeds
[obscured] ously confirmed in the Courts of Justice; yet since
[obscured] tablished by the Act of Settlement 1703 they have been
[obscured] ading or Copy hold Courts only where no other Business

[obscured] than the Titles admissions & Entries of Tenants are cognizable — That the
Law vested the L^d Governor & two principal officers not only with the
approbation of his Tenants but in many other acts of his private
Revenues & Disbursements as his principal Servants & Trustees in the Isle
for in their Judicial Capacity, it did not co[obscured]n them whether or no
the Tenants were or were not solvent or capable of paying & performing
their Rents Boons Suits & Services and in the Barony Courts to this
day the Consent & Confirmation of the Senescal "in the proper
Court has ever been held sufficient in Law."

Note — The above Case and Papers have been transmitted to
m^r Nuthall by m^r Lowndes signifying the Lords of
the Treasury's Directions to lay the same before
m^r Attorney General for his Opinion.

1^d Whether the Deeds mentioned in the 18^th
Article[obscured]