pp94/95- Manx Soc vol 9  'Monumenta de Insula Manniae - Vol 3'
From
Manx Soc vol IV,VII & IX
Report of the Lords respecting the King's Interest
A.D. 1607.
STATE PAPER OFFICE, SCOTLAND.*
5
JAS I
W
E (whose names are

underwritten) being assisted with the two Chief Justices, and the

Chief Baron, have heard all that would be sayd by your

Ma
ts
learned Counsell, concerning your Ma
ts
interest in the Isle of Man,
Whereby we find these three things that followe.
First, we find, by a Lre under the late Queens hand, that (during

the times of the contention betweene the Erle of Derby and the

coheirs) her Ma
t
s did cofihit the Custody of that hand to

the Lo. Gerard : the rather upon information given by her Mats

Atturney generall (now Lo. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) that

there was some imperfection in the grant w
ch
was made by

K. Henry 4 to the Erles Ancestors.
Secondly, we find, by the Judges Certificate under their hands,

that (for anything w
ch
yet appeareth to them) there is

this imperfection in the grant of K. Henry 4 to the Ancestors of the

Erle : that when he gave
Sir

John Stanley
the Inheritance of the hand by tres patent, there

was mention made, that the sayd Sir John Stanley had a state in it

for terme of life, w
ch
cannot be so accompted in point of

lawe ; because it is held that it was not in the Kings power to grant

him that state w
ch
was there repeated, seeing the K. had

geven that state to Sir John Stanley as soone as the Erle of

Northumberland (from whome it escheated to the Crowne) did commit

rebellion; w
ch
was before there passed any Acte to

attainct the Erle of Northumberland in forme of lawe.
Lastly, we find that the Ancestors of the Erle of Derby have

continued owners of that hand from the 6 th of Henry the 4th downe to

Ferdinando, brother to this Erle, w
ch
is about two hundred

yeares.
This being the true state of the cause, it resteth now in your

Ma
ts
owne wisdome how to deale with the petitioners eyther

in point of lawe, whereby the strict construction thereof (as these 3

Judges hold it) your Ma
ts
may pretend Title : or in point

of Equitie : all w
ch
we must humbly referr to your

Ma
ts
owne gracious pleasure.
S. Dorsett,
Gilb. Shrewsbury,
E. Worcester,
H. Northampton.
[ ENDORSED.]
The reports of the LL
ds
the Ks interest in the Isle of

Man.
* Vol. 27, Art. 39.
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