# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription **Source image:** `20260219_103312.jpg` **Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 20:32 **Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6) --- the Matters of the said petition and Compand by desire and in pursuance of the Order of the Lieutenant Governor on the said petition bearing date the 8. day of August 1776 And we do therefore decline proceeding in the said Cause. a Meeting of the Keys in Castletown the 24^th day of July 1776 sted that Mess^rs William Quayle W^m Callow and Sam^l John Stevenson worth three of our Members be & they are hereby appointed ittee to inspect settle and adjust the sev^l accounts subsisting W^m Christian n John Quayle Esq^r Clerk of the Rolls & this House concerning W^m Callow d arising from Public House Licences And also the ccounts the Transactions between the said House & John Sam^l Wattleworth an Esq^r as late Clerk thereof — They the said Mess^rs Sam^l Wattleworth e Callow and Wattleworth or any two of them to be Rich^d Tyldesley pon the said several accounts for or ag^st the parties rned to the House on their next Meeting — That the W^m Quayle ence on the said accounts may be ascertained and the es applied according to Law. George Moore Callow John Taubman William Callow ualtrough W^m Chicken Mill^r Murray W^m Quayle John Frissell Tho^s Radcliffe Philip Moore Sam^l Wattleworth W^m Cubbon John Casar W^m Cubbon At the House of Keys the 28^th June 1777 We the Keys of Mann having in pursuance of His Excellency the Gov^rs order proceeded to try and determine the Matter of a certain Action instituted at — Common Law the 8^th December 1775 by Rob^t Garrett Plff ag^t W^m Garrett Deft for the Recovery of a parcel of Intack in the Parish of Lezayre of — [illegible] p^r rent and having fully heard the parties or their Attorneys in the said Cause and perused the Sheading Jury and Traverse Jurys Verdict or Judgm^t given in the premises dated the 6^th May, and 29^th July 1776 and all — Entries, Wills, Deeds and Exhibits produced by and on behalf of the said parties respectively and upon full & Mature Deliberation of the same and of what was offered by the parties Severally We Say and are of opinion that the said Plff — Rob^t Garrett is not entitled to the said Lands & promiſes atchmed for or any part thereof and that the said Traverse Jurys Verdict dated the 29^th July 1776 as afores^d is illegal & the same is hereby reversed and the Verdict of the Sheading Jury — dated the 6^th day of May 1776 aforesaid is affirmed and we adjudge the Plff to recover nothing and the Deft to be continued in the quiet poſſeſsion of the promiſes atchmed for and that each party bear his own Costs Ja^s Oates William Callow George Moore John Stevenson Tho^s Radcliffe John Taubman Philip Moore Sam^l Wattleworth W^m Quayle Rich^d Tyldesley W^m Christian Tho^s Fargher Math: Christian John Casar Hugh Cannahan Philip Moore W^m Cubbon Tho^s Christian Philip [obscured] George Moore Tho^s Fargher Philip Moore W^m Cubbon Ja^s Oates Philip Moore John Casar Tho^s Christian W^m Qualtrough [margin: 1776] [margin: Garrett Plff] [margin: Garrett Deft] [margin: Callow] [margin: Qualtrough] [margin: Oates] [margin: Stevenson] [margin: Tyldesley] [margin: nott ptt] [margin: nott Deft]