# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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may perhaps have arisen, from a Natural wish on the
part of the family whole to be popular, so soon after
its accession— indeed, it would seem, that, the tennent Lords
were in a manner extremely blind to their own interests,
for we find, that, they even forced persons to occupy cer-
tain lands in the immediate vicinity of Castletown, now
extremely valuable in order merely to compel them to pay the
trifling sums termed: Lords Rents,— many other places
throughout the Island, were given away in a Similar
Manner.

The ancient revenue of the Lords of Mann
must have been very great, for, besides, great quantities
of Malt and Meal, the inhabitants were obliged to supply
the Castle, with no less than Six Hundred fat
Beeves. The conversion of the labour which the people
had to perform, [above line: into Money] would in the present day amount to
a very great sum.

The annual produce of this Isle,
would under proper cultivation be extremely great, from
the Natural fertility of the soil, and more than the
half of its surface being arable, (about 100,000 acres)
The fondness displayed, by the great bulk of the people
towards the Herring fishery, unluckily puts a great
bar to the proper improvement of their lands. This
being a dissipated kind of life for four Months in
the Year