# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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My Lord

We have received your Grace's Letter of the 20^th of August
in answer to that we wrote to you on the 25^th of July in which we in=
formed your Grace that in pursuance of the powers vested in us by 12^th
George 1^st we were willing to treat with you for the purchase of the Isle of
Man, and to receive from you a proposal for that purpose, your Grace
acquaints us that uninformed as you are at present from the short possession
you have had of this Island, it is impossible for you to fix upon what you
should think an adequate price for it; that you cannot therefore at present
make any proposal, but that you shall always be ready to receive such as
shall come to you from us. —

Your Grace must be sensible, that this objection which
you alledge against making a proposal on your part, must operate much
more strongly to prevent our making any to you, and that we, who have
not even an opportunity of informing ourselves of the value of this possession
cannot possibly fix upon a price, which as Trustees to the Publick, we should
think ourselves authorized to propose; but as your Grace informs us that
when the purchase of this Island was on former occasions under conside
ration, the late Duke of Atholl gave to M^r Pelham and the Duke of
Newcastle a true and precise state of the nature of this possession, and of
the Revenue arising from it; We think it proper to desire that, if your
Grace now intends to treat with us, you would in like manner transmit
to us, an exact and accurate Rental of the said Revenue, specifying the
several kinds of which it consists, the annual amount of each, and with[obscured]

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