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From
Manx Soc vol IV,VII & IX
Order of Lord Derby respecting the Money raised for the Repairs

of the Cathedrall of Peel Castle.
A.D. 1686.
EPISCOPAL REGISTRY.
FORASMUCH as the R
t
Rev
nd
Father in God
Baptist, Lord

B
p
of my Isle of Man hath presented unto me a view

w
ch
hath been made of the decays and delapidations of the

chancell of the Cathedrall in my
Castle

of Peel
within my said Isle, wherein ye Jury and workernen who

made the said view have allowed the summe of fourty three pounds

nineteen shillings and ten pence for the making up and repairing of

the said delapidaeons, and for that his L
d
ship (amongst

other his good and zealous designs for the advantage of my said

Island) hath been fully purpos’d to bestow and disburse

y
e
said summ of moneys upon the repaires aforesaid, but

withall considering that the same would be altogether

ineffectuall
whiles the body of the church did lie open

and uncover’d, ‘w
ch
would make the said chancell

obnoxious to the weather, and endanger the same to be blown away with

every tempest : and I my self being . the place in Summer last, and

seeing the said inconveniency, I have thought it therefore more

expedient for the present, and I do accordingly direct and order that

the said summ of fourty three pounds nineteen shillings and ten pence

shall remain deposited in the hands of y
e
said

L
d
B
pp
untill
it shall please God to

raise some good Instruments and Benefactors to contribute towards

repairing y
e
whole church (the Parisio
rs
who

are obliged to do the same being altogether unable for the worke) or

until such time as some good Law shall be maide in the ss
d
Island for demolishing of said Cathedrall, and the repairing and

enlarging of St. Peter’s chappell, in Peele town, with the

mathrialls thereoff; and if the same doth not happen or fall out (as

it is heartily wished that it might) in the time of the said

L
d
B
pp
, that then his Lo
pp
paying

the said moneys into the hands of his successor to the use and design

before mentioned, is to be acquitted and discharged for y
e
same or any obligacon that might lie upon his Lo
pp
for or

concerning the said repaires. And I do direct and appoint that this

my order shall be entred into, the Records of my said Isle, as well

for the discharge of the said L
d
B
pp
as the

manifesting of this my present will and pleasure iii and concerning

the premises. Given under my hand and seale at
Knowsley
,

the 18
th
day of October, in ye yeare of our Lord God

1686.
Derby.
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