# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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is ſuperintended by the King and Council.
Suits ariſing in the Iſland and between inſular
Parties are to be determined in the Iſland;
but where the Suit is in the King's Name,
he may make his Suits in any of the Courts
of England.

A Writ of *Quo Warranto* has gone into
thoſe Iſlands for Liberties claimed there. A
*Quare impedit* has been brought in the King's
Bench for a Church in the Iſland of Jerſey.
So an Information has gone for a Riot, or
grand Contempt againſt the Governor deputed
by the King. The great Mandatory or Pre-
rogative Writs run into thoſe *Iſlands.* A
Writ of Habeas Corpus has been returned
from Jerſey.

In the old Regiſter of Writs there is a very
curious one, to this Purpoſe. De Attornato
faciendo in Inſulis de Guernſey, Jerſey, Al-
derney, et Sark, &c. quod liciat A. B. facere
Attornatos in quibuſcunque Curiis Inſularum
earundem poſt Adventum ipſius A in Inſulis
prædictis.

This Writ did not extend to the Iſle of
Man, becauſe the King had no Officers, and
no Court in that Iſland.

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