# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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and Magistrates in the Way of Complaints of
Dolence and in Short that it has Cognizance
of all Matters of Grievance Which do not
appertain to the Jurisdiction of the other Courts
And it appears to me, [above line: (comparing small things with the great)] to bear no Small
Resemblance to the Court of "the King in
Council" And is therefore Properly and
emphatically Stiled "the Council"

It has been a practice of late years, for
the Deemsters to refer matters of Intricacy
Coming before them to the Staff of Government
Which has the effect per Saltum, by a kind
of Hop-Step-and-Jump of obtaining for the
Parties the same Measure of Justice which
they would obtain upon an Appeal – In Support
of this practice it is alledged that it saves time
and expence to the Suitors However that is
not so clear a matter, And tho' it were, it
would not (I apprehend) justify Such an
Innovation for an innovation it certainly
is and like most other innovations carries danger
in its Consequences – If the Deemsters have a