# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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In the Caſe of the Iſle of Man, all the Re-
galities and Powers which the King exerciſed,
and ſtill exerciſes over the Iſlands of Jerſey
and Guernſey, and ſevered from, and granted
by the Crown. The King as Liege Lord,
has the Sovereign appellate Juriſdiction in all
Cauſes: but his Writs do not run there.
No Proceſs of the Court of England goes
there. No Suits ariſing there, whether at the
Inſtance of the Party or the King, can be de-
termined in England.

The King cannot revoke any Caſe from
the Juriſdiction of the Iſle of Man. I pre-
ſume to think that the great Mandatory Writs
do not lie to the Iſle of Man. I know the
Potency and Energy of theſe Writs; I know
they are ſaid to iſſue to all Places under Sub-
jection to the Crown of England: But I believe
that the Iſle of Man is never mentioned in the
old Books as one of thoſe Places to which
theſe Writs go: And I do not find, and I can-
not learn, that there is one Inſtance of a Pre-
rogative Writ having been ſent to or returned
from thence; and I do not ſee to whom they
could be directed, and by whom returned.
This is a Preſumption amounting to Proof.

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