An Irishman convicted in 1724 of bringing counterfeit half-crowns and shillings into the Island and passing three of them. He was hanged. The Manx system distinguished between a local man who made a penny to test his metal and a foreigner who imported counterfeit coin for profit.
Imprisoned by Bishop Wilson for adultery in 1715. Her husband appealed to the Governor, and the resulting jurisdictional dispute between ecclesiastical and civil courts echoed for years. In 1718 the Governor fined Wilson ten pounds 'for disobedience and contempt of the prerogative of the lord of the Isle.' Wilson paid the fine and carried on.
Husbandman on the indicting jury at Illiam Dhone's trial. The Cottier family, 'probably from Lezayre,' would later accompany the Christian brothers to Virginia in 1655 — two Cottier daughters married the two brothers.
Signatory to the Keys' Resolution of March 1765 appointing commissioners 'to preserve the inherent and Constitutional Rights of the People of this Isle, as much as in them lies.' A name that appears only here, on this document — a man about whom the records say nothing else, who shows up for this one act and then disappears back into the parishes.
Filed a petition against William Cashin for assault on 27 May 1765 — ten days after the Revestment payment was completed. Social order disrupted at the point of transfer.
Brought six tons of coal from Liverpool to Douglas in September 1748, because the Island needed fuel as much as it needed profit. The coal boats came and went alongside the brandy ships without anyone finding the juxtaposition remarkable.
Listed as a husbandman on the indicting jury at Illiam Dhone's trial. An English-origin family settled in Kirk Andreas, associated with the Stanley administration — one Charles Wattleworth transcribed the Kirk Andreas parish register under direction of the chaplain to the Earl of Derby.
Soldier on the indicting jury that returned the treason charge against Illiam Dhone. Halsall is a Lancashire place name near Ormskirk, directly in Stanley territory. The Castle Rushen teachers' guide confirms many garrison soldiers were from Lancashire. Not a Manx neighbour — a Lancashire man.
Remembered the way the language died in the domestic space: 'the old folks would talk Manx when they did not want the children to understand.' The image that captures what the Revestment ultimately cost — not revenue, not harbours, but the thread between generations. The grandmother who could not be understood by her grandchild.
Stood in the House of Keys in 1890 and said something that deserves to outlast the debate it was spoken in: 'We had a House of Keys ages before the House of Commons was in existence.' A statement of fact. A hundred and twenty-five years of Crown administration, and still the institutions persisted.
Military officer who directed the twenty-four Keys regarding legislation during the post-Revestment period, as reported by Bishop Richmond to the Duke of Atholl in 1776.
The only Deemster sitting at Illiam Dhone's trial. Asked the Keys for advice when Christian refused to come to the bar. The Keys — seven of twenty-four replaced by the Earl's order — declared Christian 'att the mercy of the Lord of the Isle for liffe and goods.'
Filed a petition regarding illegal seizure of seas in November 1765, the same month as the Ramsey fishing boat seizure. Also advanced money alongside John Taubman for harbour repairs — still petitioning the Commissioners for repayment twenty-six years later in 1791.
London lawyer hired by George Moore in 1766 to prepare the Manx case for the Treasury. Weeks of delay followed. The document Rolt produced emphasised 'the prerogatives of the Lord rather than the rights of the people.' He later wrote a history of the Island in 1773.
His assessment of Grey Cooper's speech survives in the Atholl Papers: 'No performance at the Bar of the House of Commons has been mentioned with so universal and high applause as Mr Cooper's since Ld Mansfield left that Bar.'
Listed 'the proposing the American Tax, and the purchase of the Isle of Man' as twin achievements of the Grenville ministry. Parliament was asserting its authority over its dependencies, and the Island and the American colonies were processed together, in the same session, by the same ministry.
