# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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to it as any Lord, or Owner of any Manor
or Eſtate in the Kingdom.

This Iſland is Part of the Crown, but not
of the Realm of England. It is under the
Allegiance of the King, but governed by its
own Laws and Cuſtoms. In theſe Reſpects
and in theſe only it reſembles the Iſlands of
Jerſey and Guernſey. But as it has been
conſidered, not only in common Error, but
in ſome few Acts of Parliament, to ſtand in
the ſame Relation to this Kingdom as Jerſey
and Guernſey, it may be of ſome Conſequence
to mark the difference.

Jerſey, Guernſey, Alderney and Sark were
Part of the Duchy of Normandy. King
John loſt Normandy. The Iſlands, as the
Dependencies, were loſt ſoon afterwards ; but
reconquered in the ſame Reign, and have been
ever ſince in the Poſſeſſion of the Crown of
England. They are governed by their own
particular Cuſtoms which are to be found in
the Grand Cuſtumier of Normandy. But all
the Prerogatives, Regalities, and Juriſdictions
of thoſe Iſlands reſt in the Crown. They
have never been granted away. The King
appoints the Governor ; has the Juriſdiction
of the Admiralty Courts. The Civil Juſtice