# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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The Isle of Mann, is about 31 Miles in Length
and ten in Breadth, and by what Accounts can be had
from the Clergy, and others Conversant in the
Affairs of the Island contains from ~~four~~ and twenty
to four and twenty thousand Inhabitants. Both
Men & Women are for most part of a Large Stature
and well Made, And what is particular to Mann
very few of the Inhabitants are any way deform'd
and none are Beggars

The Island is allowd by all the great Men versd
in the Law of England who have had occasion
to give their opinions on that matter Such as

to be a Royall Feoff of England, And consequently
the Lord of the Isle has the whole Regall Power
vested in his person. He make Laws, Coins Money
has the power of Life and Death, and does all other
acts of power & Soverainty that any other Free
State can do

The Lords Revenue arising from the land is
but very Small if compared with the yearly
produce of the Island By the best Calculn can be
made the yearly produce of the Grain, Cattle, Black
Cattle &c with amount to between five and twenty
and thirty three thousand pounds Sterling, and the
Lords Revenue arising from that Stock amounts
to little more than thirteen hundred pounds a year
So that the acknowledgment or Quit rent paid him
is not above five per Cent of what the Tennant has
in his possession. Who has no other Title to his