# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Several late Acts of Parliament whereby they are not only deprived
of all manner of Commerce but Ships & Vessels are laid under an
absolute Restraint from taking the least Articles of Stores & Provisions in any
one part of this Isle under the Severest Penalties —

That since the Island became vested in the Crown several of
its Inhabitants have attempted to establish small Factories & carry on
different Branches of Business but have so many Obstructions & Difficulties
to encounter that they are by no means able to bring any one Thing to
Perfection That several have been at great Expence in erecting Buildings
and getting proper Hands for the making & curing of Red Herrings a
Branch of Business never before attempted but to their great disappoint
ment they are not able to effect their purpose as the Laws of Great
Britain now stand for as their fisheries are very precarious and
uncertain at best but of a short duration & many years fail alto-
gether. The Inhabitants are so unhappily circumstanced that by a late
Act of Parliament they are prohibited from Shipping even upon Bond
in their fishing Vessels any the least Quantity of Salt to cure & and
cure their Fish either on the Coasts of this Isle or in the neighbouring
Kingdoms — nor are they allowed to export their Salt Fish or Provisions
when cured into any Part of Great Britain or any of his Majestys
Plantations abroad. —

That your Memorialists in order to to obtain some Mitigation
and Relief from the said Penal Statutes have been for these
five years past at great Expence in sending Commissioners to London
to sollicit the Affairs of this Isle but to no Effect or purpose & being
now destitute of Friends & without a Representative or Friend in the
great Council of the Nation have no other Recourse but by laying
some of their Grievances before your Excellency whose Goodness of Heart
and attention to the welfare of this People cannot but be sensibly
affected at their distresses. —

Most humbly imploring your Excellency to
represent and lay their Calamitous Situation
before the Throne of their most Gracious Sovereign
That