# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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all Rights so reserved to the
Duke of Atholl by the Act of
1765, would extinguish effectually
and for ever the whole of these
accumulated evils, and, by
procuring for the Petitioners, and
the Inhabitants of the Isle of
Man, the inestimable benefit
of His Majesty's direct and
undivided protection, would
ensure the everlasting gratitude
of themselves and their latest
posterity, and in a pecuniary
point of view might be so
arranged as not to be attended
with loss, but rather to produce
gain to His Majesty's Government;
the Petitioners, therefore, most
humbly and most earnestly pray,
that the House may be pleased
to take into their deliberate
consideration the wisdom, humanity,
and justice of extending the
known