# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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A Doubt having Arise[obscured]
Article of the Schedule [obscured]
those Deeds sho^d Prope[obscured]
and Office of his Ma[obscured]
Delivered to the Duk[obscured]
of his Manorial R[obscured]
and Circumstances

[margin: this Statute is not to be procured] By the Statute Law Anno 158[obscured]
eyes Arriving as well to the Lord
of Mann by their Disposing of the
Tenure & Subject to certain Rents[obscured]
the Lord of the Isle without the [obscured]
Lord or his Governor & Officers whereby
Customs could not be so well gotten nor
known & the Lands being privately dispers[obscured]
Persons that the Setting Books were not to

Persons whose Names stood Recorded mig[obscured]
It is therefore enacted that no Land owner shall di[obscured]
without the special Lycence of the Lord or his Govern[obscured]
Principal Officers of the Isle. And also by another
It is declared & enacted that no Person shall convey [obscured]
Cases of Poverty or for some other just Cause or Re[obscured]
to & approved of by the Lord or his Governor and Officer[obscured]
[margin: In] behalf of the Crown it was alleged that it doth not ap[obscured]
Statutes or any other matter of Rec[obscured] [obscured]