# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Matthias Curghey Esq^r Robert Radcliffe and
The Humble Petition & Appeal Vicars General of this Isle
of Robert Arthur of Irvin in North Britain
Merchant

Sheweth
That your Pet^r being a Transmarine and having

which day your pet^r attended, but nothing
was done thereon at that Time by reason of the
Absence of one of the Defendants in the said

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That the said Cause having been appointed to
be heard at Ballahorn on the 29^th March
1765 The Defendant Christian Kelly did then
& there exhibit a pretended Plea in the said
Cause whereto the Pet^r having craved Leave
to put in his Replication in the said Cause the
said Plea & Replication were then ordered
to come on to be argued together at a
Consistory Court held at K.K. Michael
on Monday the 15^th of April 1765,
and the pet^r attended accordingly, but
the Hearing of the said Plea & Replication
was then adjourned to a further Day and
so continued by adjournments to the 9^th day
of this Instant May, when the said Plea
of the said Christian Kelly with the Pet^rs
Replication in aid of his said Claim having
come on to be fully argued debated and
discussed before your Reverences in Court in
presence of both parties the pet^r moved
that the Benefit of the said Plea might
be saved to the final Hearing of the said
Cause without prejudice [above line: in the mean time] [and?] that the Pet^r might be at Liberty

by your hon^ble Decree Confirm the Same There
for Relief in all and Singular the Premises