# 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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I beg leave to lay before Your Hon^rs the
Examination of Thomas Wilson, on whose Evidence
solely, and that chiefly arising from Information,
a Prosecution for any of the Facts mentioned in the
inclosed examination could not be Supported. This
Wilson has before been made Use of in M^r Tytons
Office as an Evidence; to whom it may be necessary
to refer this Examination for his Observations with
regard to Wilson's credit and any Prosecution arising
thereon in his Office.
G. Litchfield
31 October 1764.

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I have perused the inclosed Information of
Thomas Wilson in which there is no Offence
charged upon any Person that would be a
foundation for a prosecution in my Office, even
if the Facts were within his own Knowledge
and not related upon the Information of others;
It appears by the Books in my Office, that in
the Years 1757 & 1758, he gave Informations to the
Collector and M^r Nicholas Armstrong Your
Officers at Newcastle, upon which several Prosecutions
were commenced, and about four Years ago three

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