# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Honble

Pursuant to your Commands of the 18^th
Instant, We beg leave to acquaint your Honours
that from the strictest enquiry and best intelligence
we can get, which we have procured in as private
a manner, and with as much care and accuracy as
possible – Inclosed please to receive a List of the
Goods usually imported into the Isle of Man and
from whence, and the Duties payable to the
Proprietor for the same; the Revenue arising
therefrom according to our Information, has
amounted of late Years to about Six Thousand
pounds per Annum one year with another, but
it's generally supposed that it will rather
decrease, than increase, We sincerely wish it
was in our power to give your Honours a more
perfect Account, and beg leave to remain

Your Honours
Customhouse Leverpoole
23^d. May 1761.

Most Obedient humble Serv^ts.
Jn^o Colquitt
R Atkins

We are also informed that the
Rents arising from the Land
make the Proprietor about One
Thousand Nine hundred pounds p^r Annum.

Commiss^rs Customs

MS 09707/6/317/ii

AP 40B. 2