# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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appear to be properly cognizable in, [obscured]
do hereby in the mean time complain
of the said Illegal Seizure of the
said Seas to your Excellency —
and for Relief in the promiſes
do therefore humbly pray
that your Excellency will
be pleased to admit this
their Claim to the said Seas
to be filed of Record, to
avail at time and place
proper —
and your Pet^rs as bound
Condal'd [?] Nov^r 1765 shall pray &c
Preferred —}

John Stevenson on
for him self &
the other Petitioners
Concerned —