# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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[margin:] *13th. Feb.*
*1765.*

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A Petition of the moſt Noble John Duke
of Athol, and Charlotte Dutcheſs of Athol,
his Wife Baroneſs Strange, was preſented to
the Houſe, and read; ſetting forth among
other things, " That the Petitioners, having
" ſo lately become Proprietors of the ſaid Iſle,
" are in a great Degree unacquainted with
" the particular Treaties and Negotiations,
" which have been carried on between the
" great Officers of the Crown and their An-
" ceſtors, touching the Purchaſe of the ſaid
" Iſle, and other their Charter-Rights and
" Juriſdictions in and belonging to it, in
" Conſequence of the Act of the Twelfth of
" His Majeſty, King George the Firſt; but
" the Petitioners (reluctant, as they own them-
" ſelves to be, to diſunite from the Honours
" of their Family, ſo ancient and princely a
" Patrimony, the Reward of the Service and
" the Monument of the Virtues of their An-
" ceſtors, granted by Kings, and confirmed by
" Parliament, and derived to them by imme-
" diate lineal Succeſſion, through a Period
" of near Four Hundred Years) do not pre-
" ſume to ſet their private Feelings and partial
" Conſiderations, in Competition with pub-
" lic Utility and Convenience; and, if the
" [obscured]