# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_141017.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

---

amount of Ten, fifteen, and even Twenty Thousand
pounds, have been frequently made in Great Britain
on Ships, and Cargoes of Prohibited Goods from
foreign Parts to the Isle of Man; And that as a
provision against these pernicious Insurances is
only limited to England, Wales and Berwick
upon Tweed by the 4^th and 5^th of William and Mary
Cap: 15 Sec: 14, and at most to Great Britain by
the Union of the two Kingdoms, They likewise Submit
it to Your Lordships Consideration, whether it
might not be proper that some Clause should be
adapted in order to render Insurances of this
nature to that Island ineffectual.

That it having frequently happened that
several of the People of the Isle of Man, in conjunction
with the Smugglers on the Shoar, have violently
obstructed, beat, and abused, and often rescued
Seizures of run Goods from the respective Revenue
Officers, both at Sea, and upon the Land; And
that as it is often, and indeed generally the case,
that those from Man [could they afterwards be
met with so as to be proceeded against for
their Offences] are totally unknown by name to
the Officers whom they have so abused, by which
means the Obstructors; notwithstanding the Laws
provided to restrain them, are effectually secured
against