# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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[top left corner, partially obscured:]
[obscured] to the
Commisſioners
for their Information
the Secretary's

May it please Your Lordships

Your Lordships having been pleased, upon
reading M^r Wood's Letter, transmitting Informations
received from M^r Burrow, the Collector of Whitehaven,
and M^r Willson, whom he employed in relation to
the Fraudulent practices carried on in the Isle of
Man; to direct Us, by M^r Whately's Letter of the 4^th of
the last Month, to send either for M^r Willson or M^r
Burrow, as We should judge proper, examine them,
and to report to Your Lordships, whether, We think
the Intelligence they can give, is sufficient whereon
to ground an Accusation.—

We beg leave to acquaint Your Lordships, that,
immediately on receipt of M^r Whately's Letter, We
directed M^r Burrow, to order Willson to attend Us,
And We herewith lay before Your Lordships, for Your
Information, a Copy of his Examination, together
with Copies of our Solicitors Reports thereon.

Customhouse London
8.^th November 1764.

All which is humbly Submitted.
Da^d Hooper. [?]
H. Parles [?].
Pennington
E^r Morris.

MS 09707/6/323/i

MS 09707/6/323/ii

AP 40B-18