# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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[margin: Some Notes for Lord [?]]

Proposed Heads –

[margin: 3 Geo 1] Object of Revestment of Isle of Mann
in the Crown – 7 Geo: 1

[margin: for correspondence] Negotiation in 1764
Carried into effect of Revestment
made in 1765 —

[margin: D^o —] Contract Sale deprecated but so
Small a Price was offered that
the D: of Atholl was obliged to
go into that measure

[margin: D^o] Total Ignorance on the part
of The Public as to the nature
of the Isle of Mann and erroneous
Impressions made that there d.
Smuggling into G: Britain & Ireland
no Revenue could be drawn by
Family — note the local Import first
offered Viz: £2000 then rose to 70000[?]
and [above line: a grant of£ Ireland &] Subsequently 2000 P. Ann: on
the part &was of the then D: & Dutchess[?]

neither on the part of the Duke
could he [above line: nor Lords of the Treasury or] underceive the Government
for he had only just succeeded
for[?] D: of Atholl who had never attended[?]
to and knew nothing of the nature
of this ~~former~~ Inheritance and ~~the~~
an Unexplained Schedule of ten years
Income was all the Information the
Duke of Atholl could or did Lay before
the Public — nor was that Schedule
[bottom right: ever]

AP 39A – 12