# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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within his two Manors were finally
settled, and the ancient Tenures
restored and confirmed, though with
the additional Burthens of Fines
certain on Descent and alienation.
Impositions from which the Landholders
within the other three Baronies ever
were, and still continue to be free. It
is unnecessary to remind your
Excellency that the last mentioned
Act of Tynwald so lately as in the
Year 1777 received His Majesty's
Royal Confirmation. The Services
(commonly called Carriages) performable
by the Landholders within his
Grace's Manor, called the Lord's
Land are by the ancient Laws of the
Island declared to Applicable to the
Building and Repairing the Lords
(then the Sovereign's) Forts and
Houses, and emphatically termed
"Works for the Honor and Safety of
"the Country." And the Lords of the
Island