HOME OFFICE DOCUMENTS INDEX - 1765-1840
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Index to transcribed Home Office Documents - 1765-1840
Index to Transcribed Home Office Documents - 1765-1840
The UK National Archives [TNA] includes two large files under the SP 48 heading
as part of a much larger collection of State Papers. These files are the two
collections referred to in the Calendared papers as Isle of Man Books 1 &
2 covering the period 1760 to 1783 - whereas all of Book 1 was calendared, less
than one third of Book 2 has so been. As the period of direct Rule from the
Treasury between 1765 and the early 1780s is poorly served by surviving records
on Island, these books provide a valuable additional resource e.g. Governors
Wood and Smith as well as Lt-Governor Dawson wrote many letters to the Secretaries
of State but no copies of these letters remain on Island. As mentioned some
of these are referenced and summarised in the Calendared
Papers but many remain unindexed. Post 1783 such reports to the current
Secretary of State, together with other documents, are held in files HO 98/63-82
- e.g. HO 98/63 covers period 1784 to 1791. The first six volumes HO 98 series
of files are bound documents, often tightly bound with some loss of text in
the binding, unnumbered pages but generally in date order and uncalendared,
later files are boxes of unnumbered loose papers for which any intended order
is easily lost.
HO 99 are indexed, bound volumes of documents sent from the Home Department
relating to Manx items - the three volumes of interest are HO
99/16, HO 99/17 and HO 99/18
Though the wording and spelling is that of the original, I have in places altered
the capitalisation common in documents of this period - I have in a few places
added punctuation and occasional italicisation to clarify the text. Though the
identification of the document is that needed to call out the document when
at the archives, the brief description is my own. At present none of these documents
is digitised though there is a microfilm for the SP 48 files but not the HO
98 series. The Notes section appended to the documents is my own comment and
cross-linkage to other documents.
The Governor from 1763 through to his death in 1777 was John
Wood, who was kept in post, though seldom paid, by London, he was succeeded
by Governor Smith who was seldom
on Island, placing there a Lieutenant Governor - for much of this period this
was Lt. Governor Richard Dawson.
Treasury's control of the Revenues was by their appointment of Charles
Lutwidge as Receiver General until his death in 1784 - he too was seldom
on Island after the initial few months of 1765/6 spending most time in Whitehaven
and London.
Smith was followed in 1793 by James
4th Duke of Atholl as Governor-in-chief until 1830, in retrospect an unwise
appointment by Westminster - Lieutenant Governors were Alex Shaw(appointed to
replace Dawson in 1791) and then Cornelius
Smelt from 1805 until 1832 after which only Lieutenant Governors were appointed.
A finding aid to the 2000 or so papers in the non-calendared SP 48/2 and HO
98/63-82 files is in course of preparation
SP 48/2    - 1775-1777
SP 48/2    - 1777-1783
HO 98/63 - 1784-1790
HO 98/64 - 1791-1793
HO 98/65 - 1794-1795
HO 98/66 - 1796-1805 [nothing dated 1797 or 1798
in file - many communications between Lt Govr Shaw & Atholl are in AP_X20(2nd)]
HO 98/67 - 1806-1812 [nothing from Nov 1807 to
July 1808 in file]
HO 98/68 - 1813-1817
HO 98/69 - 1818-1820
HO 98/70 - 1821
HO 98/71 - 1822
HO 98/72 - 1823
HO 98/73 - 1824-1825
HO 98/74 - 1826
HO 98/75 - 1827-1828
HO 98/76 - 1829-1830
HO 98/77 - 1830-1834
HO 98/78 - 1835
HO 98/79 - 1836-1837
HO 98/80 - 1838
HO 98/81 - 1839
HO 98/82 - 1840
The following list indicates those currently transcribed
SP 48-2 p164 - Want of Copper Coin
SP 48-2 p166 - Three years of arrears of pay
for Civil Establishment
SP 48-2 p171 - A Flax Manufactory established
1777
SP 48-2 p271 - Atholl's Seneschal occupies Douglas
Court Room 1780
SP 48-2 p365 - P J Heywood to Wm Adam re status
of report on Keys' Bill - Sept 1783
SP 48-2 p370 - Report of Lt-Govr Dawson to Lord
North - Sept 1783 re bad state of repair of Barracks
SP 48-2 p378 - Letter of Governor Smith to Lord
North - Oct 1783
The pages in HO 98 files are unnumbered but, if bound, arranged in date order
(other than enclosures of earlier dated documents)
HO 98/63 - Duke of Atholl on his right of Patronage
of Bishop - 29 March 1784
HO 98/63 - Lt Govr Dawson to Gov Smith re imminent
visit of Duke of Atholl - 13 June 1788
HO 98/63 - Aust to Lt Govr Dawson re Letters
sent to him and that given to Duke - 8 July 1788
HO 98/64 - Alex Shaw arrived on Island - 5 Jan
1791
HO 98/64 - Atholl applies for Governorship -
12 Feb 1791
HO 98/64 - No Letter Book to be found - 26 Feb
1791
HO 98/66 - Strangers arriving from Ireland 3rd
Aug 1803
HO 98/66 - Atholl wants brother to replace him
7 Dec 1803
HO 98/66 - Memorial [of Lt Govr Alex Shaw] dated
3d July 1804
HO 98/66 - Atholl appoints brother as Lt Governor
3 Aug 1804
HO 98/66 - Atholl to Hawkesbury 19 July 1805
HO 98/66 - Smelt arrives on Island to a bare
house 25 July 1805
HO 98/66 - Smelt returns from London, asks for
a rise and plans a vegetable garden 14 Sept 1805
HO 98/67 - State of the Prison - 12 July 1811
HO 98/67 - Capt James Thomson to Maj John Gardiner
14 Aug 1811
HO 97/67 - Col Wilks to Lord Powis re Duke of
Atholl 21 Aug 1812
HO 98/68 - Memorial of Thos Stowell Esqr Clerk
of the Rolls re Records Offices 2 Feb 1813
HO 98/68 - Frankland to Sidmouth - A reply to
criticism of his absence from the Island by the Duke of Atholl. Apr 1813
HO 98/68 - Extract of a letter from Lt Govr Smelt
to under secretary of State Beckett 17 May 1813
HO 98/68 - Smelt to Lord Sidmouth re Appointment
of Surgeon to the Household
HO 98/68 - Resignation letter of William
Frankland to Lord Sidmouth 2 February 1815
HO 98/68 - Thomas Gawne (Acting Attorney General)
requests salary 29 December 1815
HO 98/68 - Rebuilding the House of Keys 18th
April 1817
HO 98/68 - House of Keys declared unsafe 16 October
1817
HO 98/69 - Clarke re death of Norris Moore -
16 May 1818
HO 98/70 - James Clarke to Henry Hobhouse 22
November 1821
HO 98/71 - James Clarke to Hobhouse, Peel + Duke
- March 1822
HO 98/71 - James Clark to Hobhouse 16th July
1822
HO 98/71 - Bishop Murray to Robert Peel re Charities
19th July 1822
HO 98/73 - James Clarke to Hobhouse 12th January
1824
HO 98/73 - James Clarke to Hobhouse 14th January
1824
HO 98/73 - George Quirk, Water Bailiff, to James
Clarke 17 March 1824
HO 98/73 - George Quirk to James Clarke 22 April
1824
HO 98/73 - James Clarke to Hobhouse 29 April
1824
HO 98/74 - Potential of Castle Mona - 23 May
1826
HO 98/74 - John Christian (First Deemster) to
?Hobhouse 30th June 1826
HO 98/74 - Col Wilks to James Clarke 15 Novr
1826
HO 98/75 - Smelt to Under-Secretary of State
Phillips 17 May 1828
HO 98/75 - Smelt to Phillips 21 May 1828
HO 98/76 - James Clarke to Mark Phillips 29 May
1829
HO 98/77 - Smelt to Lord Viscount Melbourne 14
Nov 1832
HO 98/77 - Samuel Flood Page to Viscount Melbourne
2 Sept 1833
HO 98/78 - Bishop Ward to Henry Goulburn 12 March
1835
HO 98/78 - Proclamation re Wrecks and Salvage
2 May 1835
HO 98/78 - James Clarke to Lord John Russell
17 Nov 1835
Any
comments, errors or omissions gratefully received
The Editor
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