# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Charles the Firſt, in the beginning of his
Reign, made an Attack upon theſe Regalities
but without Effect.

Dalrymple, the very able and ingenious
Author of the Hiſtory of Feudal Property,
makes this ſtrong and ſtriking Obſervation on
the Times which followed: " Cromwell had
" enough of the Monarch to ſee how incon-
" ſiſtent theſe private Juriſdictions were, either
" with the Intereſt of the Supreme Power,
" or the Safety of the People ; but he had
" too much of the Tyrant to think of making
" Reparation to the private Proprietors from
" whom he took their Juriſdiction, but to
" whom he gave nothing in Return."

I hardly take into my View an Act paſſed
in 1681: An Act forming Propoſitions con-
cerning the moſt ancient feudal Rights, yet
founded on Abſtract, not on feudal Princi-
ples: An Act unhinging the Rights of the
Orders of the State, granting no Equivalent
for thoſe Rights, yet aſſerting, that there is
nothing taken from the Proprietors: An Act
in fine compoſed in the Days of Slavery, and
repealed in the Days of Liberty, 1690.

The Act of the late King, which aboliſhed
ſome and limited others of the Territorial Ju-
B 3                                                       riſdictions,