# 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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I had no particular directions from the Hon.^ble
Board, nor the fate of the three Vessels Seized
determined; - I did out of Zeal for the
Service early in the Spring, send over
judicious people to the Isle of Man,
furnished with Money and Instructions
to observe and attend the discharge of all
Foreign Vessels, and in consequence of their
Informations, I had the Hon.^ble Board's Order
of the 8^th of May last, to Seize a Swede and
a Rotterdamer, but neither of the said
Vessels did arrive in this, or the adjacent
Ports.

Unfortunately the Lady Catharine, Jacob
Boagrett from Rotterdam, chiefly laden with
Tea, arrived at Douglass in the Isle of Man
and discharged her said Cargo some days
before my Witness got there and the said
Vessel afterwards came here in Ballast, and
upon my Interrogating the Mariners who
did not suspect me, they told me, they had
landed Tea at the Isle of Man but such a
declaration would not be Sufficient to
support a Seizure; - as the Hon.^ble Board is
pleased