# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Petitioners beg leave to refer, although no
adequate measures have ever been founded on
it, by which a satisfactory termination might be
hoped of such of these claims as encroached on
the rights of the crown, or of the people.

That these claims still existing, and continu-
ing from time to time to be severally brought
forward as occasion serves, his Grace was, in the
year 1793 appointed Governor, and has ever
since possessed the whole patronage, civil, fiscal,
military, and ecclesiastical; using, as your Peti-
tioners believe, his influence in the appointment
to all offices whatsoever.

That in 1805 his Grace sought, by the autho-
rity of Parliament, to impose on the insular
revenue a perpetual rent-charge in his own
favor, as an addition to the most liberal price
paid forty years before for the extinction of the
proprietory rights: that this claim was again
resisted by the Keys; and, as far as regarded
the exclusive interests of the Island, again suc-
cessfully;—although conceded as a charge on
the consolidated fund of Great Britain.

That in consequence of these transactions,
and of others to which your Petitioners do not
now deem it necessary to advert, his Grace has
unfortunately conceived, retains, and takes fre-
quent occasions to disclose towards them, feel-
ings of a bitterly hostile nature; breaking out in