# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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oppose. The Attorney and Solicitor General
of England, and the insular Crown Lawyers,
reported on them most unfavorably; and the
bills miscarried.

In 1783 his Grace applied to Parliament a
third time: leave to bring in a bill was given:
no bill followed. In all these multiplied appli-
cations no complaint was heard of inadequacy
in the price paid by the Crown.

In 1790, on his fourth application to Parlia-
ment, this claim at length came forward. He
also sought to institute enquiry, whether certain
manorial rights, undefined and unnamed, had
not suffered from their severance from the rights
retransferred to the Crown.

This bill was again warmly resisted by the
Keys: they were heard at length by their coun-
sel before the House of Commons: and the
bill did not pass into a law.

In September 1791 Mr. Dundas, afterwards
Lord Melville, then Secretary of State for the
Home-Department, without any previous notice
to the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or the
insular Attorney-General, or to the House of
Keys, or any person opposed to the Duke of
Athol, dispatched to the Island Commissioners
with instructions to enquire, among other points,
into his Grace's allegations, that certain rights
retained by his family had been rendered nuga-