# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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His Grace is impropriator over a large portion
of the Island: to the Bishoprick, of which he
has the patronage, is attached a very considera-
ble property in tithes: he and the Bishop are
patrons of all the livings, which are entitled to
nearly the whole of the remainder. In several
parishes, the receipt of the tithes has been thus
arranged. One year they are payable to the
Duke; the next to the Bishop; the third, to the
incumbent. All questions regarding tithes
are cognizable in the insular exchequer. In
this the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor pre-
sides alone, without the intervention of a Jury,
as his Grace is pleased to assert, even in ques-
tions of fact. The existence of exemptions,
and of moduses, hitherto held valid, is question-
ed in suits now pending: others are threatened.
His Grace may, if he thinks fit, alone decide on
a question respecting tithes withheld, as the
Bishop alleges, from him, by a particular occu-
pier, this year, to which his Grace is entitled
in the next. He has also instituted suits now
in progress, attempting to restrain the raising
and selling of limestone necessary for the im-
provement of the land, as well as for building
materials. All these evils are increased by the
circumstance of his Grace's possessing the pa-
tronage to judicial offices. Those who hold
them, or some of them, may not generally be
viewed as fit persons to protect from invasion

[margin: feb 1772[?]]