# 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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Island out of the Quit Rents and
Services until the Year 1765 (at
the passing of the Vesting Act)
maintained a Civil and Military
Establishment, and supported
Court Houses Gaols and other
Public Buildings, the principal
of which were, and still are within
the Castles of Rushen and Peel. And
by ancient Records it appears that
the Quit Rents of so much of the
Manor, consisting of what is
called the Lords Land as is situate
within the Southern Division of
the Island were appropriated
and declared to belong to the Castle
of Rushen and of those within
the Northern Division to the Castle
of Peel. That although the Duke
as Lord of these two last mentioned
Manors is (under the Reservations
of the Vesting Act) in the full
Receipt of the Quit Rents, out of
which