# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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(10)
which Act His Grace now holds his
Right in the Island, the Estates,
Titles, Tenures, and Interests of the
Inhabitants are saved and reserved
as fully and amply as if that
Act had never been made. And
although in and about the Year
1643 and during the Troubles
in England, several Attempts
were made by some of the Ancestors
of the Present Duke, by means
the most artful and insidious,
to abolish and destroy those Tenures
within his Graces two Manors,
(Attempts which your Memorialists
would willingly hope may be ever
held in such Abhorence as not to
be renewed in these enlightened
Days of Justice and Liberty)
Yet by an Act of Tynwald made
in the Year 1703, commonly called
the Act of Settlement, All Disputes
and Differences between the
then Lord and the Landholders
within