# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_104218.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 20:32  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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[Note: This image shows an open book photographed at an angle, making portions of both pages difficult to read, especially near the gutter and edges. Much of the text on both pages is partially obscured or distorted.]

**Left page:**

[obscured] and great

[obscured] Jurisdictions of [?] government
[obscured] Knights called Deemsters
[obscured] one [?] and the other for the
[obscured] causes of justice within their respective
[obscured] as to the number and Dem[?]
[obscured] the company as well from the
[obscured] Continually augmented
[obscured] and high Mountains ha[ve?]
[obscured] made it necessary to a[?]
[obscured] all [?] and they are distinguished by
[obscured] of the North and South divisions
[obscured] the late Deemster Mylrea there hath [?]
[obscured] your Majesty [?] issued him in the Office that [?]
[obscured] ever since that time it is [?]
[obscured] to the Duty of Officiating in [?]
[obscured] Notwithstanding that the [?]
[obscured] indefatigable assiduity Labour [?]
[obscured] office in general within the [?]
[obscured] with the Least degree of Satisfaction [?]
[obscured] to the Inhabitants particularly of [?]
[obscured] the expence of their time and trouble [?]
[obscured] crossing the Mountains and Rivers [?]
[obscured] and Various Occasions require [?]
[obscured] to Attend or Defend the Justice their su[its?]

[obscured] the Constitution of this Isle there always [?]
[obscured] the Value and Currency of money from [?]
[obscured] that the Lords Proprietors of this [?]
[obscured] exercised a right and so often as the [?]
[obscured] required, did coin and issue Copper [?]
[obscured] the use thereof, which Coin was [?]
[obscured] distribution — And it was
[obscured] by the [?] Enacted and declared

**Right page:**

[The right page is at a steep angle and largely illegible. Fragments visible include:]

[obscured] that the payment [?]
[obscured] the [?]
[obscured] they [?] day [?]
[obscured] fifty [?]
[obscured] absolutely necessary [?]
[obscured] a Dollar [?] the year or [?]
[obscured] had since the year or [?]
[obscured] hath become effectually [?]
[obscured] fifty new and [?]
[obscured] Dave M[?] hath taken [?]
[obscured] full [?] to the [?]
[obscured] That under these [?]
[obscured] your Majesty would be [?]
[obscured] Currency or money [?]
[obscured] not exceeding the [?] of [?]
[obscured] and fifty pounders in half [?]
[obscured] in all payments and [?]
[obscured] of fourteen pence for one [?]
[obscured] proportion — consistant with [?]
[obscured] thereof — that at the [?]
[obscured] Isle been vested in the pro[?]
[obscured] and seven hundred and [?]
[obscured] a Regiment of [?] and [?]
[obscured] of the same, that there [?]
[obscured] were of the Isle [?]

[Note: Due to the photographic angle, binding distortion, and image quality, a substantial portion of both pages cannot be read with confidence. A clearer, direct-overhead photograph would be needed for a more complete transcription.]