# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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the House of Keys, was happily prevented
from passing into a Law. 1

That it having been found
necessary to raise Money to defray the
Expence of so public and necessary a
Defence, and also to employ a standing
Agent to attend in future to the Interest
of this Island in the British Parliament
(in the proceeding of which, since their
more immediate connection with the
Mother Country the Inhabitants are,
and unavoidably must be often
interested and concerned) and the
distressing and urgent Necessity of
some suitable and adequate provision
being made for the several other
Public objects before enumerated,
becoming every day more and more
apparent and importunate; Your
Memorialists however conscious, that
under all the Circumstances already
mentioned, the Burthen of many of
those Objects ought, in point of strict
Justice to fall upon his Grace. Or at
least ought not to be any further Charge
upon