# 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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Memorialists find themselves under the
painful Necessity of entreating Your
Excellency to lay before their Most
Gracious Sovereign A Grievance,
under which it is too well known to Your
Excellency they have for some time
laboured, and which if suffered to
continue, must prove equally
subversive of His Majesty's
Government, and the Constitutional
Rights of His Subjects within this
Isle.

To You, Sir, it is almost
unnecessary to observe that the
Grievance alluded to is the — —
unconstitutional Interference of
His Grace the Duke of Atholl in the
Legislation of this Island, and his
unremitting perseverance to obstruct
and defeat every Measure attempted
by the Legislature, however salutary
or indispensibly requisite to the
interior police and Government, of
which from their local knowledge
they