# 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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Parties consists of Sundry Accounts in the M[obscured]
Way then proposed in Court to refer the said [obscured]
to two Arbitrators to be indifferently chosen to
Settle adjust & determine the Same in [obscured]
Summary Way to Justice & in case the
Defendants in the said Suit declined accept[obscured]
of the said proposal the pet^r. prayed th[obscured]
your Reverence would refer the said ma[obscured]
to a Jury of Merchants to report their Op[obscured]
thereon to your Reverence for your Satis[obscured]
in the premisses.
That the said Defts having declined
accepting of the said Proposal and
attempting to Shelter themselves under
the Statute of Limitations, tho no w[obscured]
applicable nor pertinent in this C[obscured]
did then pretend that they wanted Time
to be prepared to give an Answer to the
said Proposal whereupon the said Matt[obscured]
was adjourned to the 21^st of March [obscured]
on which day your pet^r. attended the fur[obscured]
hearing of the said Cause at a consider[obscured]
Expence, but nothing was done therein [obscured]
time by reason of the Non appearance [obscured]
one of the said Defendants and the s[obscured]
Cause having been continued by adjourn[obscured]
to the 29^th of March 1765 The Defend[obscured]
Christian Kelly did then ~~other~~ Exhibit[obscured]

[margin:] Copy [?]

[below, in different hand:]
[illegible] accordingly

John Woo[obscured]

John Stevenson
Attorney for the
Appellant