# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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In the Time of Henry the Third it was under
an independent Sovereign. It was granted by
Edward the Second to his Favourite Gavaſton,
Earl of Cornwall, and afterwards to Lord
Beaumont, cum omni Dominio et Juſtitia
Regali. In 1390 it was in the Poſſeſſion of
Lord Scroop, who adhered to King Richard,
and forfeited the Iſland to Henry the Fourth.
Henry the Fourth in his Grant of it to Henry
Earl of Northumberland, recites, that he
claimed it not by Right, but by Conqueſt:
He grants *Inſulam, Caſtram, Palam et Do-
minium de Man, ac omnia Inſulas et Dominia
eidem Inſulæ pertinentia, quæ fuerunt Wil-
helmi de Scroop, nuper defuncti quem, in vita
ſua Conqueſtati fuimus, et ipſum ſic conqueſta-
tum decrevimus et quæ Ratione conqueſtus illius,
cepimus in Manus noſtras.* This Grant was
in the firſt Year of his Reign.
1399.

In the fifth Year of Henry the Fourth, the
Earl of Northumberland was attainted of
Treaſon, and the Iſle with its Dependencies
was granted to Sir John Stanley, who was
one of the greateſt Soldiers, and Stateſmen of
his Time. From Sir John Stanley the pre-
ſent Noble Owners derive their Title, not
immediately