# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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without the Interference of his Grace
To the General subversion of the
Constitution, and the Introduction
of a New Mode of Civil Government
into the Island— Your Memorialists
justly, alarmed at such dangerous
and oppressive Attempts tending at
once to lessen the Value of their landed
property, to discourage Manufactures,
Agriculture, & Commerce— To impose
illegal Burthens on them and their
posterity. To reduce and Abridge
their Rights, Liberties and priviledges.
And of course to do the greatest of
injuries to the Island at large,
found it their indespensible Duty to
oppose, and accordingly in their
Capacity of Guardians of the Rights
of the People, with the Consent and
Approbation of the rest of the Legislature
in the Island, did at a considerable
Expence oppose those Arbitrary and
Oppressive Bills; Each of which from
the Strict Attention of His Majesty's
Law Officers and the Vigilance of
the