# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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be thereby discouraged from any further refuſal to [obscured]
the petitioner his Juſt Dues — The Lords of the Comm[obscured]
in obedience to your Majeſtys ſaid order of reference th[obscured]
proceeded to take the ſaid petition into their Conſideration[obscured]
and heard the Petitioner by his Solicitor thereupon, and [obscured]
Appearing to be upwards, of one year and nine Months ſi[obscured]
the laſt of the ſaid Orders appealed from was made, and th[obscured]
the appellant had not during all that time preſented any peti[obscured]
of appeal to your Majeſty in Council, Their Lordſhips do[obscured]
therefore agree humbly to Report as their Opinion to your [obscured]
Majeſty that the ſaid appeal of the ſaid John Kaighi[obscured]
Should be diſmiſsed for non proſecution with fifty poun[obscured]
Sterling Coſts —

His Majesty taking the ſaid Report into Conſiderati[obscured]
was pleaſed with the Advice of His Privy Council, to approv[obscured]
thereof, and to order, as it is hereby Ordered that the ſaid peti[obscured]
and appeal of the ſaid John Kaighin be, and the ſame i[obscured]
hereby Diſmiſsed this Board for Non Proſecution with fifty
Pounds Sterling Coſts — Whereof the Governor or Commande[obscured]
in Chief of the ſaid Isle of Man for the Time being and all oth[obscured]
whom it may Concern are to take Notice and Govern themſelves
Accordingly. —

Steph^n Cottell

At Castle Rushen the 6^th. March 1771 —
Received the beforegoing Order of Council from the ſaid
[obscured]tioner and at his Inſtance the ſame is recorded by John Quayle [?]