# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_121921.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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Wherefore Your Petitioners humbly pray that the
present house of Keys may be dissolved & a Law passed to
Elect by the free Voice & Suffrage of the People a new assembly
which shall continue for such Number of Years as to the
Legislature of Great Britain [above line: shall] seem reasonable & at the
expiration thereof to be dissolved or naturally ~~expire~~ [above line: determine] & a
new General Election ~~then & for ever after~~ to take place at the
[above line: such]
end of every stated period as to the Legislature shall
seem just
And Your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray

[margin:] Perus'd I.H. 10 June 1790[?]