# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_104214.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 20:32  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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[Note: The image shows an open book photographed at an angle. The left page is partially legible; the right page is largely out of focus. Transcription of legible portions follows.]

## Left page:

[obscured] of great [obscured]
[obscured] administration of go[vernment?] [obscured]
[obscured] Magistrates called Deemstero [obscured]
[obscured] the South and the other for the
[obscured] administration of Justice within their respective
[obscured] as to the number and Di[visions?]
[obscured] the anyway as well from the
[obscured] which are continually augmented
[obscured] many and high Mountains to
[obscured] which made it necessary to a
[obscured] Deemsters and they are distinguished &
[obscured] by the Division of the North and South division
[obscured] the case of the late Deemster Mylrea there hath [obscured]
[obscured] your Majesty to succeed him in the Office; That [obscured]
[obscured] daily experience since that time it is [obscured]
[obscured] inadequate to the Duty of Officiating in [obscured]
[obscured] the whole Island. Notwithstanding that the [obscured]
[obscured] by indefatigable assiduity Labour to [obscured]
[obscured] that office in general within the [obscured]
[obscured] with the least degree of satisfaction [obscured]
[obscured] to the Inhabitants particularly of the [obscured]
[obscured] the expence of their time and trouble [obscured]
[obscured] crossing the Mountains and [obscured]
[obscured] and various occasions require [obscured]
[obscured] to obtain or defend the Justice their su[obscured]

[obscured] particular Constitution of this Isle there always [obscured]
[obscured] in the Value and Currency of money from [obscured]
[obscured] that the Lords Proprietors of this [obscured]
[obscured] exercised a right and so often as the [obscured]
[obscured] required did coin and issue copper [obscured]

## Right page:

[The right page is too out of focus and at too sharp an angle to transcribe reliably — text is largely illegible]