# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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ther with the patronage of the other offices
which he possesses, giving to his Grace in that
body an undue preponderance.

That no pretence whatever for these intrusive
members' admission can be assigned except
that during the Proprietory government the sig-
natures of persons holding similar offices, or
some of them, appear to certain statutes. From
this occasional practice, or the possible sum-
moning to the Council at the Lord's will, of
some of these persons, at that period no ill could
result: but now, when their appointment is not
in the Sovereign, your Petitioners cannot but
apprehend that such legislators are wholly in-
admissible.

That one of the Deemsters or Common-Law
Judges, having incurred his Grace's displeasure,
and being, according to report, of the truth of
which your Petitioners or the public know no-
thing, charged with some malpractices,—his
Grace, in consequence, as is also asserted, of
instructions from one of His Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State, held in his own house a
secret Inquisition into the charge. On this
enquiry a report is said to have been made, the
purport of which still remains undivulged but;
not the result. The Deemster has been dis-
missed and another appointed.