# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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**[Upper fragment — right edge torn/damaged, text cut off]**

A Doubt having Aris[...]
Article of the Schedule[...]
those Deeds sh^d. propo[...]
and Office of his Ma[...]
delivered to the Du[...]
of his Manorial R[...]
and Circumstances

[margin: this Statute / is not to be / produced]

By the Statute Law Anno 156[...]
Keys driving as well to the Lord
of Mann by their Disposing of the
Tenure & Subject to certain limit[...]
the Lord of the Isle/ without the [...]
Lord or his Governor & officers where[...]
Customs could not be so well gotten nor
known y the Lands being privately dispos[...]
Prove that the Setting Books were not [...]

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**[Lower fragment]**

Persons whose Names stood Records might not [...]
It is therefore enacted that no Land owner shall dispose of any Lan[d]
without the special Lycence of the Lord or his Governor & two of the
Principal officers of the Isle. And also by another Statute in 1645
It is declared & enacted that no Person shall convey his Lands but in
Cases of Poverty or for some other just Cause or Reason made known
to & approved of by the Lord or his Governor and officers as aforesaid.

On behalf of the Crown it was alleged that it doth not appear either by these
Statutes or any other matter of Record whether those Powers were granted
and the Deeds committed to the Custody of the Lord in his Sovereign or
manorial Character, and as it is more than probable that they belonged
to the Sovereign being the Superiour Jurisdiction, that the People might
be Inclinable to commit the Custody of their Properties to their Sovereign
who is now reinstated in all the Prerogatives Royal of this Isle — That
Numbers of those Deeds had formerly been recorded in Chancery of the