# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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[obscured]...actual gratitude to acknowledge them among the benefits [obscured]
[obscured]...but have impoverished their Advantage since of too [obscured]
Troops of horse were transported away the Regiment of foot [obscured]
that was replaced with four Companies and were afterwards Reduced [obscured]
Companies only, and now of late the whole troops have been taken [obscured]
the Isle and not a Soldier left for the Protection thereof [obscured]
That your Memorialists impressed with the deepest [obscured]
Veneration for all those Illustrious and princely Virtues which [obscured]
Majesty the most Amiable of Characters, the best of men, as w[obscured]
Greatest of Sovereigns ever Ready to Listen to, and Relieve the [obscured]
of your Subjects from the most remote and Obscure corner of your [obscured]
Most humbly beg leave to approach your Royal [obscured]
their Dutifull and Humble Memorial and beseeching your [obscured]
to grant such relief and Redress in all and Singular the [obscured]
and Matters aforesaid, as in your profound Wisdom shall be [obscured]
expedient for the good and benefit of the People and Inhabitants [obscured]
Isle And your Memorialists with hearts dilated with the [obscured]
of your Majesty's goodness, beg leave to offer up their most [obscured]
Prayers to the Throne of Grace, that the most High may pour [obscured]
choicest blessings on your most Sacred head, long very long [obscured]
you the Glorious Instrument of happiness and Prosperity to [obscured]
People, and that Generations yet unborn may Rejoice in the [obscured]
felicity extended to them in your ~~Exalted~~ Royal and Illustr[obscured]
Posterity to the remotest Ages

Dated at the House
of Keys in Castletown
24^th Oct^r 1775

W^m Callow                          George M[obscured]
Philip Moore                        W^m Murr[obscured]
Tho^s Radcliffe                     John Taub[obscured]
Samuel Wattleworth                  John Fri[obscured]
Rich^d Tyldesley                    Tho^s Gay[obscured]
W^m Christian                       Philip [obscured]
John Stevenson                      James W[obscured]
W^m Callow                          Hugh [obscured]
Matt Christian                      John M[obscured]
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