# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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May it please Your Lordships

Your Lordships having been pleased by M^r Whately's
Letter of the 11^th. of May last, to direct Us to make the
most strict enquiry, into the Smugling Trade carried on
between the Isle of Man and Great Britain, and to
endeavour to procure as exact Accounts as possible, of the
several kinds of Goods imported into the said Island, and
of the Duties payable to the proprietor for the same, and
to inform Your Lordships of the Result of our Enquiries
on these Subjects; We thereupon ordered M^r. Lutwidge
Surveyor General and Supervisor for the Coasts of
Cumberland, Westmorland and the Port of Lancaster. M^r.
Onston Riding Surveyor for the Port of Leverpoole and the
Coast of Lancaster; And the Collectors and Comptrollers of
Leverpoole, Whitehaven and Lancaster, from whom We
judged We could obtain the most perfect information, to
make the necessary enquiries; And having received their
returns, We herewith humbly lay Copies thereof before
Your Lordships, to which We beg leave to refer.

Cr Morris.
T Mead.
C. Stanyfort[?].
W. Musgrave

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Cw. A.
Custom house London
4^th. July 1764.

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MS 09707/6/317i

AP 408-8