# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260218_142120.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

---

At the Court at S.^t James's
the 26.^th Day of June 1767.

Present.

The Kings Most Excellent Majesty

Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord President
Duke of Grafton
Duke of Queensberry
Lord Aſward [?]
Earl of Huntingdon
Earl of Denbigh
Earl of Litchfield
Earl of Cholmondeley
Earl of Marchmont
Earl of Bristol

Earl of Ashburnham

Earl of Harcourt
Earl of Shelburne
Viscount Townshend
Viscount Howe
Viscount Barrington
Viscount Clare
Viscount Villiers
Lord Sandys
James Stuart Mackenzie Esq [obscured]
James Oswald Esq^r.
Sir Edward Hawke.

Whereas there was this Day read at the Board a Report from the
Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for hea[obscured]
Appeals from the Plantations &c^a. dated the 10^th of this Instant in t[obscured]
Words following —viz.^t

" Your Majesty having been pleased by Your Order in
" Council of the 4^th of November 1763 to refer unto this Comm[obscured]
" the humble Petition of John Quillin Esquire, Your Majestys At[obscured]
" General of the Isle of Man, and Samuel Kirkpatrick sometim[obscured]
" an officer of Your Majestys Customs within the said Island, se[obscured]
" forth, amongst other things, that David Angus prayed and w[obscured]
" allowed an Appeal to Your Majesty in Council, from an order o[obscured]
" Judgment given in the Court of Exchequer in the said Island o[obscured]
" the 23^rd. of November 1763, in favour of the Petitioners, upo[obscured]
" an Action filed by them in the said Court against the said D[obscured]
" Angus, for Condemning one hundred and eighty pounds weig[obscured]
" Tea, which were illegally imported into the said Island, a[obscured]
" humbly praying, in regard the said David An[obscured]
" [obscured]