# 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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Family by the Act of 1765 would
be conducive to the honor and
interest of the Crown, and the comfort
and happiness of the People of the said
Island, humbly beg leave to submit
the expediency of that measure to
the wisdom of Parliament; the
Petitioners are anxious, on this
occasion, to abstain from all topics
of an angry tendency, and will
confine themselves to the single
statement, that the Claims arising
from these reserved rights, and chiefly
the Manoral, have for the last
forty five years been the source of
incessant trouble and expense to
the Petitioners and their predecessors,
of dissention and discontent among
the inhabitants, of numerous and
reiterated applications to Parliament,
and, they may confidently add, of
incessant annoyance to His Majestys
Government; that the purchase,
and revestment in the Crown, of
all