# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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cient and venerable Trunk of Sovereignty,
ſtanding ſtripped of all its Branches, upon
the Shore of this devoted Iſland. And will
this Houſe paſs ſuch a Bill?

Will this Houſe, famous in all Ages for
the Juſtice, Equality and Temper of its Pro-
ceedings, tranſgreſs a Rule which has received
Adoption and Practice in all Times, and in
all Nations, from all Sovereign Powers?
Will you in this enlightened and diſtinguiſh-
ing Hour of Reaſon and of Liberty, do what
was never done in the worſt Times of Eng-
land, or the worſt Times of Rome? Will
you do, by power, what you cannot juſtify
by ſound Law, ſound Reaſon, or ſound Pre-
cedent?

That Word points me the Way that I am
going; for it is ſaid, why do you complain?
This Bill is no Innovation: It is only cal-
culated to enforce the Proviſions of a former
Act.

The Rights of the Lord of Man were di-
rectly affected by the Seventh of George the
Firſt. Why may not the preſent Bill follow
up that Principle?

To this I anſwer, the 7th of George the
Firſt, the Model and Precedent of the preſent
Bill