Memorial of Manx Ecclesiastics to Commissioners of Inquiry, 1792: Claims to Council Seats
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- Sources
- Name
- Memorial of Manx Ecclesiastics to Commissioners of Inquiry, 1792: Claims to Council Seats
- Description
- A formal petition submitted by Bishop Claudius and Evan Christian (Vicar-General) to the 1792 Royal Commissioners of Inquiry, asserting the ecclesiastical officers' constitutional right to sit in the Island's Council and Legislature, which they claim was wrongfully denied from 1776–1777. The memorial also raises grievances regarding damage to the Bishop's cathedral in Peel Castle and St. John's Chapel in Kirk German. It includes transcriptions of various oaths administered to Island officials and historical evidence of ecclesiastical participation in Tynwald from 1422 onwards.
- Date
- 21 October 1791
- Collection
- Crown Administration
- Type
- Petition
- Date Created
- 1791-10-21
- Creator
- Right Reverend Claudius Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man; Evan Christian, Vicar-General
- Audience
- John Spranger, William Osgoode, William Roe, and David Reid, His Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry
- Language
- English