Chapter 10 — The Act
- Item sets
- Book Chapters
- Name
- Chapter 10 — The Act
- Description
- The parliamentary manoeuvre. The Duke's vulnerability. The compensation negotiation. The Isle of Man Purchase Act — its passage, its terms, its assumptions. The Mischief Act. The legislative package that dismantled the island's commercial system. The moment Parliament purchased a feudal title and assumed it had bought a territory.
- Period
- 1764–1765
- Key Figures
- Key figures: John Murray 4th Duke, Charlotte Murray, Sir Fletcher Norton, Lord Mansfield
- George Moore
- James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
- Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl
- John Quayle
- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
- George Grenville
- Grey Cooper
- Sir Fletcher Norton
- Lord Mansfield
- John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
- George III
- Duke of York
- Lord North
- Lord Kinnoull
- Spencer Walpole
- Themes
- Isle of Man Purchase Act
- Keys' Resolution
- Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765
- Mischief Act 1765
- Keys' Resolution of March 1765
- Institutions & Families
- Tynwald
- House of Keys
- Lordship of Mann
- HM Treasury
- East India Company
- The Atholl Dynasty (Murray)
- Type
- Chapter