# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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vestigation into the supposed delinquency (also
an Irish Gentleman, and not long resident in
the Island) is created an Ecclesiastical Judge,
and called a Member of Council.

That his Grace, in the exercise of his office as
Governor, has taken on himself to stay proceed-
ings, and protect from punishment, persons
guilty of most aggravated breaches of the peace,
and resistance to the Magistrate, without the
slightest pretext of any law or practice autho-
rising such assumption; and the malefactors
remain to this day unpunished.

That although in the insular Court of Chan-
cery, where the office of Judge never yet has
been exercised by a person who has received a
legal education, the presence of persons who
have had this benefit must be desirable; and
although the Deemsters have there immemo-
rially attended, and are frequently in the re-
cords described as Members of that Court, and
although their presence is now, for several rea-
sons, peculiarly necessary; yet his Grace has of
late thought fit, by his own order, to inhibit their
attendance; in direct contradiction even to his
own declared and recorded admission, "that in
the Chancery Court the Deemsters sit with the
Governor."*

* Commrs.' Rept. Appx. C. 38.