# 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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Instant during the time of divine Service immediately before
the reading of the Homily or Sermon that his Majestys said
Royal Proclamation will be publickly read and
Proclaimed on Thursday the 11^th day of July next at the
[illegible] Market place of the Town of Castletown between

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To proceed to the Examination of his Witnesses
in Support of the Said Claim & in proof of the
Replication as usual in Such Cases, [?] your
Reverences declined & refused to permit your
Pet^r the Liberty of Examining any Witness
in the said Cause, & by your Order made
therein bearing date the 9^th day of May 1765
your Reverences have adjudged & decreed —
that the said Christian Tholl & Said
Plea is well founded according to the
Laws of this Isle and that the Pet^rs Said
Claim or Demand against Her doth not
at this Distance of Time come under your
Cognizance and therefore have dismissed
your Pet^rs Said Claim accordingly —

That your Pet^r is advised that your Reverences
Said Order of the 9^th of May Instant is —
erronious, and your Pet^r conceiving himself
to be very much aggrieved thereby
your Pet^r doth therefore hereby hightly [?] &
duly appeal from your Reverences
Said Order of the 9^th of May 1765 to the
Honoble Staff of Government of this
Isle for Relief in all & singular the
Premises, praying your Reverences
acceptance hereof and a reasonable Time