# 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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27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Old Court Room in Douglas.
Lords The late Duke of Atholl having erected a more commodious Court Room, this old one has
since been disused as a Court Room and let at an annual rent for a Ware house.
28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cellar in Douglas.
Lords The Rack Rent of a Cellar which adjoins the said old Court Room.
29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M^r Blacks house
Lords The ground Rent of a house built upon the Yard adjoining the said old Court Room and Cellar.
30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M^r Frissells two Intack Rents.
Lords Two plotts of Ground in Ramsey Sett on Lease renewable.
31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Custom Oats from the Foresters Lodge.
The Lords Forester has a Messuage and Tenement annexed to his Office called the Lodge
Lords and pays a small Quantity of Oats as an Acknowledgment.
32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wreck and Tang.
Signifys the Rent paid by the Lessees who farmed the Sea Weed thrown in upon the Shores
in order to burn into Kelp — But as the burning this Wreck and Tang was complained of as a
Lords great Nusance to the Towns and Country adjacent, and the Rent was trifling a Lease has been latterly
refused.
33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Kitchen — The Cellar and the Brew house in Castle Rushen.
It is probable these places were formerly Sett when the Lord had no imediate use for them,
Crown but they have been kept upon the Books for form sake only, for they produced no Rent,
and are now demolished to make room for the Barracks.
34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Venditions in Castle Rushen — Peel — Ramsey and Douglas.
Crown When any of the Lords Stores were sold out of any of these places, they were entred under
these heads.
35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bay fisherys at Douglas, Ramsey, Peel, Derbyhaven
Laxey and Garwick.
Small Rents payable to the Lords for the right of fishing for Salmon in those Bays which
Quere Bay fisherys have been immemorially granted by Leases from the Governor — But Laxey
and Garwick Bay fisherys have not been Leased and therefore left out of the Charge
for many Years past.

[left margin, bottom, rotated text:] John Stevenson
[illegible]

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