# 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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The Clear Amount of the Revenues of the Iſle of Mann.
for 9 Years from 1754 to 1762 both Included is£75880.17.8¾ Manks.
7 Pounds Manks makes 6 Pound Britiſh ſo the Revenue
for 9 Years is in Britiſh Money £65040-15-2¼ which at a
Medium of Years is £7226-15-0¼.
Nothing is Deducted on account of the Officers
Salleries Amounting to about £645 the Same being
an advantage to the Lord of the Iſland by
Enabling him to make a Handſome Proviſion for
Friends, more eſpecially when it is Conſiderd
that the Perquiſits of the ſaid Places are much
more Conſiderable than their Settled Appointments.
There is a Quit Rent of £101-15-11. Payable from the
Iſland to S^r. Mat. Lamb which being deducted from
the above Sum there remains £7124-19-1¼. as this
is Clear from all Burthens whatever it is thought
worth 35 Years Purchaſe which will amount to - - - - 249373. 8. 7 ¾
The Right of Adrowſon & Preſentation to Eccleſiaſticle
Benefices, The Biſhoprick ————— 400
Arch Deaconry ————— 90
14 Pariſhes at £25 Each —— 350
                                                    840
This is Valued at 10 Years Purchaſe           16[?]
for the Power of Impoſing what Duty on the Export he pleaſes —            8400. 0. 0.
The Juriſdictions Lordſhip & Seigniory can be valued
by Nothing Except it be the Scotch Juriſdictions
as the Duke of Argyle Receivd for his £-1000 — the
Iſle of Mann being a much greater thing may be
Valued at ———

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