# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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his purpose, employed his friend little Conna
han to draw the form of an address which
he meant to present to His Majesty, complai
ning of the mode of electing new members to
the House of Keys, & praying that the present
House might be dissolved, & a new one formed
from the choice of the people. The Duke of
Atholl has this address on his possession, with
Taubmans letter to Connahan, employing him as
his attorney in this business. M^r Heywood
& M^r Mylrea can give a particular acc^t
of this affair, & M^r Harrison is still alive.
II^nd The affair of the Salvage of rum of which the
Duke of Atholl only got three casks out
of ninety Six is to become a Subject of litiga
tion between M^r Wilson & m^r William
Cribben, who says that agreeable to the
laws of the Isle of man the Salvors are in
titled to the one half of the whole. M^r Wilson
says that he has no objection that M^r Cribben
should arrest the money arising from the
Sale, in his hands, but otherwise he must
proceed agreeable to his instructions from
the English Court of admiralty, altho he
was rather of opinion that they were in the
wrong, & that the Rum ought to have been
condemned before the water Bailiff of the Isle