# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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f altho when an estate is to be Sold this is neither
the common way, nor the fair one of valueing
it/ that The Duke of Atholls Family had
received an annual revenue from the Isle of
of man of £7000. That being the case it
appears that Gov^t had nothing in view
but what profit might arise to them from
getting possession of the Duke of Atholls
revenues, by which means they were to
benefit /according to their own declarations/
the English & Irish revenues in the annual
Sum of £350,000, & for which they only
allowed The Duke of Atholl ten years
purchase of his revenues, without having
the least attention to the Value of the Sove
"reignty with all its appendages & prerro
"gatives, Such as Forts, Garisons, harbours
rights of Coinage, right of pardoning
Criminals &c &c. Had they even att
"empted to put any value upon these
invaluable priveledges, they surely
never could have deemed a paltry
Irish pension of £2000, p^r annum for
two lives, & which in fact amounts to
more than £1700 a sufficient compen