# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260218_135030.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

---

To the Worshipfull Demster Haywood
The Humble Petition, and Appeal of Charles Kavanagh
of Douglas Dealer

Most Humbly Sheweth That your Appeal^t many years ago haveing
had some dealings with one Thomas Lewis of Liverpool now Bankrupt
was this day Charged before your worship by the Order of the Assignees of
the said Thomas Lewis, for a pretended Ballance of £5.10.1 Brittish
alledged to be due to the said Lewis by your petitio^r and produced one
James Rostan a partner with the said Lewis who took upon himself
to prove several things in this cause both unjust unlawfull & untrue—
whereon your Worship was pleased to grant an Execution
against your pet^r for said sum of £5.10.1 Brittish at the suit of
the said Assignees, by which Judgement your Appellant Humbly
apprehends himself greatly Injured and agraved & for Relief in the
Premisses doth Humbly Appeal to the Honourable Staff of Govern^t
praying your worships acceptance thereof, and a reasonable time for
the prosecution thereof, and your Appellant as in Duty bound will
for your Worship Ever Pray &c

Nobry 20^th 1765
This Appeal is accepted of provided the Appell^t and
enters into Bonds of Three pounds to the Lord and
Lady of this Island ~~&~~ to prosecute the same
to effect within one Month from the Date hereof.

Jo^n Heywood.

Know All Men by these presents That I the before named Appell^t Cha^s Kavanagh
and We Charles Joynor. and Tho^s Cannoll, of Castletown Shopkeepers are held and
firmly bound unto their Excellencies the Lord & Lady of this Isle in the penal Sum of
three pounds To the payment whereof well and truly to be made to their said
Excellencies or certain Atty Exors or Admors We bind & oblige ourselves and each
of us by himself our and each of their Exors and Admors jointly and severally
firmly by these presents As Witness our Subscriptions this 9^th March 1765—
The Condition of the abovewritten Bond or Obligation is such That Whereas the above
bounden Cha^s Kavanagh hath brought this appeal to be releived ag^t the Deemster's