# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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chase from the Stanley family these obnoxious
rights.

[margin: succeeded 1737]

* James Duke of Athol, to whom proposals
had been made for this surrender, conveyed in
this year to trustees the Isle, lordship, and
territories of Man, with power to obtain for
them such price in ready money as they could
reasonably get from the Crown.

The illicit trade increased, in the mean time,
intolerably: after thirty-nine years' suspense,
however, the negociations came to a close, the
sellers, the then Duke and Duchess of Athol,
having asked 70,000*l*.; at the same time ex-
pressing a hope that the price would not be
deemed too high for the absolute surrender of
the Isle, Castle, and Peele of Man, with the
reservation of their landed property, their church
patronage, and manorial rights. On the part of
the public this very magnificent price was agreed
to be given. After the completion of the pur-
chase, a pension of 2,000*l*. per annum was
bountifully bestowed by the Crown on the
Duchess, by the receipt of which, her Grace en-
joyed a sufficiently extended period of life to
double and more than double the original pur-
chase-money.

[margin: died 1806]

The extinction of illegal traffic was one

* 1756.