# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_110852.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 20:32  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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This page is largely blank, displaying a large watermark featuring a crowned royal cipher or coat of arms. There is handwritten text visible at the bottom right edge of the page, oriented sideways (rotated 90° clockwise), but it is mostly cropped and too faint to read with confidence.

[The visible fragments of the sideways endorsement text are too obscured and cropped to transcribe reliably.]