# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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immediately under his Grant, but under the
Parliamentary Charter.

All theſe Rights have been uſed and ex-
erciſed in Conformity to the Grant. Uſe
gives Interpretation and Validity to all Grants.
The Lords have ſucceſſively named the Bi-
ſhop, and appointed the Governor, and all
the other Civil and Military Officers of the
Iſland. They have paid from their own Re-
venues, the Eſtabliſhments of both Depart-
ments ; they have held all the Courts. The
Proceſs and Decrees have been executed in
their Name. In Criminal Caſes, they have
exerciſed both the Powers of Juſtice and Mer-
cy. They have coined Money. They have
received the Land Revenue, the Cuſtoms and
Duties upon Imports and Exports, and the
Profits of all Seizures made within the Iſland,
or its Dependencies. And if a Parliamentary
Charter can give a Right, if the full Exer-
ciſe of that Right, Succeſſion of Inheritance,
continual Claim, Matter of Fact, Determi-
nations of Law, the Evidence of Records,
and the Conſent of Hiſtory, be of any Weight
in the Aſſertion of a Title, the preſent Pro-
prietors have as clear and inconteſtable a Right
to