# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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8)
Cursory Remarks, made during a residence of some
months in the Isle of Mann, by an Officer of the
95^th Regiment in the year 1813

That the present form of govern-
ment appears to have existed from time immemorial;
The 24 Keys being expressly named at the accession of
the Stanley Family to the Insular Throne. This Body is supposed
to be so denominated, from being the openers or expounders
of their **Breast** or unwritten Laws. It has always been
an object of ambition with the gentlemen of the Isle, to
form one of this Branch of the Legislature, and uniform-
ly regarded by the lower orders with the greatest vener-
ation. The Manks name is simply; Keir is Feed for
the Twenty four, and appear to have proved at times
extremely troublesome, even to their Liement Lords, as well as
to their Lieutenants or Governors exceedingly jealous of any
thing which seemed to infringe on their Rights, and were
ever ready on such occasions with spirited remonstrances,
and, sometimes set the sovereign authority at defiance, as
in the affair of Croat Urligh, likewise Remarking, the
then place of Tinwald, in the early part of the 15^th Century
when D. McInghey and Others, broke out into open rebell-
ion against the Lords, Governor, or Lieutenant at the
time, and having taken sanctuary in the Church of Kirk
Michael were proceeded against as Traitors. This resis
tance may have probably then arisen from their viewing
the Stanley's as strangers and intruders. such a feeling
however must soon have worn away, for, the Manks

MS 09707/8/61

AP 147-9