# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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other part the Commiſsioners of his Majesty's
Treasury Agreed with the said now Duke and
Ducheſs and the said Sir Charles Frederick and
Edmond Hoskins (the said David Lord Viscount
Stormont being abroad as Ambaſsador at the
Court of Vienna) for the absolute Purchase of
the said Island of Man with its Dependencies
Except as therein is excepted for the Sum of seventy
thousand pounds and by an Act of Parliament
made in the fifth year of the Reign of his pre
sent Majesty intitled an Act for carrying into
execution a Contract made pursuant to the
Act of Parliament of the twelfth of his late Ma
jesty King George the first between the Com
miſsioners of his Majesty's Treasury and the
Duke and Ducheſs of Atholl the Proprietors of
the Isle of Man and their Trustees for the Pur
chase of the said Island and its Dependencies
under certain Exceptions therein particularly
mentioned It was enacted that from and im
mediately after the Payment into the Bank
of England by his Majesty his heirs or Succeſ
sors in the names of the said John Duke of
and Charlotte Ducheſs of Atholl and Baroneſs
Strange Sir Charles Frederick and Edmund
Hoskins or the Survivors or Survivor of them
of the said Sum of seventy thousand pounds
on or before the first day of June now last to
be by them or the Survivors or Survivor of them
and