# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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(8)
only appertain to the Duke, Namely
the Manor consisting of what is
commonly called the Lords Lands. And
the Manor of the dissolved Monastery
of Rushen. Notwithstanding therefore
the Idea so industriously propagated
that all the Land Holders within
the Island are Tenants of the
Duke, those only of the two last
mentioned Manors, pay any Rent,
or acknowledgement to his Grace
The Tenants of the Three former (as
to their Lands in those Baronies) are
as unconnected with, and independent
of him, as they are of any Lord of a
Manor or Nobleman in Great Britain.

The Tenants within these
five several Manors, or Baronies,
have from time immemorial, held
their Lands as Customary Estates
of Inheritance, descendible from
Ancestor