# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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Being then in want of Grates in the Kitchen &c [obscured]
which were Fixtures in the House when your Petit^r [obscured]
Setting thereof, and were taken and carried away and [obscured]
the said House are, to this Moment, in want of [obscured]
be in want of Chimneys &c yet your Worships by y^r [obscured]
of the 3 July Instant, hath thought proper to declare [obscured]
Decree that Petit^r became a legal Tenant to the said [obscured]
Case for the s^d House & Concerns from the 12^th M[ay?] [obscured]
at the Rent of Eight Guineas p^r Annum.

That your Petit^r conceives himself to be a[ggrieved?]
by your Worships said Order, which subjects him to th[e]
performance of an Agreement, which the s^d John Eas[on?]
had in the first Instance, in so many respects & failed [to?]
make good and perform, on his part, which your Petit^r [obscured]
devised totally cancells and annulls the whole of the [obscured]

And as the said Order appears the more unreasonab[le]
that your Petit^r is made accountable for Rent from the 1[2th?]
May, altho' the said House appears from the face of the [obscured]
Order to be yet untenantable, & in want of Grates, in the [obscured]
& Parlor, which he humbly conceives to be contrary an[d]
repugnant to the well known Custom & Usage of this Isle [in?]
Landlord & Tenant, to wit, That no Rent arises due out o[f]
Houses after it appears to be untenantable and not fit [to be?]
resided in.

And therefore for relief in the Premises y[our?]
Petit^r humbly appeals from your Worships s^d Order [obscured]
of the 3^d July, to the Hon^ble Staff of Government from [obscured]
your acceptance hereof, with a reasonable Time for you[r?]
[obscured]

And your Pet^r will

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This App[eal?]
into Bond w[ith?]
of Three Pou[nds?]
Lord the King [obscured]
Two Months [obscured]
Day of July [obscured]

Know all Men by th[ese?]
Charles Bromfield a[nd?]
[obscured] Castletown are hol[den?]
[obscured] King in the penal Su[m?]
[obscured] April shall & of &c a[obscured]
the time Limitted [obscured]
our Subscriptions t[obscured]

Sealed before me
[signature] Jorm[?]

A Ca[obscured]
Upon hearing this Appe[al?]
of what was Pleaded of [obscured]
of opinion that the Judg[ment?]
ordered that the app[ellant?]
of the Demised [obscured]
mentioned be compleat[ed?]
enjoyment of the [obscured]
[obscured] into the Coun[try?]