This is page 25 of a legal opinion or petition concerning the rights of ecclesiastical officers to sit in the Manx House of Keys Council. The document argues that since the revestment (returning sovereignty to the Athol family) and church patronage being reserved to them, ecclesiastics have no constitutional basis to claim Council membership. It notes a 26-year gap (1765-1791) without such claims, and criticises recent admissions of clergy and new officers like an 'Acting Attorney-General' as unconstitutional innovations.