Extract from Draper's 1864 'House of Stanley' covering Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby, her imprisonment during the Civil War, her post-Restoration vindication including the trial and execution of Captain William Christian in 1662-3, and her genealogical descendants. Includes detailed discussion of Tynwald Court procedures and Isle of Man law, with references to Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak.