Eight days that ended a nation's independence. The Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765. The transfer ceremony on 11 July 1765, when the Duke of Atholl's authority was formally surrendered and Crown officers took possession. The Keys were silenced. The Tynwald fell quiet — no petitions heard, no laws promulgated in the old way, for over a decade. Parliament had purchased a feudal title. It had not acquired the Manx nation, and it had not assumed the duty of governance that came with the title.