Charles II (1630-1685), King of England, Scotland and Ireland, to whom Illiam Dhone petitioned and whose Council afterwards undid his execution.

The petition survives among the Manx national documents, taken from the State Paper Office and dated 1660. William Christian set out that having part of his estate in Lancashire and part in the Isle of Man he had gone into the Island about Michaelmas last, and was soon afterwards imprisoned there. He was shot at Hango Hill on 2 January 1663.

The King's Council took the matter up and reversed everything. On the hearing of the case on 5 August 1663, following a petition from Ewan Christian, son of William, full restitution of the estates was ordered to be made to the heir. The two Deemsters who had decreed Christian's death, Thomas Norris and Hugh Cannell, were ordered to be committed and to remain prisoners in the King's Bench and to be proceeded against in the ordinary course of justice, and a warrant had already gone out from Whitehall on 18 May 1663 to apprehend Henry Nowell, the Governor, and others. The ruling was that the King's Act of Indemnity reached the Isle of Man, which was the very plea Christian had made at the bar and been refused.

His reign restored the Stanleys to the lordship, and Manx antiquaries date the ordinary business of the Island by it. One editor had to correct his own note, changing Charles I to Charles II, in a matter touching the privileges of the Keys.