Wilson's successor who completed the work Wilson had begun. Hildesley finished the Manx New Testament in 1767 and the complete Bible in 1772, seven years after Parliament seized the lordship. He maintained the parochial libraries and extended the schools. He anguished over the language decline, calling Mann the only country in the world that is ashamed of its own native tongue. Hildesley continued Wilson's mission, but without Wilson's force of personality and in a world where the institutional supports were being withdrawn one by one.