A medieval Issue Roll entry (A.D. 1393, 16 Ric. II) recording a payment of £66 13s. 4d. to the Bishop of Man from royal funds, in discharge of 100 marks commanded by the King for charges and labour in prosecuting affairs for the Crown in the Islands. This document provides early evidence of Crown financial administration of the Isle of Man and episcopal roles in royal service.

An extract from the 1399 English Exchequer Issue Roll recording a payment to William le Scroop, Earl of Wiltshire, for expenses incurred in securing and maintaining Thomas, late Earl of Warwick, on the Isle of Man following parliamentary judgment in 1398. The document demonstrates early evidence of the Isle of Man as a place of royal custody and exile, and the financial mechanisms of English royal administration.

An extract from the 1399 Issue Roll (22 Ric. II) recording a payment of £1074 14s. 5d. to William le Scroop, Earl of Wiltshire (Treasurer of England) for expenses related to the custody and support of Thomas, late Earl of Warwick, on the Isle of Man following his condemnation in Parliament (21st year). This document evidences early English Crown involvement in Isle of Man administration and the island's use as a place of exile/imprisonment.

A slab incised with a hexafoil cross within a circle and two linear crosses with a Hiberno-Saxon inscription. It was found at the church in 1900 and is kept in Maughold Cross House (Manx Cross No. 47).  The slab measures 57 centimetres high x 21.5 centimetres maximum width by 5 centimetres thick.

This broken slab was found during repairs to the church in 1900. It bears a runic inscription translated as, 'Juan Priest cut these runes'. This is followed by a line giving the runic alphabet, and a third line giving the first part of the ogham alphabet, the rest apparently lost.

Medieval carved stone cross. A rough and broken slab (Manx Cross 144). Found at the site in 1889, it bears a runic inscription. P.M.C. Kermode's 1907 catalogue of the Island's early sculptured and inscribed stones lists it as Cross No. 144, sited at Corna (Cornaa) in Maughold parish, and the stone is also linked in Manx National Heritage's records to Kermode's 'Manx Crosses' and to a separate catalogue of the Manx crosses bearing runic inscriptions.

This rough and broken slab was found at Keeill Woirrey (IOMHER 0619.00) high in Cornaa in 1889. A rough and broken piece bearing an inscription in runes invoking Christ and three great Celtic Saints, 'Christ, Malachi and Patrick (and) Adamnan....Iuan is priest in Cornadale.' The mention of Malachy, presumably the bishop of Armagh who died in 1148, suggests that the stone must date after this. Mention of Malachy has aroused suspicions amongst some that this stone (and perhaps also Manx Cross 145) may be the work of a Victorian antiquary with a keen interest in runes and ogham scripts.

A broken cross-slab re-used for a Runic inscription. It was found in the church wall in 1900 and is now kept in the Maughold Cross House.  It measures 33 centimetres x 33 centimetres x 6 centimetres thick.

A rough broken slab with a Runic Christian inscription. It was found at Cornaa in 1889 and is now kept in the Maughold Cross House.  It measures 68.5 centimetres x 30.5 centimetres x 5 centimetres thick.

This terrace of four houses on Falcon Cliff Terrace, including one known as Thornbank, was built in 1897 to a design by the noted Arts and Crafts architect M.H. Baillie Scott, part of a small but significant body of his work on the Isle of Man. Historic decorative schemes surviving within at least one of the houses have been the subject of academic conservation study.

Two storey, double-fronted house, originally constructed after 1868 (not present on Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st edition map of that date). Acquired by the Manx Museum and National Trust in 1999.

Ivydene House is a two storey detached residence which has an articulated rectangular plan form of masonry construction with red tiled interacting pitched roofs which form a series of gables at the front of the house. The ground floor is expressed by exposed cut stone. The second level is half timbered and rendered in tudor style. The barge boards of the various roof gables are heavily carved and the entire facade treatment is of a well proportioned artistically contrived and pleasing 'rural town house interior inspection has been made the residence is well documented as an accepted work of art and in addition to such features as the skylit gallery and copper hooded fireplace the interior is described by James D. Kornwolf in his book on the architect and the Arts & Craft Movement as being....' finely designed and wrought stained glass, hand-cut and hammered wrought iron hardware, repousse metalwork and woodcarving The house constitutes one of the better examples of the work of the distinguished architect and demonstrates his fluency with the arts and crafts style which he used for so much of his work on the island.

Ivydene in Little Switzerland was designed in 1893-94 by the Arts and Crafts architect M. H. Baillie Scott, who had recently settled on the Isle of Man after his marriage in 1889. The house was commissioned by Richard Maltby Broadbent, and perspective views and plans of the design were published in the architectural press, in The Building News, on 9 March 1894. It stands as one of Baillie Scott's earliest independent commissions on the island, from the period before he went on to international recognition, including work for the Grand Duke of Hesse at Darmstadt.

Member of Parliament and member of the House of Keys, and the Duke of Atholl's most effective opponent in the Commons. He came of the Milntown Christian family, and one Manx commentator records him as the only person ever to have sat at the same time in the British Parliament and in the House of Keys. He was no friend of the Duke, and he was a considerable mover in the improvement of Manx agriculture. David Robertson dedicated his Tour through the Isle of Man of 1794 to him. His set-piece was the debate of 7 June 1805. The Duke of Atholl had petitioned for further compensation for the rights sold in 1765, and a committee of the House of Commons reported that he had fully established his allegations and that compensation should be granted, charged on the revenue of the Island. When that report came before the House, Curwen spoke against it, and the House of Keys afterwards voted him their thanks. The opposition carried its real point. The Duke did obtain an additional revenue, but it was made a charge on the Consolidated Fund and not on the Manx revenue. His speech was printed the same year. He spoke to the state of the Island as well as its politics. In 1805 he put the productive acreage at a hundred and sixty thousand, at an average rental of ten shillings, and told the Commons that no inconsiderable proportion of the duties arising in the Isle of Man were on goods paying low duties which were afterwards clandestinely re-shipped and smuggled back into England.

John Joseph Kneen (12 September 1873 - 21 November 1938) was a Manx linguist and scholar born in Douglas, renowned for his authoritative works on Manx grammar and on the island's place names and personal names, published in the 1920s with Tynwald funding. He helped form the Manx Language Society in 1899 and produced an improved edition of Cregeen's 1838 Manx dictionary, as well as translating the Manx national anthem into Manx. In recognition of his scholarship he received an honorary Liverpool University MA in 1929 and was knighted into Norway's Order of St Olav in 1934 for his work on Manx Celtic-Norse history.

Jacob Osorio Davids was a member of the small Jewish trading community that operated on the Isle of Man during the eighteenth century, connected to the Island's commercial and smuggling networks.

Douglas printer and publisher associated with the Isle of Man Times and with nineteenth-century Manx public and legal life. Brown was operating as a printer in King Street by 1850, when a Manks Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the places mentioned in the Bible was printed and published by him. By the mid-1860s his name appears repeatedly on official and public printing from the Times Office. In 1865 Brown printed the orders, bye-laws, rules and regulations of the Douglas Town Commissioners after their confirmation by Tynwald. In 1866 James Brown and Son printed the official correspondence concerning the fiscal changes of that year from the Times Office. Brown also became involved in litigation which reached the English courts. A later Manx constitutional note records a case involving James Brown in 1864 in which a writ was issued from the Queen’s Bench to the Isle of Man. The court held that legislation restricting such writs from being sent to a “colony or foreign dominion of the Crown” did not prevent issue to Mann: the Island was a dominion of the Crown, but not a foreign one. A later biography of Richard Sherwood also identifies the important case of James Brown versus the House of Keys, in which Sherwood acted after returning to Mann from Queensland.

James Chaloner (d. 1660), Governor of the Isle of Man under the Commonwealth and the first writer to give a usable account of the Island. He came to Manx business as an administrator. When the conquest of the Island was complete, Thomas Lord Fairfax asserted his right under the Act of Parliament and appointed Chaloner, William Steane and John Rushworth commissioners to enquire into his estate in the Island and its yearly value. On 4 December 1651 the three of them deputed Captains Eaton and Beale to make the enquiries and to give the tenants notice of Lord Fairfax's right. On 17 August 1652 Fairfax named a fresh commission for governing the Isle: Chaloner, Robert Dynely, and Joshua Witton, minister of the gospel. The Council of State in London dealt with him directly, conferring with him on the condition of the Island as to its civil government and its security against an enemy. He was Governor from 1658 to 1660. The Commonwealth changed less than might be supposed. Parliament kept a military force on the Island and made the Governor an allowance as its commander, besides the pay of a captain, and the monarchical form of government was continued. His book came out of the commission. A Short Treatise of the Isle of Man, digested into six chapters, was dedicated to Fairfax as Lord of Man and of the Isles and dated from Middle Park on 1 December 1653. It treats the Island itself, the inhabitants, the state ecclesiastical, the civil government, the trade, and the strength of the Island, and was printed in London in 1656 by John Streater as an appendix to King's Vale Royal of England, with a map, eight small views and the arms of the Island and of Lord Fairfax. The edition of Seacome printed at Preston in 1793 says plainly that nobody had given any tolerable account of the Isle of Man before Chaloner and William Blundell of Crosby. The Manx Society reprinted the treatise as its tenth volume. He was hard on the Quakers. In 1656 William Callow and Evan Christian were severely imprisoned in Peel Castle, the one for refusing to pay sixteen pence and the other twopence demanded by a priest for the bread and wine of the sacrament, and similar cases are recorded down to 1659. Chaloner as Governor was heard to say that he would quickly rid the Island of Quakers.

James Christian, one of the five founders of the Manx Society at Cleveland. The society was formed in 1851 by five men with characteristically Manx names, Christian among them with John Corlett, William K. Corlett, William Cubbon and William Brew. Its purpose was to assist and take care of the poor immigrant from the Isle of Man who arrived with an empty pocket or in feeble health, and it holds an honoured place among the pioneer bodies of its kind in America. The settlement it served was a generation old by then. The first Manx families reached the Cleveland district in 1826, and about seventy families, some two hundred people, followed into Ohio in 1827. Christian was not among the most characteristic of the Ohio Manx surnames, which ran to Crellin, Shimmin, Kaighin, Cowley, Collister, Gelling, Kermeen, Monier, Mylchreest, Carran, Kewley, Lewin, Bridson, Crow, Killip, Cain, Corkill, Looney, Clucas and Kneen.

Letter from James Clark (likely a Manx official) to Hobhouse at the Home Office regarding the inefficiency of Douglas police, salary augmentation for constables, and the need to route mail via steam packet rather than Whitehaven. Reflects post-Revestment administrative challenges and economic development of the Island following the 1765 purchase of sovereignty.

A letter from James Clark (likely a local official) to Hobhouse at the Home Office regarding the inefficiency of Douglas police, the need for proper constable recruitment, and the defects of the circuitous mail route via Whitehaven. The letter reflects post-Revestment administrative developments and the growing importance of Douglas as a commercial hub due to steam packet services.

James Clarke, Attorney-General of the Isle of Man in the years after Waterloo. He held the office from about 1816, and it is his opinion that later writers cite on a point of Manx usage: that the presiding officer of the House of Keys was properly the Chairman rather than the Speaker. He worked largely by post, and often from the mainland. The Home Office papers have him writing from Liverpool about the behaviour of the water bailiff, from Lancaster about a proposed interview with Lord Sidmouth and his own travel to the Island, and on the rank and precedence of the Attorney-General and the state of the laws. His absences and the difficulty of filling the office in his room are a recurring theme: a warrant was issued for J. C. Gelling to act as Attorney-General and then returned unused, and correspondents were pressing the merits of J. J. Heywood for the place. The Duke of Atholl used him as a legal referee. In January 1823 the Duke put to him a set of questions on the role of the Keys in the Court of General Gaol Delivery, and whether they had a voice in the court giving judgement. Clarke found them difficult to answer and advised that the whole matter be put to the Home Secretary instead. He gave a guarded reply to Thomas Fell's petition and complaint against Deemster Gawne, and in March 1823 he was arguing that an English barrister was needed to fill the office of First Deemster.

Three interconnected private letters from James Clarke (Attorney General of Isle of Man) to Henry Hobhouse (Under Secretary Home Dept), Robert Peel (Home Secretary), and the Duke of Atholl, dated 7-10 March 1822. Clarke reports on the Duke's financial difficulties (£40,000 loan), deteriorating relations between the Duke and House of Keys, and tensions over Post-Revestment governance, particularly regarding parliamentary authority and corn import regulations.

Private correspondence from James Clarke (likely a Home Office official) to Henry Hobhouse regarding tensions between the Duke of Atholl and the Acting Attorney General of the Isle of Man. Clarke discusses the Duke's revival of the McCrone prosecution case and his harsh treatment of officials, advising the Governor to adopt conciliatory measures. References the complexities of holding dual Crown appointments (Receiver General and Collector of Customs) and a forgery case.

Private letter from James Clarke (likely a Home Office official) to Henry Hobhouse reporting on tensions between the Duke of Atholl and the Acting Attorney General of the Isle of Man. Clarke discusses the Duke's attempt to revive the McCrone prosecution and his harsh treatment of the Attorney General, advising circumspection and reconciliation. The letter reveals post-Revestment administrative friction and governance challenges.