Letter from James McCrone (Castle Mona) to the Duke of Atholl regarding property development applications, rental status of houses and cottages in Douglas, management of pamphlet distribution, and Governor's salary receipt. Provides insight into post-Revestment administrative governance and property development in Douglas during the early 19th century.

Letter from James McCrone (Duke of Atholl's agent) to the Duke reporting severe economic hardship on the Isle of Man in 1827, including failed fishing and crops, mass emigration to America, banking difficulties, and the impact of the Crown acquisition of Atholl's interests. Discusses rent collection problems, mining ventures, and various estate matters.

Letter from James McCrone (administrator) to the Duke of Atholl reporting on salary matters, a debtor (Satterthwaite), a customs seizure of asbestos/polishing powder by Liverpool Custom House, and enclosing a list of newly appointed magistrates (21 Dec 1826). Relevant to post-Revestment governance and Manx trade/customs issues.

Lord of Mann from 1736 until his death in 1764, and the last proprietor before the sale of the Island. He succeeded the tenth Earl of Derby in the Lordship and took possession in 1736. An account of that first visit, printed by the Manx Society more than a century later and not published before, describes his holding a Tynwald Court at St John's on midsummer day. It is the earliest detailed report of the Manx legislature in Tynwald assembled, newspapers being then unpublished on the Island. Bishop Wilson preached before that court. His assent to Manx legislation was given at a distance. The Act of 1738 was confirmed under his hand at Dunkeld on 5 June, signed Atholl and Strange, with an order that it be proclaimed on the Tynwald Hill according to ancient form and custom. Basil Cochrane reported to him as Governor through the later 1750s, and petitions from the Island were addressed to him as Duke of Athole, Baron Strange, Lord of Man and the Isles. He died in 1764. Charlotte, his only surviving child, succeeded on 8 January that year, and her husband and first cousin John Murray became third Duke as nephew and heir male.

Seventh Earl of Derby and Lord of Mann, who governed the Island from the later 1620s until his execution in 1651. He was named in the letters patent of 1610 alongside his parents, William Earl of Derby and Elizabeth his countess, in the grant of the Isle, Castle, Peel and Lordship of Mann with all its islands and lordships. The grant was to be held of the Crown by homage and allegiance and by the service of presenting two falcons, once immediately after homage and thereafter to the King's heirs on the days of their coronation, in lieu of all other services, customs and demands. That settlement, the Insular Entail Act of 1610, fixed the descent of the Lordship in the Stanley line and was still being cited against his successors a century and a half later. He was returned to Parliament for Liverpool in 1625, and was made one of the knights of the Bath the day before the coronation of Charles I. In September 1626 Buckingham informed the attorney-general that the King had granted the lieutenancy of Cheshire and Lancashire to James Lord Strange for life, jointly with his father. He was called to Parliament by writ in his own right in 1627, and from that date until his death the government of the Isle of Man was administered by him. His Manx legislation runs from page 84 to page 113 of Mills' Statute Book, taken from the authorised copies kept in Castle Rushen. Its most considerable moment came on 30 October 1643, when he assembled the Clergy and the twenty-four Keys, with the four men of every parish, at Castle Rushen, to hear the grievances of the Church and Commons laid out in their petitions and to devise remedies which might stand with the maintenance of his own royalties, rights and prerogatives. His handling of the charterlands and of the older tenures was the grave charge later laid against him by nineteenth-century Manx editors, who traced the uncertainty of tenure settled by the Act of Settlement of 1704 back to his dealings. A letter signed Strange from Knowsley in October 1637 shows the same temper in estate business. Tenants who tried to rest on their contracts were to be advised what those contracts were, and if they wronged themselves they would repent. Payment would be expected at the times agreed, according to their bonds, and those who did not pay would be accounted refractory. He left the Island for the last time in 1651 to join Charles II, leaving the insular troops under William Christian and the care of his Countess and children behind him. At his execution a trooper answered his invocation of the King and the laws by calling out that they had no King and would have no Lords. He is called the Martyr Earl throughout Lancashire, and a later Roman Catholic claim that he had converted before his death was rejected by his Chetham Society editor. He left his son a book of advice. Two long letters of instruction from him to his heir Charles, Lord Strange, survive, one of them cast as a series of aphorisms for his observation in life, beginning with the injunction to seek above all things to know the Word of God, and to know that about God there is neither greatness, place, quality, figure nor time, for he is all, through all and about all. In the other he reflects that it was safer by much to take men's lives than their estates, since children will sooner forget the death of a father than the loss of a patrimony, which is a hard remark from a man who lost both. Lord Strange was the courtesy title borne by the eldest sons of the Earls of Derby, and it was as Lord Strange that he governed the Island from 1628 until he came to the earldom in 1642.

The existence of a chapel on the Calf of Man, or the tradition of one, was known to Durham, who surveyed the island in 1595. It was thought that the keeill was located at the 'Bushel's House' site (PRN 0040.00), but more recent evidence locates it in the vicinity of 'Jane's House', a now-derelict farm cottage overlooking Cow Harbour. Lintel-graves were found in this area between 1888 and 1890. The area in the vicinity of OS Bench Mark 195.3 (SC 16526612) was examined in 1965 by J.R. Bruce and A.M. Cubbon. Probing of a slightly raised platform revealed the presence of several large buried stones, roughly in line, possibly indicating the site of the keeill. The chapel was destroyed in 1773. In the course of its destruction a cross-slab bearing an early representation of the crucifixion was discovered. This had probably formed part of the altar and is dated to the 8th century. Angus-Butterworth describes the crucifix as a unique work of art and of great importance. It is made of local Manx slate and was probably carved on the Calf of Man. Kermode says that the 'fineness and delicacy of workmanship exceeds anything that is known of stone of that early period'. It was given to Manx Museum in 1955-6.

The existence of a chapel on the Calf of Man, or the tradition of one, was known to Durham, who surveyed the island in 1595. It was thought that the keeill was located at the 'Bushel's House' site (PRN 0040.00), but more recent evidence locates it in the vicinity of 'Jane's House', a now-derelict farm cottage overlooking Cow Harbour. Lintel-graves were found in this area between 1888 and 1890. The area in the vicinity of OS Bench Mark 195.3 (SC16526612) was examined in 1965 by J.R. Bruce and A.M. Cubbon. Probing of a slightly raised platform revealed the presence of several large buried stones, roughly in line, possibly indicating the site of the keeill.  The chapel was destroyed in 1773. In the course of its destruction a cross-slab bearing an early representation of the crucifixion was discovered. This had probably formed part of the altar and is dated to the 8th century. Angus-Butterworth describes the crucifix as a unique work of art and of great importance. It is made of local Manx slate and was probably carved on the Calf of Man. Kermode says that the 'fineness and delicacy of workmanship exceeds anything that is known of stone of that early period'. It was given to Manx Museum in 1955-6.

Channel Island repeatedly compared with the Isle of Man in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century constitutional and administrative records. The comparison was explicit in the Atholl Papers. In discussing a possible Crown purchase of Mann, the Duke of Atholl argued that Crown ownership would not extinguish the inhabitants' rights to their constitution, laws, administration of justice and internal trade. He pointed to the case of “Guernsey Jersey Sark and Alderney”, whose imports and exports remained governed by their own laws. The Commonwealth records also place Jersey and Mann alongside one another. The Calendar of State Papers for the early 1650s contains extensive material on the surrender of Jersey and its subsequent civil and military jurisdiction, followed by material on the condition and government of the Isle of Man after its surrender in 1651. Both islands consequently required decisions about garrisons, local jurisdiction and the relationship between existing institutions and the new English republican government.

A large rectangular slab carved on both faces with a ring-head shafted cross, plait work and animal & human figures. There is a runic inscription on the edge of the stone. It was found circa 1850. It measures 3.0 metres long by 51cm and is 18cm thick. See also Manx Cross 132.

This large rectangular slab previously stood in the village before being placed in the entrance to the churchyard in 1907 and finally inside the church itself in 1963, accounting for its worn condition. Each face of this slab is carved with a wheel-headed cross, the arms connected by a plain circular ring. On one face, the head, arms and long cross shaft are decorated with a plait-of-eight. The plain ring joining the limbs of the cross is supported above and below by triquetra knots. The shaft is bordered with a double bead, terminating at top and bottom in spirals or 'volutes'. The lower spirals form a pedestal supporting the cross shaft. Above these are two panels depicting figures: to the left two stags are attacked by hounds, while to the right are a man on horseback and a riderless horse. Above these panels are two circular motifs formed by four back-to-back triquetras, which in turn support small crosses. Below the shaft are two interlaced dragons, and, separated by a band of step-pattern, a hound attacking a stag. On the other face the head of the cross is decorated with looped bands and rings. The bands are carried down the shaft to form, with two others, a double-twist interlaced with diamond-shaped rings. Two of these strands escape from the foot of the shaft to create a pedestal formed from spiralling volutes. Above the head of the cross the fragmentary remains of a hound pursue a stag, while above them a bird is chased by a larger one. To one side of the cross shaft a rider on horseback followed by a spare horse. Below them the faint figure of a man reaches towards the cross, while below are the faint remains of another. To the right of the cross two animals, apparently a bull and ram, are shown head to head, and below them a bird and a horse. One edge bears a twist and ring interlace motif, while the other is taken up with a runic inscription. Despite the presence of male figures and the depiction of pursuits usually dominated by men, this stone memorialises a woman, for this inscription translates as "Joalf, son of Thorolf the Red, raised this cross in memory of Fritha, his mother". Above the inscription can be seen a carving of a warrior, a spear in his right hand and a small round shield in his left, perhaps representing Joalf himself. This cross was probably carved around AD950-975.

A large rectangular slab carved on both faces with a ring-head shafted cross, plait work and animal & human figures. There is a runic inscription on the edge of the stone. It was found circa 1850. It measures 3.0 metres long by 51cm and is 18cm thick.

A hagiographic account by Jocelinus of Furness (12th century) describing Saint Patrick's legendary missionary work in Man and adjacent islands circa A.D. 444. Includes the narrative of Bishop Germanus and Patrick's ecclesiastical organization. Presented in parallel English and Latin text, this is a published excerpt from Manx Society volume 4 (Monumenta de Insula Manniae), providing early medieval context for Manx Christianity and insular governance structures.

A Latin and English transcription of Jocelinus of Furness's 12th-century account of Saint Patrick's conversion of the Isle of Man and other islands to Christianity around A.D. 444. The text details Patrick's appointment of Bishop Germanus to Man and his establishment of the episcopal seat at what is now called Saint Patrick's Island (Jurby Point). While primarily ecclesiastical and hagiographical in nature, this source provides foundational context for understanding Man's medieval Christian governance and institutional structures that persisted into the 18th century.

Joe Kelly was a Manx emigrant who settled in the Cleveland, Ohio area during the nineteenth century, forming part of the significant Manx community in the American Midwest.

The site of a post-medieval folly built by Joe Lewin, the tenant farmer of Balliargey farm.

Joey's Gate is a right-hand kink on the Billown Circuit, just before the Ballabeg hairpin, on the outskirts of Castletown. It takes its name from a 1979 Southern 100 race, when Joey Dunlop overshot the line on the corner and rode straight on through an open farm gate into the adjoining field. The escape passed into local racing folklore and the corner has been known as Joey's Gate ever since.

Letter from John Bradshawe (State Paper Office) to Colonel Duckenfield acknowledging receipt of correspondence regarding goods and prizes on the Isle of Man following its capture during the English Civil War period. Discusses plans for establishing administration and settlement of the island, commending Duckenfield's service in reducing the island.

Official letter from John Bradshawe at Whitehall to Colonel Duckenfield acknowledging receipt of correspondence regarding prize goods in the Isle of Man following its military reduction. The letter confirms the Council's approval of Duckenfield's service and indicates preparations underway to establish governance and administration of the island.

A brief letter of introduction from John Bradshawe (Lord President of the Council under Cromwell) to Colonel Duckenfield, recommending that an Isle of Man native, John Christian, be received and his informations on matters of state concern be heard. The letter dates to the Commonwealth period and reflects English interest in intelligence from the island.

A brief letter from John Bradshawe (Commonwealth government figure) to Colonel Duckenfield, introducing John Christian, a native of the Isle of Man, who has offered intelligence to the State. The letter requests that Duckenfield receive Christian's informations and act upon them as appropriate. This document provides insight into intelligence-gathering networks and State interest in Manx affairs during the Commonwealth period.

The site of a possible early medieval well.

John Cawle was a Manx sailor who served aboard HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and lost his right arm in the engagement. He returned to Kirk Bride, a parish of fewer than 700 souls, and became a schoolteacher.

John Christian, Deemster of the Isle of Man and brother of William Christian, Illiam Dhone. The Journals of the House of Commons call him one of two of the ablest and honestest gentlemen in the island, and he was summoned to London during the Commonwealth to be consulted about the Manx laws and other matters. He was on the bench through his brother's prosecution and he tried to hold it to form. The examinations in the case were taken before him, with Richard Stevenson, Henry Nowell, Thomas Norris, Richard Tyldesley, Hugh Cannell, the Calcotts, the Huddlestons and Robert Quayle. On 13 November 1662, on the advice and assistance given by as many of the twenty-four Keys as were then present, he and Deemster Norris declared that the within-named Mr William Christian was to be tried by the enquest, and both signed the declaration at Castletown. When it came to sentence he was not there. On the day of the Court of General Gaol Delivery he did not appear, and his son Edward, who acted as his assistant, forbore to sit, which left Norris alone on the bench. Father and son had sailed for England to lay the case before the King.

Letter from John Christian, First Deemster of Isle of Man, to an unknown recipient (possibly Hobhouse or Home Office official) dated 30 June 1826. Christian describes his recent acquittal in a libel trial brought by W. Roper, alleges perjury and corruption, and requests intervention from the Home Office (Mr Peel). The letter provides insight into post-Revestment Manx politics, judicial conflicts, and claims of underhand influence in island governance.

Letter from John Christian, First Deemster of the Isle of Man, to an unnamed recipient (possibly Henry Hobhouse at the Home Office) describing a trial for libel brought against him by W. Roper following Roper's readmission to the Manx bar. Christian details allegations of perjury, corruption, and political malice, and appeals for intervention from the Home Secretary (Peel). The letter provides insight into post-1765 Manx judicial politics and tensions between local officials.