Official record of debates in both Houses of Parliament during the Seventh Session of the Seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom (2 February–17 March 1826). Contains King's Speech, House of Lords and Commons debates on currency, banking, corn laws, Ireland, East India Company operations, slavery, and commercial distress. Hansard's continuation series covering political and economic crises of the period.
Fragment of parliamentary proceedings discussing the purchase of an annuity for the Earl of Derby granted under an Act from the 45th year of the late Majesty's reign, and the compensation for reserved sovereign rights in the Isle of Man to be paid from the Consolidated Fund. Includes resolution and notes on further consideration of the Isle of Man Trade Bill.
This is page 29 of a printed parliamentary speech or pamphlet discussing the Isle of Man's role in smuggling and its impact on British commerce. The speaker critiques a bill referencing the 7th of George the First while suppressing the 12th, and cites a Report of the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland detailing the island's proximity to Britain and the difficulty of preventing smuggling activities on the west coast.
This document is a meta-analytical review of three draft chapter frameworks (Ch 22-24) for Part IV of a research project on the 1765 Isle of Man Revestment. It assesses source readiness, identifies verification gaps, and reports on discovery of primary sources including Bacon's 1606 naturalization speech from Cobbett's Parliamentary History Vol. I and Mills' Ancient Ordinances containing the 1609 Letters Patent and 1610 Act of Parliament. The document combines framework assessment with forensic validation of coordinate sovereignty thesis.
This is a working editorial/research document compiled during manuscript development, not a primary historical source. It documents planning discussions for Part IV of a book on the 1765 Isle of Man Revestment, including chapter outlines, primary source identification needs, and synthesis of evidence already gathered from Parts I–III. The document traces evidence of parliamentary retrospective admissions (1790–1829) regarding the coercive nature and legal questionability of the 1765 transaction.
A transcription of Royal Letters Patent from 1607 granting sovereignty of the Isle of Man, its castle, and regalities to Henry Earl of Northampton and Robert Earl of Salisbury. The grant was made at the petition of William Earl of Derby and other heirs of Ferdinando Earl of Derby. This document is a foundational record of early modern Manx lordship and demonstrates the mechanisms of royal grant and feudal tenure that preceded the 1765 Revestment.
A transcription of a 1585 patent roll entry recording Queen Elizabeth I's grant to Thomas Preston of the Rectories of St. Michael and St. Maughold in the Isle of Man, with associated lands and revenues, held on a 31-year lease at £6 13s. 4d. annual rent. This document illustrates early Tudor administration of Isle of Man ecclesiastical property and revenue sources.
A transcription of a 1606 Crown patent granting a 40-year lease of the dissolved monasteries of Rushen and Douglas in the Isle of Man to Sir Thomas Leigh Knightly and Thomas Spencer. The document records the fine (£101 15s. 11d.) paid to the Exchequer and identifies reserved Crown rights including woods, wardships, marriages, mines and quarries. Relevant to understanding pre-Revestment Crown sovereignty over Manx ecclesiastical and secular properties.
A transcription of a Crown patent (Letters Patent) leasing the former monasteries and priories of Rushen and Douglas on the Isle of Man to Sir Thomas Leigh Knightly and Thomas Spencer for forty years, with reserved rights over woods, wardships, mines and quarries. This document illustrates early modern Crown property management on Man and the post-Reformation disposition of ecclesiastical lands.
Extract from the Irish Chancery Patent Rolls (Rotulorum Patentium et Clausorum Cancellariae Hiberniae) recording the King's commitment of the Isle of Man to John de Athy's custody during pleasure (dated 6 July 1318, 10 Edward II). Also records a grant of permission to the Abbot of Ives in Ulster to visit the Abbey of Rushen in Man. Relevant as early medieval evidence of English crown administration over the Isle of Man prior to the Revestment period.
Two royal grants from the Patent Rolls of the Irish Chancery (11 Edward II, 1318): the appointment of John de Athy as custodian of the Isle of Man, and permission for the Abbot of Ives in Ulster to visit the Abbey of Ruysshyn on the island. These documents illustrate early medieval governance and ecclesiastical links between Ulster and Man.
Patrick Cannell was a seventy-two-year-old Wesleyan Local Preacher who emigrated from the Isle of Man to Ohio in 1827 aboard the ship *Ocean*, which carried roughly 129 Manx emigrants. He travelled alongside John Sayle, another Local Preacher, as part of the significant wave of Manx emigration to the American Midwest.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Patrick Church by CH Cowley, from the 'Field Behind Patrick Church'.
This would appear to relate to the eastern portion of OS Field no. 0166, which is centred at the grid reference provided for indicative purposes.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) was an American revolutionary leader and orator, famous for the declaration "Give me liberty, or give me death." His connection to the Isle of Man is through his sister Anne, who married Colonel William Christian of Virginia, a descendant of the Manx Christian family of Milntown.
