Number 4 Quay Lane is a house in the lane linking The Quay to the centre of Castletown. No verifiable specific history for this address could be confirmed from available sources.
According to William Henry Cooper's account of the town, the house at 4 The Quay was once the Harbour Master's House; originally it had no entrance directly from the Quay, access instead being from the lane behind, until Harbour Master Thomas Kewish had a flight of stairs built so residents could reach the house from the quayside. The adjacent Harbour Master's Office on the site was rebuilt in 2000. The house sits among Castletown's row of harbourfront properties overlooking the historic quay.
The 4th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
This terrace of eight dwellings, numbered 5-9 Charles Street and 1-11 Queen Street, Peel, was registered as a protected building on 1 January 2002. No further verifiable history beyond its registered status was found.
Number 5 Parliament Square was known as Cornish House while occupied by the Roberts family; R. C. Roberts, a tailor, kept a business there. The building later became Brown's Café and, separately, a knitting factory, before eventually being converted into offices with a health-food shop on the ground floor, according to William Henry Cooper's history of the town, a small illustration of how these Georgian townhouses on Castletown's old parliamentary square have been repeatedly repurposed over the generations.
5 The Parade is a Registered Building entered on the Protected Buildings Register for its architectural or historic interest. No further documented history was found beyond the registration record.
The 5th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
6 Finch Road stands on a street in central Douglas that dates back to at least the early nineteenth century, referred to as 'Vinche's Road' in an 1831 newspaper reference and as 'Finch's Road' on John Wood's 1833 map, a name recalling the Vinch family, who held land at nearby Ballakermeen. The road became established as a location for professional offices close to the Legislative Buildings and Douglas's main banks. No further verifiable history specific to number 6 itself was found.
6A The Parade is a Registered Building known in the Island's own records by its former trading name, "The Odd Bottle" (also recorded as Castle Wine Stores), pointing to a past use as a wine and spirit shop. No further documented history was found beyond this.
The 6th Milestone falls near Appledene Corner on the A1 Peel Road, a stretch of the course noted for road-widening works over the years. Beyond that, no further specific history was found for this marker.
7 Ballure Road is a house in Ramsey included on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list. No further verifiable historical information about this specific property was found.
British customs legislation of 1720 which attempted to extend anti-smuggling enforcement into the Isle of Man.
The measure later became important during the parliamentary debates over Revestment in 1765. Counsel for the Duke of Atholl described 7 Geo. I as the precedent on which the new bill was being modelled, but argued that its Manx provisions had never been effectively enforced.
The Act treated Mann alongside Jersey and Guernsey and provided for seizures connected with customs offences to be prosecuted either in the Westminster courts or in courts of the place where the offence had occurred. That formula caused difficulty in Mann because the King did not then possess his own courts or customs officers on the Island.
In the 1765 debate the Duke’s counsel cited the opinion of Lord Hardwicke that the Act gave British customs officers no effective power to make seizures within Mann. If goods were seized there under the statute, the proceedings would have had to be carried to the appropriate court in Britain.
Counsel therefore described the 1720 statute, as far as Mann was concerned, as a “dead letter”. He asked whether any customs officer had ever entered the Island under its authority, made a seizure there or prosecuted such a seizure to condemnation, and stated that no such example could be produced.
The 1765 legislation was framed in part as a response to that earlier failure.
Number 7 The Parade was built in the 1790s as one half of a semi-detached pair with the neighbouring number 8, originally rendered over its red sandstone construction; it retains its original red sandstone front steps, a basement area and railings. According to William Henry Cooper's account of the town, it was for a time the home of the Government Chaplain, George Stickler Parsons, who lived from 1795 to 1855. The house stands among the Georgian terraces of The Parade, next to the site of the town's Co-op.
The 7th Milestone, like the 6th just before it, falls near Appledene Corner on the A1 Peel Road, a stretch noted for road-widening works over the years. No further specific history was found for this marker.
8 Finch Road stands on a street in central Douglas that dates back to at least the early nineteenth century, referred to as 'Vinche's Road' in an 1831 newspaper reference and as 'Finch's Road' on John Wood's 1833 map. The building itself retains full-height Georgian-style windows and, from its upper floors, sea views over Douglas Bay; it sits toward the top of Finch Road near the junction with Prospect Hill, within easy reach of the Island's Companies Registry and main banks. No further verifiable historical detail specific to number 8 was found.
The 8th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
This is a registered building at 9 Athol Street, a street in central Douglas that has been a focus of legal and commercial activity since the nineteenth century, when it was known as Atholl Street after the Dukes of Atholl, former Lords of Mann. No further verifiable historical detail specific to number 9 could be found.
The 9th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
Sample chapters (1, 18, 22) from a forthcoming monograph examining the 1765 Isle of Man Revestment as a constitutional precedent for American independence. Chapter 1 establishes the island's smuggling economy, constitutional separateness, and indigenous institutions (Tynwald, Keys, Deemsters). Chapter 18 analyzes the Tea Act as a catalyst for colonial resistance. Chapter 22 reconstructs the 'Bacon-Coke framework' of coordinate dominion, arguing it remained valid law until 1991 and was violated by the 1765 Purchase Act.
