The six men who found William Christian, Illiam Dhône, a traitor.

The verdict was taken at Rushen Sheading in open court in 1662, in the presence of Robert Calcott the Coroner, before Richard Stevenson as Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle and Receiver, with the Deemsters John Christian and Thomas Norris and all the officers there present. Six lawful men were sworn. Three are described in the record as soldiers: Richard Halsall, Peter Robinson and Robert Shimmin. Three are described as husbandmen of the parish of St Lupus, that is Malew, in which Castle Rushen stands: William Wattleworth, Thomas Clarke and John Cottier. Being sworn as required, the jurors found by several depositions, proofs and evidences that William Christian late of Ronaldsway, gentleman, was a traitor for his insurrection and treachery.

That single entry is the whole of the record. Beyond their six names, their two occupations and the one parish, nothing is known of any of them from the Manx sources, and none of the six can be traced further with any confidence. The panel is worth knowing as a panel: three soldiers of the garrison and three farmers from the parish of the castle, which is how a capital verdict was got in the Island in 1662.

The court had prepared the ground. On 26 November 1662 the Deemsters and Keys had been asked in writing what the law deemed against a person indicted for any crime who refused to come to the bar, and had answered that such a person was in the mercy of the Lord for life and goods, as they found by ancient records. On 13 November Deemsters John Christian and Thomas Norris had declared, on the advice of as many of the twenty-four Keys as were then present, that Christian was to be tried by the enquest. Sentence of death was pronounced on 31 December 1662 and he was shot at Hango Hill on 2 January 1663. On 5 August 1663 the King's Council ordered full restitution of the estates to his heir, and the two Deemsters who had decreed his death were committed to the King's Bench.