33. The Attorney-General's Commission, 1764.

34. The Receiver-General's do.

35. Comptroller and Clerk of the Rolls Commission, 1764.

36. Water Bailiff and Collector's

37. Major-General's

38. The Legislature of the Isle of Man.

do.

do.

39. Minutes of the Attorney-General's Protest respecting Members

of the Council.

40. Certificate of the Clerk of the Rolls, that there are no Precepts from the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or any other authority, recorded in the Rolls Office, for the convening of the Council of the Isle of Man relative to the Laws made and enacted for the time therein specified.

41. Certificate of the Clerk of the Rolls, that there are no Precepts from the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, etc., from the year 1742 to 1777.

42. Extracts from the Exchequer Books of the Isle of Man of the proceedings of the Governor and Council, 1720-1721.

47. List of Proceedings or Acts of the Governor and Council,

abstracted from the Records in the Rolls Office.

48. Copies of proceedings of the Governor and Council, taken from the Records in the Rolls Office.

49. Copy of the Patent for the Office of Clerk of the Rolls.

50. Copy of the Commission for the Chaplain at Castletown.

54. Copy of the Oath administered to the Assistants of the Deputy

57. Copy of the Oath administered to the Lieutenant-Governor

60. The Examination of Mr. George Savage, Water Bailiff of the Isle of Man, taken at Douglas the 4th and 11th October 1791.

61. The Examination of Mr. Thomas Whittam, Chief Constable of the Town and District of Douglas, taken the 3d of October 1791.

62. The Examination of Mr. Daniel Quark, a Coroner of Garff Sheading, taken the 4th October 1791.

APPENDIX D.-PART IV.

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISLAND THAT HAVE

NOT BEEN DISCUSSED UNDER THE FOREGOING HEADS.

1. A Letter from Lieutenant-Governor Shaw, dated Castle Rushen, 17th November 1791. (A.)

2. Memorial of the principal Proprietors of Land in the Isle of Man, dated 26th and 31st October 1791.

3. Petition of the Inhabitants of the Northern District of the Isle of Man, 1791.

4. The Examination of John Cosnahan, Esq., High Bailiff of the District of Douglas, taken the 6th October 1791.

5. The Constitution of Mr. George Savage, Water Bailiff.

6. A Letter from Lieutenant-Governor Shaw, dated 17th November 1791. (B.)

7. A Judgment of the Water Bailiff.

8. A Letter from Lieutenant-Governor Shaw, dated 22d October

9.

1791.

Do.

do.

9th November 1791.

10. The Memorial of Norris Moore, Esq., Acting Secretary, Isle

of Man.

11. The Examination of the Rev. Mr. Corlett, taken at Douglas

October 22d, 1791.

12. The Examination of Thomas Moore, Esq., taken at Douglas the 22d October 1791.

13. The Petition of Mr. John Cotteen, Gaoler of Castle Rushen. 14. The Memorial of the Inhabitants of Kirk Lonan, dated 22d

October 1791.

15. Plan of Laxey Harbour in the Isle of Man.

16. Information of the Inhabitants of Kirk Maughold, with a plan of the natural harbour of Cornah.

17. The Examination of Mr. Nicholas Christian, Harbour Master of the Port of Douglas, taken the 3d, 10th, and 11th of October 1791.

18. Plan of the Harbour of Douglas.

19. Plan of Peel Castle and Harbour.

20. Plan of Ramsay Harbour, with the intended new Quay.

21. Plan of Port Earn and Bay.

22. A Letter from Mr. Alexander Cook, dated Douglas, 10th

29. Remarks on the present Establishment of Revenue Officers in

the Isle of Man.

30. A Letter from the Duke of Atholl, dated Douglas, Isle of Man, 20th October 1791, inclosing

31. A Paper marked Harbours.

32. A Letter from the Duke of Atholl, dated London, February

6, 1792, inclosing

33. Population of the Isle of Man, 1792.

34. A Letter from the Duke of Atholl, dated London, 13th

January 1792.

1807.

A Compilation of the different Statements of a late Duel, in the Isle of Man, between Sir John Piers, Bart., and John Douglas: printed by George Jefferson.

Meredith, Esq.

Octavo. Pp. 20.

Dated Douglas, 24th March 1807.

The Duel originated in a difference of opinion between Sir J. Piers and Mr. Meredith, relative to a bet at a Dinner, on the 24th of December 1806. Mr. Meredith was afterwards killed in a duel by Mr. Boys, in a field near Mount Murray, and the body left in the field: Boys fled.

1807-9.

The Antiquarian Repertory, a Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, etc.

Vol. iv. p. 460.-Lid of a Stone Coffin found in the Calf of Man.

This is now in the possession of the Clerk of the Rolls, H. M. Quayle, Esq., Castletown.

London 1807-9. 4 vols. quarto.

S. TURNER.-1807.

To the Public-Statement respecting the Duel between Sir John Piers and Mr. Meredith. Signed "S. Turner. Douglas, January 9th, 1807." G. Jefferson, Printer.

A broadside.

Published and edited by Jeffery the bookseller.

SAMUEL WILLIAM RYLEY.-1808.

The Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor. By S. W. Ryley. London: printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93 Fleet Street. 1808. 3 vols. 12mo. In the third volume will be found

H

an account of this eccentric individual's residence in the Town of Peel, in the Isle of Man, in 1795, with his remarks on the Country, Inhabitants, and their Customs, etc. Pp. 217 to 289.

A very entertaining work, printed in three series, 9 vols. A second edition of the first series appeared in 1817, and the three in 1816-27, 9 vols. London. 12mo. There is also a ludicrous account of Lord Henry Murray and Mr. Backhouse's "spree" to the Isle of Man.

1808.

The Book of Common Prayer, in Manx.

Whitehaven :

printed by John Ware. 1808.

JUDGE BLACKSTONE.-1809.

Commentaries on the Laws of England. 15th edition. Vol. i. p. 105. Vide "Abstract of Laws," etc. J. Gell, Esq.

Vol. i. p. 163. Manx Society, vol. xii., 1867.

1809.

Case of Major-General William Stapleton on the Investigation ordered by his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, into the Charges preferred by General Stapleton, against his Honor John Lace, Esq., his Majesty's First Deemster in the Isle of Man. No place or date on Title. Octavo. Octavo. Pp. 30. Dated "21st October 1809."

Case arose in consequence of an affray at the Theatre, in Douglas, caused by Major-General Stapleton having in a mere frolic pushed a Mr. Johnson forward on the stage, when the General and Sir John Piers and Captain Edwards were summoned to appear in the Deemster's Court in Castle