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| AP_49(4th)_1 |
1.9.1826
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McCrone to J.Mackenzie. requesting a statement of the number of herrings cured and exported for the past five years. |
| AP_49(4th)_2 | statement as per AP_49(4th)_1 | |
| AP_49(4th)_3 |
6.9.1826
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McCrone to Duke. asking for instructions re rents in arrears. |
| AP_49(4th)_4 |
8.9.1826
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McCrone to Duke. advising a partial change in the ownership of the Laxey mines. |
| AP_49(4th)_5 |
14.9.1826
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McCrone to Duke. General. |
| AP_49(4th)_6 |
22.9.1826
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McCrone to Duke. suggesting a sale of the West Crescent property from Mona Cottage (McCrone's property) to Pooley's House,including the new Hotel and the Shell Cottage with some thatched cottages. |
| AP_49(4th)_7 |
25.9.1826
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McCrone to Duke. advising him that G.Cummings,Mr.Webster's late assistant, wishes to sue Webster for wages due to him. |
| AP_49(4th)_8 |
29.9.1826
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McCrone to Duke. a jury refuse to convict a man thought, on very strong evidence,to have been guilty of burning some stacks of tithe hay. Showing that with feeling on the question of tithes is so strong that justice cannot be expected in the local courts. |
| AP_49(4th)_9 |
30.9.1826
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Duke to McCrone. saying that he is agreeable to selling his property in the Island if a fair return can be got. |
| AP_49(4th)_10 |
30.9.1826
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Duke to McCrone. in answer to No 7. |
| AP_49(4th)_11 |
30.9.1826
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J.Holmes to McCrone. regretting that he cannot supply an estimate of the number of herrings exported fresh or eaten in the Island. Gives average prices paid for herrings 1820/1825. |
| AP_49(4th)_12 |
4.10.1826
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McCrone to Duke. Mr. Webster is leaving today. |
| AP_49(4th)_13 |
4.10.1826
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G Cumming to McCrone. enclosing a letter to show what a bad character Mr.Webster is. |
| AP_49(4th)_14 |
6.10.1826
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McCrone to Duke. Another case of arson in connection with the tithes."The cottage called the Burnt Mill, belonging to the Duke, has been wantonly damaged by Mr. Webster and his friends. |
| AP_49(4th)_15 |
10.10.1826
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McCrone to Duke. Since the furniture has been taken from Castle Mona and the plants from the garden the place has been overrun by the public who have broken doors and robbed the garden etc.The mails are now to be carried once a week only, by a small steamboat of 30 h.p. called the "Victory". |
| AP_49(4th)_16 |
12.10.1826
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McCrone to Duke. with some further scandal he has unearthed about Webster. |
| AP_49(4th)_17 |
16.10.1826
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McCrone to Duke. General |
| AP_49(4th)_18 |
1.11.1826
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McCrone to Pettman. re a request for particulars of tithe-free lands. |
| AP_49(4th)_19 |
1.11.1826
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McCrone to Duke. re. tithe-free lands etc. |
| AP_49(4th)_20 |
8.11.1826
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McCrone to Duke. re herring tithes,giving his estimate for the herring consumed in the Island. |
| AP_49(4th)_21 |
15.11.1826
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McCrone to Duke. General |
| AP_49(4th)_22 |
22.11.1826
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McCrone to Duke. re herring tithes,giving his estimate for the herring consumed in the Island. |
| AP_49(4th)_23 |
29.11.1826
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McCrone to Duke. he has advertised the sale by auction of the horses and carts etc. belonging to the Castle, stopped the Duke's subscriptions to the school, and asks for instructions about that to the Soup Kitchen. He is trying to provide work for the labourers who have had to be dismissed. Describes how the party in opposition to the Duke get their information through Mr.Holmes and others. |
| AP_49(4th)_24 |
29.11.1826
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McCrone to Sec.of Woods & Forests. requesting a bill for the rent due to the Crown from the Duke for the Barony of Bangor & Sabal. |
| AP_49(4th)_25 |
6.12.1826
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McCrone to Duke. enclosing a letter from Mr Roper with an offer to buy "the house in which Askew and Fell live,which was bought from Mrs. Drinkwater", |
| AP_49(4th)_26 |
7.12.1826
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McCrone to Duke. Mr.Pettman is caught in some underhand work, |
| AP_49(4th)_27 |
21.2.1827
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McCrone to Duke. Having returned from London he makes a general report. |
| AP_49(4th)_28 |
21.2.1827
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McCrone to Duke. Mr.Webster is still making trouble,and trying through people on the Island to make the value of the Duke's tithes appear less than they should be. The Duke's Seneschal,or late Seneschal (Quirk N.M.) is alleged to be his worst enemy in the whole Island. |
| AP_49(4th)_29 |
28.2.1827
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McCrone to Duke. The Customs at Liverpool have seized "a barrel of the Polishing Powder...hitherto known as Asbestos exported from the Island as duty had not been paid on it A list of the Magistrates appointed 21.12.1826 is given. |
| AP_49(4th)_30 |
7.3.1827
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McCrone to Duke. The crops and fishing having failed the Islanders are reduced to poverty. Great numbers are going to America,leaving their unpaid debts behind them. The Laxey Mining Co. are at the end of their means and may have to close down. The winter has been so severe that had it not been for the gorse the cattle would have died of want. |
| AP_49(4th)_31 |
7.3.1827
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McCrone to Duke. The Daily and Sunday School in Douglas is asking for subscriptions said to be overdue from the Duke. "The truth is that while everything possible is done to destroy and undervalue your property, the burden of maintaining the poor is laid on you and the Lord Bishop. The fact is that all the charitable Institutions have hitherto been mainly supported by strangers,the wealthy natives,in comparison,contributing very little." |
| AP_49(4th)_32 |
7.3.1827
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McCrone to Duke. enclosing a letter received re. the above With copy of his answer thereto. |
| AP_49(4th)_33 |
24.3.1827
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W.Roper to McCrone. In this,Mr.Roper speaking of the various grieviences suffered by the people of the Island, includes a long,detailed and biting attack upon the character and methods of Manx advocates and Courts. He finishes "The Law here is the plague of the Country.... though appearing cheap it ruins even more families than that other scourge of the Island,the excessive use of spirituous liquors." (This is well worth studying. N.M.) |
| AP_49(4th)_34 |
28.3.1827
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McC. to Duke. Laxey mines are yielding considerable amounts of ore,some of which gives 140 oz, of silver and upwards, The ore is found in pockets rather than in regular veins. The stoppage of Mr. McWhannell's bank has caused much distress, |
| AP_49(4th)_35 |
28.3.1827
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McC. to Duke. The people of the Island,suffering from bad crops and fearing the conditions likely to under direct Government rule,have become panic-stricken. Many of them are selling their land and stock,particularly in the North, for anything they can get and preparing to emigrate. |
| AP_49(4th)_36 |
6.6.1827
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McC. to Duke. General. |
| AP_49(4th)_37 |
9.7.1827
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McC. to Duke. He has let the Duke's tithes for all the parishes except
Rushen,which he proposes to collect in kind. Actions have been commenced
against the mineowners at both Foxdale and Laxey for the pollution of water
by the washing of the ore. The cottages ( on the Crescent ? N.M.) are mostly let. |
| AP_49(4th)_38 |
13.7.1827
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McC. to Duke. It begins to look as if the actions for water pollution against the mineowners are all part of a plot to reduce the value of the mines to that placed on them by Mr.Webster, |
| AP_49(4th)_39 |
24.7.1827
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McC. to Duke. with copy of letter to Mr.Roper attached re. valuation,ownership and working of the mines. |
| AP_49(4th)_40 |
24.7.1827
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McC. to Duke. announcing that,thanks to the Duke,he has been appointed Receiver of the quit-rents and all the property transferred to the Crown,this post being held under the Dept.of Woods & Forests. Mr.Courtenay,who has been acting as a valuer,has done his work in a most efficient manner. |
| AP_49(4th)_41 |
4.12.1827
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McC. to Fraser re.Mr.Vignoles, the surveyor, and the difficulty and expense of collecting tithes in kind. |
| AP_49(4th)_42 |
24.1.1828
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M.Knott to McC. saying that should the Duke wish to buy back the mines the minimum price likely to be asked would be £20,000. |
| AP_49(4th)_43 |
25.1.1828
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McC. to Ludlow asking various questions about the mines. |
| AP_49(4th)_44 |
25.1.1828
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McC. to J.Kyrke asking for a report on the mines,and their value. |
| AP_49(4th)_45 |
28.1.1828
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J. Kyrke to McC. Mines are very difficult to value,but were they his he would not accept less than £20 or £30 thousand for then. |
| AP_49(4th)_46 |
30.1.1828
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McC. to Mr.Taylor (draft) re. his giving evidence as to the mine values before the Arbitrators. |
| AP_49(4th)_47 |
9.2.1828
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J.Taylor to McC. replying to the AP_X49(4th)_46. |
| AP_49(4th)_48 |
14.2.1828
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J. Kyrke to McC. pointing out the risks of selling mines at a valuation but offering to give what help he can. |
| AP_49(4th)_49 |
21.3.1828
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McC. to Duke. Laxey mines as yet but little opened up,but having ore giving above 90 oz of silver per ton, |
| AP_49(4th)_50 |
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Memoranda. Trivial. |
| AP_49(4th)_51 |
n.d.
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Memoranda. Trivial. |
| AP_49(4th)_52 |
14.5.1779
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Sir W. Busk to Bishop as to the right to elect the Master of the Peel Grammar School. |
| AP_49(4th)_53 |
c.1826
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Fragment,first part missing, from McC, to ? re valuation of Tithes. |
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