Atholl Papers Bundle AP_60(2nd)

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Date
Brief Description
AP_60(2nd)_1
Abstract of an intended Settlement of the I.O.M. By the Duke of Atholl.
AP_60(2nd)_2
11.6.1733
Statement of Case (Copy) re the Act for Assuring and Establishing the I.O.M, With Sir P.Yorke's opinion.
AP_60(2nd)_3
Copy of AP_60(2nd)_2
AP_60(2nd)_4
14.11.1737
Notes on the Conveyance of the I.O.M.
AP_60(2nd)_5
Directions for making Livery of Seizin upon the Duke of Athol’s settlement of the I.O.M. (Appears to be incomplete. N.M.)
AP_60(2nd)_6
Bill of Complaint from the Duke of Athol to the Lord High Chancellor. (This is too complicated for me to make out, but it appears to be a claim by the Duke to all the estates of the late Earl of Derby. Also to throw doubt on the validity of his will. I am not at all sure of this,however. N.M.)
AP_60(2nd)_7
-.-.1736
Memorial from Duke to Treasury asking that the privilege of importing and exporting free of duty household provisions and certain personal effects,granted to the Earls of Derby,might likewise be granted to him. (Exports from the Island were beer,bullocks,herrings, feathers,puffins,samphire,fish and hawks. Imports were horses and travelling gear. N.M.)
AP_60(2nd)_8
17.8.1691
Statement of articles allowed to be exported and imported, as per AP_60(2nd)_7.
AP_60(2nd)_9
23.8.1727
Opinion of the Att.-Gen. (Sir P.Yorke) as to the right of the British Customs to make seizures in the I.O.M.,with special ref.to goods imported in the ship "Dove".
AP_60(2nd)_10
14.11.1723
Letter from Comms. of Customs to their Officer at Ramsey advising him that rum was not liable to seizure,and that in any case he had not power to make seizures,but only to give information about the trade.
AP_60(2nd)_11
- Copy of the above [AP_60(2nd)_10] -
AP_60(2nd)_12
9.2.1721
Lease (Copy) from the Earl of Derby to Richard Macquire of Dublin of all the Customs Duties of the Island for twenty-one years at £1,050 per annum.
AP_60(2nd)_13
25.6.1667
Receipt (Copy) from Earl of Derby to Bishop of Sodor & Man for £1,000 for the Impropriate Tithes.
AP_60(2nd)_14
9.4.1711
Abstract of papers sent to the Court of Chancery,London.
AP_60(2nd)_15
n.d.
Acknowledgement from the Privy Council that the Earl of Derby is Admiral of the I.O.M. and that the British Admiralty does not have jurisdiction there. (Copy)
AP_60(2nd)_16
n.d.
An Account of the rise of the smuggling trade in the I.O.M. with some suggestions for its suppression - preferably by the sale of the Island to the Govt. (Undated and unsigned,but after 1721. N.M.)
AP_60(2nd)_17
Draft of an Act to abolish Duty on exports from I.O.M. to Britain.
AP_60(2nd)_18
Account of the growth of the system of Land Tenure in the Island.
AP_60(2nd)_19
-.8.1750
Account,submitted te the Privy Council,of the actions of Gapt.G.Dow of the Revenue cruiser "Sincerity” who seized a Dutch vessel carrying contraband and placed a crew on her. How this crew was captured and imprisoned in Castle Rushen by a party of men from Ramsey (said to be under the orders of the Deputy Governors) while the cargo was unloaded and taken away.
AP_60(2nd)_20
n.d.
Letters Patent (Copy) granting the Island to Hen Percy, Earl of Northumberland,
AP_60(2nd)_21
n.d.
Abstract from Letters Patent of 7 James I. detailing the rights to which the Lord of the Island wae entitied.
AP_60(2nd)_22.1
8.7.1630
Grant (Original signed by Alexander Rigby (?) and two others) to Thomas Joyner,of the salmon fishing rights at Douglas.
AP_60(2nd)_22.2
21.1.1643
Grant (Original signed Derby) to Thomas Joyner,of the salmon fishing rights at Douglas.
AP_60(2nd)_22.3
16.11.1660
(Original,signed) from Richard Joyner to his brother-in-law John Murrey of half his rights in the above fishery. With copy of entry of the original grant.
AP_60(2nd)_23
n.d.
"The Supposed True Chronicle of the Isle of Man,copied out of the Original" (c. 1736 ? N.M. )Gives the rulers of the Island from Mananan MacLer to James,Duke of Athol. also "The Order of the Prince at Tinwald."
AP_60(2nd)_24
“State of the Dispute between the present Earl of Derby and the coheirs of the last Earl."
AP_60(2nd)_25
-.-.1732
An Act for the Assuring and Establishing of the I.O.M.(Copy.)
AP_60(2nd)_26
- Copy of the above [AP_60(2nd)_25] -
AP_60(2nd)_27
- Copy of the above [AP_60(2nd)_25] -
AP_60(2nd)_28
n.d.
"A short view of the state and government of the I.O.M."(Unsigned )
AP_60(2nd)_29
- Copy of the above [AP_60(2nd)_28] -
AP_60(2nd)_30

The state of the Island,as presented to the Lords of the Treasury. (This appears to be part of a larger report dealing with smuggling etc. date c.1745 ? N.M.)
AP_60(2nd)_31
- Copy of the above [AP_60(2nd)_25] -
AP_60(2nd)_32
3.9.1685
Copies of correspondence 3.9.1685 - 20.5.1686 between Gov. Norris,CaptChas. Christian (Constable of Douglas) and others re. seizures of tobacco and other goods. Gov.orders the release of goods seized by the King's officer.
AP_60(2nd)_33
-.8.1736
Copy of new Laws passed in the Island and confirmed by the Duke of Athol.
AP_60(2nd)_34
-.-.1726
Act of Parliament (Copy ) disallowing "drawbacks" on tobacco etc.


 

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