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28.12.1762
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D.Mylrea to H.Harrison. with an account of the sums due to Harrison. (These include his salary of £20 per annum, rents of various warrens, closes and fields etc. N.M.) |
| AP_X17_2 |
17.2.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. with a remittance of £1,000 per Chas.
Lace and Tarleton. Remarks on the process of selling the Tithes A slow business,.
Mr. Grifrith,whose lease of the mines commenced in April 1745,has so far
raised only about 45 tons of ore. Ore has lately been found "about
a mile from Douglas,near the Peel road" and is to be given a trial.
The repairs to the Governor's house,to which the Duke "is not yet reconciled" were made before the arrival of the writer, and were all absolutely necessary. |
| AP_X17_3 |
10.3.1763
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H.Hamersley to Harrison. Stevenson's three appeals in his case against the late Gov. Cochrane have been heard by Mr.Hoskins and dismissed. |
| AP_X17_4 |
19.3.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. The sale of the tithes is proceeding very slowly as few purchasers come forward. |
| AP_X17_5 |
31.3.1763
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Hamersley to Harrison. advising against a prosecution of Stevenson,who has already been imprisoned, fined and had to pay costs of all his appeals. It is better,unless he appeals to the Council - as he threatens to do - to let the whole matter drop. |
| AP_X17_6 |
21.4.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. Stevenson,who has already been imprisoned, fined and had to pay costs of all his appeals. It is better,unless he appeals to the Council - as he threatens to do - to let the whole matter drop. |
| AP_X17_7 |
16.5.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. with some suggested new laws (missing N.M.)for approval. |
| AP_X17_8 |
6.6.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. with a remittance of £2,000 .Further difficulties about the sale of Tithes.Some have already been sold at 35 years purchase with exemption from all charges.If future purchasers are to be liable for these the price will have to be reduced, |
| AP_X17_9 |
26.6.1763
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Cochrane to Harrison. He has long wished to wait upon the Duke, but has been prevented from doing so owing to his great suffering from rheumatiam, Suggests that Capt.Clucas,who has bought Tithes at a cost of £33.16.8 should be excused payment in return for the service he did by being himself the first purchaser, and in persuading others to do so. |
| AP_X17_10 |
30.6.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. with a remittance of £1,200. He has laid Carron's petition before the Council. But he is an ignorant and litigious man as may be judged from the fact that he recently brought an action for £3,000 for damages to his cabbage garden. |
| AP_X17_11 |
30.6.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. Work on a new staircase "going up to Your Grace's appartments,the Court Room and Public Offices in Castle Rushen" and the making of a new dial for the Castle Clock are nearly completed, wut work on the drawbridge cannot be put in hand until the roof is stripped and the timbers of it examined, The paper mill has failed,and has not worked since the writer came to the Island. The iron forge (at Ballasalla. N.M) has started work Mr.Rose hes started a machine for grinding stiff,but it does little or no business. With the advent of peace the Govt.has more seamen available than are needed,so it has used them to augment the Revenue servies,whose cutters "greatly annoy the Boats." The coming of war or peace usually causes inconvenience to "the Trade" but it is the general opinion of the merchants that it will soon revive and flourish. |
| AP_X17_12 |
27.7.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. General. He feels sure the Duke will not think of depriving him of any perquisites enjoyed by previous Governors (out of the Boon Services ? N.M.) |
| AP_X17_13 |
15.8.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. The seizure of a Dutch ship bringing Tea
is very disagreeable,and copy of a letter from Rotterdam with regard to
it is enclosed, (see AP_X17_14). No money will be spent on Castle Rushen without direct orders. |
| AP_X17_14 |
29.7.1763
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H.van Yzendoorn(Rotterdam) to Mr.Taubman (extract from) suggesting that he should get the Duke to take action - to save his priviliges - with regard to the seizure of three Dutch ships, carrying East India goods from Rotterdam, in Liverpool. These have been released on provision of bail of £2,600. Seizure was made under an Act of forty years ago,of which the shippers knew nothing and,as a result the trade with the Island will be spoilt unless something is done about it. |
| AP_X17_15 |
26.8.1763
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Address to the Duke from the Presbyterians residing in the Island. Requesting his permission to have their own Minister in the Island. (Signed: David Ross,Robt.Mercer, Thos. Gillespie,Robt. Gordon, Wm. McCall and Robt.Kennedy ) Original. |
| AP_X17_16 |
3.9.1763
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T.Mears (Liverpool)to Harrison. describing the seizure of the three Dutch ships (see No.14 above) and asking,on behalf of the Liverpool merchants in the African trade that the Duke take action to protect transhipments in the Island. |
| AP_X17_17 |
29.9.1763
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B. Cochrane to Harrison with a letter (missing. N.M.) from the new Presbyterian Minister to the Island, Mr. Baird,for the Duke. |
| AP_X17_18 |
1.10.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. Old Deemster Taubman having died he recommends that his nephew, though he is also a merchant,should be appointed to succeed him. |
| AP_X17_19 |
-.10.1762
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Statement of remittances ex Revenue and sale of Tithes. Oct. 1762 to Aug. 1763 |
| AP_X17_20 |
2.10.1763
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Hamersley to Harrison General. |
| AP_X17_21 |
8.10.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. with copy of a letter from B.Cochrane to J.Taubman., see below, |
| AP_X17_22 |
2.7.1762
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Cochrane to Taubman. saying that while he feels sure he would make a good Deemster it is not his place, being no longer Governor,to make recommendations for office. |
| AP_X17_23 |
9.10.1763
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T.Mears (Liverpool) to Harrison. suggesting that the Duke shouls assert his rights as an independent Sovereign with regard to the seizure of ships taking East India goods to the Island, |
| AP_X17_24 |
26.10.1763
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Cochrane to Harrison. (?) Young Taubman has the ability to become a good Deemster,but to appoint him would break a standing rule of Gov. Murray's that no merchant should ever be a Deemster or a member of the Council, enloses a letter from John Quayle which shocws how badly he has behaved while acting an deputy Deemster. |
| AP_X17_25 |
30.9.1763
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J.Quayle to B.Cochrane (copy) with various allegations as to the unsuitability of young Taubman for the post of Deemster,which he owes entirely to the partiality of the Governor and Mrs.Wood. Accusations of avarice against Mrs. Wood,who receives and keeps all the Boon Accounts. She dislikes the writer because eight doz puffins (which he got for her ?) began to smell after being kept in a bag for two nights at Castletown. For this she threatens to get him discharged. "Next to avarice a claw against you is her greatest passion." she and her simple sister are just returned from a visit to Ballamoore where they were entertained with the old joke of the Captain's commission to Mr.Moore's dog Rouse, He has recently bought,for £900 Irish,BallaWhetstone and the WhiteStone,which will give him a farm of more than 260 acres within one boundary. Gossip about several local people:- Miss Frissel's marriage,Mrs.Stevenson of Balladoole,Da Costa and Vianna,Dr.La Mothe etc. |
| AP_X17_26 |
31.10.1763
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Gov. Wood to Duke. General, Cargo from a wreck has been sold, but not the "Elephant's teeth,four in number" which were amongst it. He adheres to his views on the appointment of Mr.Taubman as Deemster,though they are apparently at variance with those of the Duke. |
| AP_X17_27 |
16.12.1763
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John Murray(London) to Duke with some papers (missing, N.M.) |
| AP_X17_28 |
22.12.1763
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Duke to Murray Acknowledging the above papers,which were a request from some Bristol merchants that someone who has absconded from there to the Island may be arrested. He has sent the Governor instructions to do so. |
| AP_X17_29 |
22.12.1763
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Harrison to Cochrane enclosing the above two letters, ane saying that the Duke would Like his advice as to what he should say to Gov, Wood on the subject. |
| AP_X17_30 |
24.12.1763
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Cochrane to Harrison The Duke should tell the Governor to "apprehend the fellow and deliver him up.....as was done in the late Earl of Derby's time." |
| AP_X17_31 |
17.12.1763
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He has recalled the commission he issued to Mr.Taubman to act as Deemster,and told him that neither the Duke or the two previous Governors approved of a merchant being either a Deemster or a member of the Council. Goes on to justify his own action in making the appointment, and gives his reasons for not appointing the Attorney-General (about which the Duke had asked) |
| AP_X17_32 |
24.12.1763
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H.Hamersley to Harrison. Mr.Stevenson has appealed to the King in Council from Mr.Hoskin's dismissal of his claim against Gov. Cochrane, - but it is probable that this is merely to support his credit in the Island,and that he does not intend to follow it up. |
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