Calendar list of papers in HO 98/65 - 1794-1795

Page Author Recipient Date Topic Notes
1 Atholl Nepean 17940216 wants royal assent to act
2 Shaw Dundas 17940307 ack of official notice re Quarantine
3 Shaw Nepean 17940322 re son - also 'ruined in health + fortune and depressed in mind + spirits'
4 Shaw Dundas 17940405 re possible defensive local troops
5 Atholl Dundas 17940708 request for copy of game act
6 Shaw Portland 17940718 congratulating on his appointment in place of Dundas
7 Shaw Portland 17940728 re acts to regulate herring fishery + need for presence of Gov in chief in Island
8 Shaw Portland 17940816 thanks for approval of Act for better regulation of herring fishery
9 Shaw Portland 17940822 re temporary barracks in Douglas for Lord Donoughmore Irish troops - later recruits for another Irish regt under Lt Col Talbot arrived - too many?
10 Atholl Portland 17940830 re death of 1st Deemster - need for knowledge of Manx - suggests John Lace (currently 2nd Deemster) to be 1st and John Crellin(HB Ramsey) to be 2nd Deemster
11 Shaw Portland 17940927 persons from Ireland buying gunpowder
12 J Taylor 17940925 sworn deposition of John Taylor shopkeeper in Peel re selling gunpowder enc with 17940927
13 Shaw Portland 17941108 another Irish regt (Craddock's) arrived
14 Shaw Portland 17941205 destruction of pier at Douglas
15 Shaw Portland 17941206 deplorable manner of conveying the mail
16 Atholl Portland 17950203 lengthy letter re Lord of the Manor
17 Atholl Portland 17950316 re delay to Game bill
18 Shaw Portland 17950411 re advertisements or recruiting bills posted without permission
19 Shaw Portland 17950509 (private) re behaviour of Duke
20 Atholl Portland 17950527 application of suplus revenue to public purposes + comments on Lt Govr
21 Atholl Portland 17950527 present embargo prevented stone from Maryport being taken to rebuild new pier but was taken off but other provisions still affected
22 Keys Portland 17950513 re Duke + removal of quota of men to be impressed into naval service
23 Keys 17950511 appt of deputation to proceed to London + watch/oppose Duke's actions re bills enc
24 Keys 17950513 names delegation enc
25 Atholl Tynwald Court 17950511 address of Atholl + Key's response enc
26 Atholl Portland 17950606 re request to remove Shaw - have recommended Charles Small
27 Shaw Portland 17950611 re impress of men
28 Shaw Portland 17950618 re outbreak of trouble with officers of 127th Regt (Col Craddocks)
29 Curwen Portland 17950620 re assessment for public funds - example of one in 1703
30 Keys 17030727 example of assessment to treat with Earl of Derby enc
31 Keys 17061231 statute book enc
32 Keys 17090309 assessments for Braddan + other parishes enc
33 Shaw Portland 17950703 re complaint by Henry Speed MP of a breach of priv as he had been arrested for debt
34 Shaw Portland 17950706 official congratulations on marriage of Prince of Wales
35 Shaw Portland 17950710 (private) re arrest of Henry Speed MP
36 Shaw Portland 17950710 re arrest of Henry Speed MP
37 Shaw Portland 17950710 (private) re delay in sending addresses of Keys
38 Shaw Portland 17950717 ack of official notice re taking off quarantine
39 J King (Law officer) Shaw 17950723 re Henry Speed - doubts arise abt parliamentary priv extending to ioM
40 Shaw Portland 17950724 address re marriage of Prince of Wales
41 Shaw Portland 17950724 re not having any account to charge costs such as postage to
42 Wm Nicholson 17950505 extract of act regarding postage enc
43 Shaw J King (Law officer) 17950728 (private) re Duke's behaviour (sent via Cpt George Quayle)
44 Shaw Portland Memorial enc
45 Commission extract relating to salary of Lt Govr + extract from Keys Journal enc
46 Shaw Portland 17950803 rpt re state of Island, provisions etc + visit by officer to examine possibility of fixing temporary barracks
47 Shaw J King (Law officer) 17950807 re Parliamentary privilege + postage arrangements
48 Curwen Portland 17950825 [from Windermere] re assessments for public purposes
49 Robt Campbell Portland 17950923 in support of Shaw's Memorial [2689n] - very critical of Duke of Atholl
50 Portland Curwen 17950930 re bill of assessment - no trace of any report on bill
51 Shaw Portland 17951017 ack of official letter re letters of marque
52 Shaw J King (Law officer) 17951017 (private) re Lord Henry Murray (bro of Duke) went off to solicit Government (?attempt to replace Shaw)
53 Shaw Portland 17951024 ack of official letter re Quarantine
54 Shaw Portland 17951111 ack of rcpt of copy of H M's speech to parliament
55 Shaw Portland 17951118 address of Keys etc
56 Shaw Portland 17951121 rpt of petition re scarcity of copper coin
57 Shaw Portland 17951208 thanks for laying petition before king
58 Shaw Portland 17951208 scarcity of provisions esp grain
59 Shaw Portland 17951217 re scarcity of copper coin
60 Shaw J King (Law officer) 17951217 (private) re problems
61 Shaw Portland 17960110 rpt on court of tynwald (4 Dec) - rpt re provisions

Notes

This is the third file in the HO 98 series dealing with the IoM - a thick bound volume, which can cause some text to be lost in the binding. The pages are unnumbered - the page number here is the position of the document in the bound volume. Some documents are enclosed with others - usually noted as [enc].

It is intended more as a finding aid than as full abstracts of each paper.

The dates are ISO standard format year month day;
the key persons are:
Dundas - Secretary of State at Home Office for the northern district, later replaced by Lord Portland
Nepean - under Secretary of State.
Alexander Shaw - Lt Governor, appointed in 1791;
Duke of Atholl - 4th Duke, appointed Governor-in-Chief in 1793;his relationship with Shaw was poor at start and quickly became very bad
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