The Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man: Carefully Copied From, and Compared With, the Authentic Records; Together with Copious Extracts from the Several British Statutes Which Have Reference Thereto (Classic Reprint)

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Tuesday next after the Feast of St. Bartholomew, in the Year of our Lord God 14-22.

IN the which Court the Bishop of Mann was called to come to doe his Faith and Fealtie unto the Lord, as the Law asketh, and to shew by what Claime he houldeth his Lands and Tenements within the Lordship of Mann, the which came and did his Faith and F ealtie to the Lord. The Abbott alsos of Rushen, and Priors of Douglas, were called to, doe their Fealtie, and to shew their Claimes of their houldings, Lands and Tenements, within the Lordship of Man; the which came and did their F ealtie to the Lord. The Prior of withorne, in Galloway, the Abbott of F ar nace, the Abbott of Bangor, the Abbott of Saball, and the Prior of St. Beade, in Copeland, were called in and came not; therefore they were deemed by the Deemsters, that the should come in their proper Persons within xl days, and if they came not, then to loose all their Temporalties, to be ceised into the Lords Hands in the same Court.

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