Lawes finall deffinitive Sentences, Orders or Judgments are given, whereby the Causes are absolutely and finally determined, or but interlocutorie Orders before the final Decree. or Judgment; whether Judgments or Orders made by such Lawes be subject to any Appeale or higher Judgment, or do extend to Matters of any Value whatsoever, or be restrained to some certain Values; whether the same are to be pronounced in open Court, or may be done privately out of any Court or Session; and whether by the Opinion of one Deemster alone, or with what Assistance; what Entree or Remembrances is made of such Orders or Judgment, and how it may appeare that the same is not repugnant to the known Lawes and Customes of the Island, or one Brest Law contrary to another; and how the People may take notice thereof, to frame their Accompts and Contracts accordingly,

Item, Forasmuch as the Lord conceiveth that all the Mulcture, Toll and Soken of all Corn and Graine ground within the Island, belongeth to his Lordship, for grinding of which his Lordship and his Ancestors have had ancient Milns in that Island; and is now informed, that many of his Honour's ancient Milns are in ruin, and go to decay, by negligence of his Tennants, and that new Milns are lately built by Tennants, upon their Coppyhold, or Customary Lands there, for which they pay no Fines, and but little or no increase of Rent to the Lord. His Lordship's pleasure therefore is, and his Honour doth order, and direct, that the Captaine, or his Deputy, and others his Lordship's Officers of his Counsell, in that Island, and his Lordship's Attorney-General, or some three of them, whereof the Captaine, or his Deputy, to be one, to inquire, by Inquisition upon Oath, View, Survey, Perambulation, and by all other good ways and means, as to them shall seem fit, according to the Laws and Customes of the Island, what ancient Milns of the Lord's have, in time of memory, been decayed and let down; and also what new Milns have, within the like time of memory, been erected upon any Copyhold, Customary, or Waste Land, for which the Lord hath not had any Fine, or valuable increase of Rent; and in case any increase of Rent be, what it is, and how long since, and by whom it was assessed and increased, and what Mulcture, Toll, or Soken is drawn from the Lord by those late erected Milns, which yield little or no profitt to the Lord; and that they certify his Honour the Particulars,

and their proceedings therein, with what convenient Speed they can, to the End that Order may be given for re-edifying of the Lord's Milns, and demolishing of the said late erected Milns; and thereby his Lordship's Prerogative and his Profitt of Mulcture and Toll may be preserved.

Itm. Forasmuch as the Execution of Justice, and Punishment of Offenders, have of late been much delayed by unnecessary Appeals from the Ecclesiastical Courts in that Island, sometimes to the Lord of the Island, and sometimes to the Lieutenant or Captaine of the Island, or his Deputie, and to the Temporall Judges and 24 Keys; for Reformation of which Delays hereafter, and for Quietness and avoiding of Differences between the Ecclesiasticall and Temporall Courts within that Island, the Lord is honourably pleased, and so doth declare, direct, and appoint, that noe Appeale shall hereafter be made from the Ecclesiasticall Courts to the Lieutenant, or to the Captain or his Deputy, or to the Judges or 24 Keys, or any of them, for any Cause depending or determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which do meerly concern Government of the Church, Excommunications, Suspensions, Incests, Adultry, Fornication, Prophainacion of God's Name, Prophainacion of the Sabbath, Cursing, Probatt of Wills and Testaments, granting of Administration, granting Tuition of Infants Goodes, or merely substracting of Tythes, or for, or concerning the Defamations determinable or punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes Let these Proceedings be no Ways prejudiciall to the Privilidges formerly enjoyed by the Soldiers there under the Captaine in Garrison. These directions to endure until his Lordship hath further considered of the Conse quence of this Business, and do give further Orders therein.

And his Lordship's further Pleasure is, and so doth order and direct, that all the before mentioned Orders and Directions shall forthwith, upon Receipt of them, be enrolled and entered in the Records of that Island where the Lord's Orders are, and have been usually recorded; and that the same may be duly kept and observed by all Persons whom they may concerne, upon Paine of his Lordship's Displeasure, and such further Penaltys and Punishments as are due to Contemners of his Honour's Commands there, any former Orders or Directions to the contrary notwithstanding.

Item. His Lordship doth direct, that the Captaine, Deemsters, and other Officers that have Custody of the Records

of that Island, shall forthwith, in short time, send over to his Lordship Copies of all the Lawes, Orders, and Ordinances, made for the good Government of the Island and the Inhabitants thereof since the Decease of Ferdinando, late Earl of Derby, and Lord of that Island.

In Testimony whereof the Lord hath subscribed this with his Hand, and affixed his Seale the Day and Yeare first above written,

Examined by JOHN QUAYLE, C, R.

JAMES STRANGE.

At a Court of Tynwald,

Holden in the Isle of Mann, the 24th Day of June, in the Yeare of our LORD GOD 1637, it was Enacted, Established, and Confirmed, by the Sovereign Liege Lord of the Island, JAMES, Lord STRANGE, and by the Barrons, 24 Keyes, Commons, and Inhabitants of the said Island, assembled at this Court, as followeth; viz.

Imprimis, Forasmuch as great Complaints are made to the Lord by the Commons and poor Sort of Inhabitants of the Island, that they are much impoverished by Engrossers, Forestallers, and Regrators; be it enacted, established, and confirmed by Authority of this Court, that noe Person or Persons within the said Island shall by himself, or by his Servants or Agents, by way of Engrossing, Forestalling, or Regrating, buy any Corne or Graine, or other Merchandize or Provision, to sell the same againe, upon Paine to forfeit the Goodes soe bought, or the Value thereof, to the Lord of the Island.

* And be it further Enacted, Established, and Confirmed, by the like Authority, that all such Person or Persons, inhabiting in the said Island as shall have Corne, Graine, or other Victuals, or Merchandize, to sell, shall bring the same to some Markett Town, to be sold in open Market, upon Paine of

And if any Person or Persons by themselves, or by their Servants or Agents, engross and buy out of Markett in private Houses or Places, any Corne, Graine, Cattle, Provision, or other Goods, and sell the same againe, or export

*This Clause is excepted; for by former Orders it is sufficiently provi ded that the Governor may at Pleasure, as Occasion shall require, enjoine every Man to bring his Commodities to supply the Marketts.

any Corne or Graine, or other Merchandize or Provision, out of the Island, without Consent and Lycence of the Lord, or of his Lieutennant or his Deputie for the Time, he or they to forfeit the Goods or Cattle soe engrossed or exported, or the Value thereof, to the Lord of the Island, any Law, Custome, or Ordinance heretofore had, made, or used, or other Matter or Thing whatsoever, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. And to the Intent it may be known what is a Forestaller, Regrator, and Ingrosser, be it hereby declared and published, That whatsoever Person or Persons shall buy, or cause to be bought, any Merchandize, Victuall, or other Things coming by Land or Water towards any Faire or Markett, to be sold in the same; or coming towards any Town, Village, Port, Haven, Creeke, or Roade of the said Island, from any Part beyond the Sea, to be sold, or make any Bargaine, Contract, or Promise, for the having or buying of the same, or any Part thereof, soe coming as aforesaid, before the same Merchandize, Victuall, or other Thing shall be in the Markett, Faire, Town, Village, Port, Haven, Creeke, or Roade, ready to be sold, or shall make any Motion by Word, Letter, Message, or otherwise, to any Person or Persons for the inhanceing of the Price of deere Selling of any of the Things abovementioned, or else diswade, move, or stir any Person coming to the Markett or Fair, to forbear to bring any of the Things abovementioned to any Fair or Markett, Town, Port, Haven, or Creek, to be sold as aforesaid, shall be adjudged a Forestaller.

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Whatsoever Person or Persons shall by any Means regrate, obtaine, or get into his or their Hands or Possession, in any Fair or Markett, any Corne, Wine, Fish, Butter, Cheese, Candles, Tallow, Sheep, Lambs, Calves, Swine, Pigs, Geese, Capons, Hens, Chickens, Pidgeons, Conneys, or other dead Victuall whatsoever, that shall be brought to any Faire or Markett within the said Island to be sold, and do sell the same againe in any Faire or Markett, holden or kept in the same Place, or in any other Fair or Markett within four Miles thereof, shall be accompted, reputed, and taken for a Regrator or Regrators.

Whatsoever Person or Persons that shall ingross or get

There is a dash in the Statute Book, under the words here inserted in italic; and in the Margin the following information :-" Note, that all these Orders under drawn, are excepted against, and conceived not neces sary to be in this Island so generally observed in this case."

into his or their Hands, by Buying, Contract, or Promise taken, (other than by Demise, Grant, or Lease of Land, or Tith,) any Corne growing in the Fields, or any other Corne or Graine, Butter, Cheese, Fish, or other dead Victuall whatsoever, within the said Island, to the Intent to sell the same againe, shall be reputed and taken an unlawful Ingrosser or Ingrossers.

Itm. That all Weights and Measures which are kept in the said Island to buy or sell by, shall all be brought to the Comptroller for the Lord there, and made to aggree with the Assize of the Lord's Weights and Measures, and then sealed by the said Comptroller or his Deputy, and to pay for the Tryall and Sealing of every Weight and Measure to the said Comptroller or his Deputy, the Fee of jd. only; and if any Person or Persons have or use in his House, or elsewhere, after the Feast Day of All Saints next, any Weight or Measure to buy or sell by the same, and the same being not sealed and allowed as afforesaid, shall forfeit to the Lord lxs.

Itm. Forasmuch as it is the Complaint of the Commons and poor Sort of Inhabitants, that they are much impoverished by having Corne and Graine, Cattle, and other Provisions, exported out of the Island, without Consideration what may be necessary to be reserved for the Sustentacion of the Inhabitants of that Island, be it enacted, That no Person or Persons shall, after this present Day of June, export or load into any Boate, Barque, or other Vessell, any Corne or Graine, or any Cattle, or other Goods or Merchandize, to be exported out of the said Island, unless such Person or Persons do first obtaine Lycence under the Hand of the Lord, or his Lieutenant or Captaine of the said Isle, or his Deputy, soe to do, upon Pain to forfeit the Goods soe loaden to the Lord, and upon Paine to forfeit to the Lord the Value of such Goods as shall be conveyed and exported away without Lycence as afforesaid. Itm. It is enacted by Authority as afforesaid, that no Person or Persons shall from henceforth sell any Wine, Ale, or Beere in that Island, but such a competent Number as shall be appointed and thought fitt by the Lord, and in his Absence by the Captain or his Deputy, and by the Comptroller, Deemsters, and Waterbayliffe, or by some three of them, whereof the Captain or his Deputy to be one; and that none so appointed or thought fitt shall sell any Wine, Beere, or Ale, except he or they first obtaine a Lycence

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