[Appendix A(79) 1792 Report of Commissioners of Inquiry]

N° 79.

The EXAMINATION of THOMAS MOORE, Esquire, Deemster of the Isle of Man, taken at Douglas the 5th Day of October 1791.

Examined by the Duke of Atholl,

THIS Examinant saith, That the Great Inquest presented all nuisances and encroachments upon the Lord's wastes and Commons prior to 1765, and there is not now any power of presenting these nuisances and encroachments ; and he does not know that there has been hitherto any other summary method practiced of preventing the nuisances and encroachments but by presentment, He beleves there may now be a mode of redress for the Duke by action at law again any nuisances ot encroachments upon the Lord's wastes, but this mode would not be easy or expeditious, and would be more expensive than that by presentment, Upon the return of the Great Inquest, that any inclosure upon the Lord's common was an encroachment, the Deemster had a power of ordering the fence to be thrown down, and the common restored. That Deemster would now have the same power upon a verdict given by a Jury in any action at law for any encroachment.

Cross-examined by the Keys.

That by the Statute of 1777 all matters then before cognizable before the Great Inquest an Long Juries are to be tried by law according to the rules therein before prescrbed.

THO. MOOR

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