Appendix C(43) 1792 Report of Commissioners of Inquiry]

APPENDIX (C.) N° 43

EXTRACT FROM THE EXCHEQUER BOOK Or THE ISLE OF MAN, 1720, 1721, OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL.

[In Lieutenant-Governor SHAW'S Letter of 30th January, 1792.]

Liber Scaccar. 1720, 1721.

At a Court holden at Castle Rushen, the 19th June, 1721, before the Honourable Alexander Horne, Esq., Governor of this Island ; John Rowe, Comptroller; William Sedden, Water-Bailiff and Collector; and Charles Moore, Deemster.

WHEREAS there was an order granted by the Governor to the petition of William Wallerton, jun., of Kirk Andreas, a very great object of charity, for a brief in the several churches and chapels on the south side of the Island, towards relieving his necessity ; and the same being read in Castletown Chapel on Sunday, the 11th of this instant, was required to be read the Sunday following (which was yesterday) in the Parish Church of Kirk Malew ; and the same being sent to Rev. Mr. Woods, vicar of that parish, by the Reverend the Archdeacon of this Island, who read the same in Castletown Chapel, and received the contributions of that congregation the Sunday before: the said Mr. Woods returned the same, and would not read it in his church, although he was admonished and acquainted, by a message from the Governor, what the law prescribed for contemps of this nature. And the said Mr. Woods being called before the court this day, to answer his said contempt, he alledged, That he had another petition for a brief in his church, which he designed to read-that day. And upon examination of that matter, it appears that the petition he intended to read had no reference or order thereon, only a certificate from the Chaplain of Douglas, that he had seen the original of that petition, with an order and reference to the same. And it also appears that the person who was to be relieved thereby, had been dead about five months since, of whose death the said Mr. Woods himself knew, and hath in court acknowledged. But these and other matters urged by him appearing to be only pretences to evade the reading of the said brief, according to the order granted for the same, which is contrary to the laws and practice of this Island, and in contempt of the authority and government thereof ; therefore, upon deliberate consideration of this matter, the said Mr. Woods is fined in iij^l. vj^s. viij^d., and to be committed for a week in Castle Rushen.

ALEX. HORNE.

CHA. MOORE. J. ROWE. Wm- SEDDEN.

Examined by
JOHN QUAYLE, C.R.