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| AP_124(3rd)_1 |
29.2.1824
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P.Satterthwaite to McCrone (?) The mining at Foxdale goes well. |
| AP_124(3rd)_2 |
10.3.1824
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McCrone to Duke. The Bishop is positive of having found Coal. "All very well but nothing as yet come into the Treasury". |
| AP_124(3rd)_3 |
13.3.1824
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McCrone to Duke. General. |
| AP_124(3rd)_4 |
17.3.1824
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McCrone to Duke. "The Patriot is confessedly supported by the Gawnes - that is,they find the money and and Sumner the abuse — Sic Patrone and sic Patriot". "In a Sun which I send you will see 'Amicus Curioe' alias John Christian Curwen,again". |
| AP_124(3rd)_5 |
30.3.1824
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McCrone to Duke. With a letter from Mr. Thimbleby. |
| AP_124(3rd)_6 |
30.3.1824
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Thimbleby to Duke. letter as above. |
| AP_124(3rd)_7 |
20.3.1824
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T.Brine to McCrone. writing as Lloyd's Agents he asks that the proceeds of the sale of wreckage from the ship "Islam" (?) which have been paid over to the Duke should be given to the under-writers. With a covering note from McCrone to the Duke asking for instructions. The amount was between £8 and £9. |
| AP_124(3rd)_8 |
2.4.1824
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McCrone to Duke. He has,with the Bishop,being examining the records as to the right of certain lands to exemption from Tithe,with results which he thinks may be of value. |
| AP_124(3rd)_9 |
13.4.1824
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McCrone to Duke. As instructed he will not let any more of the new houses to residents in the Island. (See AP_124(3rd)_8.above,in which he advises having let one to Mr.Kershaw @ £50 furnished per annum. N.M. ) The Abbeylands in Malew, if the Prescriptions can be proved not to be in order,should increase the Duke's tithes by £200 per annum. He has been asked by a stranger from across to let him have a lease of the slate quarries but will not do so until Mr.Knott has had the first refusal. Dixon has returned and will exert himself to get the cottages ready. |
| AP_124(3rd)_10 |
16.4.1824
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M.Knott to McCrone in which he makes an offer for a lease of the slate quarries. |
| AP_124(3rd)_11 | - copy of AP_124(3rd)_10 - | |
| AP_124(3rd)_12 |
20.4.1824
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McCrone to Duke. There are 4 new Cottages to let as well as those in which he himslf, Mr. Carrington and Mr.Adams live. He asks instructions as to what rent he is to ask for them. He suggests sending to Glasgow for furniture (second hand) to put into them and considers they would let better if they had water-closets added, With regard to slates he reminds the Duke that Mr. Knott is the brother-in-law of Clarke, the Att.-Gen and hopes that the Duke will be able to get them exported to England duty free as, if he can, there should be a good market for them. |
| AP_124(3rd)_13 |
1.5.1824
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McCrone to Duke. Very good water-closets of Manx make could have been obtained for six guineas each. The Cottages will probably not be ready before June - but as bathing places they will not be required sooner. The slates should arrive soon and "I shall got Taggart to make a sketch of one of the houses to send you".Second hand furniture is being picked up at sales. |
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4.5.1824
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McCrone to Duke Financial position,including estimated cost of finishing the 4 new Cottages inc furnishing two of them,with with the balance due on the Hotel,of which the full cost was to be £1,000. Receipts include a quarter's salary for the Duke as Governor at £400 per annum, |
| AP_124(3rd)_15 |
4.5.1824
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McCrone to Bishop (Part missing N.M.) re tithes let at improved rates. |
| AP_124(3rd)_16 |
11.5.1824
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McCrone to Duke re the difficulty of getting loans from "that rich man" Holmes. An attempt to let Ballaughton Park by auction was a failure "not a single soul attended." |
| AP_124(3rd)_17 |
16.5.1824
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McCrone to Duke re the difficulty of obtaining loans. Deemster Haywood offers for sale "the whole of his property of Summer Hill and Bamahague". |
| AP_124(3rd)_18 |
21.5.1824
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McCrone to Duke Ballaughton grass parks cannot be let,it looks as if cattle will have to be bought to put on them again. |
| AP_124(3rd)_19 |
28.5.1824
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McCrone to Duke The Ballaughton parklands have been let, and the whole property will bring in,in rent (including the house) £202.3.0 for the season - which is 4% on the purchase price... He asks permission to buy some mountain sheep to put on the field at the top of the Brows behind the Castle and fattened for the end of the year. Four year old wedders can be got for five or six shillings each. |
| AP_124(3rd)_20 |
1.6.1824
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McCrone to Duke Water-closets for the Cottages have arrived,and "are much admired" for their simplicity. He has had several enquiries for the cottages but,without the Duke's instructions is uncertain what to ask. He understands that the object is not so much to make a profit as to induce visitors to come to the Isknd Mr.Brine would be glad to go to London with samples of marble if given a suitable recompense and paid old bills due to hin. A memo. on Poolvash marble,prepared from information given by Brine,is enclosed. |
| AP_124(3rd)_21 | Memo on Poolvash Marble,as AP_124(3rd)_20 above. Size of blocks, cost, freight etc. | |
| AP_124(3rd)_22 |
4.6.1824
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with a Memorial from the Merchants re the abuse of the system of importing sugar by Licence. |
| AP_124(3rd)_23 |
16.6.1824
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McCrone to Duke. Despite all his efforts the Hotel and cottages are not yet finished "To contend with Dixon is worse than to endure the ten plagues of Egypt - and yet the poor fellow has brains and is willing". Kershaw is in one cottage @ £35 plus 10% on the furniture but the other three are yet unlet. The one he himself occupies (Mona Cottage) has just been let to a Glasgow merchant at £5 weekly for six weeks. Port-e-Chee has been let to a Londoner named Wright who intends to open an Acadamy there. Rent £40 yearly. He already has eight pupils and is prepared to take another six boys in addition. Local boys include sons of Capt.Murrays Major Durbin,Major Hartwell,Col. Snodgrass and the Deemster. |
| AP_124(3rd)_24 |
5.7.1824
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McCrone to Duke. It appears to the Bishop,Mr.Roper and the writer that all the land in the Island belongs of right to the Duke and there can be no other freeholders. It follows,if this be so,that he has recently been buying lands which were,in fact,his own property and as they will automatically become the property of his successor he cannot dispose of by will to a younger son or anyone else. |
| AP_124(3rd)_25 |
5.7.1824
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McCrone to Duke. What is to be done about the Lhen Moar Mill ? Unless it is immediately repaired at a cost of about £200 it will become a complete ruin. |
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13.7.1824
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McCrone to Duke. Mr.Knott has been in the Island and is prepared to lay out a lot of money on the mines if he can be sure of an extension of his lease of them. He begs that the Duke will obtain the best legal opinion on the points raised in his previous letter. (AP_124(3rd)_24 above. N.M.) |
| AP_124(3rd)_27 |
16.7.1824
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McCrone to Duke. The cottages are not letting. Strangers "come today and go tomorrow". |
| AP_124(3rd)_28 |
27.7.1824
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McCrone to Duke. He has arranged with two Manchester men for them to have land on which to build two cottages on East Mona Crescent, immediately to the east of those already built there by the Duke. The terms are the same as those given Dixon - 3/- per foot ground rent per annum. These men are of exactly the type wanted, they have recently made large fortunes and will both spend liberally and also act as decoy ducks to entice others to come. "This is the least troublesome way of disposing of the property and perhaps the most profitable..There seems to be a kind of mania amongst a knot of Manchester spinners to speculate in this way, and they assure me the Crescent will soon be filled up with houses". Another cottage has been let at £3 per week to Admiral Murray's natural sprig of Admiral Digby's - a Saint,but Saint or Sinner the money of the one is as good as the other. |
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20.8.1824
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McCrone to Duke. The houses in Douglas are proving hard to let, indeed they are a sore concern and nearly equal to black loss". There have been a vast number of arrivals, but most of them stay only a few days. The Inn would do well if there were more Sitting Parlours and an Innkeeper with some Capital. The mines are doing as well as can be expected,44 tons of ore have been sent off and 20 more miners have arrived from England. A party has been formed to "put Mr. Roper down,but they will find that no easy matter as he is always ready to meet them with Pistol or Quill". |
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30.8.1824
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McCrone to Duke. The two black horses he has got have been tried in a carriage and £o very well,while at the same time they will answer equally well for doing all the farm work. What about harness.? This will have to be pretty large and it might be better to buy it in the Island than bring it from Scotland, It can be made here,with the best plated mountings,for £18 to £20 or £2 more if Arms are required on it. He already has a fine Manx pony,about 14 hands,and can get a match,for his own carriage which is véry light. If the Duke liked to bring his "little open carriage with the vrosd wheels" the poneys could easily draw it,and it would be very useful for short drives. A stock of wine has been laid in and there is mutton end beef available in the fields - but money is needed,and the Treasury is perfectly empty. "Swarms of strangers continue to arrive and go away,and while I write four coaches and six or eight other vehicles,all from Dixon's Yard,have passed my window on the Grand Tour." "They come with one steamer, make the tour,drink fearful soups of Brandy and set off by the next steamer. Thus,three times a week the number is kept up and the sovereigns are scattered." |
| AP_124(3rd)_31 |
31.9.1824
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McCrone to Duke. re a suggested new Steam Packet service to be started by Mr.G.R.Hulbert,a Naval Officer of Aston Lodge near Derby. This gentleman and his wife recently left Liverpool in the "City of Glasgow" on their way to Glasgow en route for a holiday in the Western Isles,but the passage was so rough that they landed at Douglas instead and took one of the cottages on the East Crescent. Complaints to the owners of the "City of Glasgow" being but ill received he has determined to set up an opposition and build a new ship with which to do so.But before doing this he asks the support of the Duke and his influence to obtain the Mail contract. |
| AP_124(3rd)_32 |
14.9.1824
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McCrone to Duke. With a letter from Mr. Ed. Forbes re a possible sale of Ballalaughton on which there should be a small profit taken, to be given to the propriator (Mungo Murray) "because it was to serve him that the purchase was made". |
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14.9.1824
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Ed. Forbes to McCrone.with a letter from Mr.Woolf re the purchase of Ballaughton. |
| AP_124(3rd)_34 |
13.9.1824
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J. Woolf to Ed. Forbes. offering £5,000 for Ballaughton. |
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McCrone to Duke. begging him to reconsider his decision not to support Mr.Roper on account of that gentleman - who as one of his best supporters - having had the misfortune to have been a bankrupt. |
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McCrone to Duke. with a statement of his A/cs (not here N.M.) which would look much better were it not for "these abominable Building Accounts". The ex-Deemster, Gawne,is said to be in London with an affadavit in his pocket to the effect that "Your Grace established a Newspaper to vilefy the Powers that be, that the Bishop contributed to it, and that I was his amenuensis. Suppose all this to be true,which is not the case,...Gawne is such a fool as to think it will restore him to the Bench. |
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-.-.1823
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McCrone to Duke. With a statement of A/cs,which is not favourable "but Your Grace must have been aware that the limited Revenue of this Isle could not cover the improvements you have been pleased to engage in." |
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