Atholl Papers Bundle AP_X66(3rd)

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Date
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AP_X66(3rd)_1
24.8.1801
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke. announcing the death of the Rector of Ballaugh, and asking that his father may be transferred there from Kk. Bride.
AP_X66(3rd)_2
26.10.1801
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke. recommending Mr.Corlett for some post.
AP_X66(3rd)_3
12.11.1801
Deemster Lace to Duke entreating that a warrant for an increase in his salary may be sent. If it does not come soon he will go to London and present a memorial to the King in person.
AP_X66(3rd)_4
20.2.1802
Deemster Lace to Duke with thanks for the increase of £150 per annum to his salary.
AP_X66(3rd)_5
30.8.1803
Deemster J.F.Crellin to to the House of Keys. asking their support of a memorial which he has sent to the King regarding his salary, which is now less than that of Deemster Lace though it has always been customary for the two Deemsters to be paid alike. With an endorsement,signed by the members of the Keys,that he has performed his duties with credit and satisfaction,and that the Deemster's salaries have always been the same.
AP_X66(3rd)_6
29.11.1803
Deemster Lace to Duke A meeting of the Keys has been called raise money for new,but undisclosed, purposes and by taxes of which the writer does not approve. This is at the instigation of "a friend of yours who lately came back from London" (presumably Deemster Crellin N.M.) who has assured the Keys that through interest there he can get any Bill passed. He has not yet obtained what he went for,and if you allow him to do so in any manner except obviously through you "you may as well give up your Government here,as his friends already boast that a new channel has been opened to the Throne which ought to be improved upon every occasion"
AP_X66(3rd)_7
20.5.1804
Deemster Lace to Duke Although Lt.Gov.Shaw has been absent the government has been carried on without inconvenience as Mr.M.H.Quayle,the Clerk of the Rolls,has been using forms signed in
blank by the Lt.Governor before he went away. But Mr. Quayle is now seriously ill, and as it is reported that the Lt.Gov. has retired the responsibility of the Governor now rests on the Duke,and it has never been known for the Island to be without a resident Governor of some kind. (Duke was in London. N.M.)
AP_X66(3rd)_8
27.5.1804
Deemster Lace to Duke Mr. Quayle having died the writer,as the senior official on the Island in the absence of a Governor or Lt.Governor, feels it his duty to inform the Duke,and to urge upon him to appoint a new Clerk of the Rolls without delay.
AP_X66(3rd)_9
16.7.1804
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Ld.Henry Murray. He will be glad,if ordered,to convene a Court Martial of Volunteer Officers to investigate the complaint made against Ensign Cannell (Probably refers to AP_X/63_21 N.M.)
AP_X66(3rd)_10
9.12.1804
Duke to Deemster J.F.Crellin (copy ) asking to see him (on some matter which s not clearar. N. M.)
AP_X66(3rd)_11
10.12.1804
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke. (copy ) asking to see him (on some matter which s not clear. N. M.)
AP_X66(3rd)_12
26.12.1804
Deemster Lace to Duke explaining a circumstance at which the Duke has taken offence, though none was intended.
AP_X66(3rd)_13
26.12.1804
Deemster Lace to Duke apologising for something done in a fit of bad temper.
AP_X66(3rd)_14
28.12.1804
Duke to Deemster Lace (copy) giving his view of the way in which he had been insults4 owing to the Deemster's display of temper and disrespect. (No.13 is in answer to this Note)
AP_X66(3rd)_15
2.1.1805
Deemster Lace to Duke opposing his suggestion to make a change in the Highway Committee,as to do so in the circumstances would be discourtous to them and unfair to the surveyors of roads.
AP_X66(3rd)_16
20.2.1806
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke asking him to make another effort to obtain for him an increase in salary which will put him on an equality with Deemster Lace.
AP_X66(3rd)_17
23.4.1808
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke enclosing a Memorial (missing N.M.) from the officers of the Northern Manx Volunteers which points out that the efficiency of the Corps will suffer if the training days for which pay is given, now 26,is not restored to the previous 84, People in the Island have not the chances of making money which they have in England and are consequently poor, their only recourses being to join the Fencibles or emigrate. They cannot afrord to give time to training unless paid for doing so.
AP_X66(3rd)_18
10.7.1808
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke with thanks for the offer of a Company in the Fencible augmentation for his son,now in the Cavalry but anxious to transfer.
AP_X66(3rd)_19
6.4.1809
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke Understanding that Capt.Gelling of the Fencibles is i1l and unlikely to recover he asks that his nephew,John Llewellyn, may be given the vacancy.
AP_X66(3rd)_20
29.6.1809
Deemster Lace to Duke regarding the appointment of Coroners.
AP_X66(3rd)_21
16.9.1809
Deemster Lace to Duke expressing approval of the Duke's intention of having a revision made of the laws, but regretting that he has not the time to do the work.
AP_X66(3rd)_22
23.10.1809
Deemster Lace to Duke reporting on the trial before him of General Stapleton for an assault upon a Mr. Johnson in the theatre. The General angered by his remarks from the Bench, has asked redress from Lord Hawkesbury who has ordered the Lt.Governor to hold an inquiry into the matter. As he cannot expect favourable treatment from the Lt. Gov "but quite the reverse" he asks for protection from the Duke. Otherwise “the riotous stranger if allowed to upset the King's peace and the liberties of his subjects in this Island,as now attempted, and will be more and more if they succeed, as in the present manner,in harrassing the only man of a magistrate who exercises a nerve to suppress their outrages,and if I was removed or in any way degraded they might consider everything in the Island their own."
AP_X66(3rd)_23
22.3.1812
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke advising him of the death "suddenly,this morning" of Deemster Lace,and asking that he may be appointed to succeed him.
AP_X66(3rd)_24
23.3.1812
Norris Moore to Duke advising him of the death of Deemster Lace,and asking that he may be appointed to succeed him.
AP_X66(3rd)_25
30.7.1812
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke giving it as his opinion that theCourts in England have no jurisdiction in the Island in civil matters.
AP_X66(3rd)_26
27.3.1812
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke asking for leave to resign "on a pension, which the diligent discharge of my duties for nearly nineteen years justly entitles me to receive."
AP_X66(3rd)_27
13.4.1813
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke The only reason for his asking to resign is that of his declining health. But if the Duke is not prepared to recommend a pension he will carry on for some time longer in the hope that one may then be granted him.
AP_X66(3rd)_28
29.6.1813
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke recommending the Rev.Hugh Stowell to be rector of Ballaugh.
AP_X66(3rd)_29
21.7.1813
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke enclosing a petition from T.Cleator,the Chief Constable of Douglas(See No. 33.)
AP_X66(3rd)_30
19.8.1813
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke His son, J.C.Crellin,being compelled to quit the army for reasons of health, he solicits the post of Barrack Master for him.
AP_X66(3rd)_31
12.2.1814
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke asking him to use his influence to prevent the proposed transfer of Mr,Bryan [?Brine] (of the Barracks Dept.) away from the Island.
AP_X66(3rd)_32
28.7.1815
T.Gawne to Duke General.
AP_X66(3rd)_33
Thos.Cleator,Chief Constable of Douglas, to Duke asking for an increase in salary. (See AP_X66(3rd)_29)
AP_X66(3rd)_34
n.d.
Deemster J.F.Crellin to Duke Trivial.


 

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