[From Atholl Papers - AP X17-11(a)]

[Report ]No 1 [by Governor Wood 11 Mar 1763]

My Lord

Your Graces Letters of the 29 Decr and 23 Janry I had the honor to receive, inclosed is the last Quarter's abstract, and by this opportunity for Chas Lace there is £1000 Britsh remitted to Mr Tarleton, of which there is £331 9 8 Mnx (making £204 2 7 Brit) in cash proceeding from the sale of the tythes being all that is pay'd. as few purchasers have yet called for their deeds. Upon finding very few applications for tythes I have caused publications to be made at the severall churches of those parishes where the tythes lye, appointing a day cetain (for each parish) to treat with purchasers; this I thought the most prudent scheme to promote the sales without appearing to be anxious about the matter tho' I fear there will be more days of [page missing as poor photo] ...

then a form of a deed by which some casual tythes (which cannot sell) might to appropriated for that purpose, and which indeed some purchasers would have cleared up before they would chuse to buy.

The other day I received a letter from Mr Griffith, and it seems that since the commencement of his lease in April 1745 he has not got more than about 45 tonns of ore, but he has ordered a particular account to be laid before me. As none is payable in kind to your Grace till he has got sixty ton, no assistance can be had from that quarter for the purpose your Grace intended. There is lately some ore discovered about a mile from Douglas near the Peel road and Mr Griffith proposes giving it a fair tryal.

On the 22d I received a letter from Mr Winchley of theTemple Solicitors in Mr Cochranes cases covering his bills of Costs which I herewith send to your Grace, as I could form no judgement about it myself I ordered the Comptroller & Attorney Genl to examine them & make their report to me; they sayth the Bill is unexceptional, so I wait your Grace's directions for payment.

I am sory your Grace is not yet reconciled to the expence of the repair ofthe Governors House, I can only repeat to your Grace that the most considerable part of them were done before my arrival and all absolutely necessary. I have ordered the accounts of the several reparations for the future to be kept as seperate and distinct as possible.

I am &c Castletown Feby 17th 1763

P.S. This letter has been wrote these three weeks in expectation of Charles Lace's calling forthe money in his return from Scotland, but I am this day told he has given us the slip; wherefor your Grace may expect a greater remittance by the next opportunity. In this interim there is an accopunt that Stevenson has mett with a total defeat before Mr Hoskins. March 11th 1763