Extracts from Enquest Files

The Enquest Files — 1688-date — are public records of trespass juries, coroner's juries etc contained in 105 unindexed bound volumes [Manx Museum MS 10071/2/1-105]. R. B. Moore in his article "The Romance of Manx Common Law" states

The almost absolute power of the Lord, including his right to act as Judge in causes in which he was himself an interested party, would have been intolerable but for the existence of a most complete system of juries or quests which from the earliest days was in operation in the island.

This set of pages is a collection of extracts along the lines of Cubons 'unpublished documents' of unrelated documents that deserve more attention or provide background for other pages on the site.

• Misdemeanours of servants whilst grinding corn - 1700
• Death of a Miller under a millstone - 1704
• Tenants in Marown not bound to a miln - 1705
• Stoppage committed on Corran's Mills -1771