Calendar list of papers in HO 98/70 - 1821

Page Author Recipient Date Topic Notes
1 Smelt Hobhouse 18210105 papers re addl duties
2 Keys 18201213 re approval of addl duties [enc]
3 Smelt Henry Clive 18210117 acks ltr 18200909 enc Act for taking an account of the population - need some changes in Act + uggest Rcvr Gnl needs proper authority to pay expences  
4 Smelt Hobhouse 18210226
5 Smelt Hobhouse 18210228
6 Clarke Hobhouse 18210229
7 R Cunningham Clarke 18210115 [enc]
8 Clarke Hobhouse 18210129 [private]
9 Smelt Hobhouse 18210315 enc estimate of probable expence of taking the account of population (in a local paper)
10 18210404 1st issue Rising Sun or Mona's Herald [enc]
11 Smelt Hobhouse 18210426 Rcvr Genl to defray costs of 1821 census HBs to take accounts but need a few copies of acts + enough schedules - are we to print of will they be from Kings printers
12 Smelt Hobhouse 18210105 memo of income + expenditure [enc]
13 Smelt Hobhouse 18210105 memo wrt abolition of judicial fees [enc]
14 Smelt Hobhouse 18210105 memo wrt import + export wheat [enc]
15 Smelt Hobhouse 18210329 amended estimate of cost of census - £132 11 0;
16 Smelt Hobhouse 18210409 estimate of repairs to Govt House + court house
17 Smelt Sidmouth 18210612 death of T Stowell C R - recommendJohn Llewellyn
18 Mark A Mills Sidmouth 18210613 death of Stowell (yesterday morning) will mean changes elsewhere
19 John Christian Sidmouth 18210615 please appoint an English lawyer - not speaking Manx is of small weight as almost all understand English + greater part of Manx lawyers little acquainted with it
20 Clarke Hobhouse 18210617 as long as judge of courts of chancery + exchequer not a professional gentleman no English Barrister could hold Clerk of Rolls
21 Atholl Sidmouth 18210620 [private + confidential] recommends english chancery lawer + to separate jobs of CR and clerk of the council
22 Clarke Hobhouse 18210620 will send letter from Heywood
23 Joseph John Heywood Clarke 18210615 wants CR + claims only Manx Lawyer brought up to English law
24 Bishop Murray Sidmouth 18210622 not Llewellyn - hostile to church establishment + Duke objects on a political point of view
25 Atholl Sidmouth 18210625 not Llewellyn - true Radical - recommends J J Heywood
26 Clarke Hobhouse 18210625 recommends McHutchin to CR and Heywood to deemster
27 John Christian Sidmouth 18210625 argues case that Manx not required for CR (end even deemster? as John Cosnahan understood not a word of it)
28 Alex Fraser Hobhouse 18210702 argues for english lawyer to CR
29 Smelt Sidmouth 18210702 notes Atholl agt Llewellin - recommends G Quirk (WB) if can't get Llewellyn
30 Mark A Mills Sidmouth 18210706 'praying pecunary aid for publn of IoM Gazette'
31 Mark A Mills Sidmouth 18210529 memorial - account of life - asks for £400 [enc]
32 Smelt Sidmouth 18210711 repairs to Castle Rushen + Court house at Peel £478 12 2; copy to treasury
33 R Stuart Sidmouth 18210711 duties for yr ending 5 Jul 1821 = £26,151 = £17,560 after paying Duke - new duties add £500
34 Smelt Sidmouth 18210720 enc Memorial for not exceeding £250 to erect Court House in Kk Michael [note recommend to treasury]  
35 Rising Sun 18210721 ?  
36 Atholl Sidmouth 18210724 suggested changes to civil establishment
37 Mark A Mills Sidmouth 18210801 wants loan £250
38 Clarke Hobhouse 18210812 two forgers sentenced to transportation; McHutchin would accept CR
39 Rising Sun 18210825 ?
40 Rising Sun 18210818 ?
41 Atholl Sidmouth 18210825 [from Blair Atholl] McHutchin as CR + J J Heywood deemster
42 Alex Fraser Hobhouse 18210828 re Duke recmd J J Heywood to deemster
43 Atholl Alex Fraser 18210824 extract [enc]
44 John Christian Sidmouth 18210907 checking litigation needed
45 'sincere friend' Sidmouth 18210910 re dispute affecting members of council
46 Smelt Hobhouse 18210910 enc Memorial of Keys upon governor's council
47 Keys Smelt 18210904 [copy] Memorial of Keys upon governor's council [the original surfaces in HO 98/71 but as that box was in some disorder not clear where it was enclosed [enc]
48 Rising Sun 18210908
49 Keys 18210904 papers A-G referrred to in memorial [enc]
50 Bishop Murray Sidmouth 18210911 re Memorial on composition of council
51 Clarke Hobhouse 18210917 re Deemsters salaries should be £600; re recent private prosecution for forgery of a bankers notes he contributed nothing to cost
52 Smelt Sidmouth 18210920 re 3 convicts for transportation - need grant to pay costs
53 Clarke Hobhouse 18211005 mentions Wm Drinkwater for future employment
54 Smelt Sidmouth 18211005 disturbances in Peel + Douglas re price of flour + meal increasing due to stopping import foreign grain;
55 Keys Smelt 18211003 Memorial of Keys [enc]
56 Clarke Hobhouse 18211006 Wm Christian suitable for clerk of the Council
57 Smelt Sidmouth 18211007 steps taken to restore peace
58 Clarke Hobhouse 18211017 [private] noted that James Quirk steward to Atholl and solely under his control put forward as clerk of council - strongly suggest Wm Christian
59 Smelt Hobhouse 18211018 small detachment of 29th Regt 1 capt, 2 sjnts + 540 rank + file arrived on 14th
60 Atholl Sidmouth 18211019 [from Dunkeld] need two companies of troops as recommended last summer
61 Smelt Hobhouse 18211025 Wm Christian asst CR should be entitled to quarters salary of £300
62 Smelt Hobhouse 18211026 failure of Barley + oats caused much distress - need to import
63 Smelt Hobhouse 18211029 re removal of 3 convicts - as yet no commn from treasury
64 Atholl Sidmouth 18211031 re troops of 29th 20 at castletown, 20 at Douglas but quite inadequate
65 Atholl Sidmouth 18211110 requesting 2 companies of troops
66 Clarke Hobhouse 18211122 rcvd letter that Atholl will not adopt concilatory measures
67 Atholl Sidmouth 18211208 [from IoM] re Keys Memorial - wants copies of commns
68 Hobhouse   small detached comment re public prosecuter brounght under Sidmouth's consideration
69 Atholl Sidmouth 18211208 post packet held 3 weeks at Whitehaven just received comms of 12,15,17,19 + 20th Nov
70 Hickin capt 29th Atholl 18211207 ordered to depart for Dublin when transport arrives
71 Atholl Sidmouth 18211227 enc proposals for civil establishment
72 Atholl Sidmouth 18211227 re Smelts commission
73 18200608 copy of Smelts commission [enc]
74 Atholl Sidmouth 18211229 re refusal to be given copy of Keys Memorial

Notes

This is the first box of loose papers in the HO 98 series dealing with the IoM - as the pages are unnumbered it is all too easy to lose the original sequence - the page number here is my suggested sequence, as well as some identifier. Some documents are enclosed with others - usually noted as [enc].

It is intended more as a finding aid than as full abstracts of each paper.

The dates are ISO standard format year month day;
the key persons are:
Lord Sidmouth
Henry Hobhouse - permanent Under Secretary of State at Home Office
James Clarke - Attorney General
Cornelius Smelt - appointed Lt Governor in 1805 - remained in post through to death in 1832
Duke of Atholl - 4th Duke, appointed Govr-in-Chief in 1793 - held post until death in 1830
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