From Manx Soc vol IV,VII & IX

RESPECTING THE CLAIM OF WILLIAM, EARL OF DERBY, TO THE ISLE OF MAN.

A.D. 1607.

STATE PAPER, OFFICE, SCOTLAND.*

5 JAS I

AFTER our harty Comendacõns, Whereas ther was
a Peticõn preferd by tir Erle of Derby, & tir Erle
of Huntington, the lõ Chandois, & Sr Jhon Egerton who maryed
the three Daughters Coheyres of Firdinando late Erle of Derby,
wherin they made suite to his Matte that it Wold please him to
suffer the to trye the tytle betwixt the heyre male of th one
partye and the heyres generale of the other ptye, for the inheri-
tance of th Isle of Man, wch they could not doe in respect of the
late Queen assumed the possession thereof by vertue of a title
discovered by her lerned Consell wherof the right is nowe (as of
all things els that were hers) descended upon his Matye forasmuch
as it hath pleased him (in respect of ther allegacõn yt such a
right as was the pretended was eyther without just ground or
upon a point of soe great rigor as they presumed his Matye would
not challeage after soe long continuance in soe noble a house, if
he were rightly informed of the nature thereof,) to comand us
(assisted by you as you well knowe) to heare what they could
saye for the selves, and his learned counsell for him, to the intent
he might understand the truth of our report; We have therefore
thought good to send you the case subscribed by his Matye'
lerned counsell and by thers, according to the direccõn gevë by
us & you att ye hearinge, wherof we praye yon to considre, and
to sett downe in wrytinge under yo' hands what is the defect in
the Patents if any there be by the ]awes of this Realme, that we
may shewe the same to his Matye for his better informacõn howe
to pceed wth them upon ther peticon and that wth such convenct
expeditiõ as youcan. And soe we bidd you hartily farewell,
from the Cort att Whytehale this . of Mayo, 1607.

Yo loving frends,

Gilb. Shrewsbury,
E. Worcester,
H. Northampton.

[ENDORSED.

To the right Honble or verry lovinge frend Sr John Popham,
knight, lord cheefe Justice of Eng' & to or loving frends
the lo. cheefe Justice of the coma place & the lo. cheefe
Baron.

* Vol. 27, Art. 37.