From Manx Soc vol IV,VII & IX

GRANT OF THE ISLE OF MAN TO WILLIAM, EARL OF DERBY.

ROTULI LITTERARUA PATENTIUM.

A.D. 1609.

7 JAs. I.

THE King, to whom, &c., greeting.

Whereas we, by our letters patent, under our Great Seal of England, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the Seventh year of our reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the Forty-second, for the considerations therein expressed and contained, have given, granted, and demised to our well-beloved cousin and councillor Robert Earl of Salisbury, our treasurer of England, and Thomas Earl of Suffolk, chamberlain of our household, all that Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship of Mann, with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, and all our isles, lordships, peels, castles, monasteries, abbys, priorys, farms, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever to the said Isle of Mann belonging or appertaining, or in or near the same, situate, lying, or being, with all and singular its rights, members, and appurtenances, and also all and singular our royalties, regalities, franchises, liberties, ports of the sea, and all things to ports properly and of right belonging, lands heretofore overflowed by the water of the sea, and which have since been gained from the sea and reduced to dry ground, lands which are now overflowed by the water of the sea, and which shall hereafter be gained and reduced to dry ground, . homages, fealties, knights' fees, wardships, marriages, releifs, escheats, forfeitures, goods and chattels strayed, goods and chattels of felons, as well of themselves as of all other felons, fugitives, persons attainted, condemned, and put in exigent and ontlawed, deodands, services of free as of customary tenants, works of tenants, estovers, courts leet, view of frankpledge, courts baron, courts admiral, courts portmote, leet, hundred, wapentake, and all fees, perquisites, and profits of courts leet, views of frankpledge, courts baron, courts admiral, courts portmote and leet, and all other things which do belong or hereafter can or ought to appertain to courts leet, views of frankpledge, courts baron, courts admiral, and courts portmote, wrecks of the sea, mines of lead and iron, quarries, fairs, tolls, markets, customs and imposts, free customs, rights, jurisdictions, franchises, privileges, manors, villages, towns, castles, granges, messuages, houses, edifices, miles, barns, stables, dovehouses, gardens, orchard s, crofts, cottages, courts, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, demesne lands, globe lands, leasaws, wastes, with furze and heath moors, marshes, waste grounds, paths, easements, woods, undenvoods and woodlands, and trees whatsoever, and the soil and ground of such woods, underwoods, and trees, and our tythes and the tythes of sheaf corn and grain, and of hay, wool, flax, hemp, and lambs, and all other tythes whatsoever, as well great as small, and also rectories, advowsons, donations, and right of patronage of all and singular hospitals, churches, vicarages, chapels, and all other ecclesiastical benefices whatsoever, and also oblations, obventions, fruits, profits, waters, watercourses, streams arid pools of water, suit, soken, and grist of miles, and also all and singular forests, parks, chaces, lawns, warrens, assorts, purprestures, and tolls payable for passing through the same, fishings, fishing places, rents, pensions, portions, free holdings and turbaries, pools, ponds, ways, passages, commons, rents, reversions and services, rents charge, rents seek, rents of assize, and rents and services, as well of the free as the customary tenants, work of tenants, annual rents of farms, fee farm rents, annuities, herriots, fines and amercements, tolls and freedom of toll, anchorages, groundage, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever, as well spiritual as temporal, with all their appurtenances whatsoever, of what sort, nature, or kind soever, or by whatsoever name or names they are known, esteemed, called, or distinguished; situate, lying, or being, coming, growing, renewing, or arising in or within the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, or within the sea to the said Isle belonging and adjacent, or in or within any other isles, lordships, peels, castles, farms or lands to the said Isle of Mann, or to the same, or any of them belonging, incident, adjoining, or appertaining, or at any time heretofore had, known, accepted, occupied, used, demised, taken, or reputed as member, part, or parcel of the said isles, castles, peels, lordships, lands, tenements, or any other, the premises or any of them, or any part or parcel thereof; and the patronage of the bishoprick of the said Isle of Mann, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, and also the temporalities of the said bishoprick of the Isle of Mann, and the bishoprick of Sodor and the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, as often as it shall happen that the said bishopricks become vacant; and our reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders whatsoever of all and singular, the aforesaid isles, castles, peels, lordships, patronages of bishoprick, rectories, parks, farms, granges, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever, and other the premises hereinbefore by these premises granted, or any other parcel dependant or belonging from, in, or upon any gift or gifts, demise or demises, grant or grants, for any term or terms of life or lives or years, or in fee tail or otherwise concerning the premises by these presents before granted, or concerning any other parcel in any wise entered upon record or remaining of record, and also all and singular rents, revenues, services, and profits whatsoever, reserved upon any gifts, demises, or grants soever of the premises hereinbefore by these presents granted, or of any parcel thereof howsoever entered upon record, or remaining of record (except and always reserved to us, our heirs and successors, all those our houses, sites, circuits, and precincts formerly belonging, to the monastery and priory of Rushen and Douglas, and the Friars Minor, commonly called the Gray Friars of Brimaken otherwise Bimaken, with all their appurtenances in the said Isle of Mann, and all our rectories, and churches of Kirk Christ in Shelding, and Kirk Lovan with all their appurtenances of the Isle of Mann aforesaid, formerly belonging to the monastery of Rushen and parcel of the possessions thereof, with all our houses, edifices, barns, stables, dove-Houses, orchards, gardens, pools and ponds of water, lands, ground, and soil, with all their appurtenances within the said site, circuit, and precinct of the said late monastery and priory, or either of them, or any parcel of them, and also all and singular our messuages, milns, granges, houses, edifices, buildings, crofts, cottages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, commons, waste lands covered with furze and heath, moors, marshes, waters, water courses, streams of water, and the banks thereof, pools, ponds, fishings, fishing places, rents, reversions, and services ; and also the tythes of sheaf corn and grain, and of hay, and all other our tythes whatsoever, as well great as small, and all oblations, obventions, fruits, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments, and hereditaments whatsoever, as well spiritual as temporal, with all their appurtenances in the said Isle of Mann, which to the said late monastery and priory of Rushen and Douglas, and Friars Minor of Brimaken otherwise Bimaken, and the rectories of Kirk Christ in Shelding, and Kirk Lovan or either of them, or any parcel of them, in any wise belonging or appertaining, or had known, excepted, used, demised, let, or reputed, to be as member, part, or parcel of the said late monasteries, priories, rectories, or any of them, heretofore held for or under the annual rent of One hundred and one pounds Fifteen shillings and Eleven pence, with their appurtenances, and all manner of woods, underwoods, wardships, marriages, mines, and quarries, before within the premises before excepted, and the reversion and reversions of all and singular the premises before excepted; and all manner of rents reserved and to be reserved to us by our heirs and successors, from and out of the said premises before excepted, and every part and parcel thereof, to have and to hold the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, and all islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, and also and singular the royalities, regalities, franchises, liberties, ports of the sea, and every thing to ports properly and of right belonging, homages, fealties, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfeitures, goods and chattels strayed, goods and chattels of felons, as well of themselves as all other felons, fugitives, outlaws, attainted, condemed, and put in exigent, and outlawed, courts baron, views of frankpledge, leets, hundreds, wapentakes, wrecks of the sea, mines of lead and iron, quarries, fairs, markets, free customs, messuages, houses, edifices, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, woods, underwoods, forests, chases, parks, lawns, warrens, assarts, purprestures, tolls, fisheries, moors, marshes, turbaries, waters, pools, ponds, ways, passages, and commons, and all other profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever, situate, lying, and being within the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, or within the sea to the said isle belonging and adjoining, or within any other islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann, or to the said isle, castle, peel, or lordship of Mann in anywise belonging or appertaining. And the patronage of the bishoprick of the said Isle of Mann, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, and also the temporalities of the bishoprick of the said Isle of Mann, and the bishoprick of Sodor, and the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, as often as it shall happen that the said bishopricks be vacant, and also knights' fees, advowsons, and patronages of hospitals, churches, vicarages, chapels, and all other ecclesiastical benefices whatsoever, within the said isle and lordship of Mann, or within any other isles and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, and to the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann appertaining, and all and singular other the premises hereinbefore mentioned, to be in and by the said letters patent demised and granted with their and every of their rights, members, and appurtenances, (except as in the said letters patent are excepted) to the said Robert Earl of Salisbury, and Thomas Earl of Suffolk, their executors and assigns, from the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel last past, before the date of these presents to the end and term, and for the term of twenty-one years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be completed, yielding thereout yearly to us, our heirs, and successors, out of and for the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, and other the said premises, with their appurtenances, twenty shillings of lawful money of England, as by the said letters patent doth more fully and at large appear : Know ye that we for divers good causes and considerations, us to these presents especially moving, out of our special favour, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents for ourself, our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto our well-beloved and most faithful cousin William Earl of Derby and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley, Lord Stanley, son and heir apparent of the said Earl, all that island, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, and all the aforesaid islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, and also all and singular royalties, regalities, franchises, liberties, ports of the sea., and all things to ports properly and of right belonging, homages, fealties, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfeitures, goods and chattels estrayed, goods and chattels of felons, as well of themselves as of other felons, fugitives, outlaws, attainted, condemned, and put in exigent and outlawed, courts baron, views of frankpledge, leets, hundreds, wapentakes, wrecks of the sea, mines of lead and iron, quarries, fairs, markets, free customs, messuageti, houses, edifices, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, woods, underwoods, forests, chases, parks, lawns, warrens, assarts, purprestures, tolls, fisheries, moors, marshes, turbaries, waters, pools, ponds, ways, passages, and commons, and all other profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever, situate, lying, or being within the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, and within the se), to the said is13 belonging and adjacent, or within any other isles and lordships to the said Isle of Mann in any wise appertaining and belonging; and the patronage of the bishoprick of the said Isle of Mann, and the patronage of the bishopric of Sodor, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, and also the temporalities of the bishoprick of the said Isle of Mann, and the bishoprick of Sodor, and the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, as often as it shall happen that the said bishopricks be vacant, and also all knights' fees, advowsons, and the patronage to all hospitals, churches, vicarages, chapels, and other ecclesiastical benefices whatsoever, within the said isle and lordship of Mann, or within any other isles and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, or to the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann appertaining, and all and singular other the premises in the said letters patent be ore mentioned, to be demised and granted with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, except and always reserved to us our heirs and successors, all those our houses, sites, circuits, and precincts, formerly to the monastery and priory of Rushen and Douglas, and the Friars Minor, commonly called the Gray Friars of Brimakan otherwise Bimaken, with all their appurtenances in the said Isle of Mann, and all those our rectories and churches of Kirk Christ in Shelding, and Kirk Lovan, w:t'i all their appurtenances in the said Isle of Mann, formerly to the said monastery of Rushen belongin and appertaining, and parcel of the ancient possessions thereof, with all our houses, edifices, barns, stables, dove houses, orchards, gardens, waters, ponds, pools, lands, ground, and soil, with all their appurtenances within tha sites, circuits, and precincts of the said late mona:te.'y and priory, or either of them, or any parcel thereof, and also all and singular messuaaes, mil-as, granges, houses, edifices, buildings, crofts, cottages, lands, tenements, medows, pastures, f tidings, commons, wastes covered with furze and heaths, moors, marshes, testers, water courses, streams, banks, pools, ponds, fisheries, fishing places, rents, reversions, and services: and also the tythas of sheaf corn and grain, and of hay, and other our tythes whatsoever, as well great as small, and our oblations, obventions, fruits, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments, and hereditaments whatsoever, as well spiritual as temporal with all their appurtenances in the said Isle of Mann, which formerly to the said monastery and priory of Rushen and Douglas, and Friars Minors of Brimaken otherwise Bimaken, and rectories of Kirk Christ in Shelding and Kirk Levan, or any of them, or to any parcel of them in any wise belonging or appertaining, or as member, part, or parcel of the said late Monastery and Priory, Rectories, or any of them, heretofore used for or under the annual rent of one hundred and one pounds, fifteen shillings, and eleven-pence, held, known, excepted, used, lett, demised, or reputed with all their appurtenances, and all manner of woods, underwoods, wardships, marriages, mines, quaries, of the premises before excepted, and also the reversion and reversions, of all and singular the premises before excepted and all manner, of rents, to us, our heirs and successors, reserved, and to be reserved out of and from the premises before excepted, and every part and parcel thereof : And further, out of our gracious and special favour, and out of our certain knowledge and mere motion, have given, and granted, and by these presents for ourselves, our heirs and successors, do give and grant, to the said William Earl of Derby, and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, son and heir apparent of the said Earl, their heirs and assigns, That they the said Earl of Derby and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, son and heir apparent of the said-Earl, and the heirs and assigns of the said James may for ever hereafter have, hold, and enjoy, and shall have, hold, and enjoy the said Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship of Mann, and all and every and singular other the premises, hereinbefore by these presents granted, and every parcel thereof, and all and singular such other and the like, courts leet, profits of courts leet, views of frankpledge, courts portmote, courts admiral, and all other things, which to views of frankpledge, courts admiral, and courts portmote, earl or ought to appertain or belong, likewise assizes and assize of bread, wine and beer, goods and chattels estrayed, also goods and chattels of felons and fugitives, felons of themselves of clergy, convicted or attainted for treason, or misprison of treason, murder and felony, or any other offence, done or committed contrary to the law and custom of our Kingdom of England, or those who will not answer, or out of malice stand mute, or will not stand judgment to be pronounced upon their offence, or any other kind of conviction or damages, deodands, knights fees, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, herriots, forests, chases, free warms, parks, free parks, wrecks of the sea, anchorages and groundages, and all other rights, royalties, regalities, jurisdictions, franchises, liberties, customs, privileges, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments, and hereditaments whatsoever, as well spiritual as temporal, of what kind or nature soever, and in so full, free, entire ample manner and form, as William Lescrope Knight, Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, John Stanley, Knight, or any of them, or any other person or persons, the said Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship of Mann, and all Islands, lordships, Peels, castles, farms, messuages, lands, and hereditaments whatsoever, in or within the said Island, Peel, or Lordship, or any of them, or within the seas, to the said Isle belonging and adjacent, or to the said Isle of Mann belonging and appertaining, and all and singular other the premises herein before by these presents granted, or any parcel thereof heretofore held, possessed, or seized, or any parcel having, possessing, or being seized thereof, ever had, or ought to have held, used enjoyed in the said Isle, Castle, Peel and Lordship, farms, messuages, lands, and hereditaments, and other, the premises hereinbefore by these presents granted, or any part or parcel thereof, by reason, or by virtue of any charter, gift, grant, or confirmation, or any letters patent, by us, or by any of our progenitors or predecessors, Kings and Queens of England, or at any time heretofore had, done, granted, or confirmed, or by reason, or by virtue of any act or acts of Parliament, or by reason or by virtue of any lawful prescription, use or custom heretofore had or used, or by any other manner, right, or title in us, and in as full, free, and ample manner and form, as we or any of our projenitors or predecessors, Kings and Queens of England; the said Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship of Mann, farms, messuages, lands tenements, and hereditaments, and all and singular other the premises hereinhefore by these presents grant, or any part or parcel thereof, ever had or ought to have or enjoy;-to have and to hold the said Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship of Mann, and all Islands and Lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, and also all and singular the royalities, regalities; franchises; ports of the sea, and all things to ports, properly and of right belonging, homages, fealities, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfei'ures, goods and chattels estrayed, goods and chattels of felons, as well of themselves as other felons, fugitives, outlaws attainted, condemned and put in exigent and outlawed, courts baron, views of frankpledge, leets and hundreds, courts admiral, portmote, wapentake, wrecks of the sea, mines of lead and iron, quarries, fairs, markets, free customs, messuages, houses, edilees, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedin s, woods, unlerwoods, forests, chaces, parks, lawns, warens, assarts, pure resteres, tolls, fisheries, moors, marshes, turbaries, waters, pools, pools, ways, passages and commons, and all other profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever, situate, lying, or being within the said Isle, Castle, Peel and Lordship of Mann, and the sea to the said Isle baton-in and adjacent, or within any other Isles and Lordships to the said Isle of' Mann belonging, or to the said isle, castle, peal, and lordship of Mann in anywise belonging or appertaining, and the patronage of the bishop risk of the said Isle of Mann, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor, and the patronage of the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, and also the temporalities of the bishoprick of the said Isle of Mann, and the bishoprick of Sodor, and the bishoprick of Sodor and Mann, as often as it shall happen that the same bishoprick become vacant; and also all knights, fees, advowsons, and patronage of hospitals, chure'_i s, vicarages, chapels, an:l all other ecclesiastical benefices whatsoever within the sail isle and lordship of Mann, or within any other islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, or to the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann appertaining, and all and singular other the premises (except as before excepted) unto the said William Earl of Derby, and Elizabeth his Countess, for and during the terms of their natural lives, and the longer liver of them, and after their decease to the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, and the heirs of the said James, to the sole and proper use and behoof of the said William Earl of Derby, and the said Elizabeth, for the terun of the life of them, and the longer liver of them, ant after their decease to the use and bellioof of the said James Lord Stanley and. his heirs for ever, to hold the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of l;Iann, and all islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, and also all and singular the premises hereinhefore by these presents granted, with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, of us, our heirs and successors for ever, by homage and allegiance, and by the service of presenting to us two falcons for once only, to wit, immediately after the making of their homage, and presenting to our heirs, Kings of England, two falcons upon the days of the coronation of them our heirs, for and in lieu of all other services, customs, and demands: and further, out of our gracious and special favour, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have granted for ourselves, our heirs and successors, to the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, his heirs and assigns, that they and every of them shall be for ever free, quit, discharged, and exonerated, so far as relates to the said isle and all and singular other the premises before granted of and fron all guardianships during the minority of any of his heirs, marriages, or the value of marriages, freedoms, livery, and seizen, reliefs, and all other rights, titles, claims, and demands of us, our heirs and successors (except as before excepted) by reason of the tenure of the said isle, and other the premises to us, our heirs and successors, by these presents reserved or by reason or tenure by knight service in capite, or of any other lands, tenements, or hereditaments, which to them or any of th'-:n shall hereafter descend or come; and we will and grant for ourselves, our heirs and successors, to the said James Stanley, Lord Stanley, his heirs and assigns, that whenever it shall happen that the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, with or without heirs or assigns, or in case his heir or heirs shall be of full age or under age, then the same heir or heirs shall immediately after the death of the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, and after the death of the heirs or assigns, or after the death of the heirs or assigns of such heirs or assigns, from time to time for ever, shall succeed; to wit, whoever, immediately after the death of him, her, or them, to whom by right of inheritance, or by any other manner, shall succeed to the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, with the appurtenances, and all islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann appertaining or belonging, and all and singular other the premises hereinbefore by these presents granted, with all their appurtenances (except as before excepted) shall successively enter, and the same peaceably have, possess, and hold to them, their heirs and assigns, of us, our heirs and successors, and against us, our heirs and successors, by homage, allegiance, and the said service of presenting two falcons on the said days of coronation only, for and in lieu of all other services, customs, and demands whatsoever, without any seizure or sequestration thereof into the hands of us or our heirs, or by any livery, general or special, or by any seizen or first had reliefs, thence to be prosecuted, done, or had by reason of the said homage, or upon account of any other castle, manor, messuage, lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever, which the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, or his heir or heirs or assigns, or any of them, now hold, bath or have held, or which they shall for the future hold of us or our heirs by military service, in capite or otherwise, or by reason of the minority of them, or any of them, or without any other profits, commodities, compositions, exactions, customs, or demands, by us or our heirs, from him the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, his heir or heirs or assigns, to be required, taken, imposed, demanded, or challenged for ever; and further, out of our gracious and special favour, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we do will and grant to the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, his heirs and assigns, that we or our heirs shall not have, exact, take, nor receive, nor that we nor our heirs shall not, nor will have, exact, take, or receive marriage, or the value of marriage, of and from the heir or heirs of the said James Stanley Lord Stanley, or of the heir or heirs, assignee or assigns of him or any other person or persons who shall be seized of the said isle, castle, peel, lordship, or other the premises or any of them, by reason, virtue, colour, or title of the said isle, castle, peel, lordship, homage, rent, or other the premises or any part or parcel thereof. Know ye further, that we, out of our gracious and special favour, have given and granted, and for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant, unto the said William Earl of. Derby, Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, their heirs and assigns, all and all manner of rents, arrearages of rent, dues, revenues, and annual profits of the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, and all other islands and lordships to the said Isle of Mann belonging, and of all and singular other the premises, with the appurtenances, or any parcel of the same (except as before excepted) due or unpaid to our dearly beloved sister Elizabeth Queen of England, or any of our progenitor or progenitors, or to ourself, to hold to them without any other composition or any thing further to be done, paid, or performed to us : and further out of our gracious and special favour, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we do by these presents will and grant, for us, our heirs and successors, to the said William Earl of Derby, and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, that these our letters patent, or an enrolment thereof shall, upon all occasions be firm, valid, good, sufficient, and effectual in law, and shall stand and be accepted, reputed, and adjudged good, perfect, firm, valid, and effectual in law, for and against us, our heirs and successors, as well in all our courts as otherwise wheresoever, without any other confirmation, licence, or toleration from us, our heirs and successors, for ever hereafter, by the said William Earl of Derby and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, or any of them, their or any of their heirs or assigns, to be procured and obtained notwithstanding any misnomer or error in reciting, or not naming the said isle, castle, peel, and lordship of Mann, and other the premises or any parcell thereof, and, notwithstanding their not having been, or any office or inquisition found, of the premises, or any parcell thereof, by which our title ought to be found before the passing of these our letters patent, and notwithstanding any error in the reciting of, misnaming, or not reciting any demise of grant of the premises, or any parcel thereof made and remaining on record or not of record : And notwithstanding any error in naming or not naming any viltage, bamlst, parish, place, or county, in which the said premises or any parcel thereof, do lie or be, and notwithstanding full, true, and certain mention, be not made of the names of the tenants, "farmers, or occupiers of the said Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship, and other the premises or any parcel thereof, and notwithstanding any other defect in the ascertaiain,,, computation, or declaration, or omission of the true yearly value of the premises, or any part thereof, or the yearly reserved rent of the said premises or any parcel thereof in these our letters patent, and notwithstanding any other defect, attornment, or seizure, or in not naming or misnomer of any tenant, farmer, or occupier of the premises, or any parcel thereof, and notwithstanding the naming, wrong recital, or not reciting in whose possession the said premises or any parcell thereof have been, and, notwithstanding our true state and title in and unto the premises, or any part thereof, are not in these presents fully exi)ressed, and notwithstanding the Act of Parliament made in the first year of the reign of our progenitor Henry the Fourth, late Kin,, of England; and notwithstanding, an Act made in the Eighteenth a year of the reign of our predecessor Henry the Sixth, late Kin,, of England; and notwithstanding any other defect in not naming or not properly naming the isle, castle, peel, and lordship of . Mann aforesaid, and other the premises or any parcel thereof, or in not naming or not properly naming the nature, kind, species, quantity, or quality of the premises or any parcel thereof. We will also and by these presents grant to the said William Earl of Derby, and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, that they may and shall have these our letters patent in a proper manner, made and sealed under our Great Seal of England, without fine or fee, great or small, to be rendered, paid, or done to us in our Hanaper or elsewhere, for our use, because there is not express mention made or appears in any statute, act, ordinance, provision, proclamation, or restriction of the true value, or of any other value or certainty of the premises, or any part thereof, or any other gifts or grants by us or any of our progenitors aforesaid, to the said William Earl of Derby, and Elizabeth his Countess, and James Stanley Lord Stanley, or any of them, before this time, or for any other cause, matter, of thing whatsoever, in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof, &c. T. R. at Westminster, the Seventh day of July.

By writ under the Privy Seal, &c.