[From Mona Miscellany second series Manx Soc vol 21]

PECULIARITIES IN NUMERATION, CURRENCY, WEIGHTS, MEASURES, DIVISIONS OF LAND, AND QUANTITIES.

A country so peculiarly situated as the Isle of Man, in the centre of Great Britain, and though under the nominal fealty of such monarchs as might be at the time predominant, yet retaining its own form of government and law for the last thousand years, may naturally be expected to have many customs and peculiarities different to their surrounding neighbours. To enumerate some of these will be interesting, and at the same time useful, as many of the terms are comparatively unknown to the rising generation, and are gradually falling into disuse, more particularly since the revestment of the Island to the British crown, which took place in 1765, and the gradual assimilation of the laws of the Island to the spirit of English jurisprudence. Some of these terms, we fear, have passed into oblivion, yet an explanation of a few may yet be embalmed in this record of the Manx Society before they entirely pass away.