be called.

your Deemsters before you sitting; and your Clarkes, your Knights, Esquires and Yeomen, about you in the third Degree; and the worthiest Men in your Land to be called in, before your Deemsters, if you will ask any Thing of them, and to hear the Government of your Land, and your Will; and the Commons to stand without the Circle of the Hill, with three Clearkes in their Surplisses. And your Deemsters shall make Call in the Coroner of Glanfaba; and he shall call in all the Coroners of Man, and their Yards in their Hands, with their Weapons upon them, either Coroners to Sword or Axe. And the Moares, that is, to Witt of every Sheading. Then the Chief Coroner, that is the Coroner of Glanfaba, shall make Affence, upon Paine of Life and Lyme, that noe Man make any Disturbance or Stirr in the Time of Tinwald, or any Murmur or Rising in the King's Presence, upon Paine of Hanging and Drawing. And then shall let your Barrons and all other know you to be their King and Lord, and what Time you were here you received the Land as Heyre Apparent in your Father's Days. And all your Barrons of Man, with your worthiest Men and Commons, did you Faith and Fealtie. And in as much as you are, by the Grace of God, now King and Lord of Man, yee will now that your Commons come unto you Show their and shew their Charters how they hould of you. And your Barrons, that made no Faith nor Fealtie unto you, that they make now.

Barons and

Commons to do Fealty,

Charters.

If Barons
make not
Fealty in
Forty Days

to forfeit
their Land.

Watch and
Ward.

Penalty for conveying persons out of Island.

2. And if any of your Barrons be out of the Land, they shall have the space of Fourty Days. After that they are called in to come and shew whereby they hould and clayme Lands and Tenements, within your Land of Man; and to make Faith and Fealtie, if Wind and Weather served them, or els to cease their Temporalties into your Hands. And then to proceed in your Matters, whatsoever you have there to doe, in Fellony or Treason, or other Matters that touch the Governance of your Land of Manne. First, that Watch and Ward be kept through your said Land as it ought, upon Pain of Life and Lyme; for whosoever fails any Night in his Ward, forfeiteth a Wether to the Warden; and to the Warden the seacond Night a Cowe; and the third Night Life and Lyme to the Lord.

3. And to charge all Manner of Men within your said Land to be ready at your Calling, upon Paine of Life and Lyme. And then to ordaine and proclaime, that neither Vessell nor Boat take any Man out of this Land, upon pain of Forfeiture of his Vessell and Goods, and restoring the Man into the Land again, he paying the Debts that he oweth unto the Lord. But if it be the Shipmen or Merchants that to Day come into the Land, and pass again at the next Wind; and noe Man that is resident within the said Land without a special Lycence. Alsoe, when you send your Lieutenant into your Land

of Man, and cometh thither received as Lieutenant, in setting of Lands, Courts houlding, Lieutenant and all other Governances we give for Law, that all his Deeds be firm and stable, and the Lord's what Man offendeth to him be punished, as they that offend to the Lord.1 Representa4. Alsoe, whosoever is borne and resident within your tive. Land of Man, though he had paid his Debts and Farme, Leaving the he ought not to goe out of your Land without a speciall Land withLycense; and if he doe, the Law is told you in the Go- out License. vernance of Tynwald. But if he goe himself away with Felony. any Boat of his own, or if he steale any Mans Boat, he is a Fellone; and if it so may be found, he forfeiteth his Goods, whose Tennant soever he be.

Value to the

5. Alsoe, whosoever occupieth any Parcell of Land, within Occupiers of your Land of Man, with Cattle or with Manure, (except Land to pay he be any of your Tennants Julaynes) he ought to pay the value of that which he occupieth without Quest setting or Farm taking, at your List by your Law.

Lord.

Rent-if he

have no Good Enquest to pay for put

6. Alsoe, whosoever is sett by Enquest sworn, whether Lord's Tenhe be poor or rich, he shall pay it if he have any Goods ant to pay that occupieth the Land of the Lord, either in Herbage or Manure. And if he have no Goods in time of setting, the Quest shall pay for him, for putting him in the Rowles that hath noe Goods; and then he to be put in service, or ting him on else to take v s. in a Farme, and to find Sureties of Payment by our Laws of Manne.

7. Alsoe, whereas it is said, that the Porter of your Garrison. Castle, your waged Yeomen within your Garrison Dwelling, regulations. should beate your Tennants when they be brought into Prisson, and taketh of them more than their Fees, that ought not to be redressed before your Deemsters, but before your Constable within your Garrison in which the Fault is so committed, by our Law of Manne.

8. Alsoe we give for Law, that a Castle Maze be paid out of five Maze of Herrings in Castle Maze a Boate taken, and Halfe a Maze out of two Maze and a Halfe in a Boate gotten, as oft of Herrings. as they goe to Sea and gotten soe; and that is our Law by Custome and Usage; and

the Lord to pay vj d. for a Maze thereof, provided that the Bringers of the first Maze

shall for the same have iij s. iiij d.2

9. Alsoe touching the Carriage of your Turves, all your Tennants of your six Shead- Lords Turf ings ought by our Laws, to carry your Turves to your Places, as pleaseth you to have to be carried them, with all other Carriages, Suite, and Servises, that are needfull to you within your Land of Man, for it is Use and Custome of longe Time."

by

Tenants.

10. Alsoe it is Use and Custome of long Time, that the Moars to pay Moars of every Shedding, pay two Marks of Office Silver Two Marks Yearly to the Lord; for it hath been used in divers Lords to Lord. Days, and soe we now give for Law to be paid.

11. Alsoe it is our Law, that no Coron. arrest any Man Coroner's for Debt owinge, unless he have a speciall Warrant from Arrest.

1 See Ordinances, 1422, No. 52, confirmed by "Laws and Orders" of 1687, sec. 1, and repealed by Act of 1737, sec. 9.

2 Repealed by Statute of 1777, Chap. 1.

the Lord or his Lieutenant; but in Points of Fellony, or delivering of Servants, or for Surety of the Peace, with many other Points that belong unto his Office, he ought to do these by vertue of his Office without Warrant.

Penalty for 12. Alsoe, whatsoever Enquest the Lord or his Lieutenant falsifying taketh to sett his Land by their Oathes, there ought noe Setting Quest Man to falsiefie them, for whosoever doth he forfeits iij £ to the Lord, if it may be proved or knowne.

Council.

Rising against Governor.

13. Also it is lawfull to any of the Lord's Councell to stirr or move any Man to doe that may profit the Lord truely.

14. Alsoe, for as much as the Riseing was made at Kirk Michaell upon the Lieutenant that represents the King's Person, his Officers, and his Men, those that the Lieutenant saw rise over him there without Craveing of Law, is this, that they be first drawne, and hanged, and quartered, and their Heads stricken off, and sett upon the Castle Tower over the Burne, another Quarter at Halland Towne, and the third Quarter to be sett at Ramsey, and the fourth at Douglas.'

Felo de se.

Debts and forfeiture.

Jenkin Moore and John Christiane, Deemsters, by the Advice and Councell of xxiiij of the Land, sworne by the said Deemsters the seacond Day of December, Anno Domini, 1419, have given for Law these Points following:

1. First, that whereas the late Wife of John Moore did perish herself, all such Goods as were belonging to her, is the Lords by his Prerogative, except such Goods as belong to the Coroner, which we say is Corbes, viz. her uttermost Garment, broken haggard, all Beasts under three Years old, her Part of the Houses, these Goods being found free. Itm. the Deemsters to have iiij s. and the Moare iiij s. or els the third Penny. Itm. they say that such Costs as were made upon her Buriall, to be none of her Part of Goodes, for they were forfeited unto the Lord before.

2. Alsoe they say that the afforesaid Woman that perished herself can pay noe Debts, because the Child that John Moore had by his Wife can have no Part of her Mothers Goodes, except the which was given her at the Font Stone. Also we say that all the whole Debts should be paid out of the whole Goods, and after that the Forfeit above said to be my Lords and his Officers to be of the free Goodes. 3. Sir Willm. Inch, Sir Phillip Skillicorne, Sir Huan Norres, Pension not Sir James Clarke, Sir Thomas Stevenson, Sir John Moore,

Vicars of

to pay

Corbes.

1 Rising against the Governor or Lieutenant or Council treason. See secs. 21 and 22 of Ordinances of 1422. Repealed by Criminal Code of 1817, sec. 7.

Robt. Norres, John Gawen, Jo. Moore, Robt. Norres, Robt. Matherell, and Willm. Stevenson, doe find by our Oathes, that all Viccars of Pencion shall never pay any Corbes to any Prieste or Corps present, nor noe waged nor hired Priest, noe Clearke, Silver.

4. All Viccars of Thirds shall pay Corbes, if they have Corbes paythem free, viz. one Pair Bedstocks, a Portasses, his Board abie by and Tressell, a Chaire and a Forme, a Spoone if he have it, a Pott or a Pann, a Broach and a Pair of Goberts of Iron, and a Rackentree, if it be to be had.

Vicars of
Thirds.

5. Henry M'Gawn, Willm. McQualtrough, with the rest Corbes for a of their Fellows, to make xxiiij do find that these ought to Man. be Corbes partaining to a Man, as if his Father have a Pann, his Son to have it, or els his best Pott, a Jack and a Sallett, Bowes and Arrows, Sword and Buckler,' his best Board and best Stoole, his Coulter and Rakentree, his best Cup if it be of Wood and bound with Silver and Gilt, his best Chest.

6. Corbes for a Woman, the best Wheele and Cardes, Corbes for a Rackentree, a Sucke or els a Mank's Spade, the best Beade Woman. of Jet or Amber, the best Broach, the best Cross, the best Pott or Pann.

7. Alsoe we find that the Barrons ought to have noe Service. Title to any Person that is borne out of the Countrey, and that cometh into the Land, he ought to be put into the Lord's Farme before any other.

Coroner.

8. Alsoe we find that the poor Tennants that disobey Fine for the Coroner for my Lord his Business, and be brought to disobeying the Castle or Peele, should pay no fine to the Coroner nor to the Porter, because they stand in my Lord his Grace of iij £. And that my Lord may punish any within the Castle that will not do his Commandment, paying noe Fee but at my Lord his Pleasure.

9. Alsoe that noe Moar shall go for any Custome noe Moar's Duty. further than his Charge sheweth him; and that the Moar

shall not take any Stouckes of Corne, except it be given

him of free Will, for it is no Custome.

10. Alsoe we find that the Coroner ought to have noe Coroner's Custome of any Man but of him that beareth Rent to the Dues. Lord; and if it be but a Penny Rent, he shall pay the Coroner his Duty. The Moare to be free of all Manner of Customes, as my Lord maketh him, without paying the Coroners iiij d. for it is noe Duty; the Meaning of this Statute is, that iiij d. Fee shall be paid yearly out of every

1 Repealed as to Weapons and others substituted by Statute of 1748, Chap. 5.

Outlawry.

Person out

return unless pardoned.

Quarter to the Coroner. And whosoever holdeth noe
Lords Land but only Intacks or Cottages, shall pay but a
Penny, if he hould but iij s. iiij d. Rent, and above iij s.
iiij d. Rent, to pay ij d. and no more.

Our most Gratious and excellent Lord, Sir John Stanley, King of Man and the Isles. In the Vigill of our Lady St. Mary, An. Dom. 1422, att his Castle of Rushen, asked his Deemsters and the xxiiij the Laws of Mann in these Points under written. To the which the said Deemsters, with the xxiiij gave for Law, that these be Points of your Prerogatives.

1. If any manner of Person be outlawed within your Land of Mann, he shall not be inlawed without your spetiail Grace and Pardon, proclamed and cryed throughout your six Sheadings, and at the Tynwald the Seaventh Court, to be called with the Moare of Glanfaba. And if any such Person soe called, answer not, then upon the Record of the six Moars then present, having with them two Witnesses that they were called in the six Sheadings, and appeared not there by open Proclamation, to be outlawed.

2. If any Man within your Land of Man be of Record lawed not to foreigned in your Court, or any of your Barrons Courts, for Stealth, or otherwise to forsweare the Land, he shall never come into your Land again without your speciall Grace and Pardon. And whosoever within your said Land relieves or receipts any Person, after that he is outlawed and forreigned as it is recited before, he forfeiteth his Body and his Goods to the Lord's Pleasure.

Persons receiving Outlaw.

Wrecks.

Royal Fish.

Game.

3. Alsoe, if the Bopp. or Abbott, or any other Barron within your Land of Man, receipts any Outlaw after that he is outlawed, without your spetiall Grace and Pardon, he forfeiteth his Temporalty unto your Grace.

4. If any Vessell or Ship or any other Goods be imbayed within the Heads of Mann above Water or under Water, it is the Lord's by his Prerogative.

5. Alsoe if any Porpus, Sturgeon, or Whale, be taken within the Heads of Man, they be the Lord's by his Prerogatives.

6. Alsoe if any Hawke or Hyron, Hart or Hind, be by any manner of Person taken within your Land of Man, he forfeiteth for every Time iij £ to your Lopp.