Worked for the Customs in Edinburgh and surely must have been able to fill in any detail required) - there would howeverĪppear to have been strong links between John Quayle, Clerk of the Rolls and Arthur Onslow, collector of customs at Liverpool Information (one surprising factor here is that Basil Cochrane who had been Governor of the Island from 1751 to 1761 now In April 1764, and shortly afterwards on the 11th May the Commissioners of Customs wrote to various ports to gather it may possibly be this change of ownership that prompted a Parliamentary question James 2nd Duke of Atholl died in January 1764 and the Island passed to his son in law and nephew, James 3rd Duke of Atholl
Goods into Britain except via the East India company and used this Act to seizeģ vessels which had proceeded in ballast from the Island to Liverpool. Report on ships contravening the Act with forbade inportation of East India Liverpool would appear to have sent agents to the Isle of Man during 1762 to Illicit imporation of tea was noted Arthur Onslow, collector of customs at To grow, some were quoting it as at least £200,000 pa, in particular the Repulsed by the Duke of Atholl and friends. To open negotiations for the sale of the Island was commenced but again It was suggested that the topic would be raised The merchants of Whitehaven raised a memorial to Parliament and although In 1752 though soon dropped (it would appear that Lord Mansfield and theĭuke of Argyll aided the Duke of Atholl in this), in 1752 The question of acquiring the Island would appear to have been brought up again By 1736 the last of the Derby line died and Purchase of the royalties of the island on such terms as might seem fitting. However it was obvious that the geographic position of the Island made this almost impossible to policeĪnd the Act 1 Geo 12 contained a clause authorising the Treasury to treat with Lord Derby and his immediate heirs for the
Goods of any kind other than the growth and produce of the Island should be imported from the Island into any port of Greatīritain or Ireland. The idea of revestment goes back to at least 1725 when the British Parliament passed an Act which enacted that no foreign The remaining privileges of which he had possession. Of Athol to the British Government, and in 1826, on receiving aįurther payment from the Crown of £416, 000 the duke surrendered In1806 the sovereignty of the island was sold by the fourth Duke The UK customs service thus preventing the Island being used as a base for the 'smuggling trade'. Of England, on the days of their coronations.īy this purchase the London goverment effectively gained control over the Island and could bring it under the control of per annum, and rendering two falcons to the succeeding kings and queens Services, and other privileges, together with the patronage of the bishopric,Īnd other ecclesiastical benefices in the island, on the payment of £101ĥs.
Property, with all their rights in and over the soil, with courts-baron, rents, This was paid for all the interestĪnd privileges of the island, reserving, however, to the Athol family the landed The Act of Revestment was the act of the Westminster Parliamentīy which the English Crown bought back the regalities of the Island from theĪtholl family for the sum of :£70,000. History Pages Isle of Man -Act of Revestment Act of Revestment 1765