48 Faraday, Correspondence of Lieut. -Col. PJiilips. 



jurisdiction than they had in England, and Mr. Banks 

 paid the penalty of his boldness in combining slander of 

 the Church with Contempt of Court. An Act of 

 Tynwald of 1647, provides " Whosoev^er shall accuse or 

 speak any scandalous speeches against any Chief Officer 

 of this Isle, Spiritual or Temporal, .... and be not 

 able to prove it, shall be fined for every time so offending 

 Tenn Pounds, and their Ears to be cut off for punishment 

 besides." 



In addition to the ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction 

 in Probate and Divorce, the Manx Religious Courts, for 

 various offences, had the power, not only of inflicting 

 Church censures, but also of detaining the offenders in the 

 ecclesiastical prison, which, says Mr. Moore, " was a 

 subterraneous vault in the Castle of Peel, in order, after 

 an examination of a jury of six (whom they were 

 authorised to impanel), to be delivered, if judged 

 necessary, for further trial and punishment to the temporal 

 power ; and not only did they commit to their dungeon 

 for the purpose of such detention, but confinement there 

 was sometimes ordered, by their definitive sentence, in 

 affairs merely spiritual." The greater part of the Manx 

 spiritual jurisdiction was swept away in 1884, and Castle 

 Rushen was condemned as a prison in 1886. There were, 

 it should be said, three classes of Manx Ecclesiastical 

 Courts, Summary, Chapter, and Consistory. Appeals lay 

 to York. 



Evidently Colonel Philips was too busy to take a 

 holiday, for on August 14th, Cable says : — 



I assure you I rejoyce sincerely in the prospecl which n.ppears opening 

 upon you on the other side the Atlantic. I hope & trust you will in a 

 short time draw a very fine Revenue from your estate at I'hilipsburg. The 

 account you have reed from your brother James is very flattering & I have no 

 doubt but the Navy Board will be glad to treat with you for all the Mast 

 Timber you can supply them with. The means I wou'd advise you to use is 



