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should be deemed necessary for the Public Service to part with all 
their Rights held under the several grants of the Isle of Man but 
apprehended that the Reservation of their Landed Revenue 
together with the patronage of the Bishoprick and other Ecclesi- 
astical Benefices in the Island could not interfere with the interest 
of the Publick and presumed there could be no objection to their 
preserving the honourable distinction and service which their 
ancestors had so long enjoyed and by which they held their Rights 
in this Island of presenting the Two Falcons at the Coronation.” 
They then go on to hope that £70,000 may not be too great a price 
to be paid to them in full compensation “reserving only their 
landed property with all their rights in and over the soil of Lords 
of the Manor with all Courts Baron Rents Services and other 
Incidents to such Courts belonging their Wasts Commons and 
other Lands Inland Waters Fisheries and Mills and all Mines 
Minerals and Quarries according to their present Rights therein 
Felons goods Deodands Waifs Estrays and Wrecks at Sea together 
with the Patronage of the Bishoprick and of the other Ecclesiastical 
Benefices in the said Island to which they were then Intitled to be 
holden of the Crown by the Honorable Service above mentioned.” 
To this the Commons of Great Britain agree (7th March 1765) 
repeating at length the various privileges reserved by the House of 
Athole to be “holden of His Majesty his Heirs and Successors by 
the said Honorary Service of rendering to His Majesty’s Heirs and 
Successors Kings and Queen’s of England Two Falcons on the 
days of their respective Coronations and at and under the yearly 
Rent of £101 15s. 11d.” This rent would appear to have been 
first charged in the reign ef James I. when fresh Letters 
Patent were granted to William, younger son of Henry, 
fourth Earl, on the death of his brother Ferdinand, with whose 
daughters William had eftected a compromise for their claims 
over the Island. 
The Deed is dated 7th March 1765, and signed on the one part 
Atholl, C. Atholl Strange, Charles Frederick, Edmund Hoskins— 
