Wednesday 7 January 1680249

Sir, having received commission and special injunction from our reverend ordinary to call a convocation of the clergy of the isle, with all convenient expedition, you are therefore hereby desired to give personal summons to the whole clergy of this island particularly to make their personal appearance at Kirk Michael church, upon Wednesday next, being the seventh instant, to consult matters of great importance, which then and there shall be imparted unto them, and if any of them fail to answer this summons (which you are to give in his lordship's name, and by virtue of his authority) they must expect to be severely proceeded against for such their contumacy, as his lordship shall find just cause. Your own effectual execution hereof, and your appearance the same day with certificate of the discharge of your office herein, and the return of this our order, is also desired and expected, that the same may be recorded for our discharge in this behalf. Dated the second of January 1679/80.

John Harrison and Charles Parr, vicars-general.

To Mr Ewan Christian, general sumner; these to be speedily executed.

Thursday 21 October 1680

At a convocation of the clergy at Bishopscourt, the 21 [st] day of October 1680, there appeared:

Memorandum.

This twenty-first day of October 1680, the clergy of the Isle of Man were convened by Henry, lord bishop of Man, to consult with the said bishop about the discovery and distribution of the king's augmentation and the monies due out of the impropriations, ever since the first purchase of them in 1664, and because Mr Samuel Wattleworth and Mr Thomas Robinson are pretty well acquainted with the concerns thereof, and are not far distant from the officers with whom they are to negotiate this affair, therefore the said clergy, with the consent of the said bishop, have unanimously elected them two to solicit this business and to report their proceedings every twenty-first day of the month till this affair be brought to a good conclusion, and for their pains have agreed they shall be recompensed at the discretion of the said bishop out of the said monies, when it is received. As witness our hands hereunto subscribed, the day and year above written.

Henricus Sodorensis.