SODOR AND MAN. A REGULAR succession of the Bishops of the Isles, for so they were first styled i, is very difficult to be gathered from existing chronicles and materials. This district which formerly contained not only the iEbuda or Western Isles, but also the Isle of Man, was originally subject to the kingdom of Northura- bria, but it was captured by the Danes and Nor- wegians about the year 1065, who appointed a petty king until about 1 266, when the Scots by a mixed title of conquest and purchase obtained it, and held it for the most part till the reign of Edward III, when it was conquered by William Montacute, earl of Salisbury^, who enjoyed it during his life, and his eon sold it in J 393 to sir William Scrope, on whose attainder in 1399 it was bestowed on Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland-^, and on 6th April 1406 it was granted to sir John Stanley*, whose posterity, earls of Derby, possessed an interest in it up to the year 1825. 'They were indifferently called Stanley, ninth earl of Derby, " Kpiscopi Mannia' et Insula- died without issue male in 1702, rum," " Episcopi yf^budarum," and the sovereignty of the Isle and " Episcopi Sodorenses." of Man descended to his only '^ Pat. 7 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 22. surviving daughter Henrietta in 3 Pat. I Hen. IV. p. rj. m. 35. the year 1714. Anne, her only ^ Pat. 7 Hen. IV. p. 2. m. 17. daughter, by John lord Asburn- By act 7 James I. it was con- ham, died witliout issue in 1732, firmed and aHsured to the right and her estate in the Isle of Man heirs of James seventh earl of devolved on her uncle James L)erby. Stanley, ex parte materna ; on hia
- William (icorgc Richard death in 173^) without issue, it
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