ſon to believe the Biſhops of Man ever had any Juriſdiction over the Hebrides becauſe, were it ſo, ſome Accounts would have been handed down to Poſterity, by what Means they had loſt it: and as there is nothing but the Name of Sodor to countenance that Opinion, the Objection againſt it may caſily be anſwered by what I have ſaid.
The great Officers of the Iſland are firſt the Governour, who under the Lord of Man has the entire Command of it; ſecondly, the two Deempſters, who are the Judges in Matters Civil and Criminal; thirdly, the Comptroller, who calls the Receiver-General to an Account; and fourthly, the Receiver-General, in whoſe Hands, all the inferior Collectors depoſite the Rents due to the Lord.
Just at the Entrance of the Caſtle is a great Stone Chair for the Governour, and two leſſer for the Deempſters. Here they try all Cauſes, except Eccleſiaſtick, which are entirely under the Deciſion of the Biſhop; when you are paſt this little Court, you enter into a long winding Paſſage between two high Walls, not much
