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THE
HISTORY
OF THE
ISLE of MAN.
BETWEEN Great Britain and Ireland, there is ſtretched out a conſiderable Iſland from N. to S. about 30 Italian Miles in Length, but where wideſt not above 15 in Breadth. The ſeveral antient Writers have given it various Names: By Cæſar, it is called Mona; by Ptolemy, Monæda; by Pliny, Monabia; and the ſame Variety appears in ſuch of our modern Authors as make Mention of it. It was firſt inhabited by the Britons, then the Scots or Picts, and afterwards by the Norwegians, who had it in their Poſſeſſion a long Time. It ſince paſſed through a ſtrange Diverſity of Revolutions, and at length, fell into the Hands of the Engliſh about the latter End of Edward the Firſt, and remains at this Day under their Juriſdiction. It has had ſeveral Lords; ſuch generally as had the greateſt intereſt in our Princes; until the Grant thereof, together with the Patronage of it's Biſhoprick, was
