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well ftored with black cattle, and fheep ; and th e pppulation has ;of fet«
years greatly inereafed. This ifle; ^ a s feized. by the Nprwegians, along
witlathe Weftern Ifles df Scotland, in th e n in th Century ; and remamed
under thefe lords an independent kingdora; tili the thirteerith Century,
when it feil with thofciflands, to Alexander III of Scotland. The Scots
were expelled in the reign ^ E dw a rd II, hm the title contmued dubious,
for in the 15th and i6 th centunes, Alexander and John, Dukes of
Albany, ftyled themfelves Lords of Man, .and mterwove the arms in
their heraldry. In the reign o f! h f e n r y lY ^ e ^ n g d o r n |%M#n, feas
Jc < p ,f ^ e d \^ th e IStati|&y«,;afteFv^ard^fp.g.5l^TofjDer.hyl,;and
to the f am i ly Ä ^ h o L b y
fefee B iitc h .a f^ a a d ^ n ^M d g tQ J th e rE ü g liA H ^ '^ ^
are ’Donglas, änchCafttetown,- and th |rß ^ £e f o ^ e ^ ^ % ^ b l ^ y i |l a g s s .
^35hßw* am, ätC^fßfeie fmkli röand^EkheÄ ^V iC o^as ^ ^ fä r n ,
andCoqpette ifland, near.the m o u t h ^ f / th ^ ^ 5 ^ J . i ^ ^ n a l i i e ', jtwfpr-
thumberlahd. > T h e Ififefcf Thanet is n a ^ & e d f to«. the Uo& Ä p n t i
hut Sheppey xemainsa-pleafant and inteFeftingdße; i