The Bishops of Man, besides their spiritual jurisdiction, are sole Barons of this Isle; in all trials for life, they may assist in the Temporal Court till the sentence. They hold courts in their own names for their temporalities. If any of their tenants are tried for life, they may demand them from the Lord's Court, and try them by a jury of their own tenants; and in case of conviction, the lands are forfeited to the Bishop. There were formerly several chapels, and in each town one is yet standing, as also one in the centre of the land dedicated to St. John, in which they hold their Tynwald, or public assembly; but above all, the abbeys seemed to have exceeded the ability of the country, among which the Abbey of St. Mary of Rushen was the chief. It consisted of twelve monks and an abbot, who at first were meanly endowed, and lived by their labour; but in process of time they had good revenues, the buildings very handsome, the rooms convenient, and the chapel larger than anything (the cathedral excepted) in the Island. It was called the daughter of Furness, which is said to be the mother of this and many other abbeys in the Isle of Man. Cratilinth, coming to the Crown in the yeare 277 Germanus St. Maughold Conanus, tutor to the three sons of Eugenius, the fourth King of Scotland William. After him, in the time of Goddard Crownan Hamundus, by some written Vermundus or Wymundus Gamaliel, an Englishman Reginald, a Norwegian Michael, a Manksman Nicholas de Melsa, Abbot of Furness. Reginald, a person of Royal extraction, sister's son to good King Olave John, the son of Hefare Simon Laurence, the Archdeacon, was elected Bishop Markus Galvadiensis (commonly written Galloredinus), at the nomination of Alexander, King of Scotland Mauritius, sent prisoner to London by King Edward the First Allen (Bishop Spotswood calls him Onanus, but mistakes the yeare of his consecration), of Galloway Gilbert, of Galloway Bernard, a Scot Thomas, a Scot, who sat Bishop fourteen years William Russel, Abbot of Rushen, was elected by the whole clergy of Man, in St. German's Church, in Holme, vulgarly Peel Castle. John Duncan a Manksman, was elected by the clergy of Man Robert Welby John Sprotton Evan, or Huan, was elected by Sir Thomas Stanley Hugh Hesketh; in the roll of the family of Rufford, Hugh Hesketh, third son to Robert, Esq., a Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of the Isle of Man Robert Ferrier Bishop Salisbury Thomas Stanley, son to Sir Edward Stanley, first Lord Monteagle, who was second son to Thomas, first Earl of Derby. George Lloyd Bishop Foster Dr. John Phillips, Anno 1605, a native of North Wales Dr. Richard Parr, Anno 1635, Lancashire Samuel Rutter Anno 1663 Dr. Isaac Barrow was consecrated Bishop of the isle of Man Dr. Henry Bridgman Dr. John Lake Dr. Baptist Levinz, 1693