{
  "created": "1781-01-01",
  "ident": "Baase-Illiam-Doun",
  "name": "Baase Illiam Doun",
  "type": "Political Broadside",
  "transcribed": "R. Teare",
  "original": "Manx",
  "author": "Unknown",
  "source": "MS06758",
  "notes": "A single page printed broadside. An elegy for William Christian (Illiam Dhone), executed on Jan 2nd 1663. Republished as a political piece in 1781, the date of first production must have been sometime before 1781, but after 1736 (when the first Atholl Lord of Mann was invested. The title and introduction preceding the main text as follows:\r\nA\r\nMANKS [image\u2014Three Legs Emblem with QUOCUNQUE JECARIS STABIT beneath] ELEGY\r\nON THE\r\nMUCH LAMENTED\r\nDEATH OF \r\nRECEIVER-GENERAL CHRISTIAN\r\nOF RANALDSWAY\r\nWho (for giving up the ISLE to the Usurper CROMWELL, then Master of the Three Kingdoms, and irresisitble) was cruelly and unjustly put to Death, (January, 1662) by a Tyrannical and wicked Faction in the ISLE;\u2014 Some of whose Descendants, are at this Time, endeavouring to destroy the Constitution of the Country, and introduce Vassalage and Slavery. \u2014 It is therefore thought expedient to republish this ingenious Performance \u2014 to open the Eyes of a deluded People."
}