bullocks,
From Satan, from sin and from Cutlar MacCullock.

Bad as Ivar was, the Scotch threatened to be worse.

So the Manx, fearing that their kingdom might become a part of the
kingdom of Scotland, supported Ivar. They were beaten. Ivar was a brave
tiger, and died fighting.

SCOTCH AND ENGLISH DOMINION

Man was conquered, and the King of Scotland appointed a lieutenant to
rule the island. But the Manx loved the Scotch no better as masters than
as pirates, and they petitioned the English king, Edward I., to take
them under his protection. He came, and the Scotch were driven out. But
King Robert Bruce reconquered the island for the Scotch. Yet again the
island fell to English dominion. This was in the time of Henry IV. It is
a sorry story. Henry gave the island to the Earl of Salisbury. Salisbury
sold it to one Sir William le Scroop. A copy of the deed of sale exists.
It puts a Manxman's teeth on edge. "With all the right of being crowned
with a golden crown." Scroop was beheaded by Henry, who confiscated his
estate, and gave the island to the Earl of Northumberland. It is a silly
inventory, but let us get through with it. Northumberland was banished,
and finally Henry made a grant of the island to Sir John de Stanley.
This was in 1407. Thus there had been four Kings of Man--not one of whom
had, so far as I know, set foot on its soil--three grants of the island,
and one miserable sale. Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be
gathered together.

THE STANLEY DYNASTY

When the crown came to Sir John Stanley he was in no hurry to put it on.
He paid no heed to his Manx subjects, and never saw his Manx kingdom. I
dare say he thought the gift horse was something of a white elephant. No
wonder if he did, for words could not exaggerate the wretched condition
of the island and its people. The houses of the poor were hovels built
of sod, with floors of clay, and sooty rafters of briar and straw and
dried gorse. The people were hardly better fed than their beasts.
So Stanley left the island alone. It will be interesting to mark how
different was the mood of his children, and his children's children. The
second Stanley went over to Man and did good work there. He promulgated
our laws, and had them written down for the first time--they had
hitherto been locked in the breasts of the deemsters in imitation of the
practice of the Druids. The line of the Stanleys lasted more than three
hundred years. Their rule w