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266 Manx i^Iate-MantEs.
Bishop, (lo) the sword-bearer, who is the officer
in command of the troops, (ii) the Lieutenant-
Governor, (12) surgeon of the Household, (13)
Government chaplains, (14) the chief constable
— passing through the ranks of a company of
English soldiers, who have their barracks at
Castletown. On arriving at the hill, the Southern
Deemster calls upon the Coroner of Glenfaba to
fence the Court, which he does in the following
words : ' I fence this Court in the name of our
Sovereign {KJUl^i^^J- I do charge that no
person do quarrel, brawl, or make any disturb-
ance, and that all persons answer to their names
when called ; I charge this audience to witness
that this Court is fenced ; I charge this audience
to bear witness that this Court is fenced ; I charge
this whole audience to bear witness that this Court
is fenced.' The coroners are then sworn in by the
Southern Deemster, who after this proceeds to
read the marginal notes of the laws in English,
being followed by the Coroner of Glenfaba, who
repeats the same in Manx. No law is binding
unless thus proclaimed from Tinwald Hill. It
then becomes ' an Act of Tinwald.' The pro-
cession being re-formed, the Court returns to the
chapel, where certain necessary money votes are
passed, any subject on which a debate is likely to
arise being adjourned. [Thingwall, Wirral ;
TiNGWALL, Shetlands ; Dingw^all, Scotland ;
piNG-voLLR, Iceland.]
Vorr (F), used in Icelandic local names of 'a fenced-in
landing-place,' is cognate with the English weir.