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Keys|kiːz|
[Pl. of key n.1 in specialized use.]
A body of twenty-four members which forms the elective branch of the Legislature of the Isle of Man. More fully House of Keys. (The reason of the title is not quite clear. It appears in Latin form clāves in 1418, and in Eng. form in 1422. But it is not the recognized name in the Manx Statutes till 1585; from that date to 1734 the title is ‘The Twenty-four Keys’; after this simply ‘The Keys’. The Manx popular name is Yn Kiare as Feed, ‘The Four-and-twenty.’ The suggestion that Keys was some kind of corruption of Kiare as ‘Four-and’ has no historical basis.)
[1417–18in Gill Statutes I. of Man (1883) I. 2 Hæc Indentura facta inter Thurstanum de Tyldesley [etc.] ex unâ parte, et..xxiiij Claves Mann. ex altera, Testatur qd. predicti xxiiij Claves legis cum judice Mann. dicunt, etc. ]1422Ibid. I. 11 Alsoe we give for Law, that there was never xxiiij Keys in Certainty, since they were first that were called Taxiaxi, those were xxiiij free Houlders..Without the Lord's Will, none of the 24 Keys to be. 1585Order of Henry Earl of Derby ibid. 59 To..impart your Proceedings to the 24 Keyes of that my Isle. 1594Art. of Doubt by R. Stanley ibid. 67 The two Deemsters and 24 Keys of this Isle. 1706Phillips s.v., In the Isle of Man, the twenty four chief Commoners, being as it were the Keepers of the Liberties of the People, are call'd The Keys of the Island. 1715Gov. Horne Let. in A. W. Moore Hist. I. of Man 835 To the Gentlemen of the Twenty-four Keys. 1718in Keble Life Bp. Wilson xii. (1863) 397 A complaint of this nature is not cognizable before the 24 Keys. 1739in Gill Statutes I. of Man I. 239 By and with the Advice and Consent of the Governor, Councel, Deemster, and Keyes, in this present Tynwald Court assembled. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 452/2 The Keys were at one time self-elected, but in 1866 they consented to popular election. 1900A. W. Moore Hist. I. of Man 824 note, The right to try questions of the rights of members to their seats was specially reserved by the House of Keys Election Act of 1866. |