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Tynwald|ˈtɪnwəld, ˈtaɪn-|
Also 7 Tynwold, 7–8 Tinewald, 7, 9 Tinwald.
[ad. early ON. *þingwall-, stem of ON. þingvǫllr (gen. -vallar), f. þing Thing n.2 + vǫllr field, level ground. The initial t for th is due to Manx phonetics. Of the same origin are the place-names Tinwald in Dumfriesshire, Dingwall in Ross-shire, and Tingwall in Shetland.]
(Also Tynwald Court.) In the Isle of Man, an annual convention attended by the governor (representing the sovereign), a council acting as the upper house, and the House of Keys, at which the laws which have been enacted are proclaimed to the people. Also attrib., as Tynwald chapel, Tynwald day, Tynwald hill, Tynwald mount.
The MS. source of the earliest quots. dates from the beginning of the 17th century.
1422Acts Sir John Stanley (Manx Soc., vol. III) 71 This is..how you shalle be governed upon your Tynwald dayes. Ibid. 92 That the Tynwold be houldene two tymes in the yeare at the leaste. 1610in Mills' Statute Laws Isle of Man (1821) 81 It is agreed..that after Midsomer Day next noe Tinwald shall be holden in this Isle upon the Lord's day. 1656J. Chaloner Descr. I. of Man iv. in D. King Vale Royall iv. 16 The said Governour and Officers do usually call the 24 Keyes of the Island, especially once every year, viz. upon Midsummer day, at St. John's Chappel, to the Tinewald Court there, where upon a Hill near unto the said Chappel, all the Inhabitants of the Island, standing round about a fair Plain, they may hear the Laws and Ordinances agreed upon before in the Chappel aforesaid, published and declar'd unto them. Ibid. 17 If any Orders be agreed upon by the Officers, and 24 Keys, they are..at the next Tynwald, after, proclaimed for absolute Laws. 1701in Cowell's Interpr. s.v. Tinewald. 1739 [see Keys]. 1798Feltham Tour Isle of Man xii. 144 The annual mode of promulgating the laws, is at the Tynwald hill. 1836Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XIV. 211/2 [A law of the House of Keys] must be promulgated by the lieutenant-governor..on the top of an ancient tumulus called the Tynwald Mount. 1860All Year Round No. 68. 420, I believe..though the language is still employed in some official formulæ of the Tynwald (or ancient court)..the ancient idiom of Mona is very near extinction. 1871W. Harrison (title) Records of the Tynwald and Saint John's Chapels in the Isle of Man. 1894Hall Caine Little Man Isl. 15 The open-air Parliament..meets once a year at St. John's, in the centre of the island, on the mount known as Tynwald Hill. |