Sir William Scrope, later earl of Wiltshire, bought Man from William Montagu, second earl of Salisbury, in 1392 or 1393. The cited source for this event, `Chronica Tinemuthi', is puzzling. One might expect this to be the `Historia aurea' of John Tynemouth, but this ended in 1347. The sale of Man is recorded under 1393 by Thomas Walsingham, who knew an abbreviated version of Tynemouth's chronicle, but this does not seem sufficient to explain the attribution. Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana ed. H.T. Riley II (Rolls Series, 1864), 213. Forfeited to the crown on Scrope's execution in 1399, the Isle was granted to Sir John Stanley in 1405, enabling him to take the title `king of Man'.