Note 81 — Chapter II · THE FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND. 449–975. (continued 2)
Reading edition
As long as Man retained its separate Kings or even its separate Lords, it was strictly in the same position in which it was in the days of Eadgar. Even now, as retaining its own Legislature and not being represented in the Imperial Parliament, it is a dependency of the British Crown, like the Channel Islands, not an integral part of the United Kingdom, like England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.