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 the Law, for allowing of so many sorts of Incumbrances on Lands, but for permitting them to be done in diverse places, Which doth render the Titles to Lands incertain, and therefore is a Deficiency in the Law: And tho' the Law hath directed several of them to be recorded, yet this doth not remedy the Incertainty.

First, Because these Records do lye in several Places, which makes the Search thereof chargeable, and the Finding difficult.

Secondly, Because those that are upon Record, have no Preference above those that be not; so that should a Purchaser discover all that are Recorded, he may be defeated by those that are not; which can never be discovered, but by the Confession of them that made them, because they may be executed any where.

Therefore the drift of this Essay, is to give a Sanction to one Place above all the rest, by annexing a Priviledge to it, and leaving it to every Man's pleasure whether he will purchase that Priviledge or not.

To shew the Necessities and Conveniencies whereof, I offer the following Arguments.