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 In which time they had taught the Layety this Craft, to convey away their le­gal Estates to Persons in Trust, whereby to prevent the Descent to the Heir, and consequently the Wardship to the King and other Lords, and yet to keep the use and pernancy of the Profits to themselves and Families: Of which King H. 8. complaining to his Judges, they advised an Act for Transferring all Uses and Trusts into Possessions; for which purpose a Bill was drawn by the King's Counsel, and presented to the House of Commons, in the 24th. year of his Reign, when it was rejected, but passed in the 27th. which is this Statute of Uses.

And four years after a Statute passed (worth all the former) for Dissolution of Monasteries; by which the Priests lost their Lands, and the Lawyers their Clients, (tho' not their Cunning) as will appear by the Sequel.

Now this Statute of Uses, 27 H. 8. hath in­troduced a new Conveyance in the Law, (which was not before) by way of Bargain and Sale, for tho' a Bargain and Sale did raise a Use at the Common Law, yet it was not a compleat Conveyance to trans­fer the Possession, without an actual delivery of it in the Country: but now this Statute doing that Office by transferring the