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 But whether this Registry will make these Reductions: 1. Of the Length of Conveyances. 2. The Incertainties of Titles: And, 3. By Consequence, the other Practice in the Law, I cannot tell: However, I hope it, and believe some of them fear it.

But if the Cryes of Monks and Fryers had been regarded, we had never heard of the Dissolution of Monasteries; and if the Clamours of Masters of Request, Clerks and Eschaetors had prevailed, the Court of Wards and Liveries had been standing at this day: And yet perhaps most of these had either purchased their Places, or were bred up to that part of the Law only.

The Certainty of Titles being the main drift of this Essay, it would be too mean an Argument to use for it, to say, That