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 the Charge of Registring of Deeds will be saved by reducing the Charges in making them; (altho' this be true) yet granting it should not, and that this Registry should be an additional Charge to all others, yet the Priviledge of it will be worth the Price.

It is said, that whenever the Ld. Ch. J. Hales had made a Purchase, he would say, Now I would give a Years purchase more to be sure of my Title: And if we should ask those who have lost their Estates, for want of a discovery of Deeds, they would set a higher Price upon it.

Men generally make their Purchases (with the acquisitions of all their former life) to settle them on their Posterity, for whom they are more sollicitous than for themselves; and therefore they are always more jealous of the Title than the Value, because a deficiency in Title goes to the whole, but a deficiency in Value goes but to part only; and for that Reason they would almost think nothing too much to assure them of their Title.

If a Man one hundred and fifty Miles from London, is to sue his Neighbour but for 10 l. he must employ an Attorney in the Country, who must send to another in London to make out a Writ, and this must be Entered in one Office, and Sealed in