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 There's more trouble than all this in transferring Copy-hold Estates, and yet we don't hear much Complaint about them Men are seldom in such hast about laying out their Money, or at least their Lawyers are not so violent in dispatch of their Business, but they may dispense with the Ceremony of a Registry, to prevent the loss of their Estates.

Festina Lente is the Conveyancers Motto, and therefore they advise their Clients not to hurry them, nor put them out of their own pace; they must think nothing troublesome but the Entering the Deed in a Registry. To come to a Lawyers Chamber twice a Week, to know when they shall come again; then to have a Bill of Directions to send for some Deed which the Lawyer wants, and which perhaps is a hundred Miles distant, in they know not whose hands, to employ an Attorney to search for Judgments, Statutes, Recognizances, Deeds Inrolled in four Courts, to send for a Copy of a Will proved in a remote Diocess, and bring an Account of all this to the Lawyer, and give him a New Fee, and then begin again; and may be two or three such Recipes before the Title be finished; and the Clyents must not think much of all this, but take it as the Nature of Business.