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 And yet I cann't say but all this may be Necessary, as the Case now stands, which must still grow worse, if let alone: For the Troubles and hazards of Titles must continually increase, until they are reduced to a greater Certainty by a Registry.

But then as a Registry would reduce the Incertainty of Titles, it must thereby take away the Delayes in Conveyancing, and consequently abridge the Charges: For as the Pharisees made long Prayers, as a Pretence or Equivalent for devouring Widdows Houses, so Practicers in the Law must make out long Bills, on pretence for demanding large Fees: Like some Tooth-drawers, who dragg their Patients by the Jaws about the room, to shew them how hardly they earn their Money. To cure Deficiency in Titles, would be as fatal to Conveyancers, as the Cure of a lame Legg to a Beggar.

It is pleasant enough to any one (but those who are to pay for it) to read a Conveyancers Bill of Fees, made out for Clients who don't pay well by the gret.

To Counsel for perusing several long Deeds of the Title, which from the beginning to the end was near six Months, and drawing several long Conveyances, in all thirty Skins of Parchment, 100 Guineas.