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 'Tis observable, that the Statute for Inrollment giving Liberty to enter Deeds in either of the four Courts at Westminster, or in the County where the Lands lye. The latter is seldom used.

And many Deeds containing Lands in several Counties, it would be inconvenient to enter them in all.

But should it afterwards be found necessary to extend this elsewhere, it will be better done from this as a Precedent, than to settle it altogether.

The Judges of the Kingdom were at first resident in the King's Courts only, and from thence were made Itinerant, as the Occasions of the Country called for them.

There can be no Streams without a Fountain, but when that is finished, the Water may be directed to any place.

Nothing can be perfected without a begining, and therefore to resolve to do nothing, till we can do every thing, is an absolute Resolution to do nothing, and puts us in the case of the impotent Man at the Pool of Bethesda, who (by Conclusion) was under an Impossibility of being healed, for he could not be healed till he stept in, and he could not step in because he was lame.