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 And having thus argued for Publication of Titles, as a Notice against Frauds, I hope Envy cannot say, but I have fairly published my Thoughts about it: And were all Propositions for New Laws made as publick as this before they passed, perhaps it might save the labour of subsequent Acts to repeal or explain them.

As to what I have said in the Law, I appeal to them that know it, whether I have misrecited or misinterpreted it.

''And notwithstanding all that I have said of some of the Lawyers, I am so well satisfied in my Relation to that Science, that I would not exchange it, to be a higher Graduate in any other. And it is more owing to the Candor of the Cheifs of the Law (who sit in the Seats of Judgment) in discouraging all fraudulent Practices, and to the Care and Fidelity of the Practicers of the Law, than to the Law it self, that there are no more Frauds committed in the Titles of Lands, under the present Incertainty of them: For we see, if but One or Two in an Age of that Profession (and none of the most Learned neither) do apply themselves to drawing Deeds, and forgeing Evidence, what Work they make in ''Westminster Hall.

And as my Lord Coke, speaking of the then Court of Wards, said, That tho' the