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Hereas by the Common-Law of this Realm, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments were not to be transferred from one to another, but by Solemn Livery and Seisin, or Matter of Record.

And whereas by the Statute made in the 27th. Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, Entituled, An Act concerning Uses and Wills, a Bar-