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 gain and Sale did become a Compleat Conveyance in the Law, whereby Lands and Tenements might be transferred from one to another in a clandestine manner, without Livery and Seisin, or Matter of Record. For prevention whereof, by another Statute made in the same 27th. Year of the late King Henry the Eighth, For Inrollment of Bargains and Sales: It was Enacted that from and after the last Day of July, which should be and since was in the Year of our Lord 1536. No Mannors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments should pass, alter or change from one to another, whereby any Estate of Inheritance of Freehold, should be made or take Effect in any Person or Persons, or any Use thereof to be made, by reason only of any Bargain and Sale thereof, except the same Bargain and Sale were made by Writing, Indented, Sealed and Inrolled in one of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster, or else within the same County or Counties where the same Mannors, Lands or Tenements so bargained or sold, lye or