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 ient and avowed Laws and Customs of this Realm, are now of late Years become the most Usual aud Common Conveyances, for Conveying of Freehold Lands, whereby several Frauds and Abuses have been committed, and several Suits and Contentions have arisen thereupon, to the manifest hazarding the Titles of the Freehold Lands of this Kingdom, and the dishonour of the Laws thereof.

For remedying of the Mischeifs aforesaid, by providing one certain Place, where all the Conveyances and Incumbrances herein after-mentioned, relating to Freehold Lands, may be Entered, in Order to the more easie and ready searching and finding out the same.

Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Authority of the same