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 minster, an Office of Registry for the purposes herein after mentioned: And shall provide and keep in the said Office several Register-Books, for Registring of Deeds and Writings, in manner herein after-mentioned; and also one or more Stamps, for stamping of the same Deeds and Writings, in manner also herein after-mentioned, the Counterfeiting of which said stamps shall be and is hereby made

And be it Enacted, that all Conveyances, Grants or Assignments of any Mannors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments of Inheritance of Freehold, within the Kingdom of England, or of any Rents issuing out of the same, or of any Leases, or Terms for Lives or Years to be made thereof, which at any time after the day of  shall be duly sealed and executed for good and lawful Consideration, and shall after such sealing and executing thereof, be registred in one of the said Register-Books, shall in respect thereof have and be esteemed and taken to