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 Ch. 14. we conclude this branch of our enquiries, it may not be amis to exemplify thee rules by a hort ketch of the manner in which we mut earch for the heir of a peron, as John Stiles, who dies eied of land which he acquired, and which therefore he held as a feud of indefinite antiquity.

the firt place ucceeds the eldet on, Matthew Stiles, or his iue: (№ 1.) — if his line be extinct, then Gilbert Stiles and the other ons, repectively, in order of birth, or their iue: (№ 2.) — in default of thee, all the daughters together, Margaret and Charlotte Stiles, or their iue. (№ 3.) — On failure of the decendants of John Stiles himelf, the iue of Geoffrey and Lucy Stiles, his parents, is called in: viz. firt, Francis Stiles, the eldet brother of the whole blood, or his iue: (№ 4.) — then Oliver Stiles, and the other whole brothers, repectively, in order of birth, or their iue: (№ 5.) — then the iters of the whole blood, all together, Bridget and Alice Stiles, or their iue. (№ 6.) — In defect of thee, the iue of George and Cecilia Stiles, his father's parents; repect being till had to their age and ex: (№ 7.) — then the iue of Walter and Chritian Stiles, the parents of his paternal grandfather: (№ 8.) — then the iue of Richard and Anne Stiles, the parents of his paternal grandfather's father: (№ 9.) — and o on in the paternal grandfather's paternal line, or blood of Walter Stiles, in infnitum. In defect of thee, the iue of William and Jane Smith, the parents of his paternal grandfather's mother: (№ 10.) — and o on in the paternal grandfather's maternal line, or blood of Chritian Smith, in infinitum; till both the immediate bloods of George Stiles, the paternal grandfather, are pent. — Then we mut reort to the iue of Luke and Frances Kempe, the parents of John Stiles's paternal grandmother: (№ 11.) — then to the iue of Thomas and Sarah Kempe, the parents of his paternal grandmother's father: (№ 12.) — and o on in the paternal grandmother's paternal line, or blood of Luke Kempe, in infinitum. — Rh