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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25990	An essay on a registry, for titles of lands by John Asgill ...	Asgill, John, 1659-1738.	1698 (1698)	Wing A3928; ESTC R40287	16,041	48

a Title is to take the Property of a thing from one Man and put it into another of which it is necessary that other persons should have Notice as well as the Parties or else the Purchaser can have no Title because there is no Witness to give Evidence of it in case the Seller should deny it And as some Notice is absolutely necessary to all Title so the more Notice the better is the Title it were better for every Man who is Owner of an Estate that all Men knew his Title and the● whenever he had Occasion to dispose of his Estate there would be no further Enquiry into the Title of his Lands than to the Title of Money in his Possession And as Notice is thus necessary and advantageous to Title so in the History of Conveyancing the most perfect Titles are most Notorious or rather the most Notorious are most perfect And because Antiquity of Precedents is the greatest Argument in the Law I 'll quote one out of that Authority which treats of things done before the Foundations of the World and fortells us of several things that will come to pass after the Dissolution of it The History of the World is but a Modern Treatise of things of a late Date which were done in pursuance of Counsels and Decrees made before Matters of Fact set forth without the Original Design and Institution of them seem irrational and to have no Meaning in them Would any thing seem more ridiculous than that the taking off a Seal and delivery of a piece of Parchment by one Man should give another a Title to an Estate if the Law were not known which gives the Sanction to this Ceremony The Precedent I am going to quote is That great Settlement of Eternal Life made by God upon Jesus Christ for the Considerations therein mentioned The Epitome or Contents whereof and the Manner of the Execution I find in that History which we call the Gospel but because the Contents thereof is not a Subject within this Essay I will not dare to touch upon it here But the manner of the Execution being directly within my Argument or rather my Argument within that I dare relate it as I find it This Settlement was first Enrolled in Heaven in the Volume of the Book it is written of me afterwards was Sealed and Executed in the Blood of Christ the Seal of the Covenant in the presence of all the World the Sound thereof is gone through the whole Earth and since that hath or shall be Written and Preached Printed and Published in all Nations Kingdoms Tongues and Countries This Gospel must first be preached in all the World as a Witness to all Nations and then shall the End be By all which God himself is bound up from disposing Eternal Life in any other manner than pursuant to this Settlement without giving himself the Lye which he cannot do and Man hath such Notice of this Title that he can't accept any other without becoming an Imposter upon himself And this is the highest Precedent for Man to form his Titles by as far as it is imitable by him The things on Earth are but the Patterns of things in the Heavens where the Originals are kept to try the Truth of all things by God delivered out the first Forms of all things in the World of Ships of Regular Buildings of Letters written with his own Hand of Marches and Encampments taught the first Workers in Brass and Bugle-work Linnen and Silks Plowing and Harrowing Sowing and Reaping Threshing and Winnowing all which he owns to come originally from himself A Jove principium And now to begin with the Business of Man The first Purchase I find since the Beginning of the World was made by Abraham of Ephron the Hittite in these Words And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah which was before Mamre the field and the cave which was therein and all the Trees that were in the field that were in all the Borders round about were made sure to Abraham for a Possession in the presence of the Children of Heth before all that went in at the Gate of the City Another was made by Boaz of Naomi in these words And Boaz said unto the Elders and unto all the People ye are Witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelechs and all that was Chilions and Mahlons of the hand of Naomi Moreover Ruth the Moabitess the Wife of Mahlon have I purchased to be my Wife ye are witnesses this day And all the People that were in the Gate and the Elders said we are witnesses O Tempora O Mores Purchases and Marriages made without Lawyers or Priests However I have mentioned these Conveyances more particularly because I fancy our Modern Conveyancers with all their Trumpery of Stationers Ware can't make better either for Form or Substance and these were made by Paroll being before the Delivery of the Form of Letters to Man The first that I have observed in Writing was the Purchase of Redemption made by Jeremy of Hananael in these words And I subscribed the Evidence and sealed it and weighed him the Money in the Ballances so I took the Evidence of the Purchase both that which was sealed according to the Law and Custom and that which was open and gave them to Baruch in the sight of Hananael and in the presence of the Witnesses who subscribed the Book of the Purchase before all the Jews that sate in the Court of the Prison and charged Baruch saying take the Evidence as well that which is sealed as that which is open and put them in an Earthen Vessel that they may continue many dayes By this it doth appear that Registring of Deeds is as antient as the Deeds themselves Here is the Original Sealed and then Registred in a Book to which the Witnesses subscribe their Names Now Baruch had the Custody of the Registry in the Nature of a Publick Notary for that purpose being elsewhere called Baruch the Scribe But that the Original was delivered him was an extraordinary thing for that belongs to the Purchaser But it being just before the carrying away Captive into Babylon of which Jeremiah had Notice he delivered them both to Baruch to hide them till the return of the Captivity That which I Cite these Precedents for is the Notoriety of them by calling all the People together to bear Witness and an Inrollment beside to that which was in Writing And methinks all the Old Forms in the beginning of Deeds shew the Intention of making them as publick as they could be Know all Men by these Presents and To all People to whom these Presents shall come c. And as the Law intends Notice of all things done by Deed so it hath provided Publications for things done without Deed as Fairs and Markets for Selling of Cattel that the Purchasers may not be cheated Publications in the Churches before Matrimony and Registring after it to prevent Bigamy So the