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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54691	The pretended perspective-glass, or, Some reasons of many more which might be offered against the pretended registring reformation	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1669 (1669)	Wing P2013; ESTC R9264	8,649	18

will not only undermine and overthrow a great part of our Laws and the excellent form and beauty of the fabrick and structure thereof in which the Liberties and safety of the peoples Estates do reside and lead into Captivity their Laws and Liberties but hinder and take away from the King his post Fines and profit of Alienations Green Wax Fines upon Original Writs and Seals in his Courts of Justice and Chancery amounting to about Forty or Fifty Thousand pounds per Annum Lay open and expose every mans Estate to Taxes and Assessements when as the Registring of all Mortgages and Alienations of Lands can make no perfect discovery of Incumbrances without the Registring of Judgements Statutes and Recognisances as well for the time past as to come Destroy or weaken the Trade of the City of London and divert the profit of above 15. or 16. adjacent Counties who have exceedingly improved their Rents and Estates by it That the Registrate moveable Bonds in Scotland had their original from the Caursini the Popes Brokers in England and from the miscalled Camera Apostolica in the Reign of our King Henry the third banished from hence by the cryes of the oppressed people and that to take as they do Registrate Bonds for Debts and keep them dormant for 6. or 12. months or a greater time after and afterwards Register them may so conceal Debts and Engagements and weaknesses of Estate as may rather increase the hazzard and damage of the lenders of money than prevent it That the Office of General Remembrancer of all Incumbrances hath several Parliaments in the Reign of King James troubled and attended them for a confirmation and could never obteyn it was refused and certified by Sr. Edward Coke and the Judges to whom it was referred to be against the Weal-publique missed of its purpose in the Parliaments of King Charles the Martyr was entertained by Oliver and his ignorant and mechanick party as a ready means to Level and overturn our Laws and make his Saints some seats or business of Judicature in the several Counties but went do further than its Embrio because his so called Parliament could not agree in 6 Moneths time what should be called Incumbrances and hath been rejected in a late Session of this Parliament And besides its ushering in of these and many other mischiefs and inconveniencies will be needless when every man which doth but know any thing in our Laws or hath ever bought or sold Land or sought to recover any which hath been aliened from him or had Intailes which his carefull Ancestors thought to have been an unalienable provision for him and his posterity docqued and cut off cannot but confesse that our Laws have from time to time been exceeding carefull and made it to have been a great part of their business to secure and protect Purchasors Bona Fide who are already as well if not more provided for in their Conveyances and Assurances as any Nation under Heaven and as far also as the care or wit of man could hitherto conceive it to be necessary by Feoffments with livery and seisin Fines and Recoveries Leases and Releases Demise and Redemise Warranties Bars and Non-claims Prescriptions Estoppels Entries tolled Judgements Statutes and Recognisances with Collateral security to perform Covenants discovery of Incumbrances upon Oath the Statute of the 27th of King Henry the 8. for transferring of uses into possession the Act of Parliament for Inrolling of Deeds of Bargain and Sale an Act to preserve the Estate of Tenants for years in a Recovery suffered by one in Reversion An Act of Parliament in the 2. and 3. year of King Edward the 6. for saving and allowing of Leases and other kind of Estates not found in any Inquisition or Office to intitle the King three or four Statutes or Acts of Parliament against Fraudulent Assurances or such as go about to deceive men of their Debts and another in the 27th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ordaining a forfeiture of a years value of the Land by such as are parties or privies in or unto such deceipts the Statute made in the 23th year of her Reign for inrolling of Fines and Recoveries to avoid Errors in them three or four Statutes or Acts of Parliament concerning Bankrupts The Statute against forging of Deeds the Statute made in the one and twentieth year of the Reign of King James for Limitations of Writs of Formedon unto twenty years after the Title accrewed and another to quiet the Titles of all men against the King certain Cases only excepted which had been in sixty years quiet possession another that the Lands and Estates of men dying in Execution should be chargable with their Debts and another to make it Felony against such as should leavy Fines suffer Recoveries or acknowledge Judgements Statutes or Recognisances in other mens names with the Rule of expounding Grants strictly against the Grantors Debts to be payd before Legacies and Trusts to be voyd as against Creditors and many other ayds and assistances not here enumerated which the Laws have been at all times ready to contribute to such as shall timely or seasonably require or make use of them And the pretences of making Lands to sell at greater Rates for that as is alleaged the Titles are so fraudulent and Lands so doubly and trebly Mortgaged as men are supposed to be afraid to purchase or lend any money upon them and that Trade is greatly hindered by it when all the Securities which men can take for their debts are so deficient and that thereby many suites and contentions have arisen which otherwise would not have been may vanish and no more disturbe their Fancies When the Fines and Recoveries of 20. 30. or 40. years last past will Demonstrate plenty of purchases and a great deal of Land sold or aliened in every of those Counties And the Records and Decrees of Chancery being the Pool of Bethesda whither all men deceived by Mortgages or fraudulent Conveyances do come for relief can if compared with the number of Fines and Recoveries and Bargains and Sales that do pass in every year testifie that there is not much above one in every thousand that falleth into such a misfortune that in these late times the rich and gaining party by the sufferings and miseries of the loyal party have not been afraid to have Joyntures setled upon their daughters given in marriage with great Portions to take Rent charges and annuities for moneys lent by Chevisance and for more then the legal interest or have bought indebted Gentlemens estates and gained well by monies left in their hands to clear incumbrances and many times according to the latitude of their consciences compounded them to their own no small advantage and there is commonly as much difference between Trade and lending of mony as betwixt a Trades man borrowing of mony and one that is no trades man lending it When so many Commissions of Bankrupt issuing out every year and the

The PRETENDED PERSPECTIVE-GLASS Or some REASONS OF Many more which might be Offered Against the pretended REGISTRING REFORMATION LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXIX Some Reasons of many more which might be offered against the pretended Registring Reformation IT cannot be denyed by any who have conversed with the right Reason of Laws and Rules of Government That Innovations are more than a little dangerous because there cannot possibly or probably be at once a certain and clear prospect made of all the evils contingencies and unevitable consequences which either will or may happen by it And therefore have adjudged it to be more conducing to the Weal-publick rather to suffer some few or seldom mischiefs not fatal than many Inconveniences Which will not be escaped in such a Renverse or Plowing up of all or the greatest part of the Estates and Credit of the Kingdom and the product of so many sad effects as will attend it And may not be thought to be either a Probleme or Paradox in a Nation harrowed and torn by War and Confusions If it shall be considered That at the end thereof all the Coyn which wore the Harp and Cross being a moiety if not more than the legitimate money of King Philip Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles the Martyr amounted unto did not with much of it which was counterfeited when it was called into the Mint by his now Majesty exceed Two Millions Sterling and an half and that too much of that money and other afterwards Coyned hath been transported melted down into Plate or fooled away by the Consumption of our Gold and Silver to adorn those that should not wear it and that the people of England for above 18. years Civil Wars Plunderings Sequestrations and Free-quarter of Armies and Souldiers and above 20. years very great and various Taxes are so universally indebted as it may rationally be believed that the most part of them live more upon Credit than any certain or real Estate or Subsistence of their own that much of the Lands of England if it should be sold will scarcely pay the Debts which might be charged upon the Owners thereof and that a great part of the City of London now so stately Re-built hath been brought to that perfection by Credit and Money borrowed which would not otherwise have been effected That our Nobility and Gentry the most of which made their Loyalty to their King and their love to the Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom to be their ruine and impoverishment will now by such a Registration be turned out of that Credit which was left to support their feeble and languishing Estates That our Merchants whose Trades have brought Riches and Plenty into their Habitations and to be Inmates and dwell with them are for the most part three parts in four in Credit and an opinion of a greater Estate than they can justly call their own And the Retailers and now more than formerly lofty Shop-keepers who have owed their low beginings to a small Stock and a great deal of Credit and gain so well by it as to afford to give 15 per Cent. to any that will adventure a joynt Trade with them will when they shall be exposed to the jealous eyes of the nice over-timerous and suspicious Usurers or Money-lenders be turned out of all their expectations and made to submit to the devouring and unmercifull Fangs of a Statute of Bankrupt or give over their Trade and be better acquainted with humility The Country Farmers when Corn or Cattel shall in their rates or prices fall short of their hopes to pay their Land-lords Rents shall not now be able to borrow money to pay them if their small Stock or Estates shall not be sufficient to endure the severity of a Tell-tale Registration All Trust and Credit and the Faith Charity and Love of Mankind one to another whereby so many Families have had their rise and foundation and more have gained good imployments will be so enervated and weakned as men shall be affraid of that which they needed not to have troubled themselves withall and make them to be like crafty Banyans and hard hearted Jews each to other The Merchants whose care of keeping their Credits returning Moneys and answeriug Bills of Exchange makes them dread a protest of Non-payment like some Plague or mortal sickness and whose punctual performances makes every day but Sundayes in every year many a score if not hundreds of Bargains for great sums of money and concernments without any Writing Escript or Scrole as the vulgar call it will now have such an Anatomy-Lecture read upon their growing more than certain Estates as all men will not easily or without much search have any thing to do with them All Foreign Merchants will be by such a Registration affrighted and deterred from trafficking with our Merchants without ready money the want whereof hath already by the cunning of the Banks beyond the Sea who are made to rise and fall according to the scarcity or plenty of money put them under great disadvantages in the buying or selling of their Commodities The Dutch and other Nations whose low Interest heretofore brought into England some Millions of Sterling money to put to a more gainfull Usury will by such a Registration not adventure to bring over any more Foreign Princes which are or may be in Hostility with us may by such a means or direction discover the weaknesse of the Nation in their want of money either to offend others or defend themselves Such a Contrivance will lay open and discover the beggery and wents of the People be inconsistent with the humanity and mercy of the God of mercy and Justice who commanded us not to afflict bite or devour one another nor to go into any mans house to fetch a Pledge whereby to disgrace him and will as little agree with our Magna Charta and the Salvo Contenemento of the Gentleman Waynagio of the Country-man or Mercandisa of the Merchant or the mercy and pity of our Laws in extending but a moiety of Lands upon a Judgement and sparing as long as possible the Oxen and Horses of the plow That the Romans when their people mutined and refused to go to War in regard of the oppression of Usury did not offer them such an ill compounded remedy as the intended Registration to publish and lay open their poverty and thereby adde to their misery but did order that no Creditor should take any Interest for certain years then to come Nor did the Scotch after their wars mingled with their own and our factions had greatly impoverished them deeme it to be any good for their people to have the fury of their Registrate Bonds and Horning and Caption let loose upon them but locked up those severities and disgraces by ordaining that no Annual Rent or Interest as they there call it should for certain Years after be demanded or taken That such a device as the Registration