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Parliament had rejected several Proposals for taking away those Tenures, yet he did not doubt but God had that Kindness for the People of England, that an Act would once pass for that purpose, by giving the Crown an Equivalent: All which was fulfilled since his Death: So I have that foresight of the growing Mischiefs for want of a Registry, that I am confident the Necessity of it will force its own way: And therefore were I now a dying, I would send this out into the World to take its Fate, with this Motto only.

——— Sine me, Liber, ibis in Orbem.


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