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than a presence, and yet more worthy than a name or re 

 ference. 



As if I covenant with my ward, that I will tender unto 

 him no other marriage than the gentlewoman whose pic 

 ture I delivered him, and that picture hath about it tetatis 

 su& anno 16, and the gentlewoman is seventeen years old ; 

 yet nevertheless, if it can be proved that the picture was 

 made for that gentlewoman, I may, notwithstanding this 

 mistaking, tender her well enough. 



So if I grant you for life a way over my land, according 

 to a plot intended between us, and after I grant unto you 

 and your heirs a way according to the first plot intended, 

 whereof a table is annexed to these presents, and there be 

 some special variance between the table and the original 

 plot, yet this representation shall be certainty sufficient to 

 lead unto the first plot ; and you shall have the way in fee 

 nevertheless, according to the first plot, and not according 

 to the table. 



So if I grant unto you by general words the land which 

 the king hath granted me by his letters patents, quarum 

 tenor sequitur in h&c verba, &c. and there be some mistak 

 ing in the recital and variance from the original patent, 

 although it be in a point material, yet the representation 

 of this whole patent shall be as the annexing of the true 

 patent, and the grant shall not be void by this variance. 



Now for the second part of this rule, touching the name 

 and the reference, for the explaining thereof, it must be 

 noted what things sound in demonstration or addition: 

 as first in lands, the greatest certainty is, where the land 

 hath a name proper, as, the manor of Dale, Grandfield, 

 &c. the next is equal to that, when the land is set forth by 

 bounds and abuttals, as a close of pasture bounding on 

 the east part upon Emsden Wood, on the south upon, &c. 

 It is also a sufficient name to lay the general boundary, 

 that is, some place of larger precinct, if there be no other 

 land to pass in the same precinct, as all my lands in Dale, 

 my tenement in St. Dunstan s parish, &c. 



A farther sort of denomination is to name land by the 

 attendancy they have to other lands more notorious, as 

 parcel of &quot;my manor of D. belonging to such a college 

 lying upon Thames Bank. 



All these things are notes found in denomination of 

 lands, because they be signs to call, and therefore of pro 

 perty to signify and name a place: but these notes that 

 sound only in demonstration and addition, are such as 



