74 History of the English Landed Interest, 



to come in that could claim the lands conveyed, and this was 

 as irreversible as the modern fine with proclamations or 

 recovery. It might almost shame a reader of our Blue Book 

 on ' Sale and Transfer of Land,' to find a Registry of Title, 

 and what was then almost its equivalent, a ' Register of Assur- 

 ances,' existing in the ancient English County Courts while 

 the age of Christendom was yet written in three figures." ^ 



1 Cohden Club Prize Essay Series. 



