Tables for renewing and purchasing of the leases of cathedral-churches and colleges : according to several rates of interest; with their construction and use explain'd. Also tables for renewing and purchasing of lives. With tables for purchasing the leases of land or houses.

  • Mabbut, George
Date:
1735
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tables for renewing and purchasing of the leases of cathedral-churches and colleges : according to several rates of interest; with their construction and use explain'd. Also tables for renewing and purchasing of lives. With tables for purchasing the leases of land or houses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would treat their Tenants as if Money was at 9 L per Cent, and as if the Total Value were but 9 Years Purchafe. But if the Churchmen fhould demand and take after the Rate of 6 L per Cent. | (which they are not likely to do,) they would af¬ ford Men of other ProfelTions as little reafon to envy them for the Increafe of their Revenues*, as they would afford Occafion to their Tenants to blame them for their hard Ufage. For the ut- moft that Clergymen in the beft Circumftances ; can generally exped to do, is to live decently in a private way, and to educate their Children in j fuch a manner, as by their own Induftry, and a i fmall Portion, they may be able to live above ] Contempt when their Parents are dead. Clergy- 1 men muff not exped to get great Eftates, and J lay Foundations for building up Families by the Gains of their Profeffion ; whereas every Age affords us many Inftances of Families raifed by other Profeffions. How many great Families have been raifed, | and Eftates gained within thirty Years laft paft, I by Lawyers, Phyficians, Merchants, and other Citizens, befides thofe that have had Places under the Civil Government, whofe Sons fparkle in their Coaches and Six, and live in great Affluence, meerly out of the Eftates which their Fathers had gained by their Ingenuity and Induftry ? Neither are their Children envied, or the Parents blamed for it, but rather commended, if they have left no Blot upon their Condud. Whereas, tho’ the Clergy of England are re¬ puted to be about Ten thoufand in Number, yet, how few Inftances (if any at all) can there be pro¬ duced in half a Century, of any thing like a great ! Eftate which a Clergyman has left to his Family I 2 by