A true estimate of the value of leasehold estates, and of annuities and reversions for lives and years. In answer to a pamphlet, intitled, Sir Isaac Newton's Tables for renewing and purchasing leases. &c. and to a letter added to it intitled, The value of church and college leases considered, &c.
- Date:
- 1731
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A true estimate of the value of leasehold estates, and of annuities and reversions for lives and years. In answer to a pamphlet, intitled, Sir Isaac Newton's Tables for renewing and purchasing leases. &c. and to a letter added to it intitled, The value of church and college leases considered, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[4] which is, that Churchmen and Fellows of Colleges, before the Revolution, had much better Pretence to raife their Tenants Fines, than thofe of the prelent Times have, there being then no Tax on Land, which (as will appear hereafter) lelfens the Value of thefe Eftates more than is equivalent to the Dif¬ ference cf Intereft, which at that time was but One per Cent, more than it is now. The lirft Part of this Pamphlet, called the Tables, &c. confifts of a Medley of Preface, Tables, Advertilements,Contents,Conftruclions of Tables, &c. wherein the Author is very kind and condefcending to his courteous Reader, by inftru&ing him, not only in the firft Rudiments of Arithmetick, and the Ufe of his Tables, but in all other Knowledge that may give him fuch a Notion of the Value of thefe Leafehold Eftates, as was moft agree¬ able to his Purpofe. I fhall not enter into an Examination of all the Particulars, or controvert the Juftice of the Calculations in moft of thofe Tables, as not being at all ne- ceflary to my Purpofe, but fhall allow them to be fufficiently exaft, and that they are grounded on Calculations approved by Sir Ifaac Newton, and, if this Author pleales, even that thefe Tables were calculated by him ; but I fhall evidently fhew, that as they are here made ufe of, they are not at all applicable to the purchafing and renewing thefe kind of Leafes, and fhall endeavour to fettle a more pra&ical Eftimate of the Value](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30359120_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
