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
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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§ ] only purfued the lame Method of Computa¬ tion and Reafoning, but carried it much fur¬ ther, and prov'd his Points (as he thinks) be¬ yond all Poffibility of Doubt; I can't quit this Subject without examining what he has advanced in his Part of the Performance, by which it will further appear with what Ju- ftice this favourite Scheme of railing Fines can be fupported or carried on. This Au¬ thor, in his Advertifement to the Reader, is very defirous he fhould take Notice his Let¬ ter was wrote before the South-Sea Scheme in the Year 1720. was known, and that therefore his Propofal of advancing Fines was not influenced by the extravagant Price given for Land at that Time. For my Part, I can't fee, admitting this to be true, what Ufe the Author wrould make of it, or which way it will turn to his Account. I fhould have thought he did not, in his own Opi¬ nion, Hand in need of any Apology for his Scheme, or if he did, that he could never imagine this would anfwer his Purpofe, for if his Propofal of railing Fines could be jufti— fied or fupported before the South-Sea Time, lure it muft be equally juftifiable then, for the Extravagance of that Time could not be thought, by any body, to lelfen the Value of thefe Leafes, and if his Scheme woifd have been unjurtiliable in the Year 1720, it will be but an indifferent Apology for this Au¬ thor to fay, he propofed it in the Year 1718, and was not influenced by the Extravagance of
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