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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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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    [ 5* ] Fines on Church Leafes, and ftafes the Cafe of his imaginary Correfpondcnt, as Tenant of a College, rather than a Church Leafe. He denies indeed that he knows of any Church intending to raife their Fines; but, as he argues all along on a Suppofition of railing them to a Year and a half, or two Year's Value, and ftrenuoufly juftifies fueh an Ad¬ vance, however his Sincerity may Hand un¬ affected, he will, at leaft, be thought to have been very prophetick in this Affair, the Event happening foon after his Letter, and in purfii- ance of a Defign carried on fome time before it. This imaginary College Tenant, after having been reprefented by our Author as very ignorant, is fuppos'd to complain, that the College had inquired into the Value of their Eftate, and had made him pay for a Renewal of 7 Years more than their Prede- ceffors had done, viz. fomething above one Year's Value, deducting the referv'd Rent: To which our Author anfwers, That it was probably but one Year's Rent according to their Information. This will be thought a very fufficient Anfwer, no Doubt, to fueh an unreafonable Complaint. But left his Correfpondent (Silly as he makes him) ftiould be too Wife to take this for an Anfwer, he undertakes to prove, paft all Denial, that they took but half what that Term was worth, and but half as much as Laymen ufually take of one another. Let us there¬ fore examine how he proves thefe two Points. Ha As
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