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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    [ <» ] ing on the imaginary Misfortunes of the Clergy, and the Difficulties and Difcourage- ments he thinks they lie under, and endea¬ voured to foften and reconcile the Minds of People to his Scheme, by railing in them a compaffionate Regard for the Clergy, from very wrong Motives, and fuch, as in great mealure, reflect on the Laity ; I fhall there¬ fore, in their behalf, fay fomething in An- fwer to what, I think, he has unjuftly ai- ledged on this Plead, and then leave the Author to triumph in the full Enjoyment ol his imaginary Victory. From Page 20 to 24, he is full of thefe fort of Complaints, and leems, in my Opi¬ nion, to look with a little too much Envy on the Riches and Profpcrity of the Laity, and their enjoying a greater Share of Wealth than the Clergy - at the fame Time he ad¬ mits, that u to be Great and Rich in this u World, and to build up Families, neither a is, nor ought to be, their Aim. And yet, in the next Paragraph, he again corn- plains, (tho’ without the leaft Ground) that u Clergymen lie under feveral Difficulties and ^ Difcouragements in improving their In- *c come, which other Men do not. To make good this Charge, he tells us, *hat a Clergymen are rated to the publick V Taxes for their Revenues, when other Men are not taxed for the Gains of their ^ Profeffions^