ADVERTISEMENT.

SOME Apology may be thought neceffary for the Publication of fo finalla number of Cafes as compose the present Volume. The fact is, chat some of them having been handed about in Manuscript, and having been made ufe of in Court, a ftrong opinion was expreffed by feveral Gentlemen of the Profeffion, that, however few in number, they were too valuable not to be made public.

They were certainly not intended by the learned Judge for publication, and fome of them are not perfect. There is no doubt but they would have been all equally valuable, if they had all received his laft Correction; and ftill more, if his modefty had permitted him to revise them with a view to publication. As it is, the Profeffion and the Public will make allowance for the difadvantages under which they are prefented to them?

1767. Attorney Ge

neral against Lady Down

ing and

others.

v. Ambler,

550, & 3 Vefey, jun.

SIR GEORGE DOWNING, of Gamlingay, in the County of
Cambridge, Baronet, being feifed of, or otherwise entitled in fee-
fimple to divers freehold, copyhold, and leafehold eftates, in the
counties of Cambridge, Bedford, and Suffolk, by his will, bearing
date the 20th of December 1717, gave and devised all his manors,
lands, tenements, and hereditaments, both freehold and copyhold, 714
as well as leasehold for years, fituate, lying, and being, in the feveral
counties of Cambridge, Bedford, and Suffolk, and elsewhere, with
their rights, members, and appurtenances, unto JAMES Earl of SA-
LISBURY, CHARLES Earl of CARLISLE, the honourable NICHOLAS
LECHMERE, Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lançafter, JOHN PEDLEY
and ROBERT PULLYN, efquires, To hold all fuch of the faid manors,
hereditaments, and premises, whereof he was feifed of any eftate of

Lady Down

ing and

others.

Attorney Ge- inheritance, or freehold, unto them and their heirs, upon the uses, neral against trufts, intents, and purposes in his faid will after declared, limited, and appointed, concerning the fame; and to hold all fuch of the faid manors, hereditaments, and premifes, whereof he had any estate for any term or terms of years, unto the faid truftees, their executors and adminiftrators, upon the uses, trufts, and purposes, therein likéwife after declared, limited, and appointed, concerning the fame: And he did by his faid will limit and appoint all fuch of his faid manors and hereditaments, whereof he was feised of any estate of inheritance or freehold, to the use of his coufin JACOB GArret DOWNING, fon and heir apparent of his uncle CHARLES DOWNING, for the term of his natural life, without impeachment of wafte; and immediately from and after the determination of that eftate, to the ufe of the faid trustees, and their heirs, to preferve contingent remainders; and from and after the decease of him the faid JACOB GARRET DOWNING, to the use of the first son of the body of the said JACOB GARRET DOWNING, in tail male; and for default of fuch iffue, to the use of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and every other fon and fons of the body of the faid JACOB GARRET DOWNING, severally and fucceffively in tail male; and for default of fuch iffue, to the use of the fecond, third, fourth, fifth, and every other fon and fons of the body of the faid CHARLES DOWNING, fucceffively in tail male; and for default of fuch iffue, to the ufe of THOMAS BARNARDISTON, of Bury St. Edmund's, in the county of Suffolk, efquire, fon and heir apparent of his aunt BARNARDISTON, wife of

THOMAS BARNARDISTON, during the term of his natural life, without impeachment of wafte; remainder to trustees, to preserve contingent remainders; remainder to the ufe of his firft and other fons

fucceffively