Messrs. Tarrant and Mackrell’s accounts follow. I had an offer from Sheffield to do this legal work for nothing; but I wanted to be sure that everything was in due form, and I can trust this London firm. My very good friend Mr. Tarrant must, however, pardon my pointing out to him how much more pleasantly, for all parties, he might be employed, as suggested in Fors XVI., pages 10 and 11, than in taxing this transfer of property to the amount of nearly fifty pounds—(seven pounds odd worth of letters merely). For, were the members of the legal profession employed generally in illuminating initials, and so got out of our way, and the lands of the country properly surveyed and fenced, all that would be really needful for the sale of any portion of them by anybody to anybody else, would be the entry in a roll recording the tenure of so many square miles round each principal town. “The piece of land hitherto belonging to A B, is this day sold to and henceforward belongs to C D, whereof we (city magistrate and a head of any county family) are witnesses.” THE ST. GEORGE’S COMPANY, To TARRANT & MACKRELL, Costs of Purchase of Freehold Land and Messuage in Bell Hagg Road, Sheffield. 1875. Sept. 20. £ s. d. On receipt of letters from Messrs. Webster, and from Mr. Ruskin, as to purchase of land and a house at Sheffield, writing Messrs. Webster, the vendor’s solicitors, to send us contract 0 5 0 Writing Mr. Ruskin as to amount of purchase money, he having stated it to be £600, and Messrs. Webster £630 0 3 6 Oct. 4. On receipt of draft contract for approval from Messrs. Webster, with abstract of title for inspection, looking through abstract, when we found it would be necessary to have a copy of plan on deed of 1st May, 1857, and an abstract of the Rivelin View Society’s Deed of Covenants, before investigating the title, or approving contract 0 13 4 Writing Messrs. Webster accordingly 0 5 0 Copy contract to keep, fo. 15 0 5 0 Oct. 11. Perusing abstract of title, nine sheets 1 0 0 Perusing the Rivelin View Company’s Deed of Covenants, four sheets 0 10 0 Perusing and approving draft contract 0 6 8 Writing vendor’s solicitors with contract approved and thereon, and for plan which they had omitted to send 0 5 0 Oct. 13. Writing Messrs. Webster, acknowledging letter approving of our alterations in contract, and asking for plan which they had omitted to send,