Note 157 — APPENDIX.[143]
Reading edition
The following memorandum, in Steele's writing, is among the Blenheim MSS.: "Whereas Sr R: S: has made a Sale of His income and interest in a Patent of the" ... (some words illegible) "an absolute sale in Words yet it was never intended nor should be ever insisted upon as a sale in fact, but that when the money lent by Mr Minshull should be repaid to Him, the Instruments of Sale and all other deeds or securities should be rescinded and made void and ineffectual in what proper manner Sr Richard Steele should require either before or after the time limited in the said instruments."