Registration of Deeds Act 1707

If register out of the kingdom, above three months in one year, except for recovery of health, the office void.

A publick act by the 8 Anne 10.

XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons, that shall be registers, and also all persons, in trust for whom such office shall be granted, shall be resident in this kingdom at least nine months in every year: and if such registers or persons, in trust for whom such office shall be granted, shall absent him or themselves out of this kingdom for more than three months in any one year, except in case of sickness requiring his going or staying beyond the sea for the recovery of his health, the said office to be void; any precedent grant thereof to the contrary notwithstanding.