Ordines cancellariæ, being orders of the High Court of Chancery, from the first year of King Charles I, to this present Hillary term, 1697 ... to which is added the Rules and orders of the Court of Exchequer.

Lord Keeper Mr. William Lenthall.

Monday the 16th of May, 1659.

Touching filing of Bills.

Order of the Court.

VVHereas by reason of the late differences between the Six Clerks, and their Under-Clerks,* 1.1 many disorders and disturbances have risen in the Court of Chancery, by not filing of Bills and other Pleadings with the Six Clerks, according to the ancient Course and Order of this Court, by which means the Clients have been obstructed in their several Suits, and the Court abu∣sed, having granted Injunctions with∣out Bills duly filed; for the taking away of which disturbances, and for prevention of other inconveniences for the future, it is ordered by the Right Honourable, William Lenthall, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and Master of the Rolls, That all Bills brought unto the Clerk in the Six Clerks Office since the 4th of February,* 1.2 1657. which are not entred and filed with the Six Clerks be forthwith brought unto the Six Clerks to be en∣tred and filed according to their several dates. And that all Answers, Plead∣ings and Records whatsoever shall forth∣with be likewise entred and filed with

the Six Clerk, and that no Copies or Certificates shall be delivered out of the Office, or used, without the Hand of one of the Six Clerks thereunto set, or in their absence the Hand of one of their respective Deputies. And it is likewise ordered by his Lordship, that all Plead∣ings and other Records whatsoever which the Clerks have in their Houses or Chambers, be forthwith brought into the Six Clerks Office, there to remain in their custody, according to the anci∣ent and usual course of the Court. And that no Records for the future shall by any Clerk or his Servant be carried out of the Office to be copied, or otherwise used,* 1.3 unless to a Master of the Court, or by Order of the Court. And where∣as his Lordship hath been informed, that one Robert Todd, an Under-Clerk in the Six Clerks Office,* 1.4 doth keep Books for entring Bills, Attachments, Rules and Costs to the great distur∣bance of the Proceedings in the Office. It is ordered by his Lordship, that the said Todd shall forthwith bring in all the said Books that are in his custody, or have been in his custody since the 4th of February. 1657, unto his Lord∣ship, to be disposed of according to the ancient course and custom of the Court.

Will. Lenthall, C. S.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Post 86.
• * 1.2

  Bills to be brought in, en∣tred and filed with the Six Clerks accord∣ing to their se∣veral dates. Answers Plead∣ings and Re∣cords to be en∣tred and filed.
• * 1.3

  No Records to be carried out of the Office to be copied.
• * 1.4

  Antea. 80.