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.

Veneris 17 die Junij, Anno Regni Ja∣cobi II. Regis 3. 1687.

Surrender of a Six Clerk to the Master of the Rolls.

Ordo Curiae.

WHereas Arnold Brown, Esq late one of the Six Clerks of this Court, hath surrendred his Office of Six Clerk in this Court, into the hands of me, the Master of the Rolls, where∣by the said Office is become vacant; and forasmuch as the business in agita∣tion, and to be transacted in that Of∣fice for the benefit of the King's Peo∣ple, Suitors in this Court, is not to be delayed or obstructed for want of a fit person to manage the said Office in the vacancy of a Six Clerk; and whereas I have this present 17th day of June 1687. under my Hand and Seal, de∣puted and appointed the said Arnold Browne to Act, Agitate, Negotiate and Proceed in the business of that Office in my Name; and as my Deputy on∣ly, during my pleasure, and have fur∣ther authorized and impowred him the said Arnold Browne so to do and act, and to write to the Great Seal, in my Name only, and not in the Name of him the said Arnold Browne, and to enter and sign all Proceedings, Certifi∣cates,

Copies, and other things belong∣ing to the Execution of the said Office, in the Name of the said Arnold Browne, but with the additions of Deputy to me Master of the Rolls, to wit (Arnold Browne, Deputy Magr' Rotulor') as to take and receive the Profits thereof, as by the said Deputation, inrolled in this Court, may and doth appear, for the due Execution of which said De∣putation, the said Arnold Browne hath been duly sworn,* 1.1 his Honour doth hereby order, direct and appoint the se∣veral respective sworn Clerks of the said Office, within or belonging to the Division, late of the said Arnold Browne, late Six Clerk, to apply them∣s••lves to the said Arnold Browne, as my Deputy, as aforesaid, for the Dis∣patch of the Business of that Division, and to pay all such Duties and Fees to his said Deputy Arnold Browne as are due, appertaining, and accustomed to be paid to the Six Clerk of that Divi∣sion, and to do, and perform all other Acts, as the respective sworn Clerk in Chancery ought to do to their re∣spective Six Clerks; and to the end that no sworn Clerk, or other persons concerned may be ignorant of this Matter, his Honour doth order, that this Order be entred with the Re∣gister

of this Court, and put up in the Office of Six Clerks.

J. Trevor.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Arnold Browne on the surren∣dring his Of¦fice as Six Clerk, deput••d to act during the va∣can••y.