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1. THat which makes this Assistant the more eminent and remark∣able is, That as there is but one Lord Chancellor or Keeper, one Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, one Master of the Rolls, one Chief Justice of the Com∣mon Pleas, and one chief Baron of the Exchequer; so there is but one Attorney General: and though those five have Judges and Masters of Chancery to assist them; this hath no proper Officer un∣der him, yet hath power to depute Clerks and other Officers to assist him, and is Singulus in omnibus & omnis in singulis.
2. Neither these nor any of the Assi∣stants to the Lords House before named, have the priviledge of making Proxies either before or in time of Parliament; yet I remember something Equivalent in in the case of Valentine Elliot, &c. when upon a Writ of Error brought into the Lords House, for reversing of a Judgment given in the Kings Bench against the said Elliot, Sir Jeffrey Palmer being then At∣torney General, and indispos'd in his health, and thereby finding himself unfit to manage that Case, Mr. North, then a young Professor of the Law, was permit∣ted