The master of the Rolls has the appointment of six clerks to the Court of Chancery, each of whom has fifteen assistants under him, called clerks of court. The office of the Six Clerks is a spacious stone building at the head of Chancery-lane, on the west side. Formerly they occupied an inn called Herflet Inn, belonging to the priors of Nocton's Park, opposite the Rolls Chapel. The revenue of these clerks, is derived almost entirely from fees for copies of proceedings in the Court of Chancery; nor has it been sufficiently attended to, when complaints have been made of the extravagance of these fees, that they were established rather as a mode of payment for most of the business transacted in the office, than as a recompence for the copies themselves. The six head clerks receive three-eighths of the proceeds, and the remaining five-eighths are divided among the under clerks. For the five years preceding 1811, the average amount of the three-eighths was 3,2881. which, divided among the six clerks, yielded an income to each of little more than 500l. PERCY HISTORIES, OR Interesting Memorials OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, & PRESENT STATE of all THE CAPITALS OF EUROPE. SHOLTO AND REUBEN PERCY, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, B LONDON; Printed for T.BOYS, Ludgate Hill, 1823. |