only the rents and profits of (his) said real estate, but also all (his) goods, chattels and personal estate, and detain and keep the same under sequestration in your hands until the said C. D. shall (fully answer the complainant's bill) clear his contempt, and our said Court make other order to the contrary. Witness, &c. B.) LANGDALE. 23. Præcipe for Sequestration. Seal a Commission of Sequestration against C. D. v. for (not answering) ats. A. B., directed to G. H, D.J I. K. &c., Commissioners. Order, dated day L. M., No., Chancery Lane, 24. Distringas against a Corporation. VICTORIA, &c. (as in Form 1.) To the Sheriff of greeting: We command you within your bailiwick, to make a distress upon all the lands and tenements, goods and chattels of nor any other person so as neither they the said or persons for them, may lay his or their hands thereon, until our Court of Chancery shall make other order to the contrary; and, in the mean time, you are to answer to us for the said goods and chattels, rents and profits of the said lands, so that the said may be compelled to appear before us in our said Court of Chancery, on wheresover it shall then be; there to answer to us, as well touching a contempt which they, as it is alleged, have committed against us; as also such other matters as shall be then and there laid to their charge; and, further, to perform and abide such order as our said Court shall make in this behalf. And hereof fail not, and bring this writ with you. Witness, &c. LANGDALE. 25. Præcipe for Distringas. Seal a distringas directed to the Sheriff of v. against B. for not appearing [or "not anD.J swering"] at the suit of A.B. and others, plaintiffs. Returnable on the Dated this day of day of 184 E. F., No. , Chancery Lane, 26. Habeas Corpus. VICTORIA, &c. (as in Form 1.) To greeting: We command you, that you do on day of bring before us in our Court of Chancery, wheresoever it shall then be, the body of A. B., by whatsoever name, or addition of name, he is known or called, who is detained in your custody, together with an account of the cause or causes of his being taken into and detained in custody; to perform and abide such order as our said Court shall make in this behalf. And hereof fail not, and bring this writ with you. Witness, &c. LANGDALE. 27. Endorsement of Habeas Corpus. By the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, at the instance of C. D. [the party on whose application the order for the writ was obtained]. E. F., No. Chancery Lane, Agent for G. H., Manchester. 28. Præcipe for Habeas Corpus. B.7 Seal an Habeas Corpus, directed to the [Keeper v. of the Queen's Prison] against A. B., at the suit of D.J C. D. Returnable on the or (instant). Dated this day of next, E. F., No. , Chancery Lane, 29. Commission to take Answer. VICTORIA, &c. (as in Form 1.) To [Commissioners' names] greeting: Whereas A. B. complainant, hath lately exhibited (his) bill of complaint before us in our Court of Chancery, against C. D. defendant. And, whereas, we have by our writ lately commanded the said defendant to appear before us in our said Chancery, at a certain day now past, to answer the said bill. Know ye, that we have given unto you, any three or two of you, full power and authority to take the answer of the said defendant to the said bill. And, therefore, we command you, any three or two of you, that at such certain day and place, as you shall think fit, you go to the said defendant, if (he) cannot conveniently come to you, and take (his) answer to the said bill on (his) corporal oath upon the Holy Evangelists, to be administered by you, any three or two of you, the said answer being distinctly and plainly wrote upon parchment; and when you shall have so taken (his) answer, you are to send the same closed up under the seals of you, any three or two of you, unto us in our said Chancery without delay, wheresoever it shall then be, together with this writ. Witness, &c. A. v. B. and others. 30. Præcipe for Commission. LANGDALE. Seal a Commission, to take answer of the defendant C. D., directed to E. F., G. H., &c. Six days' notice to plaintiff's' commissioners (if any). Dated day of 184 I. K., No. Chancery Lane. 31. Commission to take a Quaker's Answer. VICTORIA, &c. (as in Form 1.) To [Commissioners' names], greeting: Whereas A. B., complainant, hath lately exhibited (his) bill of complaint before us in our Court of Chancery, against C D., defendant. And, whereas, we have by our writ lately commanded the said defendant to appear before us in our said Chancery, at a certain day now past, to answer the said bill; but, forasmuch, as the said C. D. is one of the Dissenters commonly called Quakers, as is alleged. Know ye, therefore, that we have given unto you, any three or two of you, full power and authority to take the answer of the said defendant to the said bill, upon his solemn declaration and affirmation, to be made before you, any three or two of you, according to the form and tenor of the statute in that case made and provided; and, therefore, we command you, any three or two of you, that at such certain day and place as you shall think fit, you go to the said defendant, if he cannot conveniently come to you, and take his answer to the said bill as aforesaid; the said answer being distinctly and plainly wrote upon parchment. And when you shall have so taken it, you are to send the same closed up under the seals of you, any three or two of you, unto us in our said Chancery, without delay, wheresoever it shall then be, together with this writ. Witness, &c. LANGDALE. 32. Commission to take a Plea, Answer, or Demurrer. VICTORIA, &c. (as in Form 1.) To [Commissioners' names] greeting: Whereas A. B. complainant, hath lately exhibited (his) bill of complaint, before us in our Court of Chancery, against C. D. defendant. And whereas we have by our writ lately commanded the said defendant to appear before us, in our said Chancery, at a certain day now past, to answer the said bill: Know ye, that we have given unto you, any three or two of you, full power and authority to take the answer of the said defendant to the said bill, on (his) corporal oath upon the Holy Evangelists, or (his) plea on (his) corporal oath, to be administered by you, any three or two of you, or (his) plea or demurrer without oath, to be respectively made to the said bill; and therefore we command you, any three or two of you, that at such certain day and place as you shall think fit, you go to the said defendant, if (he) cannot conveniently come to you, and take (his) answer, plea, or demurrer respectively as aforesaid to the said bill, the same being distinctly and plainly wrote upon parchment; and when you shall have so done, you are to send the same closed up under the seals of you, any three or two of you, unto us in our said Chancery without delay, wheresoever it shall then be, together with this writ. Witness, &c. LANGDALE. 33. Commission to examine Witnesses. VICTORIA, &c. (as in Form 1.) 66 To [Commissioners' names] greeting: Know ye, that we in confidence of your prudence and fidelity, have appointed you, and by these Presents do give unto you, any three or two of you, full power and authority, diligently to examine all witnesses whatsoever upon certain interrogatories to be exhibited to you, on the part of the complainant, in a cause wherein A. B. is complainant, and C. D. and others are defendants, [if defendant joins in commission it will be thus: as well on the part of A. B. complainant, as on the part of C. D. defendant, or of either of them, in a cause wherein the said A. B. is complainant and the said C. D. and others are defendants;] and therefore we command you, any three or two of you, that at certain days and places to be appointed by you for that purpose, you do cause the said witnesses to come before you, and then and there examine each of them apart upon the said interrogatories, on their respective corporal oaths, first taken before you, any three or two of you, upon the Holy Evangelists, and that you do take such their examinations and reduce them into writing on parchment; and when you shall have so taken them, you are to send the same to us in our Chancery [on the morrow of All Souls next ensuing] wheresoever it shall then be, closed up and under your seals, or the seals of any three or two of you, distinctly and plainly set together with the said interrogatories and |