246 SPEECH ON TAKING 



Now for a beginning towards it, I have set down 

 and applied particular orders to-day out of these 

 four general heads. 



For the excess or tumour of this court of chan 

 cery, I shall divide it into five natures; 



The first is, when the court doth embrace and 

 retain causes, both in matter and circumstance 

 merely determinable and fit for the common law ; 

 for, my lords, the chancery is ordained to supply the 

 law, and not to subvert the law. Now to describe 

 unto you or delienate what those causes are that 

 are fit for the court, or not fit for the court, 

 were too long a lecture. But I will tell you what 

 remedy I have prepared. I will keep the keys 

 of the court myself, and will never refer any de 

 murrer or plea, tending to discharge or dismiss the 

 court of the cause, to any master of the chancery, 

 but judge of it myself, or at least the master of the 

 rolls. Nay farther, I will appoint regularly, that on 

 the Tuesday of every week, which is the day of 

 orders, first to hear motions of that nature before 

 any other, that the subject may have his &quot;vale&quot; at first 

 without attending, and that the court do not keep 

 and accumulate a miscellany and confusion of 

 causes of all natures. 



The second point concerneth the time of the 

 complaint, and the late comers into the chancery ; 

 which stay till a judgment be passed against them 

 at the common law, and then complain : wherein 

 your lordships may have heard a great rattle and a 

 noise of a &quot; praemunire,&quot; and I cannot tell what. 



