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48. No report shall be respected in court, which 

 exceedeth the warrant of the order of reference. 



49. The masters of the court are required not 

 to certify the state of any cause, as if they would 

 make breviate of the evidence on both sides, which 

 doth little ease the court, but with some opinion ; 

 or otherwise, in case they think it too doubtful to 

 give opinion, and therefore make such special certi 

 ficate, the cause is to go on to a judicial hearing, 

 without respect had to the same. 



50. Matters of account, unless it be in very weighty 

 causes, are not fit for the court, but to be prepared 

 by reference, with this difference nevertheless, that 

 the cause comes first to a hearing ; and upon the 

 entrance into a hearing, they may receive some 

 direction, and be turned over to have the accounts 

 considered, except both parties, before a hearing, do 

 consent to a reference of the examination of the 

 accounts, to make it more ready for a hearing. 



51. The like course to be taken for the examina 

 tion of court rolls, upon customs and copies, which 

 shall not be referred to any one master, but to two 

 masters at the least. 



52. No reference to be made of the insufficiency 

 of an answer, without shewing of some particular 

 point of the defect, and not upon surmise of the in 

 sufficiency in general. 



53. Where a trust is confessed by the defend ant s 

 answer, there needeth no farther hearing of the 

 cause, but a reference presently to be made upon 



