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is to his remembrance, or as he believeth, if it be 

 laid down within seven years before ; and if the 

 defendant deny the fact, he must traverse it directly, 

 and not by way of negative pregnant ; as if a fact 

 be laid to be done with divers circumstances, the 

 defendant may not traverse it literally as it is laid 

 in the bill, but must traverse the point of substance ; 

 so if he be charged with the receipt of one hundred 

 pounds, he must traverse that he hath not received a 

 hundred pounds, or any part thereof; and if he have 

 received part, he must set forth what part. 



64. If a hearing be prayed upon bill and answer, 

 the answer must be admitted to be true in all points, 

 and a decree ought not to be made, but upon hear 

 ing the answer read in court. 



65. Where no counsel appears for the defendant 

 at the hearing, and the process appears to have been 

 served, the answer of such defendant is to be read in 

 court. 



66. No new matter is to be contained in any 

 replication, except it be to avoid matter set forth in 

 the defendant s answer. 



67. All copies in chancery shall contain fifteen 

 lines in every sheet thereof, written orderly and un- 

 wastefully, unto which shall be subscribed the name 

 of the principal clerk of the office where it is writ 

 ten, or his deputy, for whom he will answer, for 

 which only subscription no fee at all shall be taken. 



68. All commissions for examination of witnesses 

 shall be &quot; super interr. inclusis&quot; only, and no return 

 of depositions into the court shall be received, but 



