312 TRACTS RELATING TO 



called bis learned counsel to him, and commanded 

 them to examine the precedents of chancery, and to 

 certify what they found : which they did ; and by 

 their certificate it appeareth, that the precedents of 

 that kind were many and precise in the point, and 

 constant, and in good times, and allowed many times 

 by the judges themselves. 



That after this his majesty received from the 

 lord chancellor a case, whereby the question was 

 clearly set down and contained within the proper 

 bounds of the present doubt ; being, Whether upon 

 apparent matter of equity, which the judges of the 

 law by their place and oath cannot meddle with or 

 relieve, if a judgment be once passed at common 

 law, the subject shall perish, or that the chancery 

 shall relieve him ; and whether there be any statute 

 of &quot; prasmunire&quot; or other, to restrain this power in 

 the chancellor ; which case, upon the request of the 

 lord chancellor, his majesty likewise referred to his 

 learned counsel, and the prince s attorney Mr. 

 Walter was joined with them, who, upon great ad 

 vice and view of the original records themselves, 

 certified the chancery was not restrained by any 

 statute in that case. 



That his majesty again required his learned coun 

 sel to call the clerks of the king s bench to them, and 

 to receive from them any precedents of indictments 

 in the king s bench against the chancery for proceed 

 ing in the like case ; who produced only two prece 

 dents, being but indictments offered or found, upon 

 which there was no other proceeding ; and the 



