(seq. 88)

attending the Court of Chancery, and
the Marshall of the Courts of Com-
mon Law, who on the Extention of
Real Estates, after other previous
Steps taken, Executes Bills of Sale
to the Creditors; for which the Officer
is intitled to considerable Fees, agreeable
to the Nature of the Ease, and of the
Business done; and pursuant to
the Laws of the Island. But it
now and then happens, that an
Estate being greatly involved, and
the Several Demands against it,
intricate, perplexed and Compli-
cated the Creditors and other
persons Interested therein, have
found it necessary to Commerce
a Suit in Chancery in Order to
settle their respective Rights;
on the final Hearing of which
all the Partys have consented
to a Sale of the Estate before one
of the Masters. This, which I
understand is pretty common in
England

England, have Sometimes been done with us
in Order to Save Expence and make the
Estate (at best a deficient Fund) go as
far as possible, towards answering the
Charges there are against it, Decrees
then in such Cases, and only such, have
of course been made for a Sale before
a Master; but of this there are very
few Instances. One, I think, occur'd
so long ago as Governor Worsley's
time; two while his Excellency Mr.
Greenville was on the Spot, and two
more Since. But in these Instan-
ces, it was done with the Consent
as above hinted, of all the Partys to
the suit; nor has there been a Single