(seq. 98)

Execution & if Your Pet.r {Petitioner} shou'd by any Means be ---
deprived of the same the Expences & Charges arising
from the due Execution of the s.d {said} Office will exceed the
Profits ---
That the Masters attending the said Court of Chancery
are not Officers created by Patent but are Sworn int
their Offices & placed at the Will & pleasure of the ---
Chancellor of the s.d {said} Osland for the time being only
without giving any Security for the due Execution
of their said Offices nor are there anyFees settled by
the Authority of the s.d {said} Court or by any positive Law
which the said Masters can demand or receive
for any Business to be done by them in the Selling
of estates & the Office of Master in the s.d {said} Court of
Chancery of Barbadoes from the first Institution
of the said several Offices 'till very lately have ever
been distinct - and no ways interfered with those of
the Serjeant at Arms - nor ever intermeddled in the
Sales of Estates which were always transacted by
the Serjeant at Arms ---
And Your Pet.r {Petitioner} is advised that the Sales of Estates
in the said Island by or before a Master of the Court
of Chancery there is against the known Usage and
ancient Practise of the Court in Barbadoes and
against the Right of Your Pet.r [Petitioner} as Serjeant at Arms
and, hath but lately been attempted to be introduced
by way of Innovation in the practise there by some
Persons attending on that Court, im some [fero?] Instances
by the Consent of the Partys concerned without the
participation of the Provost Marshal ---
And there being Fees due to the Serjeant at Arms
for executing the Decrees of the said Court of Chancery
Settled