JB/056/030/001

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1827 Sept. 7
Procedure Code Collectanea

Ch. Costs

From the Examiner of Sunday 2 Sept 1827

The Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors Court
lately applied for a criminal information against Mr.
Jones, Marshal of the King's Bench Prison, for publishing
an alleged libel in a pamphlet which he had put forth
upon the extortions practised upon Insolvent Debtors, in
which pamphlet Mr Jones charged the members of the
Court with taking exorbitant fees. Mr Jones was frightened
by this application, and resolved to eat his own words
rather than to encounter a criminal information for such
a shocking thing as a libel. Accordingly, when the
matter was next mentioned in the Court of King's Bench,
the Marshal's Counsel made an humble apology on his
behalf, pretending that he was "misinformed" about
the fees: and the Commissioners counsel having accepted
the apology, the affair terminated, Mr Jones being
ordered to pay the costs. In due course, Messrs Lane
and Croft, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, solicitors for the
Commissioners, sent in their bill to Mr Jones for
payment; and what does the reader suppose the
amount of that bill was, for the simple motion for a
criminal information, and the compromise in court?
It was one hundred and Fifty nine Pounds fifteen
Shillings and five pence! Mr Jones demurred & had
the bill taxed by the Master at the Crown Office, who
struck off the sum of £138-1s 5d, leaving Mr Jones
to pay £21.15s — to the lawyers, and the Commissioners
to make good the remainder of the bill to
their attornies.

Identifier: | JB/056/030/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 56.
Date_1	1827-09-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	056	Main Headings	Procedure Code
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	Procedure Code Collectanea
Image	001	Titles	From the Examiner of Sunday 2 Sept. 1827
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	BROCKLESBY & MORBEY 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	Edmund Henry Barker
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	18086
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