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– but it had was not been done. He did not here
allude to the business before the Master of
the Rolls. That was done. –

But though the business of the Court of
Chancery had not diminished, yet it did
not appear that it had increased – or at least
very little – since the time of Lord Hardwicke.
He did not know well how to account for
this except that the doctrines of the Court
had been settled so clearly and upon such
admirable principles by that eminent Judge
that fewer questions remained for litigation.
The Every one acquainted with Courts of
equity knew that questions of fact to be
decided in them were few in comparison
with questions of law such as the
construction of wills & – and it was
no wonder therefore that when the rules
and doctrines were distinctly settled the
business in the Equity Courts should not
increase like that in Courts of Common
law. This accounted for the circumstance
that though the property of the country
had unquestionably increased, there was
no pat proportionable increase in the
business of the Court of Chancery. These
were matters that required investigation – but
the house would observe how miserable
(meagre) was the information given by

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