afforded me by all the officers of the Court. To select individuals is generally invidious, but I cannot, without ingratitude, pass over in silence, and without acknowledgment, the important assistance afforded me by some of my friends. To Mr. Bedwell and Mr. Walker, I am indebted for much valuable communication on points of practice connected with their department; and particularly to Mr. Bedwell, for referring me to several unreported cases, which his industry, and the zealous discharge of the duties of his office have enabled him to preserve for the benefit of the profession. To Mr. Kensit and Mr. Jones, I am obliged for information relative to the proceedings in the Master's office. To the friendship of Mr. John Wainewright I am indebted for a repetition of the same persevering and unremitted assistance, which he afforded me during the progress of my first volume through the press, and for many of the explanatory notes added to the bills of costs.
I now submit this volume to the indulgent consideration of the profession, fully sensible that a work composed in the intervals of business is unequal to the test of rigid criticism. If I have been sufficiently fortunate to afford to the inquiring practitioner the means of obtaining accurate information, and have contributed in any degree, to establish that a settled and uniform course of practice directs and regulates the proceedings of a chancery suit, the object of my labours has been attained.