HL Deb 14 July 1806 vol 7 c1121

The first reading of the Masters in Chancery bill was moved by lord Eldon.

The Lord Chancellor

expressed his warm approbation of the bill, the object of which was to make an adequate provision for several persons of eminent ability and enlightened minds, to whom the country were every day essentially indebted, for the able and upright discharge of the duties of their offices. The country were also indebted to his noble and learned friend (lord Eldon), for the choice he had made of many of those who now filled the office of masters in chancery; a choice the more pleasing to his noble and learned friend, as those whom he appointed, while they possessed in an eminent degree every qualification that could fit them for their offices, were, at the same time, his private friends. He rejoiced that such a bill had come up to that house, with respect to which it was important also to observe, that it would not be a taxation upon the public, and that not one individual in the country would have any additional burthen thrown upon him in consequence of the passing of this bill.—The bill was ordered to be printed.

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