Dorothy Wright, widow. v. Edward Whitaker, esquire, serjeant-at-law, John Humphreys.:...

Dorothy Wright, widow. v. Edward Whitaker, esquire, serjeant-at-law, John Humphreys.: Wm. Wright, Esq. (plaintiff's late husband), "late first or chief justice of the sevl countyes of Glamorgan, Brecon, and Radnor." To whom are due, and have been always paid, the fees or accounts charged upon levying fines and suffering recoveries in the said counties? To whom are such fees paid in the absence of the chief justice? &c., &c. One deponent, Henry Williams, of the town of Brecon "sayth that he has been sworne attorney of the said Court of Great Sessions of the said severall countyes about eight-and-thirty years since, and hath acted in the said Court as such ever since, and for all that time the chief or senior justice did take claim and receive as his own right the fees payable for leavying of fines and suffering of recoveryes in the said Court of Great Sessions, and this depont hath usually paid those fees for all the time aforesaid to the c'lre or officer which the chief or senior judge did impower and employ to receive the same, ..... this deponent rem'bers the chief or senior judge absent at two or more severall great sessions within the time aforesaid, and when recoveryes were suffered or fines acknowledged before the other or junior justice, the chief justice's marshall took and rec'ed the fees for recoveryes for the use of the chief or senior justice, and the said chief or senior justice's cl're attended when any fines were acknowledged before the other or junior justice and rec'ed the fees and kept the duplicates of such fines for the use of the chief or senior justice, and this depont remembers that when Mr. Sergt Powlett was chief or senior justice, and Edward Smith, esquire, the other junior justice of the said Court, there was a fine of lands within the county of Radnor taken and acknowledged before the said Mr. Justice Smith, wherein Littleton Powell, Esq., was concerned in the vacation, but the said Mr. Sergt Powlett would not suffer the same to be fyled or proclaimed untill the fees taken for the acknowledgmt thereof were answered and payd to his use, and this depont further saith that he doth not remember that any other or junior justice of the said Court did ever demand or pretend that such fees did belong to him in the absence of the chief or senior justice, save only that the deft. did at the Great Sessions held for the said countyes in the said autumn in the said year one thousand seven hundred and twenty in the absence of the said Chief Justice Wright, claimed said fees and asked this depont if they did not belong to him, and this depont then acquainted him that they belonged to the chief justice," &c., &c.: Glamorgan; Brecon; Radnor.