Note 53 — PREFACE TO THE NOTES.

The office of the six clerks, and of the sixty clerks in court where all pleadings are filed. The principal duty of the clerks in court is to copy the pleadings (for which he is allowed 10d. a folio) and to assist the masters in taxing costs at the rate of 6s. 8d. for every hour or for every twenty folios in the length of the bill. They are all a set of drones, but our friend John Baines really out Hectors Hector.