He might also, at the discretion of the court, be loaded with all the costs of the proceeding by which he had been reduced to beggary.

No appeal was given.

The Commissioners were directed to execute their office notwithstanding any law which might be, or might seem to be, inconsistent with these regulations.

Lastly, lest any person should doubt that it was intended to revive that terrible court from which the Long Parliament had freed the nation, the new tribunal was directed to use a seal bearing exactly the same device and the same superscription with the seal of the old High Commission.

[98] The chief Commissioner was the Chancellor.