case richard parrot plaintiff John well and Elizabeth ux he recently Elizabeth  wilson and henry clerk defendant eoden die lord commissioner where a agreement  make by a scrivener on behalf of his client to compound his client debt shall  bind the scrivener though not the client the plaintiff father apply himself to  the defendant Henry clerk a scrivener to borrow money and in take up two  hundred pound and the plaintiff and one how become bind as surety with the  plaintiff father in two bind to the defendant Elizabeth Vernon chancery case  then Elizabeth Wilson and one mrs Abdi the defendant clerk the scrivener have  the order and dispose of the money and from time to time receive the interest  due upon the bind in the plaintiff father fail and the plaintiff likewise by  reason of the debt for which he stand engage for his father fail and the other  surety be dead insolvent so that the plaintiff father compound his debt with  his creditor at seven shilling in the pound and he apply to the defendant  clerk to know where his client to wit the say mrs Wilson and mrs Abdi live but  the defendant tell the plaintiff and his father they need not trouble  themselves to go to they for they will be govern by he and will make no  agreement without he but what agreement he make they will stand by hereupon  they treat with clerk the scrivener and agree for seventy pound to be pay down  and thirty pound to be secure to be pay in a short time that the bind shall be  deliver up to be cancel so he have ten shilling in the pound composition where  other creditor have but seven shilling the seventy pound be pay pursuant to  the agreement and the pound tender the defendant clerk refuse to deliver up  the bind accord to his agreement and pretend his client have the bind and that  they will not part with they without payment of the whole debt and threaten to  put the bind in suit the bill be therefore to compel the defendant clerk  either to perform the agreement and deliver up the bind to be cancel or  otherwise be decree to save harmless and indemnify the plaintiff against the  same the defendant clerk by answer confess the make of the agreement and say  he do it in expectation that his client will have be govern by he as they have  in other matter but they refuse to stand to the agreement and hope that as he  act only as their agent and be not to get or lose by the matter he shall not  be compel to make good the agreement Vernon chancery case after long debate  the court decree the plaintiff to pay what be due to the defendant well and  his wife for principal interest and cost on the bind in question and the  defendant clerk to repay what the plaintiff shall so pay to well and to  indemnify the plaintiff accord to the agreement vide Robert and all v matthews  and all ante Vol Johnson v ogilby p wms