case Symonds versus gibson Jan Eq can ab pl S c bind give by a to b for b s  quit his pretence and procure a to be admit purser to one of the king ship  court will relieve on payment of principal without interest or cost bill to be  relieve against four bind enter into by the plaintiff testator to the  defendant for quit his pretence and procure the plaintiff to be admit purser  of one of the king man of war per cur we can set aside the bind but will  relieve on payment of the four hundred pound principal without interest or  cost in a note with the editor of Purdey v Stacey hill two Geo d b r and  report burr Lord Mansfield chief Jus be say to have doubt whether this part of  the decree without interest be true take it be contrary to the practice to  relieve without interest and Loughborough Lord chancellor in give judgement in  the case of parson and Thompson hill term Geo d not report after speak of the  case of Berrisford v do ante Vol which he think may be support say the next  case be vern and if true be a decision undoubted contrary to what we now  decide and I think contrary to a evident principle of law on the state of the  report the bind be direct and plain give for brocage of a office c of trust  and profit which be not a object of sale I therefore have no difficulty to say  that I hold that case to be extreme ill determine if the note of it be at all  correct the case of I have v ash pre Chan and Colles p c I think right  determine the principal case be short as follow the defendant by his answer  admit that the bind in question be for no other consideration than bare for  the purchase of the defendant interest in procure the say purser place and it  state that the defendant have be twenty year and upward a clerk in the navy  office and for several year a clerk of the Cheque at Deptford have apply by  letter to Samuel Pepys Esq the then secretary of the admiralty for the place  of purser on board his majesty ship saint George for himself and that he have  procure from the say Mr Pepys the promise of the say situation on board that  ship and that he real intend to have execute the say purser place himself and  have do several thing in order to his dispose of all his other concern for  that end but that on the application of Henry testate it be agree between he  and the defendant that the defendant shall procure the warrant to be make  authorize the say king to be purser of the say ship in the defendant stead and  that the say king in consideration thereof shall pay the defendant pound that  the warrant be accord procure and king be admit purser of the say ship saint  George that Nov and so continue until the month of April when he exchange the  same for the like place in the ship coronation for which he pay the former  purser of that ship eighty guinea and the decree be that a account be take of  the personal estate of plaintiff intestate and that the plaintiff Symonds do  pay unto the say defendant Gibson the sum of pound without interest and cost  be the principal money for which the say four bind of pound penalty apiece be  enter into by the say intestate so far as he the say Symonds have or shall  have asset of the say intestate estate come to his hand Reg lib b fol vide  Berrisford v do ante Vol