¶1The Matter upon the Defendants Demurrer put into the Complainant’s Bill of Complaint in this Cause being opened to this Court by Mr. Leigh
¶2*486Upon opening the Petition of Barnaby Branford and Elijah Postell preferred to this Court, praying among other things that the Guardianship of the Infant Children of Barnaby Branford Deceased be Committed to the Petitioner Elijah Postell, It is Ordered that the said Petition do stand over, And that Counsel be further heard in that behalf.
¶3 Peter Leigh (1712-1759), High Bailiff of Westminster and “a discredited English barrister,” had displaced Charles Pinckney as chief justice in 1753, when young Peter Manigault wrote home that Leigh was reckoned a sound lawyer and a merry companion. At the time of his death in 1759 he was provincial Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons. (McCrady, S. C. under the Proprietary Government, p. 33; SGHGM, XXXII, 119; Salley, Death Notices, p. 28.)