In 1827, in Macaulay'. Shackell, 1 Bilges New R. 96, 127, Lord Eldon declared that 'a court of equity has no criminal jurisdiction.' In 1876, in Kerr I Corporation of Preston, supra, which involved an attempt to restrain certain criminal proceedings, Jessel, M.R., said: 'Why ought a court of equity to interfere with the