4 Feb y 1807

Letter IV

Juries

L d Presid

By way of answer /In answer/, my Lord, I beg here to submitt the following considerations -

1. That these low people, for whom in the opinion of the head distributor of Scottish justice

Right Honourable President Judge Natural Procedure is good enough constitute /compose/ the vast majority of the great faiths[?] or whom the King of Scotland his Majesty is so fond under the name of lovats[?] and who were so true to him, under the name of leiges a denomination under which neither the Right Honourable President nor his Grace Lord Justice General disdain to be comprized. Nor /But/ then, it being admitted to be good enough for so vast a majority it rests with Right Honourable President to to shew /inform/ us, why it may not even serve for the remainder