28 June 1806

Evidence │ │ Scotch Reform

Facienda

Summary Court

To expectorate their old kind words

For penal matters their natural resort would be to a Justice of the Peace: for matters penal, some action and experienced member of one of these Courts which in Scotland answer[?] to one English Courts of Conscience[?] to these if in English Courts in which it is the fashion for Judges /Judges forswearing law [...?] Equity/ to remember /only/ that they have a conscience.

Failing that resource[?], their respective Mothers or Wives if old enough or in the default any other Matron who being[?] or having been mistress of a family - were far enough advanced a life to regard the place and the [...?] any the male part of the suitors which in eye of equal indifference might be a succedencies[?] substitute /assistant/ in nothing but usage and precedent /precedent and prejudice/ to their first mankind[?].