Elucidations to Tables IX, X, and XI

(b)

(Writs of Error) In English and Irish Common Law Courts, Appeals are called Writs of Error: in English and Irish Equity Court causes, as well as in [...?] Spiritual Court & Admiralty Court causes, they are called Appeals: so likewise in all such Scotch causes as came before the House of Lords.

In the whole sheet Table of Standing Orders of the House, dates A o 1804, I therein ordered to "be printed & published & affixed on the doors of this House" (the House of Lords) "to the [...?] all persons that shall be therein concerned, may the letter take notice of the same[?]," in the title as well as in the body of the paper, Writs of Error occupying the first place.

The declared principal object of the document in question being to bring to view the amount of the demands made, upon the House of Lords for such part of its time as could with propriety be allotted to the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, if the cognizance of the Appeals called Writs of Error occupied any portion of that time, the reason, for stating the portion of time occupied, applied no less pointedly to this sort of Appeals, than to any of the others: &[?] the number of Writs of Error, as the appropriate column shews & has been much greater than that of all the other Appeals put together.

In the contrary case, viz. if by the Appeals called Writs of Error, in portion as all of the time of the House was occupied, then, so far as the time of the House was the sole object, the reasons for bringing to view the others would not extend to these.

In the Ulterior [...?] (art. 4) to these Tables & in [...?] (art. 4 to Table XII, in the case of the Appeals called Writs of Error, presented to two of the three English subordinal Chambers of Review, in the King's Bench & that[?] men[?] of the[?] [...?] Exchequer Chambers, which sits over the King's Bench, the number of