24 Jan y 1807

Omitt or Postpone 8

[...?] Possession[?]

Letter IV

Resolu. 6.7.8.9.

Lawyers fond of Juries

This much /So far/ as to their passion, now for their indifference. In the narrow description of causes to which natural procedure has been confined[?] - when no factitious delay; vexation or expence has place - where /in which/ consequently lawyer's profit is not to be found - in cases when by the unfed[?] wisdom and probity and intelligence of the Country, or of some peculiarly fortunate time[?] pure and real justice is administered -then is that the [...?] zeal and constitutional jealousy of a Blackston[?] is alarmed, at the encroachments thus duly made upon the [...?] of liberty. of Blackston, and after him, and on the strength of his authority, of some pure and watchful sport or sports of the same class in one or both Houses.

In Equity powers infintely more extensive, powers in respect of the magnitude of the cause, and measured upon the subject matter, plainly infinite, as excused by a single Judge, with no other control than the almost inaccessible /inapplicable/ one of the House of Lords with the whole property of the Country at his feet. But in Equity, there is more work[?] for the lawyer, abundantly more work, there at Common Law with its Trial by Jury. Yet from the pen or the lips of what lawyer was ever complaint heard of Equity? Accordingly it is for this choice species of law, so pre-conscionably[?] afflicted[?] /[...?]/ to suitors, so presumably soothing to lawyers /their learned plunderers[?]/, that the most delectable denomination that /the/ language could be made to find /furnish/ for it has been devoted /consecrated //allotted/.

/+ though with a King's Bench over their heads to control and plague and threaten them/.