30 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

Facienda

3 Pleading

Codification

Thus again as to learning - Our Shoemaker, were he to take to Law-making, would have a pretty many things to learn, there is no making a doubt of it. But as to unlearning, what would he have to unlearn? - why nothing at all my Lord.

And these two preeminently and to appearance appositely[?] learned personages what would they have to unlearn does Your Lordship ask, to qualify them for making laws directly to the ends of justice. Oh, my Lord, surely Your Lordship will not [...?] at least put any such question to me at least if your Lordship can have found so much patience for me, as to have to glance at the Appendix. My Lord, in one word they would have all those decrees to unlearn, those engines of the technical system to unlearn the use of, which they are so expert in: nullification, Fiction, Jargon, Receipt of evidence in bad shapes, grant of mendacity licences refusal to have or see parties, judicature on mechanical principles, sale of delay and so forth.