20 Oct. 1807

Eldon's Bill

Now then suppose that out of the twelve months at present appropriated to injustice a portion more or less had been defalcated /stolen/ to the use of justice: where would have been the great harm of it?

And moreover admitting the harm where would have been the danger - the probability of it?

Ask if the Lord President, with the /his/ the learned Brethren who joined with him in the presentation /offer/ of the Memorial, set[?] down to a Petition when /before it was/ received by the House of Lords.

What was the object of their care /the declared object of their anxiety/? lest the six months consecrated to injustice below, to idleness above so much as a single hour should be revisited[?] unsupplied to any such bad purpose as the purposes /ends/ of justice.

 Such[?] their words.