A curious characteristic view of the Scottish bench about the year
1771 is presented in a doggerel ballad, supposed to have been a joint
composition of James Boswell and John Maclaurin,[99] advocates, and
professedly the history of a process regarding a bill containing a
clause of penalty in case of failure. This _Court of Session Garland_,
as it is called, is here subjoined, with such notes on persons and
things as the reader may be supposed to require or care for.