text: _" And as it could not be disputed that Jack and the Squire ultimately subscribed the deed omitting all this nonsense--the Justices had no hesitation in holding that Jack's private memorandum-book even if he had always carried it in his breeches pocket and quoted it on all occasions instead of leaving it--as it was plain he had done--for many a long year in some forgotten corner of his trunk or lumber-room could no more affect the construction of the indenture between himself and Squire or afford him any defence against performance of his part of that indenture than if he had founded on the statutes of Prester John on the laws of Hum-Bug Fee-Faw-Fum or any other Emperor of China for the time being