text:  But the Justices on looking into this antiquated document found that besides this notandum the memorandum-book contained a number of other entries of a very extraordinary kind--such for instance as that Martin was no better than he should be and ought to be put down speedily: that Squire Bull had no more right to nominate ushers than he had to be Khan of Tartary: that that right belonged exclusively to Jack himself or to the schoolboys under Jack's control and direction: that Jack was to have the sole right of laying down rules for his own government and of enforcing them against himself by the necessary compulsitors if the case should arise; thus that Jack should have full powers to censure fine punish flog flay banish imprison or set himself in the stocks as often as he should think fit; but that whether Jack did right or wrong in any given case Jack was himself to be the sole judge and neither Squire Bull nor any of his Justices of the Peace was to have one word to say to him or his proceedings in the matter: on the contrary that any such interference on their part was to be regarded as a high grievance and misdemeanour on their part for which Jack was to be entitled at the least to read them a lecture from the writing-desk and shut the schoolroom door in their own or their children's face