text:  During the disturbances in the same year in Lanarkshire and many other counties of Scotland (especially Ayrshire Fife and Mid-Lothian ) the accumulation of prisoners was so great that not only were none detained for trial but those against whom the evidence was altogether conclusive; but that great numbers were remitted for trial before the summary tribunals and escaped with a month or two of imprisonment who had committed capital crimes and a few years before would infallibly have been transported for fourteen years