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Court of Equity, The
The title of a secret bachelors' association, whose members met sporadically at the Whitefoord Arms Inn, Mauchline. The purpose of the association was 'to search out, report and discuss the merits and demerits of the many scandals that crop up from time to time in the village', and to determine what punishment should be meted out to the offenders. Burns was 'Perpetual President'; John Richmond 'Clerk of the Court'; James Smith 'Procurator Fiscal'; and William Hunter 'Messenger at Arms'. The association became defunct when Burns left the Mauchline district. Its meetings were commemorated in a humorously bawdy poem, 'The Court of Equity', which has hitherto been excluded from collected editions of the poet's work, but which is printed in full as an appendix to Catherine Carswell's excellently human study, The Life of Robert Burns (1930), in Cyril Pearl's Bawdy Burns (1958) and in James Kinsley's The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1968) as 'Libel Summons'
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