After two days in Shekkwat, we went on to Kaushing, only an hour away. This was formerly the prefectural city of Tinpak, before Maoming came into existence. The old walls are still standing, but as it was over five hundred years ago that Tinpak was divided, nobody knows anything about the old town.

I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.

a commission not to proceed precisely , or merely according to the laws and customs either of England or Scotland , but mixtly

Institutional change has not happened. But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places.