Possible Clues:

• Way I write journal, like some magistrates
• Working for regular pay
• Paid magistrate
• Sacked any spirited paid magistrate?
• Magistrate stumped by confession of a nobody?
• It's back to the accounts book to write in 'Paid'
• Way I emulate Pepys, and I'm paid for my work
• It's back to the accounts' book to write in 'paid'
• Paid official stumped by Adrian Mole's confession?
• Account by writer - it's first brought back for magistrate maybe