. Colonial Virginia . ed a one knows precisely what conditions were exacted uponwhich the license was granted. It is said that there werefour examiners, Wythe, Pendleton, Peyton Randolph and JohnRandolph. Wythe and Pendleton, Mr. Jefferson says, at oncerejected his application. The two Randolphs were, by hisimportunity, prevailed upon to sign the license, and havingobtained their, signatures, he again applied to Pendleton, andafter much entreaty and many promises of future study, suc-ceeded also in obtaining his signature. At any rate he ob-tained his license and began at once to es
. Colonial Virginia . ed a one knows precisely what conditions were exacted uponwhich the license was granted. It is said that there werefour examiners, Wythe, Pendleton, Peyton Randolph and JohnRandolph. Wythe and Pendleton, Mr. Jefferson says, at oncerejected his application. The two Randolphs were, by hisimportunity, prevailed upon to sign the license, and havingobtained their, signatures, he again applied to Pendleton, andafter much entreaty and many promises of future study, suc-ceeded also in obtaining his signature. At any rate he ob-tained his license and began at once to establish himself in hisprofeission. This seems to have been done much morepromptly and effectually than many records allow. For mis-information and misunderstanding of Mr. Henrys career asa lawyer, Thomas Jefferson is supposed to be largely respon-sible. Fortunately, in more recent years certain documentshave been brought to light which prove that Mr. Henry wasan unusually euccessful lawyer from the beginning, and that. PATRICK HENRY. 337 many of the impressions hitherto had concerning his capac-ity and fitness for the practice of law were entirely Henrys own fee-book, containing a record of the numberof suits in which he was employed for the first three year/sof his professional career, has been found, in which it is indi-cated that in that time he was engaged in as many as elevenhundred and eighty-five law suits. Furthermore, these docu-ments show that these suits were in the general practice of law,and not in the main in criminal cases, as is commonly sup-posed. It was just this sort of practice that required the pos-session of certain qualities and attributes denied to Mr. Henryby the general impression. Mr. Moses Coit Tyler institutes acomparison between the accounts of the first several years ofMr. Henrys practice and that of Mr. Jefferson, in which it isindicated very clearly that Mr. Henrys practice for the sametime was nearly double that of Mr. Jefferson.
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