[26] Judge Winston, MS.
[27] Wirt, 18, 19.
[28] These fee-books are now in the possession of Mr. William Wirt Henry, of Richmond.
[29] Wirt, 18.
[30] Hist. Mag. for 1867, 93.
[31] Randall, Life of Jefferson, i. 47, 48.
[32] William Wirt Henry, Character and Public Career of Patrick Henry, 3.
CHAPTER IV
A CELEBRATED CASE
Thus Patrick Henry had been for nearly four years in the practice of the law, with a vigor and a success quite extraordinary, when, late in the year 1763, he became concerned in a case so charged with popular interest, and so well suited to the display of his own marvellous genius as an advocate, as to make both him and his case immediately celebrated.