[122] Political Writings, ii. 19-29.

[123] Thus John Adams, on 11th October, writes: “Spent the evening with Mr. Henry at his lodgings consulting about a petition to the king.” Works, ii. 396.

[124] 4 Am. Arch. i. 904.

[125] Judge John Tyler, in Wirt, 109, note.

[126] For another form of this tradition, see Curtis’s Life of Webster, i. 588.

[127] Pages 105-113.

[128] Wirt, 105, 106.

[129] The exact rules under debate during those first two days are given in 4 Am. Arch. i. 898, 899.

[130] Kennedy, Mem. of Wirt, i. 364.

[131] Works of John Adams, x. 78.