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Sheridan, he had not seen Dulany's equal; and
even though Pinkney was very young when Dulany
ended his active career at the bar, his judgment
carries authority; it probably transmits to us some-
thing of the traditions which Pinkney received
from his elders who worked with Dulany.
Charles Carroll, father of Charles Carroll of Car-
rollton, in a letter to the son in 1761, charged
Dulany with some defects of character, but de-
scribed him as "a man of great parts, of general
knowledge, indisputably the best lawyer on this
continent."³³ And Chambers, who, as has been said,
practiced law in Baltimore during the ten years
preceding the Revolution, termed him "one of
the ablest lawyers which America ever pro-
duced." ³⁴ And anyone who goes through the
court papers of the period cannot fail to be
impressed with the fact that Dulany was, after
all, one of a high company, and that many brave
men lived at the bar before and with this Agamem-
non. In a recent book, "American Members of
the Inns of Court," by E. Alfred Jones, there are
sketches of these Maryland lawyers who received
their legal training in England, with the years of
their admissions as members of the Inns: William
Bladen, 1687; Stephen Bordley, 1729; Thomas
Bordley, 1744; John Leeds Bozman, 1785; John
Brice, 1757; Benedict Leonard Calvert, 1719;
Charles Carroll (first of the name in the prov-
ince), 1685; Charles Carroll, Barrister, 1751;
Henry Carroll, 1718; William Cooke, 1768;
Daniel Dulany, the elder, 1716; Daniel Dulany,

33. 10 Maryland Historical Magazine, 343.

34. George Chalmers, Opinions of Eminent Lawyers on Various
Points of English Jurisprudence, London 1814, I, p. 312.