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the younger, 1741; Daniel Dulany, son of Walter,
1770; Lloyd Dulany, 1761; Robert Goldsbor-
ough, 1752; John Hammond, 1760; Richard
Henderson, 1781; James Hollyday, 1754; Henry
Jowles, 1663; Edmund Key, 1759 in Middle
Temple, 1762 in Inner Temple; Philip Barton
Key, 1784; Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1664; Philip
Thomas Lee, 1756; Richard Lee, 1719; Nicholas
Maccubin, 1773; Michael Macnemara, 1721;
Robert Milligan, 1774; William Paca, 1762;
George Plater (second of the name in the
province), 1713; James Lloyd Rogers, 1768; Gus-
tavus Scott, 1767; Edward Tilghman, 1772; Rich-
ard Tilghman, 1769. And this is a list of only part
of the bar, and some of the ablest are not included.
One, at least, of those who had been educated at
the Inns of Court has been overlooked in the com-
pilation. In the proceedings of the Court of Ap-
peals of July 11, 1727, in H. D. No. 1, fol. 722,
we find it recorded that Edmund Jenings "being
admitted as a practiser of this Honorable Court,
having taken the oaths to the government and oath
of attorney prescribed by the Act of Assembly,
the said Edmund Jenings prays that he may be
understood, in taking the said (oath) of attorney,
that his taking the said oath may not prejudice
any of the right and privileges of the Honorable
Society of the Middle Temple, of which he alleges
himself to be a member, and which he has sworn
to preserve; and it is ordered to be entered." And
another Jenings, Thomas, who came to the prov-
ince about the middle of the eighteenth century,
was Attorney General from 1768 to 1776, and one
of the four or five leading lawyers for the quarter