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A95553	A letter from Rhoan in France written by Doctor Roane one of the doctors of the late sicke Commons, to his fellow doctor of civill law. Dated 28, of Iune last past. With an ellegy written by his owne hand upon the death and buriall of the said doctors Commons.	Roane, Doctor.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653, Attributed name.	1641 (1641)	Wing T473B; Thomason E164_6; ESTC R8301	4,595	9

A Letter from Rhoan in France Written by Doctor Roane one of the Doctors of the late sicke Commons to his Fellow Doctor of the Civill Law Dated 28 of Iune last past With an Ellegy written by his owne hand upon the death and buriall of the said Doctors Commons O poore Roane Thou are quit gone And left all alone O Hone oh Hone Printed in this happy yeare 1641. Letter from Roan in France written by Doctor Roan Dr. of the Civill Law to one of his fellow Doctors Dated June 28 Anno Dom. 1641. SIR I Hope you are alike sensible with me of the danger of these difficult times t is true I am held but as a Fugitive as one fled into France and it was but time And I am glad I took occasion by the fore-lock otherwise I knew our owne Ecclesiasticall Canons would have bin charged and bent against mee and what I pray you have you got by your tarrying at home when their terrible thunder shall strike you sooner and neerer and at home then me being abroad and far off Therein the detriment of your delay and the benefit of my active dispatch you being now present to abide all their perverse sentences and I priviledged from all their peremptorie censures But I pray Master Doctor but let us recall to our selves ab Origine from the beginning of our first acquaintance when you and I were first Students in Trinitie Hall in Cambridge t is true that when wee were first there fellow commoners our ambitions were to be after Doctors of the Commons and though I then trivanted my time and was none of the best proficients yet what by the freenesse of my purse and favour of friends I tooke my Degree when the time of commencement came and so shuffled in amongst the rest of my fellow students that it was put upon me without question and then that one old English meeter came into my minde A Master of Art is not worth a fart Vnlesse he be in the Schooles A Batcheler of Law is not worth a straw Vnlesse he be amongst fooles ANd then I knew withall how to cheat the Latin proverb which sayth Cucullus non facit Monachum presuming that the head and that onely made the Doctor Sir I would not have been so plain to any but your selfe whom I knowe to be a fellow practitioner in all my former proceedings and come a like sufferer in these our present C●lamities which makes mee unto you so freely to confesse my selfe and not without a sorrowfull sigh to say Qui non ante Cavet Iste Passus erit quod sit triste Since he is not well to speed Who before hand takes not heed YOu know Doctor and no man better that being Cucullated and admitted into the Commons we must carry our selves like souldiers doubling our files to the right hand to the left such is our case in dealing with our clyents for receiving of our fees it is not fitting that the left hand should know what the right hand doth and notwithstanding I know my insufficiency in the imperiall or civill Lawe as onely verst in the ordinary Tenents and common places for I ever loved too much my pleasure to take ●oo much paynes at my study yet I so sk●ued my selfe into Causes and tooke the occasion of all adva●tages gathering up crumbs I cared not from under whose Table that in processe of time I picked up a thousand pounds in my purse which not willing it should lye idle and rust in a corner I was apt to put it out to Opus and Vsus But child as I was delivering it into the hands of Child the Scrivener I was cheated of it all at a clap never was Roan served such an horse trick notwithstanding which I bore it cut bravely and though both purse and pockets were prettily emptied yet I ba●ed nothing in my countenance and Dominie Doctor was then the onely thing I had to trust to which supported mee in my credit assisted with my small practise and loud clamour in the Courts For how could wee live at that full rate to feed high and drinke deep to carry all our deportments in that gentile garbe by ordinary fees and common gratuities no where skill is scanted we must use slight and subtilty and when learning is lacking wee must fly to Legerdimane nay sometimes fee as we would be feed and bribe as our desire is to be bribed this is lex Talionis the Law of Tallying manus manum fricat claw mee claw thee nay indeed the true lawe of charity to doe to others as we would have done to our selves and therefore how oft have I come off with silke stockings to divers of my Lord Arch-bishop schiefe servants with suits of Sattin plush cloaks beavers and the like and sometimes presented their Chaplains with Canonicall Cassacks and Leviticall girdles not passing the gate without a memorandum to the porter now if any shall say what was the event or successe of these to them I answer then had I countenance in the high Commission Court a poxe take it and would I had never knowne it and his mighty Metropolitan-ship would either take notice of me by affording mee a gracious nod or sweetning mee with a smile or perhaps saying how doth my good Doctor and this get me credit amonst my Clyents Intelligence from the Sumnors and paritors practise by the meanes of the Courtiers and a current Correspondence with the chiefe Doctors of the Commons so that I was not only favoured by Surrogates but friended by the Judges of the Courts themselves Moreover I was Martins Minion Lambs best beloved and Ducks delight and in which of their Courts soever I pleaded or was of Counsell I carried the cause though it were false and corrupt as the Lattin I uttered or mine owne Conscience and then I thought Doctor Roane to bee as good a man within his Prerogative Courts of Freedome as Dr. de-Roan in his great principality of France for the registers of courts were as my retainers or rather receivers by agitating of whom I passed all mine Acts whether in false or true Lattin substance or non sence all was one between them and mee as things were carried amongst us witnesse the first Act for processe and others as the Acts ad Procedendum ad Continus ndum ad molius Inquirendum ad sententium ad Detractandum ad Concludendum ad finitum and I am affraid if I had stayed by it and not took my heeles in time I had been served by this with a writ of Diem clausit Extremum and these Courses I have bin forc'd to run otherwise by this I had been forc'd to have beg'd or sold Ballets in the streets but I praise my Star I have past over all these difficulties but most for escaping of that most dangerous Writ ne excat regnum But in the way of news thus briefly The Protestants and Papists are together by the eares in France and they are all