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.
1641
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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.
Created/published
[London] : [S.n.], Printed in this happy yeare, 1641.
Description
8 p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Roane, Doctor, author.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.
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Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R8301
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.164[6]
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), T473B
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.164[6]
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), T473B
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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FAST ACC 271402 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Albert H. and Shirley Small Acquisitions Endowment Fund. From dealer's description: "Bound in recent 1/4 calf, marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Light browning and foxing, still a very good copy. From the collection of Anthony Taussig with his bibliographic citations on front endpaper. Sole edition. One of several satires in the beginning of the Cromwellian Revolution directed at the Doctors' Commons, the fraternity of "civilians" or lawyers who practiced in the Ecclesiastical Courts. Long an object of resentment and ridicule, charged with incompetence and corruption, they came under vigorous attack with the suppression of the Ecclesiastical Courts in the first long Parliament of 1641. "Doctors' Commons" was still a favorite object of satire in the 19th century, notably in Charles Dickens David Copperfield. "Dr. Roane was one of the most eminent doctors who acted in Laud's Ecclesiastical Courts; he fled from the indignation of the House of Commons, and is frequently alluded to in pamphlets and broadsides ..." Here he is seen "in lay costume, with a pack suspended by a stick over his shoulder, walking on a path which leads to a mound ... on which he appears again ..." Captioned verse issues forth from a tower on the right: "O poore Roane,/ Thou art quit gone/ And left all alone,/ O Hone, oh Hone."--Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Div. 1, Political and Personal Satires. Vol. I, 1870, No. 205. The text consists of prose and verse; in the former Roane confesses to bribery, such that "he always carried his causes successfully." To cheating and fraud: "where skill is scented we must use slight and subtilty, and when learning is lacking wee must fly to legerdimane ..." And worse: he tells of successfully defending a fellow proctor against a charge of raping the wife of a decent citizen. He "tooke her away perforce ... and made that use of this pretty matron, that you and I have done of many, but mum." And much more. The "funeral elegie" on the death of Commons, takes up the final two pages." Ordered from Robert H. Rubin Books, PO 12662, 2018-06-14, email qote.
Folger accession
271402