In earnest, whether it be occasioned through the countries pouerty,
or by reason of the far distance thereof from the supremer Courts,
or for that the multiplicity of petty ones neere at hand, appertaining
to the Dutchy, Stannary, and Franchises, do enable the attourneyes
and such like of small reading, to serue the peoples turne, and so
curtail the better studied Counsellours profiting; once certayne
it is, that few men of Law, haue either in our time, or in that of
our forefathers, growne heere to any supereminent height of learning,
liuely-hood or authoritie.
Of like fortune, but lesse number are the Phisicions; by how much the
fewer, by so much the greater witnesses of the soyles healthfulnes.
The most professors of that science in this Country, sauing only one
Io. Williams, can better vouch practise for their warrant, then
warrant for their practise. Amongst these, I reckon Rawe Clyes a
black Smith by his occupation, and furnished with no more learning,
then is suteable to such a calling, who yet hath ministred Phisike
for many yeeres, with so often successe & general applause, that not
only the home-bred multitude beleeueth mightily in him, but euen
persons of the better calling, resort to him from remote parts of
the realme, to make trial of his cunning, by the hazard of their
liues; & sundry, either vpon iust cause, or to cloke their folly,
report that they haue reaped their errands end at his hands.
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