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Special Long Island Collection Department under the direction of John M Freeth, representing 20 of the principal law lists. H. W. GOODWYN Richmond, Va. Subscription Price $3 a Year. Advertising Rates on Application. VOLUME XXXII. FEBRUARY 1921 NUMBER 2 "Ignoramus", or the War of the Gowns The Story of an Amusing Latin Play Ridiculing the Common Law. By HON. WILLIAM RENWICK RIDDELL, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario (Citations and Notes will be found at end of article on page 13) In the early part of the reign of the first Stuart King of England a spirited quarrel took place between the University of Cambridge and the Common Law Bar, the cause of the latter being espoused by no less a man than Sir Edward Coke Lord Chief Justice of England. This battle of the gowns has passed from human memory: the smoke and dust have long disappeared, and only the curious antiquarian of the law knows anything of the casus belli, the once famous "Ignoramus." James I and VI was a sound Latin scholar, having been, when a boy, thoroughly drilled in that language by the celebrated George Buchanan. The royal person, indeed, was too sacred to be made to feel the rod, but the "whippingboy" furnished to receive castigation in his stead was a brilliant success. He made such a fearful outcry and such horrible contortions as to strike terror into the royal heart-the Stuarts were all kindly and sympathetic when it did not cost them anything. It was a necessary part of a good Latin education to study somewhat carefully the various collections of the Roman Law, the Institutes, the Pandects, etc.; and while James can scarcely be called a profound Civil Lawyer, he had more than a mere smattering of the Civil Law. The Roman conception of the relation of the individual to the state is diametrically opposed to that held by the early Germanic peoples. According to the Roman view the individual had no rights which the state was bound to respect, and all laws for the protection of the individual were mere voluntary concessions by the state which the state might at any time withdraw, proprio motu et sua sponte. This is the Divine Right theory which James and all the Stuarts held in full measure. The early Germanic theory is that the rights of the individual as against the State are not based upon some law liable to be modified or suspended at will by the Sovereign, but they follow the individual everywhere and decrees derogatory thereto, are ipso facto null and void. This is the view of the English people, of the Common Law of England and James met it very early in his reign in England.2 He detested the Common Law most heartily and unfeignedly; and this dislike extended even to its professors. The triumph of Equity over the Common Law in his reign was not wholly due to the tact and suavity of Ellesmer or the rudeness and want of courtliness of Coke. Not only did James hate the principles of the Common Law, his classically trained ear was shocked by the uncouth Latin and Latinized forms in which it was expressed. This dislike, however caused, was exploited by the University of Cambridge in 1614-15. Early in 166 the University and the Town and Corporation quarreled over the preceedence of the Vice-Chancellor of the University and the Mayor of the Town. At a meeting at the Guild Hall of the Town at which the Vice-Chancellor was present, Thomas Smart, the Mayor, claimed CARR & STEINMETZ, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Suite 603 BAILEY BUILDING, CORPORATION, COMMERCIAL AND PROBATE PRACTICE. 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