The Lawyers' Patron Saint

"And now because I am speakeing of Pettyfogers, give me leave to tell you a story I mett with when I lived in Rome. Goeing with a Romane to see some Antiquityes, he showed me a chapell dedicated to one St. Evona, a lawyer of Brittanie, who he said came to Rome to entreat the Pope to give the Lawyers of Brittanie a Patron, to which the Pope replied, That he knew of no Saint but what was disposed of to other Professions. At which Evona was very sad, and earnestly begd of the Pope to think of one for him. At last the Pope proposed to St. Evona that he should goe round the church of St. John de La…