First of all,
Raising without doing mem protection is useless. Especially if they died sometime in the past hour. It's more effective when you wait a day or so, but then someone else probably did it.
Second,
How did you fail to raise him without mems? You just... raise. Without casting rejuv. And I'd be surprised if you didn't have HULP, so you should've HULPed the cleric who was rejuving.
Third,
Did you pay the resurrecting cleric ten plat, as you suggested, or does this not apply to you?
-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.
"A good war is very instructive." -- Me.