SERJEANT'S RINGS.
(Vol. v., pp. 92. 110. 181.)
I send you the mottoes adopted by serjeants and judges, taken from the Term Reports, being, with one exception, I believe, a perfect list from 1786 to the year 1832, when Mr. Colman's list, in the 5th Volume of "N. & Q.," begins. That exception is Lord C. B. Richards, whose motto is not given. I have also made some additions to Mr. Colman's list.
| 1786. | G. Bond | Hæreditas a legibus. | |
| 1787. | A. Thomson |  | Reverentia legum. |
| S. Le Blanc | |||
| 1788. | Lord Kenyon | | Quid leges sine moribus. |
| R. Clayton | |||
| 1794. | S. Heywood | | Legum servi ut liberi. |
| J. Williams[[1]] | |||
| 1796. | A. Palmer | Evaganti frœna licentiæ. | |
| S. Shepherd | Legibus emendes. | ||
| 1799. | J. Vaughan | Paribus se legibus ambæ. | |
| J. Lens | | Libertas sub rege pio. | |
| J. Bayley | |||
| 1800. | Sir J. Scott (Lord Eldon) | Rege incolumi mens omnibus una. | |
| A. Chambre | Majorum instituta tueri. | ||
| W. D. Best | Libertas in legibus. | ||
| R. Graham | | Et placitum læti componite fœdus. | |
| A. Onslow[[2]] | |||
| 1801. | W. M. Praed | Fœderis æquas dicamus leges. | |
| 1802. | Sir E. Law (Lord Ellenborough) | Positis mitescunt sæcula bellis. | |
| 1804. | J. Mansfield | Serus in cœlum redeas. | |
| 1805. | T. M. Sutton[[3]] | Hic ames dici pater atque princeps. | |
| 1807. | G. Wood | Moribus ornes, legibus emendes. | |
| 1808. | W. Manley | | Pro rege at lege. |
| A. Pell | |||
| W. Rough | |||
| 1809. | R. H. Peckwell | | Traditum ab antiquis servare. |
| W. Frere | |||
| 1812. | V. Gibbs | Leges juraque. | |
| 1813. | H. Dampier | Consulta patrum. | |
| J. S. Copley | Studiis vigilare severis. | ||
| R. Dallas | Mos et lex. | ||
| 1814. | J. B. Bosanquet | Antiquam exquisite matrem. | |
| 1816. | J. A. Park | Qui leges juraque servat. | |
| C. Abbott (Ld. Tenterden) | Labore. | ||
| G. S. Holroyd | Componere legibus orbem. | ||
| J. Burrough | Legibus emendes. | ||
| J. Hullock | Auspicium melioris ævi. | ||
| 1817. | W. Firth | Ung loi, ung roi, ung foi. | |
| W. Garrow | Fas et jura. | ||
| 1818. | W. Taddy | Mos et lex. | |
| 1819. | J. Richardson | More majorum. | |
| V. Lawes | | Pro rege et lege. | |
| J. Cross | |||
| T. D'Oyley | |||
| 1820. | T. Peake | Æquâ lege. | |
| 1824. | R. Gifford | | Secundis laboribus. |
| W. Alexander | |||
| J. Littledale | Justitæ tenax. | ||
| W. St. J. Arabin | | Regi regnoque fidelis. | |
| T. Wilde (L. Truro) | |||
| S. Gaselee | | Bonis legibus, judiciis gravibus. | |
| R. Spankie | |||
| 1827. | T. Andrews | | More majorum. |
| H. Storks | |||
| E. Lawes | |||
| E. Ludlow | |||
| H. A. Merewether | |||
| W. O. Russell | |||
| D. F. Jones | |||
| J. Scriven | | Lex ratione probatur. | |
| H. J. Stephen | |||
| C. C. Bompas | |||
| 1828. | J. Parke | Justitiæ tenax. | |
| 1829. | E. Goulburn | Nulla retrorsum. | |
| N. C. Tindal | Quid leges sine moribus. | ||
| W. Bolland | Regi regnoque fidelis. | ||
| 1830. | W. E. Taunton | | Nec temerè nec timidè. |
| E. H. Alderson | |||
| J. Patteson | |||
| ——— Omitted in List, Vol. v., p. 181. | |||
| 1833. | T. N. Talfourd | Magna vis veritatis. | |
| 1841. | J. V. Thompson | Nec ultrà nec citrà. | |
| W. Wightman | Æquam servare mentem. | ||
| 1842. | C. Cresswell | Leges juraque. | |
| 1844. | F. Pollock | Jussa capessere. | |
| 1850. | Ld. Campbell | Justitiæ tenax. | |
| J. Jervis | Venale nec auro. | ||
| ——— Errata. | |||
| 1843. | N. R. Clarke | | For metuis read metuit. |
| J. B. Byles | |||
| 1847. | For E. N. Williams read E. V. Williams; and for libere read liberi. | ||
J. E.
Footnote 1:[(return)]
In 1847 his son, Mr. Justice E. V. Williams, adopted the same motto.
Vol. v. p. 92. The motto of the Onslow family, "Festina lente," is erroneously given as the serjeant's motto on his rings.
Afterwards Lord Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.