Feb. 21. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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women." He will find some valuable " Notes " on 

 Hebrew statistics in the 1st and 2d chapters of 

 Numbers, that appear to militate against his 

 theory ! (Numb. i. 1, 2, 3., ii. 32.) A. A. D. 



SERJEANTS RINGS AND MOTTOES. 



(Vol. v., pp. 59. 92. 110.) 



The following will, I believe, be found to be a 

 correct list of the Serjeants' mottoes during the 

 last twenty years. The Law Reports not being 

 probably accessible to all your readers to whom 

 the subject may be one of interest, I have com- 

 piled this list with the view of preserving (in as 

 brief a form as possible) in your pages, what is 

 now scattered through many volumes. 



1832. 



18.34. 

 1837. 

 1838-9. 

 1839. 



1840. 



1842. 



1843. 

 1844. 



1845. 



1847. 

 1848. 

 1850. 



Serjeants. 

 J. Gurney 

 J. T. Coleridge 

 T. Denman 

 J. Williams 

 T. Coltman 

 T. Erskine 

 W. H. Maule 

 R. M. Rolfe 

 J. Manning 

 J. Halcomb 

 W. F. Channell 

 W. Shee 

 D.C.Wrangham ^ 



W. Glover 



S. Gaselee 

 J. V. Thompson 

 F. S. Murphy 

 H. G. Jones 

 A. S. Dowling 

 N. R. Clarke 

 J. B. Byles 

 . E. Bellasis 

 J. A. Kinglake 

 C. C. Jones 

 W. Erie 

 T. J. Piatt 



Allen 



S. Bain 



Wilkins 

 . N. Williams 



Walllnger 



Martin 



Miller 



R. 



E 



C. 



E. 



A. 



S. 



R. 



> Justo secerne iniquum. 



Lex omnibus una. 

 Tutela legum. 

 Jus suum cuique. 

 Judicium pariuvi. 

 Suum cuique. 

 Suaviter fortiter. 



Honor nomenque mane- 

 hunt. 



' Regina et lege gaudet 



seroiens. 

 Nee temere nee timide. 



■? 



Incidere Ludum. 

 Bene Volens. 

 Onus allexit. 

 Sapiens qui assiduus. 

 Metuis secundus. 



■ Paribus legibus. 



Tenax justitia:. 

 Labor et fides. 

 Hie per tot casus. 

 A Deo et Begina. 

 Non quo sed quomodo. 

 Legum servi ut lihere. 

 Quid quandoque deceat. 

 Lahore. 

 Honeste niti. 



N.B. The subsequent titles of those of the above 

 learned Serjeants who have received promotion 

 are omitted for brevity sake. J. B. Colman. 



Eye. 



Mr. Foss is, I believe, mistaken in supposing 

 that all the Serjeants called at the same time have 

 the same motto. That is the usual practice, but 



it has not been invariably observed. Sir John 

 AValter, Sir Henry Yelverton, and Sir Thomas 

 Trevor, were all called on the same day (May 10, 

 1 Car. I.). Sir John Walter and Sir Thomas 

 Trevor gave the same motto on their rings, and 

 Sir Henry Yelverton gave rings with a different 

 motto. There are other instances of the like kind ; 

 that above referred to 1 take from the only old 

 law-book I have now at hand (Croke's Reports). 



C. H. Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



The following is probably the case referred to at 

 p. 92. It is contained in 1 Modern Reports, case 30. : 



"Seventeen serjeants being made the 14th day of 

 November, a daye or two after, Serjeant Powis, 

 the junior of them all, coming to the King's Bench 

 bar. Lord Chief Justice Kelynge told him that he had 

 something to say to him, viz., that the rings which he 

 and the rest of the serjeants had given weighed but 

 eighteen shillings apiece ; whereas Fortescue, in his 

 book De Laudibus Legum Angliie., says, • The rings 

 given to the Chief Justices and to the Chief Baron 

 ought to weigh twenty shillings apiece ; ' and that he 

 spoke not this expecting a recompense, but that it 

 miglit not be drawn into a precedent, and that the 

 young gentlemen there might take notice of it." 



W. H. Lammin. 



Fulham. 



Mr. Foss quotes what he considers the happiest 

 of these mottoes. I think the following at least as 

 happy, and certainly more classical. I believe 

 (but am not sure) it was adopted by Mr. Serjeant 

 Bosanquet. I need not point out its application : 

 " Antiquam exquirite matrem." 



F. R. 



LEARNED MEN OP THE NAME OF BACON. 



(Vol.iii., pp.41. 151.) 



As no one appears inclined to follow up the 

 suggestion of your correspondent with regard to 

 the learned men of the name of Bacon, I have 

 drawn up the followijig list, which I have met in 

 the course of my reading, according to their dates. 



1st. Robert Bacon, an eminent divine, born 

 1168, and died 1248. Ha studied at Oxford, and 

 perfected his education at Paris ; his principal 

 work was the life of his friend and patron, Ed- 

 mund, Archbishop of Canterbury, which was highly 

 esteemed; he also wrote many other learned 

 works. 



2nd. Roger Bacon, the learned monk ; of him it 

 will suffice for me to mention the date of his birth 

 and death, as none will dispute his right to a place 

 in the list. He was born near Ilchester, in Somer- 

 setshire, 1214, and died at Oxford 1294. 



3rd. John Bacon (surnamed the Resolute Doctor) 

 was born at the latter end of the thirteenth cen- 

 tury, in the little village of Baconthorpe, in Nor- 



