Literary. Motto, _Improve your hours for they never return_. A shelf of books very similar to that in the plate of George Goodwin, has a cloth festoon looped above it; the motto is on a circle enclosing the winged hourglass; the scroll-work above this is made into the form of a face. This plate closely resembles that of the Stepney Society, in Wethersfield, which is by Doolittle, and leads to the conclusion that this is also his work. In 1737 the towns of Guilford, Saybrook, Killingsworth, and Lyme formed a Library Association. It was dissolved a little before 1800, and Guilford formed one by itself: at about the same time the young people of the town started a library, and these two were united in 1823 and formed the Union Library whose plate is noticed below. 336. GUILFORD. _Union Library._ Pictorial. The American eagle, with shield, olive branch, bunch of arrows, and the ribbon with the motto, _E pluribus unum_, is printed from a woodcut; the motto, _Improve your hours for they never return_, is printed from type beneath. 337. GUINAUD. _Henry Guinaud._ Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Sans venin_. A bow and quiver of arrows and a Gainsborough hat with a stick thrust through it are seen in the ornamentation. The arms are peculiarly unpleasant, being a huge ten-legged scorpion printed very black. This is repeated in the crest. Of Baltimore. 338. GURNEY. _Henry Gurney. Esqr. Philadelphia._ Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Sperne successus alit_. 339. HALE. _Robert Hale Esqr of Beverly._ Armorial. Chippendale. No motto. Signed, _N. Hurd Scp._ Prominent man in Massachusetts; under Pepperell at Louisburg. From this family of Hales came Nathan Hale. 340. HALL. _James Hall._ Armorial. Chippendale. No motto. Not signed, but attributed to Turner. Lawyer and author of Philadelphia. 341. HALL. _Thomas Hall. 1787._ Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Believed to be the first postmaster under Washington, in Charleston, S.C. 342. HALL. _William Hall._ Armorial. Arms, Quarterly 1st and 4th, Sable, three talbot’s heads erased argent, collared gules, 2nd and 3rd, Sable, three leopard’s heads jessant-de-lys, orgeant. Crest, a talbot’s head erased sable. 343. HALLOWELL. _Robert Hallowell._ Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto-ribbon empty. This plate is not signed, but is probably the work of Callender. Comptroller of the Customs in Boston. A Loyalist whose home was mobbed. One of his sisters married Samuel Vaughn, whose plate impales the Hallowell arms. 344. HAMERSLEY. _J. W. Hamersley._ Plain armorial. Motto, _Honore et amore_. Signed, _Faithorne_. A New York lawyer. 345. HAMILTON. _William Hamilton._ Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. No motto. Of Pennsylvania. A Loyalist. Nephew of Governor James Hamilton. His country seat was “The Woodlands,” now the Woodland Cemetery of Philadelphia. 344. HANCHETT. _John Hanchett._