J. Scriven } H. J. Stephen } _Lex ratione probatur._ 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 } E. H. Alderson } _Nec temerè nec timidè._ 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 } J. B. Byles } For metu_is_ read metu_it_. 1847. For E. _N._ Williams read E. _V._ Williams; and for liber_e_ read liber_i_. J. E. [Footnote 1: In 1847 his son, Mr. Justice E. V. Williams, adopted the same motto.] [Footnote 2: Vol. v. p. 92. The motto of the Onslow family, "Festina lente," is erroneously given as the serjeant's motto on his rings.] [Footnote 3: Afterwards Lord Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.] * * * * * THE OLD COUNTESS OF DESMOND. (Vol. v., pp. 145. 323.) In your Number of "N. & Q." of April 3rd, there are some curious and interesting remarks by the KNIGHT OF KERRY, respecting that wonder for length of days, the old Countess of Desmond, in which he gives the copy of an inscription on an ancient painting, stating that in the year 1614, and in the 140th year of her age, she appeared at the court of King James, to seek relief in consequence of the House of Desmond having been ruined by attainder. That this statement in the inscription is erroneous, can, I think, be proved by the following circumstances, which also seem to me to afford some light on the most obscure parts of the question. I have at this moment before me a work, which has been for many years in the library of my husband (the Rev. E. A. Bray, the Vicar of this place), and highly prized by us both, namely, a most perfect and beautiful copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's _History of the World_, published in 1614. I here give the date from the engraved title-page, which is of an allegorical description: "THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD." "AT LONDON: PRINTED FOR WALTER BVRRE." "1614." In this volume, Chapter V. (of "the first Booke of the first Part"), page 66., "Of the long Lives of the Patriarchs, and some of _late memory_," after enumerating several celebrated persons who lived to great ages, Raleigh thus speaks of the old Countess:--