Sir John Walter and Sir Thomas Trevor, 1625. _Regi legi servire libertas._ Sir Henry Yelverton, 1625. _Stat lege corona._ Sir Robert Berkeley, 1627. _Lege Deus et rex._ Robert Callis, 1627. _Regis oracula legis._ Sir George Vernon, 1627. _Rex legis regnique patronus._ Sir James Weston, 1631. _Servus regi serviens legi._ Sir Robert Heath, 1631. _Lex regis vis regis._ Sir George Jeffreys, 1680. _A Deo rex a rege lex._ Sir Michael Foster, 1736. _Nunquam libertas gratior._ Sir William Blackstone, 1770. _Secundis dubiisque rectus._ Sir Alexander Thomson, 1787. _Reverentia legum._ William Cockell, 1787. _Stat lege corona._ On Serjeant Cockell's call, "in consequence of a late regulation no rings were given to the judges, the bar, or to the attornies." Some of the older, and most of the modern, law reporters, mention the mottoes on the rings given by the serjeants. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. T. P. is informed that the custom of Serjeants-at-law presenting rings with mottoes prevailed long before A.D. 1670. In the _Journal of the Arch. Institute_, vol. vii. p. 196., he will find mention of a mediæval ring of the kind, described as "A Serjeant-at-law's gold ring, the hoop 3/8 of an inch in width, and of equal thickness, inscribed _Lex regis præsidium_." CEYREP. On June 8, 1705, fifteen Serjeants-at-law took the customary oaths at the Chancery Bar, and delivered to the Lord Keeper a ring for the Queen, and another for his H.R.H. Prince George of Denmark, each ring being worth 6_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ The Lord Keeper, Lord Treasurer, Lord Steward, Lord Privy Seal, Lord High Chamberlain, Master of the Household, Lord Chamberlain, and the two Chief Justices, received each a ring of the value of 18_s._; the Lord Chief Baron, Master of the Rolls, the Justices of either Bench and two Chief Secretaries each one worth 16_s._; the Chief Steward and Comptroller each a ring valued at 1_l._; the Marshal, Warden of the Fleet, every Serjeant-at-Law, the Attorney-General, and Solicitor-General, each a ring worth 12_s._; the three Barons of Exchequer a ring worth 10_s._; the two Clerks of the Crown, the three Prothonotaries, the Clerks of the Warrants, the Prothonotary of Queen's Bench, and the Chirographer, each a ring worth 5_s._; each Filazer and Exigenter, the Clerk of the Council, and the Custos Brevium, each a ring that cost 2_s._ 6_d._ The motto on the rings was this, "_Moribus, armis, legibus_." MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. 48. Jermyn Street. EXTERMINATION OF EARLY CHRISTIANS IN ORKNEY. (Vol. iv., p. 439.)