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Secular Investiture by the Ring: Series

The reader will find a list of mottoes, and much information on the subject of serjeants' rings, in 'Notes and Queries' (Ist Series, vol. v. pp. 110, 139, 181, 563; 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 249). The most recent instance (January 1872) of the presentation of a serjeant's ring is that of Mr. J. R. Quain, who chose for his motto 'Dare, facere, præstare.' At the Loan Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Jewellery at the South Kensington Museum, in 1872, a serjeant's gold ring, inscribed ☑ LEX X REGIS X PRÆSIDIUM, was shownthe property of Mr. John Evans-as the earliest known, the date being 1576-77. The small size of the ring would assume that it was merely complimentary.