St. James's.
_Inscription on Penny of George III._ (Vol. vii., p. 65.).--"Stabit
quocunque jeceris" (_it will stand in whatever way you throw it_) is the
well-known motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to the arms of the
island, which are--Gules, three armed legs argent, flexed in triangle,
garnished and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that the three legs of
Mann were also on the penny J. M. A. mentioned.
Some curious lines about this motto are to be found in _The Isle of Mann
Guide_, by James Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850): one verse is--
"With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat,
He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete,
He surrounded the whole with four fine Roman _feet_.
They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,'
A thorough-paced Roman Iamb."
The fore-mentioned work also contains a song entitled "The Copper Row,"
referring to the disturbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840.