Southwark.
[We should be obliged by our correspondents furnishing any such
particulars of the mottoes and donors of Serjeants' rings as they
may meet with in their reading.]
"_Crowns have their Compass_" (Vol. iv., p. 428.).--The author of these
lines was Robert Barker, as is ascertained from a MS. in the Ashmolean
Museum, quoted in Halliwell's _Life of Shakspeare_, p. 207., where they
are entitled, "Certayne verses wrighten by Mr. Robert Barker, his
Majestis printer, under his Majestis picture." This is quite
confirmatory of, and is confirmed by, MARGARET GATTY'S communication.