Thus the motto of the Vernons, VER NON SEMPER VIRET, is a perfect pun, and so is that of the Onslows, FESTINA LENTE.

The PERIISSEM NI PER-IISSEM of the Anstruthers is liable to a similar objection.

One of that ancient race, finding that an antagonist, with whom he had fixed a friendly meeting, was determined to take the opportunity of assassinating him, prevented the hazard by dashing out his brains with a battle-axe.

Two sturdy arms brandishing such a weapon, form the usual crest of the family, with the above motto--PERIISSEM NI PER-IISSEM--I had died, unless I had gone through with it.
NOTE 10 .-- THE LEVYING OF BLACKMAIL Mac-Donald of Barrisdale, one of the very last Highland gentlemen who carried on the plundering system to any great extent, was a scholar and a well-bred gentleman.

He engraved on his broadswords the well-known lines-- Hae tibi erunt artes--pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Indeed, the levying of blackmail was, before 1745, practised by several chiefs of very high rank, who, in doing so, contended that they were lending the laws the assistance of their arms and swords, and affording a protection which could not be obtained from the magistracy in the disturbed state of the country.