John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
10432 Appendix John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 10432 |
| AUTHOR: | Appendix |
| QUOTATION: | Fiat justitia ruat cœlum. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Watson: Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions (1602). Prynne: Fresh Discovery of Prodigious New Wandering-Blazing Stars (second edition, London, 1646). Ward: Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America (1647). Fiat Justitia et ruat Mundus.—Egerton Papers (1552, p. 25). Camden Society (1840). Aiken: Court and Times of James I., vol. ii. p. 500 (1625). January 31, 1642, the Duke of Richmond in a speech before the House of Lords used these words: Regnet Justitia et ruat Cœlum. (Old Parliamentary History, vol. x. p. 28. |