"Rapido contrarius orbi"

No answer having appeared to the inquiry of N.B., it may be stated that, in Hartshorne's *Book-Rarities of Cambridge*, mention is made of a painting, in Emanuel College, of "Abp. Sancroft, sitting at a writing-table with arms, and motto, *Rapido contrarius orbi*. P.P. Lens, F.L." Brayley, in his *Concise Account of Lambeth Palace*, describes a portrait, in the vestry, of "A young man in a clerical habit, or rather that of a student, with a motto beneath, 'Rapido contrarium orbo'" (whether the motto, as thus given, is the printer's or the painter's error does not appear), "supposed to be Abp. S…