[45] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, 246.

[46] Wilson’s Archæological Dictionary, Art. Rings.

[47] Chambers’s Miscellany.

[48] Cardanus, lib. vii. de Lapidibus.

[49] Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes—The Borgias.

[50] Notes to Tallis’s Edit. of Shakspeare.

[51] Act IV. Scene 2.

[52] Nichols’s Lapidary, 54, 57; Kobell, 274.

[53] Hill’s Theophrastus, p. 75, notes n. y.

[54] Chances, Act 1, Sc. 3.