The history and poetry of finger-rings

by Charles Edwards

[262] Burke’s Extinct Peerage, “Plantagenet Viscount L’Isle,” 432.

[263] Hollingshed; Dugdale.

[264] Echard, 363.

[265] Biographia Britannica, art. Boyle.

[266] 1814; and see Notes and Queries, v. 589.

[267] Halliwell’s Life of Shakspeare, 334.

[268] Part i. p. 346, (Harper’s edit.)

[269] P. 92. And see Johnson’s Life of Coke, p. 147; Hume, Horace Walpole. The ring is said to be retained in the family of the Countess of Nottingham.

[270] Pictorial History of England, ii. 693.

[271] Histoire de Hollande, 215, 216; and also see the Biographia Britannica, vol. 5, art. Devereux.