INDEX.
Abbots invested with the ring, [231]
‘Abraxas,’ definition of, [139]
Adriatic, marriage of the Doge of Venice with the, [419], [529]
‘Agla,’ the mystic word inscribed on rings, [137]
Agnes, legend of the saint and the ring, [239]
Alcock, Bishop, on consecration of nuns, [233]
Alexandrinus, Clemens, advice on rings, [39]
‘Alhstan’ ring, the, [62]
Amelia, memorial ring of the Princess, [375]
American ring, gigantic, [488]
Amulet-rings, [103], [126], [138], [166], [140], [141], [147]
Ancient custom of Archbishops of Rouen, [211]
Anecdote of a mourning-ring used at a wedding, [449]
Angelo, ring of Michael, [470]
Anglo-Saxons, betrothal rings of the, [306]
Anne, mourning ring of Queen, [373]
‘Annuli Ecclesiæ,’ Bishops’ rings so called, [212]
Antique intaglio rings with mottoes, [418]
Antoinette, ring of Queen Marie, [374]
Apollo and Marsyas, ring of, [470]
Archery, rings prizes for, [444]
Armenians, betrothal rings among the, [312]
Arnulphus, ring of Bishop, [228]
Arundel Collection of gem rings, [462]
Ashantee, rings from, [455]
Astrological rings, [108]
Bailewski Collection, Jewish betrothal ring in the, [300]
Bards rewarded with rings, [192]
Bavarian peasant’s ring, [84]
Becket, ring from the shrine of Thomas à, [247]
‘Beef Steak’ Club, ring of the, [193]
Bequests of rings, [355]
Berquem, rings engraved by Louis de, [450]
Berry, Lady, the fish and the ring, [100]
Bessborough Collection of gem-rings, [462]
— — religious ring in the, [258]
Betrothal and wedding rings, [275], [526]
— — — — of the Jews, [298], [299]
— — — — — — Romans, [303]
— — — — — — Anglo-Saxons, [306]
— — — — — — Germans, [310]
— — — — — — Italians, [310]
— — — — — — Middle Ages, [307]
— — — — — — Armenians, [312]
— — — — in the North, [305]
— — — — — — of Sir Thomas Gresham, [318]
— — — — — — Martin Luther, [481]
— rings divided, [309], [316]
Bishops buried with rings, [203]
— rings used to seal baptismal fonts, [212]
Bishops’ rings, manner of benediction, [219]
— — — of investiture, [209], [213]
— — engravings on, [212]
— — used as signets, [213]
— — importance attached to, [213]
— — how worn, [218]
— resignation of, by the ring, [211]
— rings taken from degraded, [218]
Bitton, ring of Bishop de, [228]
Blaize, rings on the fingers of St., [221]
Blessing of coronation-rings, [179]
— — cramp-rings, [163], [522]
Boccaccio’s fable of the three rings, [451]
Bonomi, M., on Pharaoh’s ring, [1]
Borgias, poison rings of the, [434]
Bowet, ring of Archbishop, [225]
Braybrooke Collection, Jewish marriage rings in the, [299]
— — Gemmel ring in the, [321]
— — rings with death’s-heads in the, [372]
— — ring of Pope Boniface in the, [207]
— — pilgrims’ rings in the, [265]
— — Roman and Romano-British rings in the, [41]
— — Royalist mourning ring in the, [371]
— — mourning rings of Mary and William III. in the, [374]
— — mortuary ring in the, [383]
— — ring of Tippoo Saib in the, [490]
— — nun’s ring in the, [240]
— — thumb-ring in the, [89]
Bribe rings, [444]
Bride-cake, rings placed in, [171]
British Museum, gem-rings in the, [459]
Brooches and rings, [74]
Bunyan, ring of John, [495]
Burnet, bequest of ring by Bishop, [363]
Bursting of rings a bad omen, [168]
‘Bury’ wills, bequests of rings in the, [356]
Byron, lines by, on the wedding-ring, [277]
Cabalistic ring, [139]
Cantelupe, ring of Bishop de, [229]
Carbuncle rings, [159]
Cardinals buried with rings, [203]
— — invested with rings, [215]
— — rings laid aside on Good Friday, [216]
Castellani Collection, rings in the, [46]
Catherine, legend of the spousal ring of St., [238]
Chaplet, origin of the, [252]
Chariclea, famous ring of, [463]
Charles I., signet ring of, [461]
— — memorial rings of, [366]
Charles II., rings stolen from, [452]
— — signet-ring of, [461]
— — mourning-ring of, [371]
Charlemagne charmed by a ring, [115]
Charm rings of the Greeks and Romans, [103]
— — Benvenuto Cellini on, [105]
— — of the Oxford Conjurer, [132]
Charms, Sigil, [113]
Charters confirmed by rings, [184]
Chichester, rings belonging to the Dean and Chapter of, [225]
Childeric, ring of King, [386]
Christ, espousals to, [233]
Christian rings, representations on, [38], [258]
Claddugh wedding-rings, [320]
Clerical fondness for rings, [220]
Clovis, ring-token of King, [323]
Cockatrice, mystic properties of the, [152]
Cologne, legend of the Three Kings of, [143]
Colour, change of, in jewels evil portents, [160]
Commonwealth, rings during the, [288]
Cork, ring-token to the Earl of, [351]
Cornwall, ancient signet-ring found in, [266]
Coronation rings, [177]
— ring of Queen Elizabeth, [165]
— — — James II., [177]
Coronets on rings, [475]
Cotterell, curious ring bequeathed by Sir Charles, [361]
Cramp-rings, [162], [522]
Cranmer, ring of Archbishop, [217]
Cromwell crest, ring on the, [421]
Cross, the true, wood of in rings, [141]
Crystallomancy, [100]
Cuerdale, Saxon rings found at, [63]
Curious advertisements of rings in cakes, [173]
Custom, curious Russian ring, [447]
Dactylomancia, or ring divination, [111]
Dancas, a thank-offering ring, [247]
Darnley ring, the, [460]
Days, rings worn on particular, [165]
Decade rings, [248]
Deæ Matres, worship of the, [107]
Devereux ring, the, [338]
Device rings illustrative of death, [372]
Devonshire gems, the, [458]
Diamond-pointed rings, [76]
Diplomacy, rings given in, [184], [422]
Divinating power in a ring, [450]
Divination by prayer-book and ring, [172]
— — sounds, [113]
— — rings in wedding-cakes, [170]
Doctors’ rings, [191]
Doctors’ Commons, rings mentioned in wills at, [356]
Earliest materials of rings, [3]
Early Christian rings, [258], [259], [268]
Ecclesiastical mortuary, or ‘corse-present,’ [221]
— usages, rings in connection with, [198]
Edgcumbe, Lady, and the ring, [429]
Edward I., token-ring of, [324]
Edward the Confessor, ‘pilgrim’ ring of, [116], [516]
Egyptian rings, [5]
— — exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, [12]
— — — at the Louvre, [13]
— — representations on, [11]
— glass rings, [13]
— ring with double keeper, [17]
Egyptians, their fondness for rings, [10]
— modern rings of the, [16]
Eldon, memorial ring of, [375]
Elfric’s canon against clerical rings, [220]
Elizabeth, token-ring of Queen, [343]
Eloy, rings of St., [232]
Enchanted rings of the Greeks, [113]
Engagement-ring of the Prince Regent, [284]
Epilepsy, rings to cure, [153]
Episcopal rings, [209], [225], [230], [239]
— — engravings on, [212]
— — fashion of, [216]
— — formula of investiture with, [214]
— — usually set with sapphires, [217]
— ring of St. Loup, [217]
Episode in ring history, [453]
Escutcheon ring, French, [81]
Espousals to Christ, [233], [259]
Essex ring, the, [336], [528]
Ethelswith, Queen of Mercia, ring of, [55]
Ethelwulf, ring of King, [54]
Etruscan rings, [18]
— — in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, [20]
— — — — British Museum, [15]
— — — — Waterton Collection, [15]
‘Evil eye,’ rings to preserve from the, [151]
Evil portents connected with rings, [165]
Fish and the ring, legends of the, [98], [510]
Fishes, rings found in the bodies of, [439]
Fisherman’s ring, the, [198]
Fleet marriages, [282]
Forensic order of knighthood, [191]
Formula for blessing cramp-rings, [164]
— — investing bishops with rings, [215]
Fotheringay, ring-relic of, [475]
French ‘escutcheon’ ring, [81]
— Régard, Souvenir, and Amitié rings, [414]
— rings, [79], [81]
— episcopal rings, [228]
Funerals, rings given to attendants at, [364]
Gardiner, ring of Bishop, [226]
Garter rings, [193]
Gems mounted in Roman rings, [30], [40]
Gemmel rings, [313], [318]
Gentlemen formerly distinguished by rings, [446]
George III., ring-token to, [352]
German ‘liberation’ rings, [448]
Germans, interchange of rings among the, [310]
‘Gesta-Romanorum,’ ring stories in the, [124]
‘Giardinetti’ rings, [79]
Gift-rings of the Romans, [46]
Glasgow, ring in the arms, of the city of, [98]
Gnostic rings, [107]
Gold ring at Irish weddings, [173]
Gray the poet, bequest of rings by, [374]
Greece, interchange of rings in modern, [311]
Greek Church, rings how worn in the, [293]
Græco-Egyptian gold rings, [7]
Greek ring in form of a crescent, [26]
— and Roman rings, [18], [50]
— — — charm rings, [103], [113]
Gresham, wedding-ring of Sir Thomas, [319]
Gretna Green marriages, [283]
Grey, linked rings of Lady, [317]
Gundulf, ring of Bishop, [213]
Gyges, ring of, [96], [508]
Hatton, charm ring of Lord Chancellor, [161]
Hebrew betrothal and marriage-rings, [298]
Henrietta Maria, ring of Queen, [493]
Henry VII., charm ring of, [133]
Henry of Worcester, ring of, [230]
Henry IV. of Germany, ring-token sent by, [326]
Heraldic ring, [481]
Hereford Cathedral, rings found in, [227]
Herrick on the wedding-ring, [276]
‘Heth,’ the sacred name inscribed on rings, [140]
Hilary, ring of Bishop, [225]
Hoof-rings, charmed, [153]
Identification by means of rings, [426]
Incidents and customs in connection with rings, [419]
Indian rings, [78], [84]
Inscription rings, [390], [417]
Inscriptions on glass with diamond rings, [77]
Interchange of rings among the Germans, [310]
Investiture of Abbots with rings, [231]
— — Bishops with rings, [215]
— — Cardinals with rings, [215]
— — Novices with rings, [232]
— secular, by the ring, [177]
Ipomydon, ring-token given to, [327]
Irish Academy, episcopal ring in the Royal, [230]
Irish, early, rings, [61], [65]
— weddings, gold rings at, [173]
Iron rings of the Romans, [25], [303]
— — French lines on, [303]
Ishtar, legend of, [7]
Italian rings, [76], [310]
Ivory Egyptian rings, [8]
— Trinity rings, [487]
James of Scotland, ring-token sent by King, [327]
Jasper amulet-rings, [148]
Jeffreys, token-ring given to Judge, [351]
Jet, talismanic virtues of, [106]
Jews, betrothal and marriage-rings of the, [298]
— covenant-rings of the, [297]
— ring worn by the High Priest of the, [91]
John, token-rings sent to, [325]
— ring of the Order of St., [193]
Johnson, wedding-ring of Dr., [279]
Josephus, account of charm-rings by, [92]
— on the rings of the Israelites, [3]
Jupiter, the planet, propitious for weddings, [94]
Kenilworth Castle, ring found at, [473]
Kensington Museum, memorial rings in the, [388]
Kentigern, legend of St., [98]
Key-rings, Roman, [45], [51], [293]
Keys delivered at weddings, [294]
Kilsyth, loss of a ring by Lady, [167]
Kings buried with their rings, [385]
Kirchmann on episcopal rings, [210]
Knight Hospitaller, ring of a, [196]
Knight, legend of the cruel, [99]
Knighthood, rings of, [181]
Lacedemonian rings, [18]
Lawsuits, rings an authority in, [184]
Legacy of rings to shrines, [244]
Legend of St. Agnes and the ring, [239]
— — — Catherine and the ring, [238]
— — the fish and the ring, [98], [510]
— — — ‘Royal of France’ jewel, [133]
— — Marianson and the rings, [354]
— — St. Mark’s ring, [119]
— — a ring derived from the North, [131]
— — the ‘Pilgrim’ ring, [117], [516]
— — — Three Kings of Cologne, [143]
— — — Lady of Toggenburg, [354]
— — a ring of espousals received from Our Saviour, [237]
— — — — on the statue of Venus, [129]
Lines on wedding-rings, [276]
Lion, King-at-Arms, ring given to, [194]
Loadstone set in wedding-rings, [304]
Londesborough Collection, charm-ring against the ‘Evil Eye’ in the, [153]
— — decade ring of Delhi work in the, [253]
— — early Christian ring in the, [47]
— — episcopal ring in the, [230]
— — gemmel rings in the, [319]
— — Jewish marriage-rings in the, [298]
— — jointed betrothal ring in the, [314]
— — Irish rings in the, [61]
— — Italian rings in the, [76]
— — later period rings in the, [75]
— — love gift ring, [47]
— — ‘Lucretia’ ring in the, [318]
— — magical thumb-ring in the, [89]
Londesborough Collection, mechanical mystic ring in the, [147]
— — memorial and mortuary rings in the, [373]
— — Moorish rings in the, [83]
— — mortuary rings in the, [383]
— — motto ring in the, [416]
— — Papal ring in the, [208]
— — ‘religious’ ring in the, [251]
— — ring of Bishop Thierry in the, [204]
— — toadstone rings in the, [157]
Lost rings, singular recovery of, [436]
Louis XII., rings of, [461], [469]
Love-knots, rings with, [414]
Love-pledges, rings as, [283]
Lucretia, rings with representations of, [318]
Luther, betrothal and marriage-rings of Martin, [481]
Lynnoch, Turlough, signet-ring of, [194]
Magi, rings of the, [143]
Magical thumb-rings, [89]
Maintenon, ring of Madame de, [469]
Man, ring-custom in the Isle of, [443]
Mantle and ring, vows taken with, [241]
Mark, ring of St., [119]
Marlborough gem-rings, [461]
Marriage-ring of the Doge of Venice, [99], [419], [529]
Marriages, fleet, [282]
— Gretna Green, [283]
Marriage ring of Joseph and the Virgin Mary, [93], [505]
— of prelates, [234]
— — Archbishop Rich to the Virgin, [237]
Martin, rings of St., [285]
Martyrs and saints, relics of, in rings, [142]
Mary, Queen of Scots, investiture rings of, [182]
— — — — signet-ring of, [459], [478]
Massinissa and Sophonisba, figures of, on a ring,
[38]
Materials of wedding-rings, [285], [377]
Mayhew, ring of Bishop, [227]
Mecca, rings of, [17]
Mechanical mystic ring, [147]
Medical amulet-rings, [147], [161]
Medici, rings of the, [471]
Mediæval romances, charmed rings in, [121]
‘Memento mori’ rings, [372]
Memorial and mortuary rings, [355], [377]
— ring of the Princess Amelia, [375]
— rings, Charles I., [366]
— — Charles II., [371]
— — Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, [361]
— — Countess of Hartford, [366]
— — Mary, Queen of Scots, [365]
— — Royalist, [371]
Merchant’s ‘mark’ rings, [84]
Meridian rings, [451]
Merovingian rings, [69]
Modern French, [83]
Montfaucon’s theory of the zodiac, [109]
‘Month’ rings of the Poles, [115]
Morgan, Papal ring in the collection of Mr. Octavius, [207]
Moore’s poem on the ‘Ring,’ [129]
— allusion to his mother’s wedding-ring, [281]
Moorish rings, [83]
Motto-rings, [390]
Mourning rings, [360]
Mourning ring of Queen Anne, [374]
— — — Lord Eldon, [375]
— — — Queen Mary and William III., [374]
— — — Lord Nelson, [375]
— — — the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, [384]
Mummy, rings on the fingers of a, [10]
Museum, Egyptian rings in the South Kensington, [12]
— — — — — British, [5]
— Etruscan ring with chimeræ in the British, [15]
— Prince of Canino’s ring in the British, [14]
— ring of Queen Sebek-nefru, [7]
— — — Sennacherib in the British, [9]
— Egyptian rings in the Louvre, [13]
Names on rings, [416]
Necromantic rings, [146]
Nelson, memorial rings of Lord, [375]
New Year’s Gift rings, [421]
Nobility, rings badges of, [195]
Northmen, wedding-keys of the old, [294]
Novices invested with the ring, [232]
Nuns forbidden to wear rings, [240]
Nuptial ring of the Virgin Mary, [93]
Omens, blood-dropping from the ring-finger, [168]
— breaking of rings, [168]
— bursting of rings, [168]
— fall of rings, [167]
— loss of rings, [167]
— taking off rings, [171]
Oriental rings, [90], [491]
Origin of merchant’s ‘mark’ rings, [192]
Orpine plant, rings with devices of the, [169]
Oswald, token-ring of, [325]
Pagan graves, rings found in, [69]
Paradise rings, [257]
Parthenon, rings in the treasury of the, [43]
Pedlar’s rings, [73]
Pendrell, token-ring given to, [350]
Pepys, bequest of rings by, [363]
Perceval of Galles, bequest of rings by, [328]
Perrot, bequest of rings by, [344]
Persian rings, [17]
Perugia, nuptial ring of the Virgin at, [93]
Perugino’s picture of the marriage of the Virgin, [94]
‘Pilgrim’ ring of Edward the Confessor, [116], [516]
Pilgrim rings, [264]
Planetary rings, virtues ascribed to, [108]
Poets Laureate, rings given to, [191]
Poison-rings, [432]
Poles, ‘month’ rings of the, [115]
Polycrates, ring of, [96]
Pontifical rings, [205], [207]
Pope, bequest of rings by, [374]
Pope Boniface, ring of, [207]
— Pius II., ring of, [207]
— — IX., ring of, [201]
Popes buried with their rings, [202]
Popes, their sanctity disregarded, [202]
Porcelain rings, Egyptian, [8]
Portrait-rings, [496]
Posy-rings, [390]
Power of the royal ring, [182]
‘Poynings,’ the charter of, confirmed by a ring, [186]
Precious stones, episcopal rings enriched with, [216]
Prometheus, the ring of, [95]
Property conveyed by a ring, [185]
Puzzle-rings, [322]
Ring, Alhstan, the, [62]
— of Angelo, Michael, [470]
— — Bitton, Bishop, [228]
— — Pope Boniface, [207]
— — Bowett, Archbishop, [225]
— — John Bunyan, [495]
— — Cantelupé, Bishop, [229]
— — Chariclea, [463]
— — Charles I. and Charles II., [461]
— — Childeric, [386]
— — Cranmer, Archbishop, [217]
— found in the grave of St. Cuthbert, [227]
— the Darnley, [460]
— of Eloy, St., [232]
— — Ethelswith, Queen of Mercia, [55]
— — Ethelwulf, King, [54]
— — Gardiner, Bishop, [226]
— — Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, [213]
— — Gyges, [96], [508]
— — Queen Henrietta Maria, [493]
— — Henry of Worcester, [230]
— — Hilary, Bishop, [225]
— — Lion King-at-Arms, [194]
— — Louis XII., [461], [469]
— — Loup, St., [217]
— — Turlough Lynnoch, [194]
— — Madame de Maintenon, [469]
— — Mary, Queen of Scots, [459], [478]
— — Mayhew, Bishop, [227]
— — the Great Mogul, [491]
— — Lorenzo de Medici, [471]
— — Pius II., [207]
— — Pius IX., [201]
— — Polycrates, [96]
— — Sir Walter Raleigh, [486]
— — Cola di Rienzi, [465]
Ring of Seffrid, Bishop, [225]
— the Seymour, [479]
— — Shakspeare, [484]
— of Solomon, [91], [503]
— — Roger, King of Sicily, [465]
— — the Stuarts, [492]
— — Thierry, Bishop of Verdun, [201]
— — Tippoo Saib, [490]
— — William of Wyckham, [226]
— the Worsley seal, [467]
— American gigantic, [488]
— amulet, of Prince Charles Edward, [166]
— — found at Eltham Palace, [126]
— authority of the, in law suits, [184]
— of the ‘Beef Steak’ Club, [193]
— Byzantine betrothal, [304]
— charm of the ‘Oxford Conjurer,’ [132]
— charters confirmed by the, [184]
— Claddugh wedding, [320]
— found in Cornwall, [266]
— Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, [165]
— given to the ‘Admirable’ Crichton, [194]
— on the Cromwell crest, [421]
— devices of the Medici, [473]
— diplomas sanctioned by the, [184]
— divination, [100], [172]
— of Edward the Confessor, [116], [516]
— escutcheon, French, [81]
— superstition of Henry VIII., [133]
— history, episode in, [453]
— the ‘Fisherman’s,’ [198]
— relic of Flodden Field, [478]
— — of Fotheringay, [475]
— heraldic, [481]
— diamond-pointed Italian, [76]
— of the Grand Master of the Order of St. John, [193]
— found at Kenilworth Castle, [473]
— of knighthood, [181]
— legend, [130]
— of Martin Luther, [481]
— legends of the Fish and the Ring, [98], [510]
— of St. Mark, [119]
— mourning, of Charles II., [371]
— — Royalist, [371]
— — of the Princess Amelia, [375]
— — — Queen Anne, [373]
— — — Lord Eldon, [375]
— — — Marie Antoinette, [374]
— — — Mary and William III., [374]
— — — Lord Nelson, [375]
— — — the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, [384]
— memorial, of the Countess of Hertford, [366]
— of a nun, [240]
— kissing the Pope’s, [201]
— Russian customs of the wedding, [174]
— secular investiture by the, [177]
— small wedding, [287]
— tragical incident of a, [449]
— marriage, of the Doge of Venice, [89]
— legend of a, on the statue of Venus, [128]
Rings, Abbots invested with, [231]
— the mystic word ‘Agla’ on, [137]
— amulet, [148]
— Anglo-Saxon betrothal, [306]
— prizes for archery, [444]
— Arundel and Bessborough Collection of gem, [462]
— from Ashantee, [455]
— astrological, [108]
— Bavarian, [84]
— bequests of, [355]
— engraved by Berquem, [450]
— betrothal and wedding, [275], [526]
— dividing betrothal, [316]
— bursting on the fingers, [168]
— importance of Bishops’, [213]
— taken from degraded Bishops, [218]
— on the fingers of the arm of St. Blaize, [221]
— Boccaccio’s fable of the three, [451]
— offered as bribes, [444]
— of British, Saxon, and mediæval times, [53]
— British Museum collection of gem, [459]
— Byzantine, [48]
— carbuncle, [159]
— stolen from Charles II., [454]
— charm, [105], [115], [121]
— of espousals to Christ, [233], [241]
— early Christian, [258], [268]
— clerical extravagance in, [220]
— coronation, [177]
— claimed as ‘corse’ present, [221]
— during the Commonwealth, [288]
— coronets on, [475]
— cramp, [162], [522]
— customs and incidents in connection with, [419]
— with wood of the true cross, [141]
— with devices of death, [372]
— decade, [248]
— buried with the dead, [377]
— Devonshire gem, [458]
— given in diplomacy, [422]
— divination, powers of, [450]
— doctors’, [191]
— taken from the finger, an ill omen, [171]
— in connection with ecclesiastical usages, [198]
— engravings on Bishops’, [212]
— to cure epilepsy, [153]
— attached to episcopal charters, [211]
— episcopal investiture with, [215]
— — how worn, [218]
— — French, [228]
— found in the bodies of fishes, [439]
— French, [82], [415]
— garter, [193]
— gemmel, [313], [318]
— German ‘liberation,’ [448]
— in the ‘Gesta Romanorum,’ [124]
— Gnostic, [107]
— gold wedding, [84]
— at marriages of modern Greeks, [311]
— harlequin, [414]
— discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, [49]
— charmed ‘hoof,’ [153]
— identification by means of, [426]
— incidents in connection with, [419]
— inscription, [390]
— antique intagli motto, [417]
— in the Royal Irish Academy, [65]
— at Italian marriages, [310]
— talismanic virtues of jet, [107]
— Jewish betrothal and marriage, [298]
— used in Jewish covenants, [297]
— — — — synagogues, [302]
— given in lieu of dowry by the Jews, [298]
— key, [294]
— love ‘pledge,’ [283]
— loss of, an ill omen, [167]
— love-knot, [414]
— denoting love’s telegraph, [293]
— linked, [317], [322]
— life saved by, [427]
— with representations of Lucretia, [318]
— of the Magi, [143]
— Marlborough gem, [461]
— — St. Martin, [285]
— materials of wedding, [286]
— medicinal, [161]
— ‘Memento mori,’ [372]
— memorial and mortuary, [355]
— — of Charles I., [366]
— — — Mary, Queen of Scots, [365]
— merchant’s ‘mark,’ [84]
— meridian, [451]
— Merovingian, [69]
— month, of the Poles, [115]
— Moorish, [83]
— motto, [390]
— mourning, [360]
— — given at funerals, [364]
— necromantic, [146]
— New Year gift, [421]
— an ancient mark of nobility, [195]
— of the old Northmen, [305]
— novices invested with, [232]
— Oriental, [90]
— origin of ‘merchant’s marks,’ [192]
— with device of the orpine plant, [169]
— in Pagan graves, [68]
— Paradise, [257]
— of a later period, [75]
— pilgrim, [264]
— planetary virtues of, [108], [112]
— poison, [432]
— conferred on Poets Laureate, [191]
— pontifical, [205], [207], [209]
— buried with popes, [202]
— portrait, [496]
— posy, [390]
— profusely worn, [72]
— property conveyed by, [185]
— recovery of lost, [436]
— ‘Regard,’ [414]
— religious, [133], [138], [248], [254]
— reliquary, [142], [257]
— remarkable, [457]
— ‘Reynard the Fox’ on magical, [145]
— Roman amber and glass, [48]
— — in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, [32]
— — in the Castellani Collection, [46]
— Roman devices and inscriptions on, [41]
— of a Roman lady, [33], [43]
— gems mounted in Roman, [30], [40]
— Roman gift, [46]
— gold, when first worn in Rome, [26]
— Roman and Greek huge, [28]
— — iron, [25]
— — key, [45], [51]
— — legionary, [47]
— in the treasury of the Parthenon, [43]
— profusion of, worn by the ancients, [28], [30]
— Roman rock-crystal, [31]
— — ‘season,’ [28], [30]
— — signs engraved on, [33]
— — thumb, [29]
— — used for various purposes, [42]
— — votive, [44]
— — and Greek, in the Waterton Collection, [50]
— Runic characters on, [148], [150]
— rush, [284]
— at Russian marriages, [311]
— Russian customs with, [447]
— Saxon wire, [59]
— — found at Cuerdale, [63]
— mode of securing, [449]
— Serjeants’, [186]
— at shrines, [259]
— sigil charm, [113]
— signet, [25]
— at Spanish marriages, [312]
— gold, to cure sties, [174]
— superstitions in connection with, [91]
— magical ‘suspended,’ [112]
— talismanic, [91], [134], [140], [147], [151], [166]
— mystic ‘Tau,’ [155]
— toadstone, [155]
— given at tournaments, [197]
— discovered on the (presumed) site of Troy, [32]
— thumb, [87], [89], [139], [501]
— thank-offering, [247]
— the Three, [352]
— token,
[323]
— tooth, [495]
— Trinity, [248], [254]
— given on St. Valentine’s Day, [422]
— at Venetian marriages, [311]
— ‘Vertuosus,’ [162], [355]
— offered to the Virgin, [130]
— watch, [494]
— in wedding cakes, [170]
— — — possets, [173]
— given at wrestling-matches, [195]
— wedding, how worn, [291], [293]
— blessing wedding, [288]
— of espousals to the Virgin, [237]
— mentioned in wardrobe books, [228]
— thumb wedding, [289]
— of the Virgin in Raphael’s Sponzalizio, [291]
— ancient origin of wedding, [297]
— whistle, [494]
— worn on particular days, [165]
— zodiacal, [110]
Sanctity of the Popes disregarded, [202]
Sapphires, episcopal rings set with, [217]
Saxon rings found at Cuerdale, [63]
Scarabæus on rings, [5]
Schliemann’s, Dr., discoveries at Troy (?), [32]
Scots, wedding-ring of Mary, Queen of, [280]
Scott, Sir Walter, on superstitious charms, [132]
Season-rings of the Romans, [28], [30]
Sebek-nefru, signet-ring of, [7]
Secular investiture by the ring, [177]
Seffrid, ring of Bishop, [225]
Serjeants’ rings, [186]
Seymour ring, the, [480]
Shakspeare, rings bequeathed by, [359]
— the ring (presumed) of, [484]
Shrine of Thomas à Becket, ring from the, [247]
— — the Magi, [144]
Shrines, legacies of rings to, [244], [259]
Sicily, supposed ring of Roger, King of, [465]
Sidney, rings bequeathed by Sir Philip, [358]
Sigebert, supposed ring of King, [70]
Sigil charms, [113]
Signet-ring of Sennacherib, [9]
Singer, collection of posy-rings by Mr. J. W., [394]
Singular mode of securing rings, [449]
Soden Smith, rings in the collection of Mr. R. H., [230], [502]
Solomon’s ring, [91], [503]
Southey on zodiacal signs, [109]
Spain, ring-customs in, [312]
Spanish rings, [79]
Squirt rings, [493]
Stone and silver rings of the Romans, [31]
Stuart rings, the, [492]
Suckling, lines on a wedding-ring, by Sir John, [287]
Superstitions connected with the carbuncle, [159]
— — — change of colours in jewels, [160]
— — — gold rings, [175]
— — — rings generally, [91]
— — — toadstone, [156]
— — — turquoise, [159]
Talismanic ring, remarkable gold, [95]
Tau-rings, mystic character of, [155]
Thierry, ring of Bishop, [204]
Thumb-rings, allusions to, [88]
— — magical, [89]
— — of the Romans, [29]
— — worn in token of widowhood, [364]
Tippoo Saib, rings of, [490]
Toadstone rings, virtues of, [157]
Token-rings, Charles II., [350]
— — Earl of Derby, [348]
— — Duke of Dorset, [347]
— — Edward I., [324]
— — Queen Elizabeth, [340]
— — Earl of Essex, [336], [528]
— — George III., [352]
— — Queen Henrietta Maria, [349]
— — Henry VIII., [334], [335]
— — Henry IV. of Germany, [326]
— — James of Scotland, [327]
— — King John, [325], [332]
— — Margaret of Scotland, [333]
— — Queen Mary, [335]
— — Mary, Queen of Scots, [340]
— — Viscount Melgum, [350]
— — King Oswald, [324]
— — Sir John Perrot, [344]
— — Earl of Toulouse, [327]
Tooth rings, [495]
Tournaments, rings given at, [197]
Trinity rings, [248], [254]
— ivory rings, [487]
Troy, discoveries on the (presumed) site of, [32]
Turquoise rings, the gage d’amour of the Germans, [159]
— — their magical virtues, [158]
Valentine’s Day, rings given on St., [422]
Venetian rings, [76]
— weddings, rings at, [311]
— reliquary ring, [143]
Venice, marriage-ring of the Doge of, [99], [419], [529]
— saved by St. Mark’s ring, [119]
‘Vertuosus’ rings, [162], [355]
Virgin, gifts of rings to the, [130]
Virtues of a loadstone ring, [156]
— — — turquoise ring, [158]
— — the ring-finger, [155]
Votive rings of the Romans, [44]
Vow of chastity with mantle and ring, [241]
Wales, the Prince of, invested with a ring, [183]
Walton, rings bequeathed by Izaak, [360]
Wardrobe books, rings mentioned in the, [228]
Warwick, ring-token sent by Guy, Earl of, [331]
Washington, bequest of rings by, [363]
Watch set in a ring, [494]
Waterton Collection, curious South Saxon ring in the, [60]
— — ecclesiastical ring with figure of Christ, in the, [264]
— — Egyptian rings in the, [13]
— — episcopal ring in the, [230]
— — Etruscan ring in the, [15]
— — Gnostic rings in the, [107]
— — Greek and Roman rings in the, [50]
— — Papal rings in the, [207]
— — ring on the forefinger of a statue in the, [291]
Wedding-rings, ancient origin of, [297]
— — mentioned in ancient rituals, [290]
Wedding-ring, blessing the, [288]
— — of the ‘Claddughs,’ [320]
— — during the Commonwealth, [288], [290]
— — given by the Prince Regent, [296]
— — — — — Princess Royal, [296]
— — — — — Queen Victoria, [296]
— — plain gold, [295]
— — how worn, [291]
— — several, worn at marriages, [289]
— — worn on the thumb, [289]
— — one of the smallest, [287]
— — of the German Jews, [302]
— — in cakes, [170]
— ring of the Rev. George Bull, [290]
— — — James II., [281]
— — — Mrs. Johnson, [279]
— — — Mary, Queen of Scots, [280]
— — — Mrs. Moore, [280]
— — — Baron Rosen, [281]
— — lines by Suckling on a, [287]
— — — — Woodward on a, [277]
— — Customs of the Russians, [174]
Wells, rings belonging to the Dean and Chapter of, [231]
Whistle rings, [494]
William of Wyckham, ring of, [226]
Winchester Cathedral, rings belonging to the Dean and Chapter of, [226]
— — ring found in the tomb of William Rufus in, [385]
Wire-rings of the Saxons, [58]
Worcester Cathedral, Pontifical rings found in, [209]
‘Worsley’ seal-ring, the, [467]
Wotton, rings bequeathed by Sir Henry, [359]
Wrestling, prize-rings for, [195]
Xerxes, a great gem-fancier, [16]
Zodiac, astrological definition of the, [109]
— Montfaucon’s singular theory of the, [109]
Zodiacal signs, Southey on, [109]
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