[452] Ibid., vol. i, p. 159.
[453] This ring is figured as frontispiece to the writer’s “Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia and London, 1913.
[454] From a letter written by Bishop Greer to the author, September 22, 1916.
[455] Kirchmann, “De anulis,” Lugd. Bat., 1672, p. 185.
[456] Tractatus de officio episcopi, ad Henricum Senonensem episcopum, cap. ix.
[457] H. Druitt, Costume in Brass, p. 98.
[458] “Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie,” ed. by Dom Fernan Cabrol, vol. i, Paris, 1907, col. 2187, art. anneau by Leclercq.
[459] X. Barbier de Montault, “Le costume et les usages ecclésiastiques selon la tradition romaine,” Paris (1897), vol. i, pp. 163, 164.
[460] Ibid., vol. i, pp. 164–170.
[461] Ibid., vol. i, pp. 175, 176.