Memorial and Mortuary Rings
Memorial and Mortuary Rings
BEQUESTS of rings are frequently mentioned in wills of the middle and later ages. In the reign of Henry the Third, two rings were…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Drury
A A2 In the 'Bury Wills and Inventories' (Camden Society) are various bequests of rings. Some of these entries are very curious. John Baret…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: John
In the 'Wills from Doctors' Commons, 1495 to 1695' (Camden Society), Cecily, Duchess of York (1495), gives to John Metcalfe and Alice his…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Meres
John Meres, an 'Esquire Beadle' of Corpus Christi College, left, in 1558, to the Vice-Chancellor of the College a ring weighing a royal…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Thomas
Sir Philip Sidney (1586) desires that 'three gold rings, set with large diamonds, might be fashioned exactly alike, for his aunt, the…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Bossuet
Miss Agnes Strickland, in her 'Lives of the Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart,' mentions a circumstance in the life of the…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Charles
On the eve of the death of Henrietta Anne, the daughter of Charles the First, she sent most tender messages to her brothers King Charles…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Franks
Mr. Franks corrects an error of Sir Stephen Fox as to the date of the death of Sir Philip Warwick, which took place January 15, 1682-3.
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: George
That great man, George Washington, in his will, thus bequeaths 'to my sisters-in-law Hannah Washington and Mildred Washington, to my…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Augusta
A very long list might be added of bequests of rings by distinguished persons, but I must be content to notice how the practice has been…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Rogers
In the family of Rogers, of Lota, a ring is still preserved as a heirloom which was presented to an ancestor by King Charles I. during his…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Royalist
BEHOLD In Lockhart's 'Life of Scott' it is stated that Sir Henry Halford gave Sir Walter Scott a lock of the hair of Charles I., when the…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Braybrooke
In the Braybrooke Collection is one of the Royalist mourning-rings, of gold, with slight hoop beautifully inlaid with black enamel, the top…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Nelson
A very interesting memorial ring in connection with the death of Nelson is mentioned in a communication to 'Notes and Queries' (vol. vii…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Egyptians
The custom of decorating the dead with their jewellery (including rings) has been traced in a remarkable manner to the earliest periods of…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Mayence
Stukeley (Abury, p. 45) records the finding of a flat gold ring in a barrow at Yatesbury. Douglas, in his discoveries of a later date ('…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Rufus
In the 'Archæologia' (vol. xlii. part ii. p. 309) is an account, by the Rev. J. G. Joyce, B.A., F.S.A., of the opening and removal of a…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Paris
According to Matthew Paris, Henry II. was arrayed after death in his royal vestments, having a golden crown on his head and a great ring on…
Memorial and Mortuary Rings: Merovingian
The custom same of monarchs being buried with their rings prevailed in France during the early and middle ages. The gold ring of Childeric…