Finger-Ring Lore

Everything a Victorian antiquary could gather about rings: betrothal and mourning, poison rings and papal rings, the superstitions attached to every stone, and the rings dug from the presumed site of Troy.

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages

35 pages in this part of Finger-Ring Lore.

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages (If you do not surrender it)

'and if you do not surrender it quietly it will be taken from you by force.' To escape further insult the Fisherman's Ring was given up…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Papal

In the collection of Thomas Windus, Esq., F.S.A., is a ring bearing the arms of Pope Pius II. of the family of Piccolomini, the Papal…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Morgan

Mr. Morgan had received this interesting addition to his collection from Venice.

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Council

The earliest document with a certain date in which mention is made of a bishop's ring is that usually cited in the 28th canon of the…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Clodovicus

Mr. Waterton remarks that in 511, the Council of Orleans makes mention of the rescript of Clodovicus, wherein he promises to leave certain…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Gundulf

Of the importance attached to the possession of the episcopal ring we are told that Gundulf, the good Bishop of Rochester, in his last days…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Cardinals

Cardinals on their creation receive a ring in which is 4 usually a sapphire. Wolsey was raised to this dignity in 1515, the Pope having…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Innocent

In 1191 the fashion of the episcopal ring was definitively settled by Innocent III., who ordained that it should be of gold, solid, and set…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Waterton

An episcopal ring, with gold and a sapphire, said to have belonged to St. Loup, is in the treasury of the Cathedral of Sens, and is…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Cathedral

In the effigy of Bishop Oldham (died 1519), in Exeter Cathedral, the uplifted hands of the recumbent figure, which are pressed together…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Canterbury

Dart, in his 'History of Canterbury,' gives an inventory of the Ornamenta Ecclesiastica taken in 1315. One of the annuli pontificales was…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Edmund

A similar occurrence is recorded in the register on the decease of David Martyn, Bishop of St. David's, March 9, 1328. His executors had…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Hereford

These rings belong to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester Cathedral. A massive gold ring set with a sapphire. The shoulders Ring of Bishop…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Cuthbert

These rings were found in Hereford Cathedral. They are figured in the 'Archæologia' (vol. xxxi. p. 249). A massive gold ring set with a…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Annulus

Annulus cum lapide oblongo qui vocatur turkoyse. 'Item. Annulus unus cum viridi cornelino sculpto rotundo. 'Item. Annulus parvus cum…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Episcopal

This engraving represents a gold episcopal ring, in the Londesborough Collection, with sapphire. French work of the thirteenth century.

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Abbot

Abbots were invested with the ring. Lawrence, seventeenth Abbot of Westminster, is said to have been the first of that dignity who obtained…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: France

The privilege of the mitre, pontifical ring, &c., was conceded to the abbots of St. Denis, in France, about the year 1177 by Alexander III.

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Madelaine

M. Thiers, in his 'Traité des Superstitions,' gives a curious instance of these espousals to Christ: a Carmelite, in his assumed quality of…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Virgin

Vide This mystical union by the ring was exemplified in a singular manner in the instance of Edmund Rich, who was consecrated Archbishop of…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Elizabeth

Mrs. Jameson, in her 'Sacred and Legendary Art,' 1 The reader will be reminded of the anecdote of Queen Elizabeth, who, drawing from her…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Catherine

In Titian's 'Marriage of St. Catherine,' 'the Infant Christ is seated on a kind of pedestal, and sustained by the arms of the Virgin. St…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Anne

In Hone's 'Everyday Book' it is remarked that the meeting of St. Anne and St. Joachim at the Golden Gate was a popular theme. The nuns of…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: England

Eleanora, third daughter of John, King of England, on the death of her husband, the Earl of Pembroke, in 1231, in the first transports of…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Harris

In a very interesting paper by Mr. Harrod, F.S.A., in the 'Archæologia' (vol. xl. part 2) we have particulars of the custom, which…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Thomas

Thomas Chillenden, fortieth Abbot of Canterbury, gave several pontifical rings to the abbey.

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Aves

What are termed DECADE-rings, having ten projections at intervals all round the hoop, were common in former times, and were used as beads…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Hoare

Mr. Edward Hoare, of Cork, writing to the editor of the 'Archæological Journal,' observes that, as far as he has been able to obtain…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Religious

At Barnard Castle, in 1811, a gold ring was found of eight globules, in weight equal to three guineas and a half. On the second is s; on…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages (Right side of his mantle)

the right side of his mantle, and appears to be in a boat, or wading through water; and it may be conjectured to be intended for St…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Cross

In the Waterton Collection is an ecclesiastical ring, silver-gilt, with circular bezel set with a cabochon crystal, the shoulders…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Jerusalem

QUEAITT del se se In the collection of Mr. Octavius Morgan, F.R.S., F.S.A., is a gold ring, probably one of those obtained at Jerusalem, as…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Cornwall

In the 'Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall' (Sept. 1875) is a note on an ancient signet-ring found at Penryn by Mr. W. H…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Christian

Early Christian rings of silver are unusual; that now represented is of duplex form. On one oval is engraved the name FAVSTVS, and on the…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages: Bronze

Bronze ring, formed as a circle of half-round metal, engraved with a double-fluked anchor, crossed by one of a single fluke, and surrounded…

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