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.

Secular Investiture by the Ring

12 pages in this part of Finger-Ring Lore.

Secular Investiture by the Ring

THE investiture of our English sovereigns per annulum, or by the ring, is an important part of our present coronation ceremonial. On this…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: France

In 1469, Charles of France having renounced the possession of the duchy of Normandy, for which he received in exchange Guyenne, his ducal…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Mary

In subsequent ages, and within a few centuries of our time, we find the royal power displayed significantly in the ring, which, in the…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Wales

Among the insignia connected with the investiture of the Princes of Wales is a ring. The earliest charter of creation known by Selden is…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Poynings

A ruby ring is described as the 'Charter of Poynings,' in the will of Sir Michael de Poynings, in 1386. Poynings, in the neighbourhood of…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Chancellor

There are some quaint old customs still adhering to the making of a serjeant. He is presented to the Lord Chancellor by some brother…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Series

The reader will find a list of mottoes, and much information on the subject of serjeants' rings, in 'Notes and Queries' (Ist Series, vol…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Imperio

Some barristers that Lord Brougham did not think much of, wishing to be made serjeants, he suggested that the most appropriate motto that…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Holy

A ring formed part of the investiture of three poets-laureate by the Chancellor of the University of Strasburg in 1621, who at their…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Beef-Steak

In late times we have the ring adopted as a club badge by the famous Beef-Steak Club, of convivial notoriety. The members wore a blue coat…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: Crichton

In the 'Biographia Britannica' (Article 'Crichton ') we read of the bestowal of a ring on a college disputant. This was in the case of the…

Secular Investiture by the Ring: James

Whom royal James himself had crowned, And on his temples placed the round Of Scotland's ancient diadem; And wet his brow with hallow'd…

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