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.

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In God Is All

(on a silver ring found among the ruins of the Priory of St. Radigund, near Dover, in 1831).

Tout pour bein feyre (inscribed on a ring found at St. Andrew's Chapel, near Ipswich).

Inscription ring
Inscription ring

Mon cur avez Honour et joye (on a gold ring found near St. Anne's Well, Nottingham). Amor. vincit. om. (on a silver ring found near Old Sarum).

An enamelled ring is mentioned in the 'Gentleman's ru Inscription ring

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