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Ornamental Rings: British

Blaize, 221 Boccaccio's fable of the three, 451 - offered as bribes, 444 of British, Saxon, and mediæval times, 53 British Museum collection of gem, 459 - Byzantine, 48 carbuncle, 159 stolen from Charles II., 454 charm, 105, 115, 121 of espousals to Christ, 233, 241 early Christian, 258, 268 clerical extravagance in, 220 coronation, 177 claimed as 'corse' present, 221 during the Commonwealth, 288 - coronets on, 475 Rings, cramp, 162, 522 - customs and incidents in connection with, 419 with wood of the true cross, 141 with devices of death, 372 decade, 248 buried with the dead, 377 Devonshire gem, 458 given in diplomacy, 422 divination, powers of, 450 doctors', 191 taken from the finger, an ill omen, 171 - in connection with ecclesiastical usages, 198 - engravings on Bishops', 212 to cure epilepsy, 153 attached to episcopal charters, 211 - episcopal investiture with, 215 how worn, 218 French, 228 found in the bodies of fishes, 439 French, 82, 415 garter, 193 gemmel, 313, 318 German 'liberation,' 448 in the 'Gesta Romanorum,' 124 Gnostic, 107 gold wedding, 84 at marriages of modern Greeks, 311 - harlequin, 414 discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, 49 charmed hoof,' 153 identification by means of, 426 incidents in connection with, 419 inscription, 390 antique intagli motto, 417 in the Royal Irish Academy, 65 at Italian marriages, 310 talismanic virtues of jet, 107 Jewish betrothal and marriage, 298 - used in Jewish covenants, 297 - synagogues, 302 given in lieu of dowry by the Jews, 298 - key, 294 love 'pledge,' 283 loss of, an ill omen, 167 love-knot, 414 denoting love's telegraph, 293 linked, 317, 322 RIN INDEX.

RIN Rings, life saved by, 427 - with representations of Lucretia, 318 of the Magi, 143 Marlborough gem, 461 - St. Martin, 285 materials of wedding, 286 medicinal, 161 'Memento mori,' 372 of Charles I., 366 memorial and mortuary, 355 - - Mary, Queen of Scots, 365 merchant's 'mark,' 84 meridian, 451 Merovingian, 69 month, of the Poles, 115 Moorish, 83 motto, 390 mourning, 360 given at funerals, 364 necromantic, 146 New Year gift, 421 an ancient mark of nobility, 195 of the old Northmen, 305 - novices invested with, 232 - - - Oriental, 90 origin of 'merchant's marks,' 192 with device of the orpine plant, 169 in Pagan graves, 68 Paradise, 257 of a later period, 75 pilgrim, 264 planetary virtues of, 108, 112 poison, 432 conferred on Poets Laureate, 191 pontifical, 205, 207, 209 buried with popes, 202 portrait, 496 posy, 390 profusely worn, 72 property conveyed by, 185 recovery of lost, 436 'Regard,' 414 religious, 133, 138, 248, 254 reliquary, 142, 257 remarkable, 457 'Reynard the Fox' on magical, 145 Roman amber and glass, 48 in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, 32 in the Castellani Collection, Rings, Roman devices and inscriptions on, 41 of a Roman lady, 33, 43 gems mounted in Roman, 30, 40 Roman gift, 46 - gold, when first worn in Rome, - - - 26 Roman and Greek huge, 28 iron, 25 key, 45, 51 legionary, 47 in the treasury of the Parthenon, 43 profusion of, worn by the ancients, 28, 30 Roman rock-crystal, 31 'season, 28, 30 signs engraved on, 33 thumb, 29 used for various purposes, 42 votive, 44 and Greek, in the Waterton Collection, 50 Runic characters on, 148, 150 rush, 284 at Russian marriages, 311 Russian customs with, 447 Saxon wire, 59 found at Cuerdale, 63 mode of securing, 449 Serjeants', 186 at shrines, 259 sigil charm, 113 signet, 25 at Spanish marriages, 312 gold, to cure sties, 174 superstitions in connection with, 91 magical 'suspended,' 112 talismanic, 91, 134, 140, 147, 151, 166 mystic 'Tau,' 155 toadstone, 155 given at tournaments, 197 discovered on the (presumed) site of Troy, 32 thumb, 87, 89, 139, 501 thank-offering, 247 the Three, 352 token, 323 tooth, 495 'Trinity, 248, 254 given on St. Valentine's Day, - at Venetian marriages, 311 INDEX.