293. First published by Ducange, in the seventeenth century.

[276] From letters of Ex-President Taft and of Private Secretary Tumulty to the author. [277] Chabouillet, “Catalogue général et raisonné des camées et pierres gravées de la Bibliothèque Nationale,” Paris, 1858, p. 388, 389; Nos. 2636, 2639. [278] M. Deloche, “Étude historique et archéologique sur les anneaux sigillaires et autres des premiers siècles du moyen âge,” Paris, 1900, pp. 90–92, figure. [279] “The Gulistân or Rose Garden,” trans. by Edward B. Eastwick, London, 1880, p. 148. [280] Francisci Petrarchæ, “De remediis,” Genevæ, 1613, p. 151. [281] Francisci Petrarchæ, _op. cit._, p. 147. [282] Labarte, “Inventaire du mobilier de Charles V,” Paris, 1879, p. 83, No. 524. [283] _Ibid._, p. 80, No. 491. [284] _Ibid._, p. 16, note; for the ruby of the dukes of Brittany, see p. 80, No. 492. [285] Szendrei, “Catalogue de la collection de bagues de Mme. Tarnóczy,” Paris, 1889, pp. xxvii, xxviii. [286] Chroniques d’Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Paris, 1596, vol. ii, “Autres nouvelles chroniques,” f. 55 recto. These “new chronicles” are from various sources, and were composed by one of the continuators of Monstrelet’s work. [287] _Ibid._, f. 78 recto. [288] Communicated by L. Weininger, of Vienna. [289] See for original accounts Lettres inédites de la Reine Marguerite, pt. i; Brantôme, ed. Lalanne, vol. ix, p. 715 and also Bermier, Hist. de Blois, Paris, 1682, p. 8. [290] Cyril Davenport, “Jewellery,” Chicago, 1908, p. 126. [291] Theodore Andrea Cook, “Old Touraine,” New York, 1895, p. 195. [292] Catalogue of a collection of ancient and mediæval rings and personal ornaments, London, 1853, p. 15. Privately printed. [293] Cyril Davenport, “Jewellery,” Chicago, 1908, p. 127. [294] S. D. C. in _The Boston Chronicle_, Feb. 17, 1769, from a copy in the Union League Club Library, New York City. [295] C. W. King, “Notices of Collections of Glyptic Art exhibited by the Archæological Institute in June, 1861,” pp. 20, 21; reprint from Archæological Journal. [296] See Schneider, “Aus dem Leben Kaiser Wilhelms,” Berlin, 1888, vol. i, pp. 154–161. [297] Communication by Mrs. Isabel Moore, formerly of Woodstock, N. Y., now in the Azores. [298] O. M. Dalton, “Franks Bequest, Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later (British Museum),” p. 206. [299] O. M. Dalton, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later, Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K.C.B. (British Museum),” London, 1912, pp. xvi, 29, 30, pl. ii (Nos. 179, 180). [300] See pp. 342, 343, in chapter on Rings of Healing. [301] Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Manuscripts, London, 1874, p. 191. [302] Idem., _loc. cit._ [303] _Idem, loc. cit._ [304] See pp. 341–345. [305] King, “Precious Stones and Metals,” London, 1870, p. 319, note. [306] O. M. Dalton, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later, Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K.C.B.” (British Museum), London, 1912, p. xiii. [307] Hon. R. C. Neville (4th baron Braybrooke), “The Romance of the Ring, or the History and Antiquity of Finger Rings,” Saffron Walden, 1856, p. 19. [308] On the toadstone, see the present writer’s “The Magic of Jewels and Charms,” Philadelphia and London, 1915, pp. 162–167. [309] Migne’s Patrologia Latina, vol. ccxiv, cols. 179, 180. [310] Archæologia, vol. xix, London, 1821, pp. 411, 412. [311] A fine, thin silk stuff, plain, but especially valued for its softness. [312] Sir Joseph Ayloffe, “An Account of the Body of King Edward the First As It Appeared in the Tomb in the Year 1774,” Archæologia, vol. iii, London, 1775, pp. 389–391. See also Rhymer’s “Foedera,” vol. viii, p. 75. [313] “Issues of the Echequer,” from Henry III to Henry VI, ed. by Frederick Devon, London, 1837, p. 170. [314] Rhymer, “Fœdera,” London, 1727, vol. xi, p. 76. [315] William Jones, “Finger-Ring Lore,” London, 1877, p. 197. [316] Archæologia, vol. xxxiii, p. 335 _sqq._, London, 1849. [317] William Jones, “Finger-Ring Lore,” London, 1877, p. 478. [318] Gasquet, “Henry VIII and the English Monasteries,” London, 1906, p. 409. Cott. MS. Tib. e. viii, f. 269. [319] Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, London, 1872, p. 231. [320] Camdeni, “Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha,” Francofurti, 1616, pp. 151, 152. [321] In Thoms’ “Anecdotes and Traditions,” London, 1839, p. 107 (Camden Soc. Pub.). [322] Buchanan, “Poems,” St. Andrews, 1594, p. 117. [323] Agnes Strickland, “History of Mary, Queen of Scots,” London, 1873, vol. ii, p. 446. [324] James Anthony Froude, “History of England,” London, 1899, vol. xii, chap. 69, pp. 248, 249. [325] C. Justi, “Felipe II amigo del arte”; España moderna, April, 1914, pp. 26, 27. [326] See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xiv, London, 1888, pp. 437, 438; in Sir Sidney Lee’s article on Essex. [327] Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Jewellery and Personal Ornaments, 1872, London, 1873, p. 33, No. 137. [328] Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report of MSS. in various collections, vol. iv, Dublin, 1907, p. 323. [329] South Kensington Museum: Catalogue of the Loan Collection, 1872; London, 1873, p. 72, No. 838. The ring is figured in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ for 1797, vol. lxvii, pt. ii (Oct.), on plate opposite p. 827, figs. 5 and 6; see also pp. 830 and 1017. [330] “Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art at the South Kensington Museum, June, 1862,” section 33, “Miscellaneous Rings,” by R. H. S. Smith, p. 637. [331] Gilbert Barnet (Bishop of Salisbury), “History of His Own Time,” London, 1724, 1736. First published by his son Thomas, after the bishop’s death in 1715. [332] Archæologia, vol. ii, pp. 32-35, London, 1773. Figured on plate i, figs. 1 and 2.– [333] George Frederick Kunz and Charles H. Stevenson, “The Book of the Pearl,” New York, 1908, p. 438. [334] Federici Augusti Junii, “De annulo Romanorum sponsalitio,” Lipsiæ, 1744, citing Ovidii, lib. ii, Amor. Eleg. xv. [335] Saturnalia, lib. vii, cap. 13. [336] See page 222. [337] Isidori, “De ecclesiasticis officiis,” lib. xx, cap. 8, in Migne’s “Patrologia Latina,” vol. lxxxiii, cols. 811, 812. [338] Deloche, “Le port des anneaux dans l’antiquité romaine, et dans les premiers siècles du moyen âge,” Paris, 1896, pp. 96–98; Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. xxxv, pt. 2. [339] Naturalis Historia, lib. xxxiii, cap. 24. [340] John Yonge Akerman, “An Account of Excavations in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Harnham Hill Near Salisbury,” in Archæologia, vol. xxxv, p. 266, and Plate XII (opp. p. 278). [341] “The Sarum Missal done into English by A. Harford Pearson,” London, 1844, p. 552. The directions and blessings are translated from the Latin; the vows of the bride and bridegroom are from an old English version. [342] O. M. Dalton, “Byzantine Art and Archæology,” Oxford, 1911, p. 544, fig. 329. [343] _Ibid._, p. 546. [344] Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” London, 1907, pp. 99, 100; No. 579, pl. xvii. [345] Federici Augusti Junii, “De annulo Romanorum sponsalitio,” Lipsiæ (1744), pp. xiii, xiv; citing Pliny’s “Hist. Nat.,” lib. xxxiii, cap. i, and Clement’s “Pædogogus,” lib. iii, cap. xi. [346] Tertulliani, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, Parisiis, 1879, vol. i, col. 353. Apol. adv. gen. [347] August. Epist. 119 ad Januar. cap. 18. [348] C. Drury Fortnum, “On Finger Rings of the Early Christian Period,” in Journal of Archæology, vol. xxviii, pp. 266–292; figured on p. 291. [349] Fredegari, “Historia Francorum epitomata,” cap. xviii; in Patrologia Latina, ed. J. P. Migne, Parisiis, 1879, vol. lxxi, col. 584. [350] Hucher, “Sigillographie du Maine,” _Bulletin Monumental_, vol. xviii, p. 308. [351] Symeonis Thessalonicensis Archiepiscopi, “Opera Omnia,” in Migne’s Patrologia Græca, vol. clv, Paris, 1866, cols. 505, 508, “De honesto et legitimo conjugio.” [352] Coloniæ, 1509, cap. 11. [353] Communicated by Mrs. Isabel F. Hapgood. [354] Petri Mülleri, “De annulo pronubo,” Jenæ, 1734, p. 22. [355] Petri Mülleri, “De annulo pronubo,” Jenæ, 1734, p. 31. [356] Cyril Davenport, “Jewellery,” Chicago, 1908, p. 114. [357] Cap. 55. [358] “Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis,” Parisiis, 1733, vol. i, col. 457. [359] Cited in H. R. D. Anders, “Shakespeare’s Books,” Berlin, 1904, p. 189. [360] Deloche, “Le port des bagues dans l’antiquité romaine et dans les premiers siècles du moyen âge,” Paris, 1896, pp. 61–63; from Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. xxxv. [361] Jacob Grimm, “Deutsche Rechtsalterhümer,” Berlin, 1854, pp. 177, 178. [362] This recalls Juvenal’s “digito pignus fortasse dedisti” (perhaps thou hast set a pledge on a finger). Sat. vi, 27. [363] Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” London, n.d., p. 90, fig. 97. [364] _Ibid._, p. 124, fig. 124. [365] Communicated by L. Weininger, of Vienna. [366] _Anima magis est ubi amat quam ubi animat._ [367] Barbier de Montault, “Un anneau du XVe siècle,” Tours, 1876. [368] Jean Szendrei, “Catalogue de la collection de bagues de Madame Gustave de Tarnóczy,” Paris, 1889, p. xlviii. [369] Barbier de Montault, “Un anneau du XVe siècle,” Tours, 1876, pp. 14–17. For additional “posies” see pp. at end of this chapter. [370] Shown in Fairholt’s “Rambles of an Artist,” p. 127, figs. 152, 153. [371] _Ibid._, p. 128, fig. 154. [372] Kircheri, “Œdipus Ægyptiacus,” Romæ, 1652, vol. i, p. 283. [373] Jewish Encyclopædia, vol. x, art. Rings by Albert Wolf, of Dresden, Saxony. [374] “Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art at the South Kensington Museum, June, 1862,” section 32, “Rings,” by Edmund Waterton, pp. 630, 631. [375] See Gregorovius, “Lucrezia Borgia,” pp. 375, 376, of Ital. translation. [376] Robert de Berquen, “Les Merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales,” Paris, 1661, pp. 14, 15. Robert de Berquen writes of Louis (Lodowyk) as “one of his ancestors.” [377] Alfred Maury, “Croyances et Legendes du Moyen Age,” Paris, 1896, p. 277, note. [378] Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” p. 128, fig. 155. The authenticity of the ring may be regarded as somewhat doubtful. [379] Julius Köstlin, “Life of Luther,” trans. from the German, New York, 1883; pp. 334, 335. [380] Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” p. 132, fig. 165. [381] Burgon, “The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham,” London, 1839, vol. i, p. 51. [382] Catalogue of a collection of ancient and modern rings and personal ornaments formed for Lady Londesborough, London, 1853, pp. 8,