[Wheatly, in his _Rational Illustration of the Book of Common
Prayer_, ch. x. sect. 5., has ably discussed the origin of the
marriage ring, accompanied with numerous references to early and
later writers on this visible pledge of fidelity.]
_Monasteries, &c. dissolved._--Will any of your correspondents kindly
inform me where I can find an _authentic_ account of the hospitals,
monasteries, and religious houses pillaged and destroyed, consequent on
the commission of inquiry issued by Henry VIII.?