Egyptians,” vol. iii, p. 373.
[116] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” p. 50,
Nos. 278–281; pl. vii, No. 281.
[117] See F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek,
Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British
Museum,” London, 1907, pp. xxxvii-xlix.
[118] Figured in Caylus, “Receuil d’antiquités,” vol. ii, p. 310.
[119] Sancti Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi, “Opera Omnia,” vol. iv, col.
702, Etymologiæ, lib. xix, cap. 32; vol. lxxxii of Migne’s Patrologia
Latina, Paris, 1850.
[120] C. D. E. Fortnum, “Additional Notes on Finger Rings and on Some
Engraved Gems of the Early Christian Period,” Archæological Journal.
[121] Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, “L’Antiquité expliqué,” Paris, 1724,
Suppl., vol. viii, p. 40; pl. xiv, opp. p. 43, two views, side and
front.
[122] M. Deloche: “Étude historique et archéologique sur les anneaux
sigillaires,” Paris, 1900, pp. 225, 226, figs.
[123] Friedrich Henkel, “Der Lorscher Ring,” Trier, 1896.
[124] C. W. King, “Notices of Glyptic Archæology exhibited by
the Archæological Institute in June, 1861,” London (Report from
Archæological Journal), p. 12.
[125] “Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art at the
South Kensington Museum, June, 1862,” section 32, “Rings,” by Edmund
Waterton, p. 622.
[126] De Laborde, “Notice des émaux du Musée du Louvre,” 2d Part,
“Documents et Glossaire,” p. 131, s. v. Anel.
[127] Cyril Davenport, “Jewellery,” Chicago, 1908, p. 118.
[128] William Jones, “Finger-Ring Lore,” London, 1877, pp. 487, 488.
[129] T. N. Mukharji, “Art Manufactures of India,” Calcutta, 1888, pp.
105–107.
[130] T. N. Mukharji, “Art Manufactures of India,” pp. 124–128,
Calcutta, 1888.
[131] O. M. Dalton, “Franks Bequest, Catalogue of the Finger Rings,
Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval, and Later [British
Museum],” London, 1912, p. 247, fig.
[132] Col. T. H. Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” Journal of Indian Art and
Industry, vol. xii, pp. 4, 5; 1907–1909. Figs. on plates 6, 7, 8, 15,
18.
[133] _Ibid._, p. 103.
[134] Communicated by Dr. Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology,
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
[135] Communicated by Mr. F. W. Partridge, through Mr. Walter C. Wyman.
[136] O. M. Dalton, “Franks Bequest: Catalogue of the Finger Rings,
Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later [British
Museum],” London, 1912, p. 336, No. 2422, Pl. xxx.
[137] Communicated by Dr. T. Wada, of Tokio.
[138] Hiram Bingham, “The Story of Machu Picchu,” in The National
Geographic Magazine, February, 1915, pp. 172–217.
[139] Communicated by Prof. Frederick Starr, of the University of
Chicago.
[140] Charles Edwards, “The History and Poetry of Finger-Rings,” New
York, 1885, pp. 42–44; quoting from Gleason’s Pictorial Newspaper,
December 25, 1852.
[141] Communicated by Dr. Leonard J. Spencer, Curator of the Department
of Mineralogy, British Museum (Nat. Hist.).
[142] Figured in _Journal der Goldschmiede Kunst_, 30 Jahrg., No.
27, Leipzig, July 3, 1909, p. 220.
[143] See also p. 353 of the present work.
[144] Communicated by L. Weininger, of Vienna.
[145] O. M. Dalton, “Catalogue of Finger Rings, Early Christian,
Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later [British Museum],” London,
1912, p. 243, No. 1700, Plate xxiii.
[146] Sir Charles Hercules Read, “The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of
the Works of Art Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand
Rothschild, M.P.,” 1898; London, 1902, p. 94.
[147] O. M. Dalton, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Early Christian,
Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval, and Later [British Museum],” London,
1912, p. 87, No. 571, fig.
[148] Communicated by L. Weininger, of Vienna.
[149] The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural
Exhibition, June 6 to September 20, 1916, Cleveland, 1916, p. 68, No.
109.
[150] Frederick William Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” London, n.
d., p. 77, fig. 88. A later edition of this book, dated 1871, bears the
title, “Rambles of an Archæologist.”
[151] From the collection of W. Gedney Beatty, New York City.
[152] “Les bagues des tranchées,” _L’Illustration_, July 3, 1915,
p. 20, with cuts showing soldiers at work and specimens of their rings.
[153] Frederick William Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” London, 1880,
p. 141, fig. 171.
[154] Morris Jastrow, Jr., “The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria,”
Philadelphia and London, 1915, pp. 459, 460.
[155] Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, “Manners and Customs of the Ancient
Egyptians,” revised by Samuel Birch, New York, 1879, vol. ii, p. 340,
note by Birch.
[156] Juvenal, sat. vi, 1, 382.
[157] Persius, sat. i, l, 16.
[158] Juvenal, sat. vii, ll, 143, 144.
[159] _Idem_, sat. xiii, ll, 138, 139.
[160] Ulpian, L., 6 _sqq._, De bon. damnat.
[161] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan
and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” London,
1907, pp. 127–129, pl. xx, 778, 785, 790, and text figures 106, 107 on
p. 129.
[162] From a personal letter to the writer, dated February 21, 1916.
[163] C. W. King, “Antique Gems and Rings,” London, 1872, p. 373.
[164] See pp. 222, 258–261 of present work, and plate opposite p. 316
of the writer’s, “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia
and London, 1913.
[165] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” London,
1907, p. 110, No. 654, pl. xvii.
[166] Bosio, “Roma Sotteranea,” Romæ, 1672, vol. i, p. 211.
[167] Gorlæi, “Dactyliotheca,” 1672, vol. i, p. 211; cited in
“Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie,” Paris, 1907,
vol. ii, col. 2194, figures.
[168] King, “Natural History of Precious Stones,” London, 1870, p. 297.
[169] Blochmann, “Ain-i-Akbari,” Calcutta, 1871, p. 414 and Wills, “The
Land of the Lion and the Sun,” London, 1883, p. 376; cited in Ball, “A
Description of Two Large Spinel Rubies,” Dublin, 1894, p. 390; reprint
from Proc. of the Roy. Ir. Soc., 3d ser., vol. iii, No. 2.
[170] T. H. Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” _Journal of Indian Art and
Industry_, vol. xii, 1907–1909, p. 166; pl. 141. Gul-Begum, “The
History of Humâyûn,” translated by Annette S. Beveridge, London, 1902,
p. 121, note; Orient Trans. Fund, n. s., vol. i.
[171] Hodder M. Westropp, “A Manual of Precious Stones and Antique
Gems,” London, 1874, p. 120. No. 1627 of British Museum Catalogue
of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Dept. of
Antiquities, by F. H. Marshall, London, 1907.
[172] Oneirocritica, lib. ii, cap. 5.
[173] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” London,
1907, p. xxxvii; see plate xxiv, Nos. 1621, 1624.
[174] Figured in Leviticus, “Geillustreerde encyclopedie der
diamantnijverheid,” Haarlem, 1907, p. 229.
[175] “The Heber R. Bishop Collection of Jades,” New York, vol. ii, p.
259, illustration.
[176] Science, vol. iv, No. 82, pp. 172, 173, with cut of the ring;
vol. iv, No. 85, pp. 270, 271, communication by Edward S. Morse on
the subject; vol. vi, No. 126, July 3, 1885, reply of George F. Kunz,
citing letter of Lieut. G. C. Foulke, U.S.N., of U. S. Legation at
Seoul, Corea.
[177] Communicated by Stewart Culin, Brooklyn Institute.
[178] Heinrich Fischer, “Nephrit und Jadeit,” Stuttgart, 1880, pp. 39,
334, fig. 52 on page 39.
[179] George H. Pepper, “The Exploration of a Burial Room in Pueblo
Bonito, New Mexico,” Putnam Anniversary Volume, New York, 1909, p. 244,
fig. 7.
[180] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan
and Roman, in the ... British Museum,” London, 1907, p. xxxii.
[181] A natural or artificial mixture of gold and silver found native
at Vorospotak, Transylvania, and elsewhere, mentioned by Herodotus. The
electros, ἧλεκτρος, of Homer and Strabo; Pliny, xxxiii, 23; although
this word was most frequently used to designate amber. Varying in
specific gravity from 15.5 to 12.5. The ratio of gold to silver is 1:1.
Specific gravity of gold, 19.33; silver, pure, 10.5; correspond to
35.3 per cent. of silver, gold 64.7 per cent. Pliny states that when
the proportion of silver to gold is 1:4 (20 per cent.), it is called
electra.
[182] Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, ii (5), 767 b, 1, 19.
[183] J. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan
and Roman, in the ... British Museum,” London, 1907, p. xxxi.
[184] “Heliodorou Aithiopikôn, biblia deka,” Parisiois, 1804, pt. i,
pp. 190–192.
[185] C. W. King, “The Natural History of Precious Stones and Gems,”
London, 1865, p. 64.
[186] F. H. Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” London,
1907, pp. xxxv, xxxvi.
[187] “Cimeliotheca Musei Nationalis Hungarici sive catalogus
historico-criticus antiquitatum raritatum et pretiosorum eius
instituti,” Budæ, 1825, p. 136.
[188] Francis Cohen, “St. Martin’s rings,” Archæologia, vol. xviii, pt.
i, London, 1815, pp. 55, 56.
[189] Communicated by Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson, of Columbia
University, who cites G. B. Browne’s “Literary History of Persia”
(London and New York, 1906), vol. ii, p. 123, note 3, and Louisa Stuart
Costello, “Rose Garden of Persia,” London, 1887, p. 33.
[190] British Museum, Fourth Egyptian Room, No. 201 (Table Case J).
[191] British Museum, Fourth Egyptian Room, No. 202.
[192] British Museum, Fourth Egyptian Room, No. 204.
[193] British Museum, Fourth Egyptian Room, No. 217.
[194] W. M. Flinders Petrie, “A History of Egypt During the XVII and
XVIII Dynasties,” London, 1904, pp. 9, 10.
[195] W. M. Flinders Petrie, “A History of Egypt from the Earliest
Times to the XVI Dynasty,” New York, 1895, p. 42.
[196] New York Historical Society, “Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities,”
New York, 1915, p. 63; No. 1046, figs. 1, 2 and 3.
[197] Adolph Furtwängler, “Die Antiken Gemmen,” Leipzig and Berlin,
1900, vol. iii, p. 31.
[198] A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote
Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Louis P. di
Cesnola, vol. iii, pt. i, New York, 1903, pl. xxiv, Nos. 12 and 13.
[199] _Ibid_., pl. xxv, figs. 10 and 12.
[200] Alexander Palma di Cesnola, “Salaminia (Cyprus), The History,
Treasures and Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus,” London,
1884, p. 73, figs. 7 and 13 on pl. vii.
[201] Lib. iii, caps. 40–43.
[202] Pædagogus, lib. iii, cap. ii.
[203] Adolf Furtwängler, “Die Antiken Gemmen,” Berlin, 1900, vol. ii,
p. 273, vol. iii, p. 81; see vol. i, plate lxi, No. 11.
[204] Reinach, “Cultes, Mythes et Religions,” Paris, 1906, vol. ii, p.
214.
[205] Duffield Osborne, “Gem Engraving,” New York, 1912, p. 287.
[206] Luciani, “Opera,” vol. iii, Lipsiæ, 1881, pp. 119, 120.
Philopseudes, 37.
[207] Plutarchi, “Vitæ,” vol. ii, Lipsiæ, 1879, p. 32. Timoleon, 31.
[208] “De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedoniæ,” lib. vi, No.
6.
[209] Justini, “Historiarum phillipicarum libri XLIV,” lib. xv, cap. 4.
[210] Adolf Furtwängler, “Die antiken Gemmen,” Leipzig and Berlin,
1900, vol. iii, p. 150.
[211] “Le Cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève,” by the Rev.
Father Claude du Molinet, Paris, 1692, p. 29.
[212] “The Natural History, Ancient and Modern, of Precious Stones and
Gems,” London, 1865, pp. 60, 61; Anthology ix, 752; ix, 748.
[213] M. Tullii Ciceronis, “In Verrem, lib. iv,” Oratio nona, cap. 26.
[214] Ciceronis, “In Catilinam,” iii, cap. v.
[215] Georgii Longi, “De annulis signatoriis antiquorum,” Francofurti
et Lipsiæ, 1709, p. 24, citing Plutarch’s life of Pompey.
[216] _Ibid._, p. 40.
[217] _Ibid._, p. 115.
[218] Edward T. Newell, “Historia numorum,” Oxford, 1911, p. 159.
[219] W. J. Andrew, “A Remarkable Hoard of Silver Pennies and
Halfpennies of the Reign of Stephen, found at Sheldon, Derbyshire, in
1867,” in _The British Numismatic Journal_, 1st ser., vol. vii
(1911), pp. 52, 56; see pl. ii, fig. 27.
[220] P. J. Mariette, “Traité des pierre gravées,” Paris, 1750, vol. i,
pp. 23, 24.
[221] P. J. Mariette, “Traité des pierre gravées,” Paris, 1750, vol. i,
p. 20.
[222] Georgii Longi, “De anulis signatoriis antiquorum,” p. 25;
Artemidori, “Oneirocriticon,” lib. v, cap. 32, i, 709.
[223] Josephus, “History of the Jews,” book xix, chap. 2.
[224] Act II, sc. i, ver. 58.
[225] Vopisci, “Divus Aurelianus,” in Scriptores hist. August., vol.
ii, p. 184.
[226] Abbé Barrand, “Des bagues à toutes les époques,” Paris, 1864, p.
177; reprint from _Bulletin Monumental_, vol. xxx.
[227] Plinii, “Naturalis Historia,” lib. xxxiii.
[228] Suetonii, “Vita Cæsarum,” Tiberius.
[229] Lib. iv, No. vii.
[230] Albert G. Mackey, “The Book of the Chapter: or Monitorial
Instructions in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master and
the Royal Arch,” New York, 1858, p. 128.
[231] “Le Cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève,” by the Rev.
Father Claude du Molinet, Paris, 1692, p. 3, pl. 8, fig. 5, impression
of seal; the letters are rather irregularly disposed.
[232] Clementis Alexandrini, “Pædagogus,” lib. iii, cap. ii.
[233] O. M. Dalton, “Franks Bequest, Catalogue of Finger Rings, Early
Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later (British Museum),”
London, 1912, p. 120, No. 778.
[234] SS. Zenonis et Optati, “Opera omnia,” in Migne’s Patrologia
Latina, vol. xi, Paris, 1845; S. Optati, “De schismate Donatistiarum,”
lib. i, cap. 10, note.
[235] Philippi Labbæi and Cossarti, “Sacrosancta concilia,” vol. iv,
col. 1403.
[236] Deloche, “Le port des anneaux dans l’antiquité romaine, et dans
les premiers siècles du moyen âge,” Paris, 1896, pp. 108, 109; from
Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. xxxv.
[237] M. Deloche in Revue archéologique, 3d Series, 1886, vol. ii, p.
141 and 1893, vol. i, p. 269.
[238] See also the same writer’s “Étude historique et archéologique sur
les anneaux sigillaires,” Paris, 1900, p. 203, fig. This ring was found
at Laon, dept. Aisne.
[239] “Anastasis Childerici I Francorum regis, sive Thesaurus
sepulchralis Tornaci Nerviorum effossus et commentario illustratus,”
Antverpis, ex officina Plantaniana Balthazaris Moreti, 1655. This is a
quarto of 367 pages, with 27 plates and copper-plate engravings.
[240] Deloche “Anneaux Sigillaires,” Paris, 1900, pp. 192, 193.
[241] C. W. King, “On the Use of Antique Gems in the Middle Ages.”
[242] “Prolégomènes Historiques,” of Ibn. Kaldoun, in Notices et
Extraits des Manuscripts de la Bibliothèque Impériale, vol. xx, pt. i,
pp. 61–62, Paris, 1865.
[243] Burton, “Supplementary Nights,” 1868, vol. v, p. 52.
[244] Hammer-Purgstall, “Abhandlung über die Siegel der Araber, Persen
und Türken,” Denkschriften der Kaiserl. Akad. der Wissenschaften,
Phil.-Hist. Kl., Wien, 1850, p. 29.
[245] _Ibid._, p. 1.
[246] Garzoni, “Piazza Universale,” German transl., Franckfurt am Main,
1641, p. 697.
[247] Jean Baptiste Tavernier, “Relation du Serrail,” Paris, 1702, pp.
480, 481.
[248] O. M. Dalton, “Byzantine Art and Archæology,” Oxford, 1911, p.
540; figs. 319, 320 on p. 537.
[249] Nicetas, “Histoire de l’Empire Grec, Règne de John Comnénus,”
Paris, 1693, p. 7.
[250] P. J. Mariette, “Traité des pierres gravées,” Paris, 1750, vol.
i, p. 21.
[251] “Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art at the
South Kensington Museum, June, 1862,” section 32, “Rings,” by Edmund
Waterton, p. 622.
[252] C. W. King, “Antique Gems and Rings,” London, 1872, p. 399.
[253] Jules Labarte, “Dissertation sur l’abandon de la glyptique en
Occident au Moyen Age et sur l’époque de la renaissance de cet art,”
Paris, 1871, pp. 12–18.
[254] Labarte, “Inventaire du mobilier de Charles V,” Paris, 1879, p.
86, No. 555.
[255] Joannis Cantacuzeni, “Historiæ,” vol. i, lib. iii, cap. xlvii.
[256] Migne’s Patrologia Græca, vol. cliii, Paris, 1866.
[257] Emil Hannover in “Politikon” Kjobenhavn, April 10, 1911.
[258] C. Drury Fortnum, “Notes On Some of the Antique and Renaissance
Gems and Jewels in Her Majesty’s Collection at Windsor Castle,” London,
1876, pp. 12, 13; cut double linear size on p. 13.
[259] _Ibid._, p. 15.
[260] O. M. Dalton, “Franks Bequest, Catalogue of the Finger Rings,
Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later (British
Museum),” London, 1912, p. xxxi.
[261] “Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art at the
South Kensington Museum, June, 1862,” section 32, “Rings,” by Edmund
Waterton, p. 623.
[262] 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. li,
footnote.
[263] Franks Bequest, Catalogue of Finger Rings, Early Christian,
Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediæval and Later (British Museum), London, 1912,
p. 53.
[264] See also Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Works of Art and
Relics, at present exhibited in Shakespeare’s Birthplace, with 61
illustrations, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1910.
[265] Halliwell, “Life of William Shakespeare,” London, 1848, p. 334.
[266] “Catalogue of an Exhibition Illustrative of the Text of
Shakespeare’s Plays,” New York, The Grolier Club, 1916, plate opposite
p. 96, from a mezzotint by G. F. Storm, 1847.
[267] See Archæologia, vol. xlvii, 393, and vol. 1, p. 114.
[268] Vol. xlvii, London, 1883, p. 393. The original document is in the
privy seal books of the Clerk of the Pells, now in the Public Record
Office, No. 11, p. 142.
[269] “Les six voyages de Jean Bapiste Tavernier,” La Haye, 1718, vol.
i, pp. 540, 541.
[270] H. Clifford-Smith, “The King’s Gems and Jewels at Windsor
Castle,” _The Connoisseur_, 1903, vol. v, p. 244.
[271] Fortnum, “Collection at Windsor Castle,” London, 1876, p. 141.
[272] C. Drury Fortnum, “Notes on Some of the Antique and Renaissance
Gems and Jewels in Her Majesty’s Collection at Windsor Castle,” London,
1876, pp. 26, 27.
[273] George Frederick Kunz, “The Etiquette of Gems,” _Saturday
Evening Post_, June 27, 1908, p. 5.
[274] Augusta Huiell Seaman, “The Sapphire Signet,” New York, The
Century Co., 1916.
[275] C. W. King, “The Natural History of Precious Stones,” London,
1870, p. 254; Duffield Osborne, “Engraved Gems,” New York, 1912, p.
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
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[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.
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[320] Camdeni, “Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante
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[322] Buchanan, “Poems,” St. Andrews, 1594, p. 117.
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[326] See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xiv, London, 1888, pp.
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[328] Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report of MSS. in various
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