Coventry Park in the year 1802,” Archæologia, vol. xviii, pp. 306–308.
The “Coventry Ring” as it has been called is now in the British Museum.
[578] C. W. King, in _Archæological Journal_, vol. xxvi, p. 234.
[579] Pettigrew, “On Superstitions Connected with the History and
Practice of Medicine and Surgery,” London, 1844, p. 67. This letter is
among the Harleian MSS, and was read before the Soc. of Antiquaries,
Nov. 12, 1772, according to the Minute Book of the Society.
[580] Arthur Collins, “The English Baronage,” London, 1727.
[581] Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, “Superstitions Connected with the
History and Practices of Medicine and Surgery.” London, 1844. pp. 61,
62.
[582] Jacobi Wolfii, “Curiosus amuletorum scrutator,” Francofurti &
Lipsiæ, 1692, p. 460.
[583] _Ibid._, p. 570.
[584] Blumentritt, “Das Stromgebiet des Rio Grande de Mindañao,” in
Petermann’s Geographische Mitteilungen, vol. xxxvii, p. 111, 1891.
[585] Blackwood’s Magazine for February, 1886, p. 238.
[586] Jacobi Wolfii, “Curiosus amuletorum scrutator,” Francofurti et
Lipsiæ, 1692, pp. 390, 392.
[587] _Ibid._, p. 32; Sec. I, cap. ii.
[588] “Illustrated Catalogue of Mr. A. W. Drake’s famous collections,”
New York, 1913, Pt. I, Nos. 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760.
[589] Communicated by L. Weininger, of Vienna.
[590] Patent application filed April 3, 1912, by Monroe Engelsman, and
serial number 688,244.
[591] George Frederick Kunz, “The Etiquette of Gems,” the Saturday
Evening Post, June 27, 1908, p. 29.
[592] U. S. Patent, No. 1,179,025, April 11, 1916.
[593] H. Wilson, “Silverware and Jewelry,” New York, 1903, pp. 110, 111.
[594] The word “ring” belongs to the Teutonic language group, and
etymologically it is what is termed common Teutonic.
[595] Archer’s thumb ring.
[596] Plain ring.
[597] Ring set with a stone.
[598] The word used here and also in Num. xxxi: 50 is _glilim_.
_ḥotham_ means a seal-ring in Jeremiah xxii: 24.
[599] Mitteilungen and Nachrichten des deutschen Palästina-Vereins,
1904, pp. 1 sqq.
Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling
errors have been corrected silently.
2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have
been retained as in the original.
3. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the
original.
4. Superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. D^r. or
X^{xx}.
5. Italics are shown as _xxx_.