_The Ring Finger._--The English Book of Common Prayer orders that the
ring should be put "upon the _fourth_ finger of the woman's left hand;"
and the spousal manuals of York and Salisbury assign this practical
reason for the selection of the said finger:
"Quia in illo digito est quædam vena procedens usque ad
cor."--Maskell, _Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England_, 2nd
edition, Preface, page clv. note: Lond. 1846.