RINGS COUPLED WITH REMARKABLE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS OR
CIRCUMSTANCES.
1. Ring of Suphis; Pharaoh’s Ring given to Joseph. 2. Rings of
Hannibal; Mithridates; Pompey; Cæsar; Augustus and Nero. 3. Cameo.
4. Ethelwoulf; Madoc; Edward the Confessor; King John; Lord L’Isle;
Richard Bertie and his Son Lord Willoughby; Great Earl of Cork;
Shakspeare’s Signet-Ring; The Ring Queen Elizabeth gave to Essex;
Ring of Mary of Scotland and one sent by her to Elizabeth; Darnley;
The Blue Ring; Duke of Dorset’s Ring in the Isle of Wight supposed
to have belonged to Charles the First, and Memorial Rings of this
Monarch; Earl of Derby; Charles the Second; Jeffrey’s Blood-Stone;
The great Dundee; Nelson; Scotch Coronation Ring; The Admirable
Crichton; Sir Isaac Newton; Kean; Wedding Ring of Byron’s Mother.
5. Matrons of Warsaw. 6. The Prussian Maiden. 148