Abraxas stones, 95.
Ackmetchet, marriage at, 199.
Agate, its supposed magical and medical powers, 104.
Agnes, St., priest placing ring on finger of statue, 141.
Ahlstan, ring of, 39.
Aix-la-Chapelle, ring connected with the founding of, 138.
Alderman’s thumb-ring, 90.
Alexander’s ring, 20, 66, 156.
Amethyst, its supposed magical and medical powers, 100.
Amulet-rings found at Eltham, 120;
at Coventry, 121;
in antique urns, 121;
worn by physicians, 122;
Dano-Saxon amulet, 136;
amulet against storms, 136.
Andrea of Sicily and Jerusalem, 118.
Anglo-Saxon rings and workmen, 25.
Anne, Countess Dowager of Pembroke, 91.
Anne of Brittany sends ring to James IV. of Scotland, 158.
_Annulus pronubus_, 201.
Anselm, investiture by ring, 81;
and his miracles, 81.
Antiochus Epiphanes, ring of, 66.
Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, 32.
Arabian princesses, wearing rings with little bells attached, 90.
Archbishop’s investiture by ring, 80.
Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, 126.
Arnulph’s dream about a ring, 81.
Artery, supposed, in the fourth finger, 47, 206.
Augustus, ring of, 67, 156.