Sackvil, Duke of Dorset, ring given to him by King James, 175.
St. Anne, ring of, 214.
Samothracian talismanic ring, 94.
Sapphire; its supposed medical and magical powers, 104.
Scarabæus, form of seal, 17.
Sea-horse’s tooth, Michaelis’s medical ring made of, 136.
Seal-rings, when first used by ladies, 26.
Sebert, his tomb, body, ring, 70.
Serjeants at law, their rings and the ceremony relating to their
presentation, 86.
Sessa, ring found at, 216.
Shakspeare’s signet-ring, 10, 161;
bequeathed rings to his brother players, 222.
Shoes, rings with shape of soles of shoes, 24.
Signets with Sanscrit inscriptions, 17;
importance given to signets in England, 53.
Size of rings, Egyptian, 31, 32, 33.
Slave, Roman, 146.
Solomon’s magic ring, 113.
Sonnet, by Davison, 195.
Sore cured by touch of ring-finger, 132, 133.
Spain, the power of a girl to compel marriage when a ring has been
given, 198.
Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, his character and last gift of
rings, 181.
Statues, rings on, 22, 23, 24.
Sterling’s story of the “Onyx Ring,” 116.
Storms, amulet against, 136.
“Sty” on the eye cured by rubbing with wedding-ring, 132.
_Subarrhation_, the delivering of ring and other gifts, 203.
Substances from which rings are formed, 26.
Suphis, ring of, 149.
Suffolk, Duchess of, 159.
_Symbolum_, a term used for a ring, 13.
Syrian legend, 115.