Franks bequest. Catalogue of the finger rings, early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, mediaeval and later (1912)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Franks, Augustus Wollaston, Sir, 1826-1897, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 18
Cf. aiso C. \V. King, Antique Cents and Rings, i, p. 393. INTRODUCTION XV heard of Edward the Confessors ring. criven to a beggar, tal<cn to Rome, andretmned just before the Kings death, to be removed from his coffin in A.n. 1163and kept at Westminster for the cure of epilepsy (Fig. i and sir p.… … Fig. I. Edward the Confessor givinc his Ring to the Beggar.Subject of ;x thirteenth-cenlury tile in the Chapter House at Westminster. But few of the greater cr the lesser rings of history have been preserved ; thesurvival of the Essex ring is a fortunate exception. Where is the ring reputed tobe…
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