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 56
e royal inventory of 2cS Edward I, already so often quoted, includes the goldring with which the King was consecrated. But it was probably very carefullykept. Camden relates that Elizabeth in her last illness ordered to be cut fromher finger the ring with which she had been espoused to her kingdom… … John Comnenus is said to have drawn the ring from his lathers finger, and by meansof it conrirmcd his succession. ■ li. Martene, Ve antiquis ecclesiac ri/iluis, ii, ch. ix, ord. iv and v. This is related by Sigonius, De reg. Italiac, iv, p. 89. Ste Kirchmann, Dc ajimil.s, pp. 194-5. J. Wickham…
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