In ‘Notes and Queries’ (2nd series, vol. x.) we find an editorial note on this subject. A parish clerk recollected an instance of a party that came to the church, and requested to be married with the church key. It was what is called a ‘parish wedding,’ and the parochial authorities, though willing to pay the church fees, because ‘they were glad to get rid of the girl,’ had not felt disposed to furnish the wedding-ring. The clerk stated, however, that, feeling some hesitation as to the substitution of the church key in his _own_ church, he stepped into the great house hard by, and there borrowed an old _curtain-ring_, with which the marriage was solemnised. Sir John Suckling, in his ballad on a ‘Wedding,’ has this conceit on a ring:-- Her fingers were so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck: And to say truth, for out it must, It look’d like the great collar, just About our young colt’s neck. Perhaps one of the smallest wedding-rings on record is that which is mentioned in the _fiançailles_ of the Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII., to the Dauphin of France, son of King Francis I. The _fiancé_ was represented on that occasion by Admiral Bonnivet, the French Ambassador. The dauphin was born February 28, 1518, and the event of his birth was made a matter of State policy, for a more intimate alliance with France. On October 5, in the same year, the bridal ceremonies took place at Greenwich with great pomp. King Henry took his station in front of the throne; on one side stood Marie of France, and Queen Katherine; in front of her mother was the Princess Marie, just _two_ years old, dressed in cloth of gold, with a cap of black velvet on her head, blazing with jewels. On the other side stood the two legates, Wolsey and Campeggio. After a speech by Dr. Tunstal, the Princess was taken in arms; the consent of the King and Queen was demanded, and Wolsey approached with a diminutive ring of gold, fitted to the young lady’s finger, in which was a valuable diamond. Admiral Bonnivet, as proxy for the baby bridegroom, passed it over the second joint. The bride was blessed, and mass performed by Wolsey, the King and the whole Court attending it.