No more examples need be given of the different species of enamel applied to seventeenth-century jewellery. Enough has been said to demonstrate the importance and attractiveness of the comparatively little-known enamel-work of this time. During the greater part of the seventeenth century the watch was simply hung by a chain to the girdle, as we see it on the two portraits (about 1645) of the wife of John Tradescant the younger in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The elaborate chatelaines which attached the watch to women's girdles, and the chains which hung from the fob-pocket of men, belong rather to the eighteenth century; but they were already in use, and from them were suspended that most attractive article of jewellery, the seal, which was then beginning to take the place of the signet ring. Evelyn, in his _Mundus Muliebris_, or _Voyage to Marryland_ (1690), gives a rhyming catalogue of a lady's toilet, and alludes to the chatelaine:-- To which a bunch of onyxes, And many a golden seal there dangles, Mysterious cyphers, and new fangles. The designs of Légaré contain several charming pendent seals having their shanks or handles finely worked with monograms and other patterns (Pl. XL). Seals, however, together with the chatelaine and the rest of its accompaniments, will be spoken of later. There remain various pieces of jewellery, such as buckles, clasps, or brooches, which were sprinkled on different parts of the dress. Like the sévigné or breast ornament, they often take the form of a tied bow, and find a place on the arms and shoulders, and in rows down the front of the bodice and the skirt. In the latter part of the century jewelled buckles replaced the rosette of ribbons on the shoe. Thus again Evelyn speaks of:-- Diamond buckles too, For garters, and as rich for shoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A manteau girdle, ruby buckle, And brilliant diamond rings for knuckle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A saphire bodkin for the hair, Or sparkling facet diamonds there: Then turquois, ruby, emrauld rings For fingers, and such petty things; As diamond pendants for the ears, Must needs be had, or two pearl pears, Pearl neck-lace, large and oriental, And diamond, and of amber pale. ENGLAND, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY