Childeric, his tomb, body, ring, 71. Christians, rings of early Christians, 39, 40. Christians wearing talismanic rings, 119; symbolical figures on the rings of early Christians, 203; Christian marriage-ring copied from Romans, 205. Coffin-nails or screws made into rings to cure king’s evil, 132. Collar, pliable ring in the form of, 37. College of Navarre, gives ring to Crichton, 188. Commonwealth of England, inclined to abolish the ring in marriages, 208. Convulsions cured by silver rings, 132. Copts, betrothal ring used by them, 198. Coral, its supposed magical power, 107. Cork, Earl of, 160. Cornelian rings found near the Pyramids, 26. Cornelian, its magical and medical powers, 100, 105. Coronation rings, 67. Council of Trent, in relation to marriage, 195, 204. Cramp rings, 128. Cranmer using the ring of Henry VIII. before the Council, 72. Creeping to cross, 130. Crichton (the Admirable), ring given to him by the College of Navarre, 188. Criminals, chains of, made into rings to cure diseases, 136. Croly’s lines on a gem representing a woman contemplating a household god, 230. Cupid and Psyche, on a Roman signet, 214. Cupid with butterflies, on a ring, 144. D. Dactylomancy, or divination by rings, 111. Dactylotheca, Roman name for cases containing rings, 22, 155. Dano-Saxon amulet, 136. Darnley’s ring, 173. Death’s-head rings, 30. Devereux, Earl of, ring given by Queen Elizabeth to, 162. De Vesci, King John’s bad conduct towards the wife of, 157. Diamond, 41; on swivel in ring, 49; its magical and medical powers, 100, 101. Divination by rings, 111, 112. Doge marrying the sea, 73; his ring of office, 75. “Dolzbote;” 138. Domestic deities of the Romans, small iron rings used for, 229. Drennan, Dr., his lines to his wife with a ring, 232. Dschemid, said to have introduced the ring, 16. Dundee, ring in memory of the great Dundee, 187. E. Edward, St., ring of, 128. Edward the Confessor’s ring, 157. Egyptians, their rings, 17, 21, 26, 27, 34, 35; on what fingers worn, 47, 48; no evidence that they used a marriage-ring, 196. Eldon, Lord, desired his ring to be buried with him, 225. Eleusinian mysteries, rings given to the initiated, 96. Elizabeth of Poland, talismanic ring given by her to her son Andrea, 118. Elizabeth, Queen, medicinal ring sent to her by Lord Chancellor Hatton, 124; ring given by her to Essex, 162; her death, 164; ring given by her to Mary of Scotland, 168. Elk’s horn, piece of, worn in ring to cure epilepsy, 135. Emerald, its supposed medical and magical powers, 100, 103. Epilepsy cured by wearing ring, 133, 135. Essex-ring, 162, _et seq._ Esthonia, betrothal rings in, 197. Eternity, ring an emblem of, 21. Ethelwoulf, ring of, 156. Etruscan rings, 35, 36.