Prometheus, and his wearing the first ring, 15, 16. Prussian maiden and the sacrifice of her hair, 190. Puritans set against the wedding-ring, 208. R. Richard II., directions in his will, 71. Riddle on a ring, 62. Ring-dropping, 145. Ring-money, 13. Roman Catholic marriages, 208. Roman flute players, rings worn by, 23. Roman lawyers, rings given to, by clients, 23. Roman urns, rings in, 19. Roman rings, 36; marriage-rings, 195. Roman senators and their rings, 66. Roman slave, 146. Roman knights, 24, 66, 90. Ruby, its supposed medical and magical powers, 102. Rubric, marriage in the Episcopal Church governed by, 204, 205. Ruthven, Lord, offers talismanic ring to Mary, Queen of Scots, 119. Rush-rings, 215. S. Sackvil, Duke of Dorset, ring given to him by King James, 175. St. Anne, ring of, 214. Samothracian talismanic ring, 94. Sapphire; its supposed medical and magical powers, 104. Scarabæus, form of seal, 17. Sea-horse’s tooth, Michaelis’s medical ring made of, 136. Seal-rings, when first used by ladies, 26. Sebert, his tomb, body, ring, 70. Serjeants at law, their rings and the ceremony relating to their presentation, 86. Sessa, ring found at, 216. Shakspeare’s signet-ring, 10, 161; bequeathed rings to his brother players, 222. Shoes, rings with shape of soles of shoes, 24. Signets with Sanscrit inscriptions, 17; importance given to signets in England, 53. Size of rings, Egyptian, 31, 32, 33. Slave, Roman, 146. Solomon’s magic ring, 113. Sonnet, by Davison, 195. Sore cured by touch of ring-finger, 132, 133. Spain, the power of a girl to compel marriage when a ring has been given, 198. Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, his character and last gift of rings, 181. Statues, rings on, 22, 23, 24. Sterling’s story of the “Onyx Ring,” 116. Storms, amulet against, 136. “Sty” on the eye cured by rubbing with wedding-ring, 132. _Subarrhation_, the delivering of ring and other gifts, 203. Substances from which rings are formed, 26. Suphis, ring of, 149. Suffolk, Duchess of, 159. _Symbolum_, a term used for a ring, 13. Syrian legend, 115. T. Talismanic rings, 93; their form, 96. “Thee, Mary, with this ring I wed,” 231. Theseus, 14. Thieves’ rings, 145. Thumb-rings, 90, 91, 92. Toad-stone. 107. Topaz, its supposed medical and magical powers, 104. _Trau_ (betrothal) ring in Germany, 200. Trent, Council of, 195, 204. Tristram, had a mystical ring, 127. Trophy, emblem on rings, 155. Turlough Lynnoch, his ring, 190. Turquoise, its supposed medical and magical powers, 106; turquoise ring sent by the Queen of Louis XII. to James IV. of Scotland, 158. U. V. _Ungulus_, Oscan word for ring, 13. Urns, rings in Greek urns, 18. Urns, rings in Roman urns, 19. Value of some ring, 54.