[238] Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, 8vo. vol. i. p. 13. [239] Ib. p. 79. [240] Mem. de Petrarque, i. 210. [241] Notes and Queries, i. 140. [242] See Douce’s Illust. of Shakspeare, p. 69. [243] Hone’s Every Day Book, i. 141. [244] Notes and Queries, vol. ii. p. 67. [245] Crimes Célèbres. [246] Crimes Célèbres, (Dumas.) [247] Roman Antiquities, by Fuss, § 62. [248] Blair’s Roman Slavery, 97; and see note 50, p. 241. [249] Pliny, xxxiii. [250] Lacrim. Etrus., (Sylv. iii. 3,) “_lævæque ignobile ferrum_.” [251] Vol. i. book x. [252] We write at a time when a subscription is going among the inhabitants of New-York for the purchase of this collection; and already have private citizens subscribed to the amount of $25,000. This tells well for republican individual enterprise and taste. The author has to acknowledge the prompt kindness of Dr. Abbott, in allowing him to take impressions as well from the Suphis-ring as from many others in the Doctor’s collection. [253] Genesis, ch. 1. v. 26. [254] Pote’s Inquiry into the Phonetic Reading of the Ashburnham Signet. (Pickering, 1841.) [255] See Wilkinson’s Manners of the Egyptians, iii. 374. [256] On the tomb is the sculptured figure of a man bound hand and foot, with a huge lion in the act of springing upon him to devour him. No history could speak more graphically the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den.--_The (American) Family Christian Almanac for 1855._ [257] Fuss’s Roman Antiquities, § 435. [258] Adams’ Roman Antiquities, 366, (Boyd’s edit.) [259] Plutarch’s _Timoleon_. [260] Introduction to English Antiquities, by Eccleston, 60, 61. [261] Dugdale. [262] Burke’s Extinct Peerage, “Plantagenet Viscount L’Isle,” 432. [263] Hollingshed; Dugdale. [264] Echard, 363. [265] Biographia Britannica, art. Boyle. [266] 1814; and see Notes and Queries, v. 589. [267] Halliwell’s Life of Shakspeare, 334. [268] Part i. p. 346, (Harper’s edit.) [269] P. 92. And see Johnson’s Life of Coke, p. 147; Hume, Horace Walpole. The ring is said to be retained in the family of the Countess of Nottingham. [270] Pictorial History of England, ii. 693. [271] Histoire de Hollande, 215, 216; and also see the Biographia Britannica, vol. 5, art. Devereux. [272] Biographia Britannica, art. Devereux. [273] Lives and Letters of the Devereux Earls of Essex, by the Honorable W. B. Devereux. [274] Strickland’s Queens of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 181. [275] Gent’s Mag. vol. xxxv. p. 390; Archæologia, vol. xxxiii. [276] Willis’s Current Notes for February and March, 1852. [277] P. 184, (note.) [278] Gent.’s Mag. for 1852, p. 407. [279] Anecdotes and Traditions, published by the Camden Society, (London, 1839.) [280] Strickland’s Queens of Scotland, iii. 279. [281] Mackenzie’s Lives and Characters. [282] Father Garvasse. [283] Burke’s Extinct Peerages, “Carey,” 111. [284] Collins’s Baronage, 421, (4to.)