[330] The beautiful architectural design in this picture is said to be copied, but very much improved, from a picture by Perugino, the master of Raffaelle. As the latter had a genius beyond copying and as Perugino made use of the talents of his pupil, it is fair to suppose that Raffaelle composed the building and afterwards claimed its outline by inserting it, with improvament from reflection, in his own painting, _Lo Sposalizio_. The general form and proportions are to be found in Brunelleschi’s design for the octagon chapel of the Scholari annexed to the church Degl’ Angeli at Florence. See Kugler’s Hand Book of Painting, by Eastlake, p. 332. [331] Martense, ii. 128. [332] Palmer’s _Origines Liturgicæ_, vol. ii. p. 214. [333] Bishop Jeremy Taylor’s “_Wedding Ring_.” [334] Fosbroke’s Encyc. of Antiquities, p. 250. [335] Notes and Queries, ii. 611. [336] 1 Dow, 181; 2 Hagg. C. R. 70, 81. [337] Hallam’s Middle Ages, ii. 286, _et seq._; Shelford on Marriage, 19, 20. [338] _Poulter_ v. _Cornwall_, Salk. 9. [339] Burns’ Eccl. Law--_Marriage_. [340] Athenian Oracle, No. xxvi. [341] Burns’ Eccl. Law, art. _Marriage_. [342] Notes and Queries, iv. 199. [343] Hone’s Table Book. [344] Notes and Queries, v. 371. [345] Vol. i. p. 270. [346] Hamilton’s Marriage Rites, etc., 125. [347] III. ii. 309. [348] See Hamilton’s Marriage Rites, etc., 178. [349] _Lindo_ v. _Belisario_, 1 Haggard’s Consist. Reps. 217. [350] And see Morgan’s Doctrine and Law of Marriage, Adultery and Divorce, i. 97, _et seq._, and particularly note x. at p. 103. [351] Verse 9. [352] Larpent’s Private Journal, 563. [353] Hone’s Table Book. [354] Fosbroke, 249; Hone’s Table Book. [355] Caylus, iii. 313, Pl. lxxxv. [356] Hone’s Every Day Book. [357] See Douce’s Illust. of Shakspeare, 194. [358] Antiquities of Paris. [359] No. 56. [360] Herrick, in his Hesperides, speaks of “posies for our wedding-ring.” [361] London Gent.’s Mag. vol. lv. O. S. p. 89. [362] Caylus, ii, 312, Pl. lxxxix. [363] No. 32. [364] Tom. III. P. II. Pl. cxxciv. [365] Supplement, Tom. III. Pl. LXV. p. 174. [366] Gent.’s Mag. vol. lxxv. p. 801, 927. [367] Ib. vol. lx. O. S. 798, 1001. [368] Boswell’s Johnson, 280, (Murray’s ed.) [369] Piozzi. [370] Twiss’s Life of Eldon. [371] Moore’s Diary, 173. [372] A gold ring, bearing a pelican feeding her young, was found at Bury St. Edmunds, England. (Gent.’s Mag. xxxix. 532, N. S.) The crest of the house of Lumley, Earls of Scarborough, is a pelican in her nest feeding her young. [373] Vol. viii. p. 179.