CHAPTER TWO.

RINGS CONNECTED WITH POWER.

1. The Ring an Emblem of Power; Pharaoh; Quintus Curtius; Antiochus Epiphanes; Augustus; King of Persia; Egypt under the Ptolemies; Roman Senators; the Forefinger. 2. Rings used in Coronations; Edward the Second; Mother of Henry VIII.; Queen Elizabeth; Charles II.; Coronation Rings; Canute; Sebert; Henry II.; Childeric; Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. 3. King withdrawing a Proceeding from the Council by the use of a Ring. 4. The Doge of Venice marrying the Adriatic. 5. The Ring of Office of the Doge. 6. _The Fisherman’s Ring._ 7. Papal Ring of Pius II. 8. Investiture of Archbishops and Bishops by delivery of a Ring; Cardinal’s Ring; Extension of the two Forefingers and Thumb. 9. Serjeant’s Ring. 10. Arabian Princesses. 11. Roman Knights. 12. Alderman’s Thumb Ring. 65