[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.

[374] Has not the idea of this black flag been taken from the black sail referred to by Plutarch in his life of Theseus? When the latter was to go with the Athenian youths to attempt the destruction of the Minotaur, a ship was prepared with a black sail, us carrying them to certain ruin. But when Theseus encouraged his father Ægeus by his confidence of success against the Minotaur, he gave another sail, a white one, to the pilot, ordering him, if he brought Theseus safe back, to hoist the white; but if not, to sail with the black one in token of his misfortune. When Theseus returned, the pilot forgot to hoist the white sail and Ægeus destroyed himself.

[375] Vol. ii. 310, 314.

[376] It has been called Calphurnia consulting the Penates on the fate of Cæsar.

[377] Dagley’s Gems, p. 6.

[378] We do not know who is the author of these lines. They appeared anonymously in the Gentlemen’s Magazine (London) for 1780, vol. 1. Old Series, 337, and it is merely said that they are by the “writer of lines on presenting a knife and verses on a former wedding day.”

[379] Douce’s Illustrations of Shakspeare, 549.