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Bacon, Francis, on telepathic test with a ring, 326, 327
Bacula, little rod for rings, 55
Bagobos of Philippine Islands, superstitions of the, 352
Balas-ruby, 276
Bardel, W., χ
Barlow, Hon. Peter T., vii, 153
Barr, Miss Ada M., vii
Barrow, F. H., viii
Beatty, W. Gedney, vii
Beauvoisin, Mlle, de, rings owned by, 76
Becket, St. Thomas à, ring taken from shrine of, 182, 183
Beefsteak Club memorial rings, 47
Benedict XIV, 281
Bequests of signets, 149
Berghem Lodowyck van (Louis de Ber-quen) cuts diamonds for Charles the Bold, 215
Béquet, Albert, 59
Berlin Mineralogical Museum, 108
Berlin Boyal Museum, 67
Bernard of Clairvaux, St., signet of, 145
Bernhard IV, Margrave of Baden, portrait of, 62
Berteildis, wife of Dagobert I, signet of, 138
Beryl, 134, 158, 252, 334, 335
Besborough collection, 73
Betrothal rings, see wedding rings
Bible, rings mentioned in the, 1, 115, 116, 336
Bibliothèque Nationale,. 162
Bibliothèque du Roi (later Bibliothèque Nationale), 139
Ringham, Hiram, viii
Inca rings found by, in Peru, 83
Bishop, Heber B,., collection, 55, 105, 106
Bishops' rings, of Allstan, Bishop of Sherborne, 271 of Arnulphus, Bishop of Metz, 269 of Ebba, Bishop of Rheims, 270 of Bishop of Flambard, 275 of Bishop Geoffroy Rufus, 275 of Archbishop Greenfield, 272 of Bishop Hervée, 273 of Hilary, Bishop of Chichester, 272 Innocent Ill's definition of, 273 of Archbishop Parker, 276 of Seffrid, Bishop of Chichester, 272 of Archbishop Sewell, 272 of Archbishop Sigfroi, 274 of Bishop John Stanberry, 275
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Bishops' rings, stolen by Piers Gaves-ton, 276 set with green tourmalines, 276 of Bishop William of St. Barbara,
275 of Bishop Wykeham, 275 of Wytlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury, 275 Blake, W. W., ix
Blakeslee collection, portraits in, showing ring wearing, 62 Bloodstone, 158, 191, 331 Bohemian garnet wings, 109 Boleyn, Anne, sends "cramp rings," 343 Boniface IV, mention of pontifical ring
in decree of, 267 Boniface VIII, ring found in tomb of, 273 magic ring of, 306 Bonza, Buddhist priest, rings made by,
.82 Beog, Theodore de, vii "Book of Thetel," magic ring described
in, 311 Borde, Andrew, on cramp rings, 843 Borgia, Cesare, motto in poison-ring of,
37 Borgia, Lucrezia, rings at betrothal of,
215 Borgias, poison rings of the, 37 Borough, Sir Edward, wins diamond
ring at tournament, 181 Bossuet, Jacques Béminge, memorial
ring given him by Princess Henrietta
Anne, 45 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 192 Braddock, Charles S., Jr., ix Brandon, Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, wins
ruby ring at tournament, 181 Brantôme, Pierre de Boudeilles, Seig-
neux de, 168 Branualdius, 300 Brass rings, 82, 84, 352 Brera gallery, Milan, 203 British Museum, x, 5, 35, 39, 40, 44, 50,
58, 68, 69, 75, 82, 86, 89, 98, 99, 100,
104, 136, 143, 150, 151, 173, 197, 251,
257, 293 Bronze age, rings of the, 2 Bronze rings, 58, 89, 109, 251, 257, 293 Broun, W. H., entire emerald ring,
owned by, 103 Brouwer, Bart, entire diamond ring by,
105 Brummagem rings, 113, 114
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