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A JACOBITE POSY RING, ANOTHER POSY RING AND A SERJEANT'S-AT-LAW RING
All in gold, the small Jacobite ring inscribed inside the narrow hoop
'Prepared bee to follow mee', 17th Century, finger size K; a posy ring inscribed inside the broad hoop 'God's providence is our inheritance', with initials I.A.G., 17th Century, finger size Q 1/2, and a serjeant's-at-law ring engraved around the broad band 'Serus in Coelum redeas', by William Hopkins, London, 1802, finger size Q
The first inscription was one of the first used to commemorate the death of Charles I in 1649. For the second inscription cf. J. Evans, English Posies and Posy Rings, 1931. pp.44,45, and the motto on the serjeant's-at-law ring is a quotation from Horace's Odes and was one of the rings given away by Sir James Mansfield when he was created a serjeant in April, 1804 in order to be appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Provenance: The first two rings were found with a hoard of coins at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire in 1966 (3)
All in gold, the small Jacobite ring inscribed inside the narrow hoop
'Prepared bee to follow mee', 17th Century, finger size K; a posy ring inscribed inside the broad hoop 'God's providence is our inheritance', with initials I.A.G., 17th Century, finger size Q 1/2, and a serjeant's-at-law ring engraved around the broad band 'Serus in Coelum redeas', by William Hopkins, London, 1802, finger size Q
The first inscription was one of the first used to commemorate the death of Charles I in 1649. For the second inscription cf. J. Evans, English Posies and Posy Rings, 1931. pp.44,45, and the motto on the serjeant's-at-law ring is a quotation from Horace's Odes and was one of the rings given away by Sir James Mansfield when he was created a serjeant in April, 1804 in order to be appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Provenance: The first two rings were found with a hoard of coins at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire in 1966 (3)