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)
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)
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