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Show flQUlO'8 "WEDDING BIND."" . trnlH a King Wodited to Ills roopla. ' The Wfillng ring of England" Is of ph Is goll let with a large table ruby, on whli-B the cross of Ht. Uoorge Is eu rtved. Icgcnd ssys tliit this ring li. raged Edward the Confessor, and th 1 he kotowed It on an old beggar wksskNj an alma of him, be having mplng ic at hand at the moment. Hi Ira afutwarda two English pilgrims lot: tlielt way In the Holy Ijind and in suitnred by a "fayre olde man," sL on parting said to them, "1 am J ttin- . Kvangelyat; and saysj ys vii (rty ward yovr kyng that I grule hliiMslI by the token be gaff me, thyiringe, with hys one handea." CertiJlt Is that James II., when dotal do-tal d jy the fishermen of Sheerness on Irst attempt to flee the country In 1 1 contrived to hide a ring, called "thcof-onatlon ring," In hla clothing. ThliurM a favorite ring of Mary Quel tf Boots, and was sent by hor at tr t'sth to James I., finally coming com-ing iti the possession of (leorge IV, thriFB the channels by which he ob-talul ob-talul 111 the remaining papers of the Jiouo Stuart. Tl aichhlshop puts th. ring on the foun plngor of his majesty's right ham skying: "Heoel tma ling, the enslsf! kingly dignity and of de-fensrnt de-fensrnt the Catholic faith."-Llppln-colti 1 |