. Studies in the history and method of science. rpse in the tombin 1066. He was translated at midnight of October 13, 1163,when his body was found to be incorrupt. Abbot Lawrence tookthe robes from the body and made them into three copes, andgave the ring as a sacred relic to the Abbey : Dompnus Laurentius quondam abbas huius loci . . sed etannulo eiusdem (Sancti Edwardi) quem Sancto lohanni quondamtradidit, quem et ipse de paradiso remisit, elapsis annis duobuset dimidio, postea in nocte translationis de digito regis tulit, etpro miraculo in loco isto custodiri iussit. The story of the r
. Studies in the history and method of science. rpse in the tombin 1066. He was translated at midnight of October 13, 1163,when his body was found to be incorrupt. Abbot Lawrence tookthe robes from the body and made them into three copes, andgave the ring as a sacred relic to the Abbey : Dompnus Laurentius quondam abbas huius loci . . sed etannulo eiusdem (Sancti Edwardi) quem Sancto lohanni quondamtradidit, quem et ipse de paradiso remisit, elapsis annis duobuset dimidio, postea in nocte translationis de digito regis tulit, etpro miraculo in loco isto custodiri iussit. The story of the ring is also depicted in the miniatures ofa beautiful illuminated Norman-French MS. Life of St. Edwardthe King, dating from the thirteenth centiiry, and now in theUniversity Library at Cambridge.^ The single miniature repro-duced here (Plate xxxix) shows seven bhnd men, restored to 1 British Museum MS. Cotton. Claud. A. viii, fE. 32, 33, and Archaeol. Journal,London, June, 1864. 2 jvis. Ee. iii. 59. iU^ ON en - > D yo G 5 <^U Eo. O o g H <u o COO - < <N I—I w THE BLESSING OF CRAMP-RINGS 167 sight, kneeling at the shrine, while a priest reads the Te the sides of the shrine are figures on piUars of St. John as thepalmer (left), and St. Edward with his ring (right). No cure ofepilepsy, so-called cramp, is depicted among the many miraculouscures recorded in the MS. The earliest extant records of theuse of the ring for this purpose date from the reign of Edward II. Anstis 1 cites the following entry from the last chapter of theConstitutions of the Household of Edward II: Item le Roi doitoffrer de certein le jour de grant vendredi a crouce. v s. queuxil est acustumez receivre devers lui a la mene le chapelein afairent anulx a donner pur medicine az divers gentz : the language,however, of the entry leaves little room to doubt that the customwas already an established one. At his coronation, too, Edward IIoffered a pound of gold wrought into a figure representin
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