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Inscription key word and variants:

"Love"

Inscription
Ring Type
Date
PAS ID
Found (County)
Image 1
Link to PAS record
A knote knite in love
Posy
17th-18th C
NARC-34F49A
Leicestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1030569
A token of love
Posy
18th C
SUR-18FC30
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/254781
A token of my love
Posy
17th-18th C
WILT-B0AA79
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/655860
A token of my love
Posy
18th C
SUSS-91D803
West Sussex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/93909
A token of my love
Posy
18th C
SUSS-5D2E3D
West Sussex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1060081
A token of tre love
Posy
18th C
DOR-272676
Not known
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1033386
Absence is no let to love
Posy
17th-18th C
DOR-763C3C
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/870570
Acsept my love
Posy
18th C
DOR-BA5EE8
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/981885
All for love
Posy
16th-17th C
WAW-4CC20E
Worcestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/809514
All for love
Posy
16th-17th C
LANCUM-6359F8
Lancashire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1099834
As I love the so God love me
Posy
17th-18th C
YORYM-ADBEDA
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/900427
Be faitfvl and loving
Posy
16th-17th C
KENT-12A8B4
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/402467
Be wylling and lovinge
Posy
16th-17th C
YORYM-EAE3C2
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/278506
Deny not he that loveth thee
Posy
18th-19th C
WILT-981B2F
Wiltshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1032926
Dev medoinst ioie demamor
Stirrup
14th C
NMS-EA1E81
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/257898
Endles' like this my love is
Posy
18th C
DOR-A3C17D
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/644433
Fear God love me
Posy
18th C
NMGW-6719BC
Vale of Glamorgan
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/808159
Feare God and loue mee
Posy
NMGW-1148D7
Monmouthshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1034403
Feare God and loue mee
Posy
17th-18th C
PAS-10F734
Gloucestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/929250
Feare God and love mee
Posy
17th-18th C
NMGW-C5F371
Rhondda Cynon Taf
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/860550
Feare god love me
Posy
17th-18th C
SOM-752CD5
Somerset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1056813
Feeare God love the giver
Posy
17th-18th C
IOW-43FDA2
Isle of Wight
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/510824
God above inc'reac'e our love
Posy
17th-18th C
SUSS-625F14
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1022647
God above increas our love
Posy
17th-18th C
SF-698002
Suffolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/248189
God above increase our love
Posy
17th-18th C
BERK-5F4478
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/271850
God above increase our love
Posy
18th C
PUBLIC-194333
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/906131
God above increase our love
Posy
18th C
BERK-1AD615
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/978763
God above increase our love
Posy
18th C
PAS-B94AC2
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/216168
God above increase our love
Posy
18th C
SUR-EDE4D4
Surrey
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/469462
God above increase our love
Posy
18th C
KENT-9CDF6B
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/782052
God above keep us in love
Posy
17th-18th C
LEIC-290856
Leicestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/276914
God above keep us in love
Posy
18th C
NMGW-AB0F81
Gwent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/49448
God above send peace and love
Posy
18th C
ESS-6CFAD0
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1105733
God gives in crease to loue and peace
Posy
17th C
NMS-2C9E06
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/246515
God gives increase to love and peace
Posy
DEV-226158
Berkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/648314
God gives increase to love and peace
Posy
17th C
BH-3649D2
Bedfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/60178
God gives increase to love and peace
Posy
17th-18th C
ESS-AD9A65
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/496690
God increase our love
Posy
17th-18th C
WAW-7ECC04
Worcestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/569709
Godly loue cannot remoue
Posy
18th C
SOM-25BE95
Somerset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/560100
Godly love cannot remoue
Posy
17th-18th C
SOM-6CF746
Wiltshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/923732
Godly love will not remove
Posy
17th-20th C
ESS-BDDAD8
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/993767
Godly love will not remove
Posy
18th C
SUSS-73E152
East Sussex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/406941
Godly love will not remove
Posy
18th C
WILT-2ECE1D
Somerset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/848600
Hear God love me
Posy
16th-17th C
BERK-8ECBF5
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/146813
Hope is the life of love
Posy
18th C
SUR-923A04
Buckinghamshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/441411
I cannot sho the love + o
Posy
17th-18th C
KENT-9405AB
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1010000
I cannot show the love I O
Posy
18th C
IOW-968201
Isle of Wight
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/182774
I cannot showe the love I owe
Posy
17th-19th C
LEIC-C19216
Leicestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/220076
I gyve to he a trvloves hart
Posy
16th-17th C
SUR-787B56
Surrey
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/405806
I live in love and thayr wyl de thayr
Posy
16th-17th C
PAS-8D9952
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/216018
I love and like my choice
Posy
18th C
KENT-20670D
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/720731
I love and like my choyce
Posy
17th C
BERK-E8717E
Buckinghamshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/877556
I love and like my choyce
Posy
17th-18th C
BERK-38E52A
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/882083
I love in hart
Posy
KENT-79B686
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/232591
I love to fynde / a constant minde
Posy
16th-17th C
BM-694AAC
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1061597
If love can merit I shall in herit
Posy
17th-18th C
LVPL-9EBA23
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/631891
If love can merrit I shall inherit
Posy
17th-18th C
DENO-353213
Nottinghamshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/748604
In God aboue we ioyne our lou
Posy
17th C
NMS-8CEFD5
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/477833
In God above we join our love
Posy
18th C
SUR-46BF7B
Surrey
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/621021
In loue abide till death diuide
Posy
17th-18th C
HAMP-23B0C4
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/393406
In love abide till death devide
Posy
17th-18th C
ESS-B15ECE
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/736079
In love abide till death divide
Posy
18th-19th C
KENT-F5292E
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/780649
In love love abide till death devide
Posy
17th-18th C
LIN-AFAED2
Lincolnshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/383975
Let loue last
Posy
17th-18th C
PAS-88D6B0
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1036792
Let love abide tell death divide
Posy
17th-18th C
GLO-29BE9F
Gloucestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/775176
Let love abide till death divide
Posy
17th-18th C
SUSS-EABFA7
East Sussex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/474281
Let love endure
Posy
17th-18th C
OXON-FB4649
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1121941
Let love have her reward
Posy
17th-18th C
GLO-55A844
Gloucestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/638683
Let love increase
Posy
17th-18th C
SWYOR-1E2FF4
South Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1011948
Let love ind'ure
Posy
17th-18th C
BERK-86F3F5
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/858157
Lett thy love bee as mine to thee
Posy
17th-18th C
DEV-7A936B
Devon
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/864544
Life survived by love
Posy
18th C
LEIC-EBDA5B
Leicestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1013756
Live and love together
Posy
16th-17th C
LEIC-97DE14
Northamptonshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/564625
Live in love
Posy
17th-18th C
SOM-066C42
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/990504
Live in love and fear the Lord
Marriage
17th C
KENT-21E814
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/867541
Live in love and love in God
Posy
17th C
ESS-1BB773
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1030343
Live, love and be happy
Posy
DEV-668075
Devon
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/241273
Long last our loue
Posy
18th C
HAMP-4EE5A7
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/261245
Loue Is all I crave
Posy
16th-17th C
BH-C3B4F4
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/938673
Loue euer or neuer
Posy
17th C
LVPL-734D14
Lincolnshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/463024
Loue is the bond of peace
Posy
17th-18th C
NMS-572348
Shropshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/277277
Loue is the bonde of peace
Posy
17th C
KENT-2CA863
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1041032
Love & live happy
Posy
GLO-9871DE
Not known
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1050840
Love & live happy
Posy
17th-18th C
WMID-75C66F
Staffordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/958619
Love (and) peace our love..
Posy
17th-18th C
BERK-B85A87
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/431156
Love For love
Posy
18th-19th C
SOM-E49E29
Devon
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/919901
Love God
Posy
16th-17th C
IOW-54B9C6
Isle of Wight
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/807912
Love God above all
Posy
16th-17th C
DUR-9F0AB6
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/646925
Love a[n]d live well
Posy
17th-18th C
BH-7C9BF0
Hertfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/291212
Love and be happy
Posy
18th C
GLO-4ECCE0
Gloucestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1124198
Love and be loved
Posy
17th C
GLO-5FC62B
Somerset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/973822
Love and feare God
Posy
16th-17th C
DEV-1BEE03
Devon
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/462558
Love and feare God
Posy
17th C
SUR-9A8577
Surrey
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/798820
Love and feare God
Posy
17th-18th C
NMS-77149D
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/948058
Love and live happily
Posy
17th-18th C
LIN-993C4F
Lincolnshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/814347
Love and live happily
Posy
17th-18th C
YORYM-389B36
East Riding of Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/586035
Love and live happy
Posy
17th-18th C
SUR-76F205
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/933908
Love and live happy
Posy
18th C
WILT-4CDFB8
Wiltshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/882216
Love and lyve
Posy
16th-17th C
DEV-215EAC
Not known
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/907628
Love and obaye
Miscellaneous
16th C
DOR-75D2A7
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/870545
Love and obaye
Posy
16th C
SUR-23CC4E
Surrey
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1052984
Love as I or else I dye
Posy
17th-18th C
SUSS-610EE6
Rutland
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/505380
Love as' I or else I die
Posy
17th-18th C
ESS-FA2225
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/486602
Love feare and obaye
Posy
16th-17th C
KENT-D3BBB0
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/290030
Love for ever
Posy
17th-18th C
BH-5C4EAE
Buckinghamshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/708478
Love for love
Posy
15th-17th C
DOR-4CA527
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/856118
Love hateth delay
Posy
16th-18th C
SWYOR-FA9028
West Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1010179
Love in God
Miscellaneous
15th-16th C
LEIC-F0AEE4
Leicestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/462166
Love is a vertu
Posy
17th-18th C
SUSS-7AEB77
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1084334
Love is a vertw
Posy
16th-17th C
DUR-6ACC36
County Durham
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1009186
Love is the bond of peace
Posy
17th-18th C
YORYM-994BCE
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1040262
Love is the bond of peace
Posy
17th-18th C
NMS-64E70B
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1058627
Love is the bond of peace
Posy
17th-18th C
DUR-5DCDA8
County Durham
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/651793
Love is the bond of peace
Posy
18th C
DUR-E8D2A1
County Durham
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/969196
Love is the bond of pease
Posy
17th-18th C
OXON-FC03F7
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1074167
Love never dys where vertu lys
Posy
18th-19th C
BUC-88E914
Buckinghamshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/80510
Love requits' me
Posy
17th C
YORYM-72B6A0
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/254278
Love suer and so indure
Posy
17th C
LIN-B6F8A3
Lincolnshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/895603
Love to be loved ed
Posy
ESS-819556
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/836274
Love untire is my desire
Posy
17th C
SUSS-C64206
West Sussex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/900621
Love vertu
Posy
17th C
KENT-6C6948
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/876727
Love virtue hate vice
Posy
18th-19th C
ESS-E0D695
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/431533
Lve for ever
Posy
17th-19th C
GLO-9143B6
Gloucestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/917559
More loue cannot giue
Posy
17th C
NMS-01E153
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/484173
My [heart motif] the centure love this circle is
Posy
16th-17th C
YORYM-064A27
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/411849
My l[ov]e is true to only you
Posy
17th-18th C
NMS-6F2545
Norfolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/114840
My loue is true
Posy
18th C
ESS-BD9937
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/277902
My love in this presented is
Posy
17th-18th C
YORYM-BDD82E
East Riding of Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1041637
My love is true to none but you
Posy
18th C
GLO-9E2E1B
Bath and North East Somerset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1029996
My love with this presented is
Posy
17th-18th C
BERK-94C863
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1014384
No hap so hard as loue debard
Posy
17th C
PUBLIC-603782
Cheshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/874269
Noe recilmpence but love
Posy
17th C
HAMP-145347
Wiltshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/914072
Noe recompence but love
Posy
17th C
WMID-049FE3
Shropshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1061036
Noe recompence but love
Posy
17th C
PAS-3B3AB7
Wiltshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/51050
Noe recompense but love
Fede
18th C
SUSS-DB9583
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/253488
Noe turtle dove shall shew more love
Posy
17th-18th C
SWYOR-0D3F85
North Yorkshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1046864
Not the value but my love
Posy
17th-18th C
KENT-3EF154
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/75643
Not won by wealth nor forcd by friends / But faithfull love which never ends
Posy
17th-18th C
LON-D191D2
Greater London
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/661109
On faith on hope on love
Posy
18th C
BERK-D7F63E
Oxfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/739344
PT - love in her is my defier
Posy
16th-17th C
KENT-925923
Kent
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/985811
Remember me as I love the
Posy
16th-17th C
HESH-B03DEC
Shropshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/737740
Riches are vnstedfast and bevti wil dekey bvt faithful love doth ever last til deth drive yt a way
Posy
16th-17th C
DUR-9EC4D6
County Durham
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/270707
Such is my love
Posy
16th-17th C
NMGW-4AB918
Vale of Glamorgan
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/735413
The loue I owe I cannot show
Posy
17th-18th C
SUR-16D493
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/988474
The love Is true that I O U
Posy
17th C
WILT-BA3553
Wiltshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/196633
The love Is true that I O U
Posy
17th C
LON-712F8A
Greater London
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/947906
Tho fortvne faill / Let love prevavl
Posy
15th-17th C
WMID-4817DA
Derbyshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/705455
Time shal tri my love
Posy
16th-17th C
LEIC-153F3D
Rutland
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/741765
To expresse my love
Fede
17th-18th C
GLO-A0BA09
Gloucestershire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/985856
Tru love
Posy
18th C
HESH-5508E1
Shropshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/249212
True love
Posy
18th-19th C
BH-EB7106
Hertfordshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/513641
True love is the bond of peace
Posy
17th-18th C
BM-0FA2A5
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1063375
True love was never knowne to fewer
Posy
16th-17th C
NARC-4971CD
Northamptonshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/999792
True loves delight doth us unite
Posy
17th C
ESS-757F92
Essex
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/826655
Vertue joyne with love
Posy
17th-18th C
DENO-E46AEC
Nottinghamshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/760495
Vertue makes love eternall
Posy
17th-18th C
PAS-B622E7
Lincolnshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/216139
Vertue makes love eteruall
Posy
17th C
SF-0A94B5
Suffolk
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/647924
We joine our love in Christ above AB
Posy
17th-18th C
SUSS-1163AE
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1026901
We joyne our loue in criʃt aboue
Posy
17th-18th C
SUR-96052B
Hampshire
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925788
Yonn treuloue fer be hert thenk on me
Posy
15th C
DOR-2342BA
Dorset
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/631202
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