60 FISH AND FISHING. 



given to Solomon, the ring was found in its belly, and- 

 thus he recovered his kingdom." lo 



"The legend of the fish and the ring/' says Dr. 

 Dibdin, " is extant in well nigh every class-book in Scot- 

 land : old Spotswood is among the earliest historians who 

 garnished up the dish from the Latin monastic legend. 

 They report of St. Kentigern, the first Bishop of Glas- 

 gow, that a lady of good place in the country having lost 

 her ring as she crossed the river Clyde, and her husband 

 waxing jealous, as if she had bestowed the same on one 

 of her lovers, she did mean herself unto Kentigern, entreat- 

 ing his help for the safety of her honour , and that he, 

 going to the river after he had used his devotion, willed 

 one who was making to fish to bring the first that he 

 caught, which was done. In the mouth of this fish he 

 found the ring, and sending it to the lady, she was thereby 

 freed of her husband's suspicions. The creed of this I 

 believe, upon the reporters ; but however it be, the See 

 and the City of Glasgow do both of them bear in their 

 arms a fish with a ring in its mouth, even to this day." 



The well-known momument on the walls of Stepney 

 Church bears a shield of arms, commemorative of a 

 tradition, that the Lady Berry, in whose memory the 

 monument was erected, was the heroine of " the Cruel 

 Knight, or Fortunate Farmer's Daughter," a once popular 

 ballad, the scene of which was laid in Yorkshire. It 



10 Sale's Koran. 



