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Rh ment reaching to the feet with tight sleeves, perhaps the colobium sindonis of later times; (ii.) a similar vestment, the tunic, slightly shorter than the first, also with tight sleeves; and (iii.) the dalmatic. This again is shorter than the tunic and has wider sleeves, and is coloured crimson and powdered with gold flowers; it has also a brooch at the neck. Over all is an ample purple mantle fastened with a brooch on the right shoulder. The king has green buskins with golden spurs on his feet, jewelled gloves on his hands and his crown on his head. In the right hand was once a short sceptre and by his left side lies his sword.

Henry died at Chinon on 6th July, 1189, and Matthew Paris describes how on the morrow, while he was being carried to burial, he lay with his face uncovered, clothed in royal apparel, having a golden crown on his head and gloves on his hands, footgear woven with gold and spurs on his feet, a great ring on his finger, and in his hand the sceptre, and girded with a sword; and in this array he was buried.

The royal vestments of Richard I. are amply illustrated, first by an exceptionally full account of his crowning, secondly by his great seals, and thirdly by his monumental effigy at Fontevraud (fig. 4).

Of the account of the crowning of Richard in 1189 several versions exist, the fullest being probably that of Roger of Howden. In the