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132 to the church the king's coif (pilleum regium) was carried by Godfrey de Lucy, and six earls and barons bore on their shoulders a very large board upon which were put the royal ensigns and vestments. For the anointing the king was stripped to his shirt and breeches, the former being torn apart at the shoulders for the purpose, and the buskins were put on his feet. After the anointing a linen cloth and the coif were put upon his head. Then they clothed him with the royal vestments: first, the tunic; then the dalmatic; and after the delivery of the sword and spurs, with the mantle (mantea). Lastly the king was crowned and the sceptre and rod were put in his hands. The colobium sindonis is not mentioned.

The king's great seals show him enthroned, wearing his crown and holding the sword and sceptre. He is clad in (i.) a long vestment, probably the tunic, reaching to the feet and with tight sleeves to the wrists, over which is (ii.) the dalmatic, which has wide sleeves to the middle of the forearm. Upon his shoulders is (iii.) the mantle; this is secured by a band across the chest and brought round to the front and thrown over the knees (fig. 3).

The king's effigy at Fontevraud, like that of Henry II., represents him as wearing three vestments under the mantle; the lowest is probably the colobium sindonis, but the others are clearly from their decoration the tunic and dalmatic, the former being white, the latter red with wide sleeves and girded, and with a brooch at the neck. The mantle is blue with a gold border, and fastened by a brooch in front; it was evidently four square, as described in the coronation order. The king also wears his crown, together with the gloves, buskins, and spurs, and in his right hand was a sceptre (fig. 4).

The effigy which was placed over the king's heart at Rouen is of different character, and shows him crowned and wearing a long girded tunic or dalmatic with a brooch at the throat and over all a mantle.

The difference may be accounted for by the fact that the Fontevraud effigy covered the king's body, concerning which the Annals of Winchester say: