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 144 THE ANCESTOR 1300)/ in a list of jewels remaining at the end of his twenty- seventh year from those 'which were the Lady Blanche of Spain's/ four gold crowns are enumerated : one with rubies and emeralds and great pearls valued at £600, another upon blue pearls (super perlis indeis) worth i^'^^o^ a third of one piece with rubies and emeralds worth ^£3205 and a fourth described as una corona magna auri cum baleis quarratis ameraudis saphiris orientalibus rubeis et perlis orientalibus grossis precij m'mViij^i. touronum nigrorum. Que assignatur ad portandum super capita Regum Anglie in exitu ecclesie ad pran- dium die coronacionis eorundem. In another list, made in June, 1303, on the discovery of the burglary and robbery of the royal treasury at Westminster by Richard de Podlicote, among the jewels left behind in the treasury, ' in one of the long coffers from the Tower of London,' were : Magna corona auri qua Rex usus fuit die coronacionis sue cum preciosa pretraria magnorum balesiorum rubettorum et ameraldarum cujus precium prius estimatur. Corona auri cum consimilibus lapidibus ponderis xxxvi. s. et ii. den. — precii c. marcarum. Corona auri ponderis ciii. s. et xi. den. — precii cel. li. Corona auri cum rubettis ameraldis et grossis perlis — precii vi"""- li.^ Of the coronation of Edward IL in 1308 the full order is preserved in the Public Record Office.^ It differs but little from the later order known as Liher RegaliSy but the rubrics are very short and the ornaments are only mentioned by name. The king was stripped for the anointing to his shirt {yestis)y which was then torn apart down to the girdle for the unction. After the anointing the order directs 'induatur sindonis collobio, capite amictu operto propter unctionem,' and the buskins, sandals, and spurs were put on the king's feet. No mention is made, perhaps through carelessness of the scribe, of the investiture with either the tunic or the dal- matic ; and the rite proceeds with the girding of the sword and the reception of the armilla. After the giving of the pallium^ the king was crowned and the ring put on his finger. He was next divested of the sword, which was offered at 1 Soc. Antiq. Lond. MS. 119, f. 285. 2 H. Cole, Documents Illustrative of English History 0/ the iph and i^th Centuries (London, 1844), ^77* 3 It is printed in full in Rymer's Fcedera (ed. 1818), ii. pt. i. 33-6.