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 THE ANCESTOR H5 the altar and redeemed, and lastly the sceptre and rod were put in his hands. Edward's alabaster effigy on his tomb at Gloucester apparently re- presents him in (i.) a tunic reaching to the feet, with tight sleeves ; (ii.) the dalmatic, which is as long as the tunic, but slit up the front and provided with close sleeves extend- ing to the elbow only, whence they are continued as short liripips ; and (iii.) the pallium or mantle, which is hung over the shoulders. The king wears a jewelled crown, and in his ungloved hands he holds the rod, from which the dove has been broken off, and the orb, which was once surmounted by the cross (fig. 8). The well known picture of a coronation in a MS. at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (M. 20), which has several times been reproduced,^ possibly gives us an ideal representation of the crowning of Edward II. (fig. 9). The central figure of the king shows him en- throned, vested in (i.) the white colohium sindonis ; (ii.) a red tunic, slit up the sides so as to show the green lining ; (iii.) an embroidered dalmatic barred with blue and yellow,^ and girded ; and over all (iv.) the pallium regale^ of a pinkish brown lined with minever and fas- tened in front by a large gilt and jewelled sexfoil brooch. The king has a jewelled crown on his head and yellow buskins on his ^ The latest and best version is that forming the frontispiece to Mr. Leopold G. Wickham Legg's English Coronation Records. 2 This barring of the dalmatic may be traditional (see the description of the seals of Henry I. and Stephen and Henry II. ante). Fig. 8. Effigy of Edward II. AT Gloucester.