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 THE ANCESTOR 147 Item la graunte Courone le Roi questoit nadgaires engage es parties de Flaundres nient priese Item une autre Corone nient priese [deinz quele corone sont. iiii. manicles dor garniz des eymeraudes et alts perles apalle la second corone inter- lined] Item la tierz Corone nient preise Item la quarte Corone nient preise As all four crowns are described as ' nothing praised,' ^ they are probably the crowns referred to in 1303. Whether the king had any other crowns is uncertain. In 1335 Edward III issued a mandate to Paul de Monte Florum to return two gold crowns that had been pledged to him for 8,000 marks, which sum had now been repaid.^ In 1340 the king again pledged his own crown for 25,000 florins, the queen's crown for 5,500 florins and a certain small crown for 4,256 florins.^ The vestments enumerated above, which were all ot costly red samite, include two ' tunicles,' that is the tunic and dal- matic ; the mantle with its jewelled orfreys ; the stole,* which was garnished with emeralds and pearls, with two gold and jewelled pendants ; the buskins ; a cope with four gold plates ; two white silk rochets, probably two colohia sindonis ; two pairs of spurs ; two gilt sceptres with ' merlots ' on top ; a short gold sceptre with a ' merlot ' on top ; two short sceptres with crosses on top ; and three swords, the one called Curtana, another with an enamelled silver scabbard, and the third with the scab- bard covered with red samite fretted with gold. It is uncertain whether any of the seals of Edward III. repre- sent him in his coronation robes. The first that was made for him^ shows him crowned and enthroned, wearing a tunic or surcoat and a mantle fastened in front by a brooch, but the mantle has a hood and is so disposed over the knees as to more or less hide the under vestments. The hands are cer- tainly gloved; in the right is a short rod surmounted by leafwork, or a bird with spread wings, and in the left is the orb with a very short cross. The second seal ® also shows the king in a girded tunic or ^ Mr. Legg translated nient preise as * worth nothing,' but a crown upon which money could be raised by pawning it must surely have been of value. 2 T. Rymer, Faedera (ed. 1821), ii. pt. ii. 909. 3 Ibid. ii. pt. ii. 1 1 24. ^ That known as 'Willis, B.' ; it was in use from 1327-40.
 * This is the first mention of the stole in a document.
 * * Willis, C, in use 1338-40 as a seal of absence.