Page:The Ancestor Number 1.djvu/198

 148 THE ANCESTOR dalmatic and a mantle, which is fastened by a brooch upon the right shoulder and brought over the knees. In the right hand is the rod with the dove, and in the left a short sceptre with the cross. The last and finest of Edward's seals, that made in 1360 after the peace of Bretigny, shows him in apparendy the robes of estate and not in his coronation vestments. He has on a tightly fitting surcoat fastened up the front with a jewelled band, and a mantle with a rich border held in front by a brooch. The mantle is so disposed over the legs as to render it uncertain how they were covered. The king is crowned and holds in his right hand the rod, which ends in a rich pinnacle, and in his left the sceptre with the cross. The gilt bronze monumental effigy of the king at Westmin- ster (fig. 10) represents him in the pair of tunicles and the mantle. The tunic reaches to the feet and has long tight sleeves buttoned underneath. The dalmatic is the same length as the tunic and is slit up the front to show it, but the sleeves are not quite so long. The ornamented cuffs of both vestments are clearly shown. The mantle hangs straight from the shoulders to the feet, and is kept in place by a band across the chest. The hands are bare, but the feet are shod with orna- mented sandals. The effigy has been despoiled of the crown, the brooches of the mantle, and the two sceptres, but the ends of the shafts of these remain in the hands and show that they were different in length. No later monument nor great seal of an English king repre- sents him in his coronation ornaments. The three coronation swords mentioned in the list last quoted are described by Roger of Howden as being carried in the procession at the coronation of Richard I. at Westmin- ster in 1 1 89, in scabbards covered throughout with gold ; but as he says they were taken from the king's treasury, it is clear that they had been so used before. They were certainly used in 1 1 70 at the coronation of the younger King Henry, son of Henry II., for on the Pipe Roll for 1169-70 is the entry : Et pro auro ad deaurandam vaissellam Regis filii Regis et ad reparandos enses ad Coronamentum Regis, xxxiiii. s. & ix. d. per Ottonem filium Willelmi et Willelmum filium Ailwardi.^ Pipe Roll Society, xv. (1892), 16.