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 THE ANCESTOR 149 A further charge for the swords occurs in the Pipe Roll for 1 171-2 : Et pro gladiis Regis furbandis et pro auro ad eosdem adornandos. xxvi. s. & ii. d. per breve Regis. Et ad Puntos et Heltos eor- undem Gladiorum. xl. s. in argento bianco per breve Regis.^ The swords are again recorded to have been borne at the corona- tion of Queen Eleanor in January, 1235-6, when for the first time the name Curtana is applied to that sword which had been shortened by cutting off its point. This sword is still called by its old name. With the accession of Richard II. in 1377 is associated the fourth of the coronation orders, that con- tained in Liber Regalis? The actual book is still in the custody of the Dean of Westminster and may have been used at Richard's coronation. It is however practi- cally identical with the form used at the coronation of Edward II. and (probably) Edward III., but has fuller rubrics. From these some interesting details may be learned about the royal ornaments. The array worn by the king on the morning of his coronation both in 1308 and in 1377 is only indi- cated by the general direction : induto mundissimis vestibus et caligis tantummodo calciato. This would seem at one time to have meant fine linen only, for Matthew Paris says that on the death of the younger King Henry in June, 1183 : Corpus autem in lineis pannis, id est, vestibus candidis, quas habuit in 1 Pipe Roll Society, xviii. (1894), 144. 2 This has been printed several times. The latest version is that in Mr. L. G. W. Legg's English Coronation Records, pp. 81-130. Fig. 10. Effigy of Edw^ard III. AT Westminster.