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 THE ANCESTOR 155 Coronationem suam, ut Dux LancastricC, in partibus de Holderness applicuit, vocatum Lancastre Sword. ^ The monumental effigy of Henry IV. at Canterbury (fig. 12) and his great seal represent him in robes of estate, similar to those on the effigy of Richard II. (fig. 11), namely a long gown or tunic, a tip- pet and hood, and a mantle. On the head is a very rich open crown. The hands are unfortunately broken. The coronations of Henry V., Henry VI.^ and Edward IV., so far as we have any proper records of them, do not furnish us with any new facts, and it is not improbable that the fulness of the rubrics in Libet Regalis had now begun to produce a state, as it were, of crystallization. The interesting memoranda known as Forma et Modus^ of which several copies exist both in Latin and English, show clearly that the ordi- nary fifteenth century form was that of Liber Regalis,^ Of the coronation of Richard III. several detailed accounts have been preserved, as well as a semi-official order called the Little Device^ and a wardrobe account of all the neces- saries and ornaments provided for the ceremony. ^ Ibid. viii. 91. See also on page 95 the letters patent of October 19, 1399, conferring upon the earl this privilege. 2 An account of the coronation of Henry VI. tells how at the end of the service the king went to St. Edward's shrine * and there was he dyspoyled of all his bysshopps gere, and arayed as a Kynge in riche cloth of gold, with a crowne on his hede.' Quoted from Cott. MS. Nero C. ix. in Arthur Taylor's T:he Glory of Regality (Londo"' 1820), 264. ^ L. G. W. Legg, English Coronation Records, p. 172. Fig. 12. Effigy of Henry IV. AT Canterbury.