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 THE ANCESTOR 159 It will be seen that these accounts confirm the statement of Grafton and others that the king's robes of estate were of purple velvet. It is also interesting to note the changes in the names of the vestments put upon the king after his anointing. Over the white and the crimson shirts, with which crimson breeches and hosen were also worn, was put on a ' coote ' of crimson satin, as in the Little Device, The colohium sindonis is ' a taberde lyke unto a dalmatyke ' made of white sarsenet. The tunic is called the ' surcoote cloos,' and the pallium regale ' a long mantel and a hoode.' Both the surcoat and the mande with its hood were lined with minever. The armils are not mentioned. This points to their having formed part of the regalia, which with they were probably kept, and is further evidence that the armilla were bracelets attached to a band worn stolewise and not merely a stole. It should be noted that the Little Device goes further than Liher Regalis^ which says only that the armils shall be bound to the elbows, and directs that ^ thei shalbe fastenid. . . w' Lace of silke to every side the elbowe in two places, y' is to say above thelbowes, and beneth.' The Coronation Ornaments of the Tudor and later sove- reigns must be reserved for another paper. W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, M.A. Postscript. — From the rubric or heading in the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris of the account of the coronation of Henry III. at Gloucester in 12 16, De prima regis Henrici Tertii coronatione, quae per quendam circulum aureum facta fuit, etc. it appears that Henr)^ was crowned with a golden circlet only. John's crown or crowns, if they had not been lost in the Wellstream disaster, would have been too large for the boy king, and there probably was not time to make him a proper crown for the occasion. It has been noted above that on the great seals, down to and including the first seal of Henry III., the King of England is shown sitting and holding a sword and sceptre. In the second seal of Henry III., made in 1259, after the Treaty of Abbeville and the renunciation of the title ' Dux Normannie et Comes Andegavie,' the king holds the rod with the dove instead of the sword. It is therefore possible that the sword was borne by the king as Duke of Normandy. L