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136 THE ANCESTOR John's great seal shows him crowned and seated on a throne, holding the sword and the sceptre with the cross. The vest- ments are not clearly shown, but the girded dalmatic and the long and tight sleeves of an under vestment are plain enough, and the mantle is worn in the same way as by his brother Richard, hanging from the shoulders and brought round over the knees. The monumental eifigy of John in the cathedral church of Worcester (fig. 5), although of Purbeck marble, was ori- ginally richly painted and gilded.-^ It represented the king in a golden tunic, a girded red dalmatic slit up the sides, and a golden mantle lined with green hanging from his shoulders and thrown over his right arm. He has his crown of fleurons on his head, and gloves on his hands, of which the right held a sceptre and in the left is a naked sword. The feet were covered with red bus- kins and black sandals, over which were the golden spurs. The neck-band and cuffs of the dalmatic, together with the crown, gloves, belt, and sword, and the mitres and vestments of the censing bishops who support the king's head, have sockets for imitations in paste or glass of the cameos and jewels with which the originals were 1 See the engraving and description in Stothard's Monumental Effi^es of Great Britain. Fig. 5. Effigy of King John AT Worcester.