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140 THE ANCESTOR apud Westmonasterium in festo Pentecostes proximo preterito anno regni nostri quarto/ ^ The three seals of Henry III. all show him crowned and seated on a throne. In the first seal, in use from 1219-59, the king wears a tunic with long tight sleeves, a girded dalmatic with shorter and wider sleeves, and the mande, which is held by a cord or band across the chest and suspended from his shoul- ders, whence it is brought forward from the right side over his knees. In his hands the king holds a drawn sword and the sceptre with the cross. In the second seal, as used from 1259-72, the throne is more ornate, and the king holds the rod with the dove instead of the sword in his right hand. He is robed as before, but the mantle is fastened upon the right shoulder by a clasp and thrown to one side. On the small third seal, which was used by the king himself circa 1263-4, the mantle is secured in front of the breast by a large quatrefoil brooch, and covers the arms down to the elbows ; it is then brought round across the knees. The cuff of the dal- matic is distincdy shown as jewelled. Owing to the small scale of the seals it is difficult to make out the colobium sindonisy if indeed it is shown at all. The dignified bronze effigy of Henry at Westminster (fig. 6) repre- sents him in a dalmatic reaching to the feet so as to completely hide the tunic beneath, which is shown only by its cuffs at the wrists. The mantle is fastened on the right shoulder, as in the second Fig. 6. Effigy of Henry III. AT Westminster. ^ Close Roll 4 Henry III. m. 2 (ed. Hardy, i. 431).