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138 THE ANCESTOR crowds of people who flocked in to see it, and it is possible that several things were overlooked. The regalia of Henry III. are known to us from an inventory or list of those which were provided for his second coronation at Westminster on Whitsunday (i6th June), 1220. They are apparently the same as those referred to in a royal mandate, dated 7th May previously, bidding Peter de Mauley without let or hindrance to come to London, ' so that he may be there this instant vigil of Pentecost, and that he take with him Richard the king's brother,^ and bring with him the king's regalia {regale domini Regis) which are in his custody at Corfe.' ^ They include the golden crown, spurs, and sceptre, a silver-gilt rod,^ and a golden ring with a ruby. The vest- ments are a tunic and dalmatic of red samite with a brooch {monile) and stones in the orfrey ; a belt harnessed with gold and jewelled ; a mantle of red samite jewelled ; a pair of new sandals and buskins of red samite with an orfrey, and two borders of orfrey work to bind (?) the king's sandals. There are also two golden brooches for the mantle and dalmatic,^ one set with a sapphire, the other with a pearl. The list also includes a pair of old sandals of red samite with an orfrey, and a pair of old buskins embroidered with gold, ' which were King John's ' ; also a tunic of white diaper, a dalmatic of red samite, an old pall of red samite and two pairs of gloves, which are no doubt those enumerated in the earliest and latest lists of John's regalia. Two swords covered with red samite and bordered with orfrey work may also be those mentioned in John's letters patent of 1207. Three other swords 'which were at Corfe, covered with leather,' were probably brought up by mistake. They can hardly be the swords borne at the coronation. In the original list the golden spurs are struck out and inter- lined * because they are in issue by writ.' The text of the writ, which is dated 19th November, 1220, follows the inven- tory, and empowers the treasurer to hand over to the Prior ^ Then a boy of eleven. He was afterwards created Earl of Cornwall and elected King of the Romans. 2 Close Roll 4 Henry III. m. 11 (ed. T. D. Hardy, 1833, i. 417). ^ King John's is described in I 207 as being of gold. ^ The effigies of Henry II. and Richard I., as well as that of the latter placed over his heart at Rouen, have the dalmatic fastened with a brooch at the neck.