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THE ANCESTOR consecratione, sacrato crismate delibatas, regaliter involutum, Rothomagum delatum est, et in ecclesia cathedrali prope majus altare cum honore tanto congruo principi tumulatur.^ Whatever these garments were, the rubric in Liber Regalis before the anointing shows that they included a silk tunic and a shirt {tunica serica et camisia)^ which were provided with openings on the breast, shoulders, back, and elbows, closed with silver loops {connexis ansulis argenteis). For the actual anointing all the vestments save this tunic and the shirt were laid aside. After the anointing there were put upon the king : 1 . A coif {amlctus) * on account of the anointing,' which continued to be worn until the eighth day after ; 2. The sleeveless tunic of sindon,^ shaped like a dalmatic {colohium sindonis ad modum dalmatice formatum) ; 3. A long tunic reaching down to the ankles, woven with great golden images before and behind {tunica longa et talaris intexta magnis ymaginibus aureis ante at retro) ; 4. The buskins {calig^e), sandals {sandarid), and spurs {calcaria) ; 5. The sword and its girdle; 6. The armils {armillte) ; 7. The royal mantle, four square, and woven throughout with golden eagles {pal- lium regale : quod quidem pallium quadrum est : et aquilis aureis per totum contextum) ; ^ After these the king received : (i.) the crown ; (ii.) the ring ; (iii.) the gloves ; (iv.) the golden sceptre with the cross, quod quidem sceptrum aureum est in cujus summitate crux parva ; and (v.) the golden rod with the dove, que quidem virga aurea est habens in summitate columbam auream. Such are the ornaments and the order of their assumption directed by Liber Regalis, It will be seen that they differ in one point only from what has been before said, that instead of the tunic and dalmatic only the tunic is mentioned. Of the actual coronation of Richard II. a full account has been preserved in the English History of Thomas Walsingham,* 1 Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum (Rolls Series 44), i. 426. 2 A silken stuff known by various names, such as cendal, sandal, syndon, etc. The fact of the colobium being of silk in no way militates against its correspon- dence with the albe, which in rich churches was sometimes entirely of silk instead of linen. ^ The decoration of the royal robes with golden eagles is very ancient. The inventory of Westminster Abbey made in 1388 enumerates * tres cape sancti Edwardi in quibus fuerat sepultus . unde prima glaucei coloris cum talentis. Secunda rubea cum lunis. Tercia cum aquilis de quibus due sunt cum aurifragiis novis ex dono fratris Johannis Somerton' {JrcheeologiayYu. 257). ^ Thomas Walsingham,i!fii/d)m Anglicana (ed. Riley, Rolls Series 28), i. 332-7.