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152 THE ANCESTOR again, from the identity of their weights, seem to be those included among the regalia of Henry VIII. which were received by Edward VI. and are described in the inventory as Item one paier of Bracellettes of golde garnished with six ballaces nott fyne six course bigg perles muche of one sorte and v lesser perles of one sorte weying togethers with blacke lace poyntes vij ounces di.^ On the other hand a stole of considerable splendour still lies over the dalmatic upon the body of Edward I., and that described above in the list of the regalia of Edward III. must have been equally rich. The question is further complicated by a note which foUows in Liher Regalis the receiving of the armilU : Iste quidem armille in modum stole circa collum et ab utraque scapula usque ad compages brachiorum erunt dependentes . in ipsis brachiorum compagibus laqueis sericis connexe prout plenius per ipsarum poterit discerni composicionem. That is, the armils shall hang about the neck after the manner of a stole from the shoulders to the elbows, and be bound to the elbows by silken laces, as may more fully be seen by the form of the armils themselves. If we again turn to the description of Edward III.'s stole it may be possible to clear up the difficulty : Item une Stole de Samyt rouge garnyz des eymeraudes et perles ove deux pendantz dor garnez de perr'. From a comparison of these entries it would seem that the ' two pendants ' of the stole are actually the armils, and that by some process not now to be traced they have become attached to and part of the stole, which henceforth has borne their name. Walsingham's mention of both stole and armils may be explained on the supposition that the stole and its pendants were put round the king's neck after the dalmatic, and the pendants, i,e, the armils, not tied to the elbows until the ap- pointed place after the girding of the sword. The order in Liber Regalis is the earliest that directs the king at the end of the service to go devoutly to the shrine of St. Edward, and there take off the crown and all the other ornaments that have just been put upon him. He is then revested with other vestments and crowned with another crown, and resuming the sceptres only of the regalia, takes 1 Soc, Antiq. Lond. MS. cxxix. f. jb.