THE ANCESTOR

129 dalmatic and a purple-red mantle, with the crown on his head and in his hands the rod and the sceptre with the cross.^ An- Fig. I. Coronation of a King, temj>. William the Conqueror, FROM A MS. BELONGING TO CaPTAIN HoLFORD.^ 1 From quite early times the sceptre with the cross has often taken the form, as in this case, of a globe or orb with the cross issuing from it. 2 This illustration and those forming figs. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 have been kindly lent by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., from Dr. S. R. Gardiner's Ztudenfs History of England.