THE ANCESTOR

133 IIP" The ceremony at Winchester in 1194^ varied somewhat from the crowning at Westminster in 11 89 so graphically- described by Roger of Howden,^ but the royal vestments worn by the king were probably the same or new ones of the same pattern and character. With the reign of John begins the first of a series of official documents containing lists and descriptions of the regalia, and these are particularly full as to the vestments, etc. worn by John him- self. In the fifth year of his reign the king, by letters patent dated 1 1 th October, 1203, acknowledges to have received at Caen, from John bishop of Norwich, regalia nostra . scilicet . magnam coronam nostram . gladium deauratum . tunicam . pallium . dalmaticam . baudream . sandalia . cirotecas . frettas et calcaria.^ The baldness of this list, which is otherwise complete enough, is amply atoned for by another receipt issued at Reading, also by letters patent, the fol- lowing year, under date i8th December, 1204. In this the ornaments are not only described in some detail, but they display a most astonishing richness of decoration. The list is headed by the gold crown made at London. Then follow the mantle, of red samite fretted or bor- dered with sapphires, cameos and pearls, with a brooch sewn on in front ; a dal- matic of the same stuff, bordered with orfreys and jewels ; a tunic of white diaper a silken cloth, four-square, for the king's seat ; sandals and buskins of the same red samite ; bands of orfrey work ; a belt of the same samite studded Fig. 4. Effigy of Richard I. at FONTEVRAUD. 1 Chronica Rogeri de Hoveden (Rolls Series, 5 i),iii. 247. 2 7^/^^ ;{^^ ^ 3 Patent Roll, 5 John, m. 6 (ed. Hardy, 1835, i- Pt- i- 35)-

• The red dalmatic and white tunic correspond in colour with those shown

on the effigy of Henry II.