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The Regal Vestments: Tudor

The design, woven into the cloth of gold, is a branched pattern arranged in ovals, outlined in purple silk and caught together by silver coronets and silver fleurs-de-lys alternately. In the spaces thus formed are red and white Tudor roses with green leaves, green shamrocks, purple and green thistles and silver eagles. The coloured silks used in this mantle are in stronger tints than FIG. 58.-ARMILLA those used on the dalmatic. It will BY QUEEN VIC- be observed that there is a strong TORIA AT HER CORONATION. a strong FIG. 59. -PALL OR IMPERIAL MANTLE WORN BY similarity in the general design of the QUEEN VICTORIA AT HER CORONATION. ornamentation of this garment and of that used on the mantles of Charles II. and James II.