As early as A.D. 1277 Exeter Cathedral reckoned among her vestments several such; for instance, a cope of baudekin figured with small two-headed eagles: “Capa baudekyn cum parvis aquilis, ij capita habentibus;”[221] and our Henry III.’s brother, Richard the king of Germany, gave to the same church a cope of black baudekin, with eagles in gold figured on it: “Una capa de baudek, nigra cum aquilis deauratis.”[222] Many other instances might be noticed all through England.
[216] Asserius, De Rebus Gestis Ælfredi, ed. Wise, p. 33.
[217] Will. Malmes. Gesta Regum Anglorum, t. ii. p. 415, ed. Duffus Hardy.
[218] Plates, 18, 20, 22.
[219] Quintus Curtius, Lib. III. cap. iii. p. 7.
[220] Ibid. Lib. IV. cap. xv. p. 72.
[221] Oliver, p. 299.
[222] Ibid.
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