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BG.761.001
5 Jan 1761:11,12,13 (301)
From the London Gazette, Tuesday, November 4. A Ceremonial
for the interment of his late and most excellent Majesty
King George the Second of blessed memory, from the Prince's
chamber to Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday the 11th day of
November 1760.
The royal body being conveyed from Kensington to the
Prince's chamber near the House of Peers the night before
the funeral, is to continue there until the time appointed
for the interment, and then to be carried from the said
Prince's chamber to the Abbey of Westminster in the manner
following, viz. . ..
[col.3:] At the entrance within the church, the dean and
prebendaries in their copes, attended by the choir, all
having wax tapers in their hands, are to receive the royal
body, and are to fall into the procession just before
Clarenceux King of arms, and so are to proceed singing into
King Henry the VII's chapel, where the body is to be
deposited on tressels (the crown and cusheon being laid at
the head) and the canopy held over it by the gentlemen of
the privy chamber, while the service, according to the
liturgy of the church of England, is read by the bishop of
Rochester, dean of Westminster, and the chief mourner and
his two supporters are seated on chairs placed for them at
the head of the corps, and the lords assistants seated on
stools on each side, and the lords of the bed-chamber, &c.
are seated, and the peers and others take their seats in the
stalls on each side of the choir.
When the part of the service before the interment is read,
the royal corps is to be carried to the vault, preceeded by
the lord chamberlain of the houshold, the chief mourner, his
supporters and assistants following, garter going before
them, and the white staff officers of his late Majesty's
houshould, and place themselves near the vault.
The royal corps being interred, the Dean of Westminster is
to go on with the office of burial, which ended, and an
anthem sung in the choir,garter King at arms proclaims his
late Majesty's stile as followeth. . . [2 paras]
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