Citation - Boston News Letter: 1728.01.11

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Index Entry Trumpeter, in Osnabrug, accompanied King's corpse into town 
Location Osnabrug 
Citation
BNL.728.002
4-11 Jan 1728:11 ((54)
From the Post Boy, September 9. 1727.  Hanover, Sept. 9 N.S. 
In the night between the 3d and the 4th instant, the corpse
of the late King was deliver'd without ceremony, at
Osnabrug, into the hands of the present King of Great
Britains officers, & conducted to our frontiers by a
detachment of the Duke of York and . . .  [8 lines]  The
Baron von Goretz, Governor of the Castle [of Callemberg],
had the direction of the funeral, which he caused to enter
the town in the following order. . . [2 lines]
2.  A trumpeter on horseback, in deep mourning. [7 lines]
7.  Two trumpeters on horseback without sounding, resting
their trumpets bottom upward. . . [30 lines]


Generic Title Boston News Letter 
Date 1728.01.11 
Publisher Green, B. 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1728 
Bibliography B0008081
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