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BNL.751.012
6 Jun 1751:11 (2554)
From the London Advertiser, and Literary Gazette. April 15.
1751.
Last Saturday morning at half an hour after one o'clock the
bowels of his late Royal Highness, which, in an urn covered
with crimson velvet, were brought from Leicester-House in a
coach and six to the Prince's chamber, where thence carried
by four yeomen to Henry the Seventh's Chapel, attended by
the Dukes of Chandos and Queensbury, the Earl of Middlesex,.
. . and there interred, the vault in which the royal corpse
was, exactly at nine o'clock the same night, deposed---The
procession began at half an hour after eight o'clock at
night, and passed through the Old Palace Yard to the south-
east door of Westminster-Abbey, and so directly to the steps
leading to Henry the Seventh's Chapel. The ceremonial was
as follows: . . . [many dignitaries; no music]
The corpse of his Royal Highness was met at the church door
by the dean and prebendaries, attended by the gentlemen of
the choir and King's Scholar's, who fell into the procession
immediately before the officer of arms, with wax tapers in
their hands, and properly habited, and began the common
burial service (no anthem being composed on this occasion)
two drums beating a dead march during the service. . . [12
lines]
The nobility and attendants returned in the same order they
proceeded, at half an hour after nine; so that the whole
ceremony lasted an hour.
As soon as the procession of the funeral of his late Royal
Highness began to move, two rockets were fired off in Old
Palace Yard as a signal for the guns in the park to fire,
which was followed by those of the towner during which time
the great bells of Westminster, and St. Paul's Cathedral
tolled, as did most of the Parrishes in London.
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