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BNL.761.001
1 Jan 1761:41,42,43 (2948)
From the London Gazette, Tuesday, November 4. A ceremonial
for the interment of his late 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. . . [description of procession and its order; . .
. [last para.]
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 in to the procession just before Clarenceux, King of
arms, and so are to proceed singing into King Henry the
VIIth's chapel, where the body is to be deposited on
tressels (the crown and cushion 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, . . .
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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