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MG-A(G.761.008
19 Feb 1761:11 (824)
. . . [Funeral of George II in London] At six o'clock St.
Paul's great bell began tolling once every minute, which was
followed in the same manner by all the bells in every parish
in London, which continued till eleven o'clock at night. . .
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The whole had entered the Abbey about nine o'clock, where
the anthem and funeral ceremony was performed, which took up
three quarters of an hour, when they returned nearly in the
same order they went.
The drums were all muffled up with crape, and the
drummers ranged along the scaffolding, beating a dead march
during the procession; the houshold trumpeters and fifes
walked in mourning, with black jockey caps. . .
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