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NHG-P.761.055
11 Dec 1761:21 (271)
[London] Sept. 24. . . In the course of the coronation
office, the litany was chanted by the Bishops of Chester and
Chichester; and the responses sung to the organ by the
gentlemen of the Chapel Royal and the choir of Westminster.
In the communion service the Bishop of Rochester read the
epistle, and the Bishop of Litchfield the gospel.
The Bishop of Salisbury (nominated to the See of York)
preached; his text was I Kings, Chap. X. 5. Blessed be the
Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on the
throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he the King, to do judgment and justice.
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