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NYGWPB.761.011
29 Jan 1761:22 (943)
London. . . Nov. 12. On Sunday evening, about eight o'clock,
his late Majesty's bowels were privately interred in King
Henry the VIIth's Chapel. . . [13 lines describing ceremony]
The trumpets sounded a dead march during the whole ceremony.
The following is the order in which the Royal Corpse of
his late Majesty was last night conveyed from Kensington
Palace to the Prince's Chamber, near the House of Lords,
where it was deposited in state for interment this night, in
Westminster-Abbey. . . [16 lines, the hearse was] followed
by the Royal Trumpeters in their rich habits, sounding a
dead march, and a large party of Life-Guards.
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