| Citation |
PG-P.761.009
29 Jan 1761:21 (1675)
London. . . November 13. . . At six o'clock St. Paul's great
bell began tolling once every minute [for the funeral of
George II], which was followed in the same manner by all the
bells in every parish in London, which continued till eleven
o'clock at night.
. . . [18 lines, procession to Westminster Abbey]
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 processions; the houshold trumpeters and fifes walked in
mourning, with black jockey caps. . .
|