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BPB.768.007
25 Jan 1768:31 (545)
London. Nov. 4. Last night the body of his royal highness
Edward Duke of York and Albany, was privately interred in
the royal vault in King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, at
Westminster, the body have been conveyed to the Prince's
chamber the night before.
Between nine and ten the procession began to move. . . Drums
and trumpets sounding a solemn march, with banners attached
to them, adorned with naval trophies, the drums covered with
black. The Serjeant Trumpeter. . . The coronet upon a black
velvet cushion, borne by Clarencieux King of Arms. . .
At the entrance of Westminster-Abbey, within the church, the
Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the
body, falling in to the procession next before Norroy King
in Arms, and so proceeded singing. . .
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