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NHG-P.761.003
9 Jan 1761:11,12 (223)
From the London Gazette, Tuesday, November 4.
Ceremonial For the Interment of his late and Excellent
Majesty King George the Second of Blessed Memory, from the
Prince's Chamber to Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday and 11th
Day of November 1760.
. . . [86 lines describing the ceremony and the order of the
procession; 61 lines with a diagram of the casket's
placement in the procession]
At the entrance within the church, the dean and prebendaries
in their copes, attended by the choir, all having wax tapers
in their hands, are to receive the royal body, and are to
fall into the procession just before Clarenceux King of
arms, and so are to proceed singing into King Henry the
VIIth's chappel, where the body is to be deposited on
tressels (the crown and cushion being laid at the head) and
the canopy held over it by the gentlemen of the privy
chamber, while the service, according to the liturgy of the
church of England, is read by the bishop of Rochester, dean
of Westminster, and the chief mourner and his two supporters
are seated on chairs placed for them at the head of the
corps, and the lords assistants seated on stools on each
side, and the lords of the bed chamber, &c., are seated, and
the peers and others take their seats in the stalls on each
side of the choir.
. . . [7 more lines]
The royal corps being interred, the dean of Westminsters is
to go on with the office of burial, which ended, and an
anthem sung in the choir, garter King at arms proclaims his
late Majesty's stile as followeth:
Thus it hath pleased Almighty God, to take out of this
transitory life unto his divine mercy, the late most high
and mighty and most excellent monarch, George the second, by
the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith, and Sovereign of the most Noble Order
of the Garter, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, Arch
Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.
. . . [10 more lines]
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