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NHG-P.772.031
10 Apr 1772:21, 22 (807)
London, February 15. The Ceremonial of the Interment for
her late Royal Highness Augusta, Princess Dowager of Wales,
in the Chapel of King Henry VIIth, at Westminster, in the
evening.
. . . [81 lines describing the funeral of the Princess
Dowager of Wales, the mother of George III and the now
Princess of Brunswick]
At the entrance within the church, the Dean and
Prebendaries, attended by the Choir, received the body, and
fell into the procession before Norry, King of Arms, and so
preceeded into King Henry the Seventh's chappel, where the
body was deposited on tressels; the coronet and cushion laid
at the heart, and the canopy held over it, the supporters of
the pall standing by it. [29 more lines describing the
interment in the vault]
. . . [101 more lines of news related to the Dowager
Princess's death]
Upon the melancholy occasion, St. Paul's great bell, on
which the clock strikes, was tolled from 11 to past 12
o'clock when the copper, which weighed upwards of an 100 lb.
weight, broke into two pieces, and of course the tolling
ceased, which was to have continued until one o'clock. The
play house, the Opera-house, and places of public diversion
will be shut up for some time. . . [23 lines]
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