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NYGWPB.761.141
17 Dec 1761:11, 12 (989)
Letter from a gentleman to his friend in the country,
containing a circumstantial detail of every particular that
passed at the coronation. . . [1 column]
I had the misfortune not to be able to get to the abbey
time enough for all that passed there . . . He tells me, as
soon as their majesties entered the church, the choir struck
up with an anthem; and, after they were seated, and the
usual recognition and oblations were made, the litany was
chanted by the bishops of Chester and Chichester, and the
responses made by the whole choir, accompanied by the whole
band of musick. . . A profound and awful silence had
reigned till this moment, when, at the very instant the
crown was let fall on the King's head, a fellow, having been
placed on the top of the abbey dome, from whence he could
look down into the chanel, with a flag which he dropt as a
signal, the park and tower guns began to fire, the trumpets
sounded, and the abbey ecchoed with the repeated shouts and
acclamations of the people. . . [The article continues for
another 1 1/2 columns]
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