Assistants to the Chief Mourner.
Marquis of Tweeddale, Marquis of Lothian, Earls of
Berkeley, Peterborough, Northampton, Cardigan,
Winchester, Carlisle, Murray and Norton.
The Gentleman Usher of his Royal Highness’s
Private Chamber: Edmund Bramston, Esquire.
The Groom of the Stole to His Royal Highness:
Duke of Chandos.
The Lords of the Bedchamber to His Royal Highness:
Lord North and Guildford, Duke of Queensberry, Earl of
Inchiquin, Earl of Egmont, Lord Robert Sutton,
Earl of Bute, two and two.
The Master of the Robes to His Royal Highness:
John Schütz, Esq.
The Grooms of the Bedchamber to His Royal Highness:
John Evelyn, Esq., Samuel Masham, Esq., Thomas
Bludworth, Esq., Sir Edmund Thomas, Bart., Daniel
Boone, Esq., William Bretton, Esq., Martin Madden,
Esq., William Trevanion, Esq., Colonel Powlet,
two and two.
Yeomen of the Guard to close the Procession.
The corpse of His Royal Highness was met at the Church door by the Dean
and Prebendaries attended by the gentlemen of the Choir and King’s
Scholars, who fell into the Procession immediately before the Officer
of Arms, with wax tapers in their hands and properly habited, and began
the Common Burial Service (no Anthem being composed on this occasion)
two drums beating a Dead March during the service.
Upon entering the Chapel, the Royal body was placed on trestles, the
crown and cushion at the head, and the canopy held over, the supporters
of the pall standing by; the chief mourner and his two supporters
seated in chairs at the head of the corpse; the Lords Assistants,
Master of the Horse, Groom of the Stole, and Lords of the Bedchamber
on both sides; the four white staff officers at the feet, the others
seating themselves in the stalls on each side the chapel.
The Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster, then read the first
part of the Burial Service, after which the corpse was carried to the
vault, preceded by the white staff Officers, the Master of the Horse,
Chief Mourner, his supporters and Assistants, Garter King of Arms going
before them.
When they had placed themselves near the vault, the corpse being laid
upon a machine even with the pavement of the Chapel, was by degrees
let down into the vault when the Bishop of Rochester went on with the
service; which being ended, Garter proclaimed his late Royal Highness’s
titles in the following:--
“Thus it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this transitory life
to His Divine Mercy, the illustrious Frederick, Prince of Wales,” etc.,
etc.
The nobility and attendants returned in the same order as they
proceeded, at half-an-hour after nine; so that the whole ceremony
lasted an hour.
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