[Footnote 40: The situation of the south gate is uncertain: there were
several south gates. It was along Salter Street, probably in a line with
the old forts known as Luttrell's and Horseman's Forts.]
The order of the procession on this occasion was as follows:--1st, A
Company of Grenadiers; 2nd, Constables of the Town; 3rd, Magistrates;
4th, Civil Officers of Government; 5th, Constables; 6th, The Provost
Marshall with two deputies on horseback; 7th, a Band of Music; 8th,
Constables; 9th, The Commander-in-Chief of the Province, the Honorable
Jonathan Belcher, with Admiral Lord Colville and Colonel Foster,
commandant of the Garrison, and the members of His Majesty's Council;
10th, the Speaker and the members of the House of Assembly, followed by
the principal inhabitants. At three o'clock the company waited on the
Commander-in-Chief at Governor Lawrence's head tavern, where a very
elegant entertainment was provided for them, and after dinner His
Majesty's health was drunk under Royal Salute from the Batteries, also
other toasts, and the evening concluded with great rejoicings and
illuminations, bon-fires and artificial fire works, played off by the
Royal Artillery. A sermon was afterwards ordered to be preached (13th
February, 1761) in St. Paul's Church, on account of the decease of the
late King, and all public amusements were ordered to cease for one month
from that day. The 17th was accordingly set apart and the sermon
preached by the Rev. T. Wood, the Curate. Part of St. Paul's church was
hung in black, and minute guns were fired for an hour and a half, and
the flags on the Citadel and George's Island were half-mast during the
day.
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