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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



Horse Guards Blue, dismounted, 

 and the Windsor \^)unteers. The 

 people assembled were admitted 

 into the queen's presence-chamber, 

 the walls of rrhich were hiint^, and 

 the floor covered, with black clotii, 

 and lighted up with twenty-four 

 "Wax lights, in silver sconces ; and 

 two chandeliers, with ten lights ^ach. 

 The coffin, covered wjth a black 

 Tcivct pall, adorned with eight 

 escutcheons, was placed with the 

 royal ducal coronet and cushion, on 

 a bier, under the state canopy, with 

 live large wax lights, in massy silver 

 candlesticks, on each side. Two 

 mutes were placed at the head, and 

 two at the feet of the corpse. From 

 the 2;reat gates of the palace, by the 

 south door of St. George's chapiM, 

 the military, consisting of the 

 Royal Uorse Guards, and Windsor 

 Toluntecrs, were placed to form a 

 Jane for the procession. Every 

 fourth man held a torch. Soon after 

 nine o'clock, (the corpse having 

 laid in state till that time) the pro- 

 cession began to move from the 

 castle to St. George's chapel, in the 

 following order : 



A file of grenadiers of First Guards. 



Kettle drums and trumpets muffled. 



Twenty-one attendants of the chief 



mourner, in their state liveries. 



Pages of his late royal highness. 



J'hysicians. 



Chaplains. 



Equerries. 



Secretary. 



Comptroller of ' 

 his royal high. 

 iiess's house- 

 hold. 



Treasurer of 

 his royal high- 

 ness's house- 

 hold. 



A herald of arms. 



The lord chamberlain. 



The coronet, upon a black velvet 



cushion, borne by a herald at arms. 



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a. £ 





THE BODY, 



covered with a black 

 velvet pall, adorned 

 with eight escut- 

 cheons of his late 

 royal highncss's arms, 

 under a canopy of 

 black velvet, borne 

 by tight general of- 

 ficers. 

 t . . 



man 



usher. 



/-, ^, r Garter princi- ^ 

 Lrentle- , , ■ 



pal king at 



arms, by his de- 

 puty. 

 The chief mourner. 

 His highness prince William Frc, 

 derick, in a long black cloak, 

 with the collar of the order of the 

 garter ; his train borne by a gen- 

 tleman of his household. 

 A gentleman usher. 

 Grooms of his late I'oyal highness's 

 bed-chamber. 

 At the south door the procession 

 was met by the choristers, minor ca- 

 nons, senior canons, and the dean, the 

 juniors going first, who fell in imme- 

 diately after the herald at arms, who 

 preceded the lord chamberlain, and 

 proceeded down the south aisle, up 

 the nave, into the choir, the choir 

 singing Dr. Croft's funeral service 

 fcach holding a wax lightj. The 

 body was then placed upon tressels, 

 the head towards the altar, the co- 

 ronet and cushion being laid upon 

 the coffin, and the canopy held over 

 it, whilst the dean of Windsor read 

 the funeral service. The present 

 duke of Gloucester, as chief mourn- 

 er, sat on a chair, placed at the head 

 of the coffin, the supporters of the 

 pall standing round the body. The 

 part of tlie service before the inter- 

 ment being read, the corpse was de- 

 posited in the \ault. The dean then. 



proceeded' 



