b without ostentation. At night his remains were
carried from the painted chamber in Westminster sanctuary to the
abbey. The procession, headed by the servants of the nobility,
of James II., and his queen, of the dowager queen, and of the
late king, was followed by the barons, bishops, and, peers
according to their rank; the officers of the household, and the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Then came all that was mortal of his
late majesty, borne under a canopy of velvet, supported by six
gentlemen of the privy chamber, the pall being held by six earls.
Prince George of Denmark--subsequently husband of Queen Anne--
acted as chief mourner, attended by the Dukes of Somerset and
Beaufort, and sixteen earls. One of the kings of Arms carried
the crown and cushion, the train being closed by the king's band
of gentlemen pensioners, and the yeomen of the guard.
At the abbey entrance the dean and prebendaries, attended by
torch bearers, and followed by a surpliced choir, met the
remains, and joined the procession, the slow pacing figures of
which seemed spectral in this hour and place; then the sad
cortege passed solemnly through the grey old abbey, the choir
chanting sorrowfully the while, the yellow flare of torches
marking the prevailing gloom. And being come to the chapel of
Henry VII., the body of the merry monarch was suffered there to
rest in peace.
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