Document setting out the order of the royal funeral procession for Queen Anne, 16 August, 1714, (Catalogue ref: PC 1/2/256/f8)
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Bishops
Marquises younger Sons
Earls eldest Sons
Viscounts of Ireland
Viscounts of Great Britain
Dukes younger Sons
Marquises eldest Sons
Earls of Ireland
Earls of Great Britain
Earl Poulet Lord Steward Earl of Suffolk as exercising the office of
of the Household Earl Marshal of England
Dukes oldest Sons
Marquises
Lord Great Chamberlain Marquis of Lindsey
Dukes
Two Heralds of Arms
Lord Privy Seal
Lord President of the Council
Lord Archbishop of York, (No Train born)
Lord Chancellor bearing royal Purse (no Train born nor Mace carried)
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, (no Train born)
A Gentleman Usher Norroy King of Arms carrying the A Gentleman Usher
Crown on a purple velvet cushion
Lord Chamberlain of Queens Household with his White Staff
The canopy born by Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber
Supporters of the Pall
[Funeral cloth]
The Royal body carried by ten or twelve Yeomen of the Guard covered with a large Pall of purple velvet and lined with purple silk, with a fine Holland [linen fabric] sheet adorned with ten large Escutcheons [shields] of the Imperial Arms painted on satin under a canopy of purple velvet
A Gentleman Usher — Garter Principal King of Arms or in his absence Clarenceux King of Arms — Gentleman Usher, the Black Rod
Supporter to royal Chief Mourner, a Duke
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The Chief Mourner Supported by two Dukes, her Train born by the
Queen’s Vice-Chamberlain