The Ceremonial was as follows:
Knight Marshals, men, with black staves, two and two.
Gentlemen Servants to his Royal Highness.
two and two, viz.:—
Pages of the Preference.
Gentlemen ushers, quarter waiters, two and two.
Pages of Honour.
Gentlemen ushers, daily waiters.
Physicians: Dr. Wilmot and Dr. Lee.
Household Chaplains.
Clerk of the Closet: Rev. Dr. Ayscough.
Equerries, two and two.
Clerk of the Household or Green Cloth:
James Douglas, Esq., and Sir John Cust, Bart.
Master of the Household: Lord Gage.
Solicitor-General: Auditor: and Attorney General:
Paul Joddrel, Esq., Charles Montague, Esq.,
the Hon. Henry Bathurst.
Secretary: Henry Drax, Esq.
Comptroller and Treasurer to his Royal Highness:
Robert Nugent, Esq., and the Earl of Scarborough,
with their white staves.
Steward and Chamberlain to his Royal Highness
with their white staves.
Chancellor to H.R.H. Sir Thomas Bootle:
An Officer of Arms.
The Master of the Horse to his Royal Highness:
The Earl of Middlesex.
Clarencieux King-at-Arms:
| Four Supporters of the Canopy. | Gentleman Usher. | Stephen Martin Leake, Esq. | Gentleman Usher. | Four Supporters of the Canopy. |
| Supporters of the Pall. | bearing the coronet on a black velvet cushion. | Supporters of the Pall. | ||
| Earl of Portmore. | THE BODY | Earl of Macclesfield. | ||
| Earl Fitzwilliam. | covered with black velvet, | Earl of Stanhope. | ||
| Earl of Bristol. | pall adorned with Eight | Earl of Jersey. |
escutcheons and under a canopy of black velvet,
borne by Eight of his
Royal Highness’s Gentlemen.
| Gentleman Usher | Garter King-at-Arms: John Anstis, Esq. | Supporter to the Chief Mourner. |
| Gentleman Usher | The Chief Mourner: | Supporter to The Chief Mourner. |
| DUKE OF SOMERSET, | ||
| Duke of Rutland. | his train borne by a baronet, Sir Thomas Robinson. | Duke of Devonshire. |
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:—