Orders of Council - For Embalming King George II [Demise of the Crown] [1760-10-25]
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His Majesty having left the Council Chamber the Earl of Holderness made a Motion for the Disposal of His late Majesty’s Body, and the two following Orders were made, Vizt—
[In the lefthand margin: Lord Chamberlain To give Orders for Embalming the late King’s Body & for the Physicians in Ordinary to attend.]
It is this day ordered, in Council, that His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Chamberlain of His late Majesty’s Household, Do give Orders for the providing all things necessary for the Embalming the Body of the late King George the Second of Blessed Memory, and that His Grace do cause Notice to be given to the Physicians in Ordinary to his late Majesty, As also to the Serjeant Surgeons, that they attend and be present at the Opening the said Body.
[In the lefthand margin: Groom of the Stole to deliver His late Matys Body to Lord Chamberlain to be Embalmed.]
It is this day ordered, in Council, that the Body of the late King George of [sic] the Second of blessed Memory be Embalmed, and that the Right Honourable the Earl of Rochford, Groom of the Stole, do deliver the said body of His late Majesty to the Lord Chamberlain of the Household, in order to be opened and embalmed accordingly.
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