...Morgan, and Mr. Sowerby, Captain Acomb of the Plymouth, and a train of officers from both vessels. The coffin was placed on a bier in the centre of the canopy, and the mourners and a few officers assembled within the black drapery. Here, when the arrangements...

...eight, the cavalcade, with the remains, moved on, to be at Dorking in Surrey by four in the evening. The coffin was placed on a bier in the centre of the church, with four heralds standing on each side, and the chaplains at the head ; the present duke followed,...

...account of the pompous funeral of r . r Gatitzln at Moscow, will find a «imple parallel here :— "In each hospital there is a church for the inmates,...exposed ; and around the head were placed three lighted candles."—pp. 270, 271. of times and seasons; and custom requires that at aster, as well as at Christmas,...