THE KING DIES.
• Among the accustomed ceremonies on- such mournful
• occasions, that of sitting up with the Royal Corpse is an invariable one.
The late harsh reduction, of The Good Old King's Windsor Establishment had removed from His HOusehold the Lords
& Grooms of his Bedchamber, & which Lists were composed of His Majesty's own 'Old & Faithful Servants-, and in consequence, attendance was now called on, & made up from the List of the Lords & Grooms of His Majesty, who previously had been attendant only on the 'Prince Regent, in conformity therefore to this Order Officers 'of this seperate Household & who had never before been called for on Windsor Duty, were now summon'd to Windsor Castle, to lit up with The Royal Corpse, in alternate releifs day & night uritil the -Funeral Ceremony should take place—
In this manner have I, as Groom Of The Bedchaniber to My beloved Sovereign King George the Third beeii driven from My Post of Honor at His Funeral, by those rough retrench- ments- which -Parliament has not hesitated to decree in the late good Old King's Household Establishment at- Windsor,
& whereby honorable Appointments- were abolished & the tong service of His Old & attached -Servants, against -whom, 'demerits could not be imputed were closed, contrary to Justice & fair Proceeding—and -hence, our Venerable departed King had- not the Faithful Servants of His -owii Selected Establishment, to attend his remains to the-Tomb—but their duties were then disgracefully transfered to those who hitherto had formed a part of the Prince Regents Household Establishment at Carlton -House, and who had never until - now done daty in the late King's Family, ofnear his Person –
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