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On 6th March 1663 Bishop Francis Atterbury was born.
In 1701 Bishop Francis Atterbury (age 37) was appointed Archdeacon of Totnes.
John Evelyn's Diary. 17th May 1701. Very plentiful showers, the wind coming west and south. The Bishops and Convocation at difference concerning the right of calling the assembly and dissolving. Atterbury (age 38) and Dr. Wake writing one against the other.
In 1704 Bishop Francis Atterbury (age 40) was appointed Dean of Oxford.
In 1704 Bishop Francis Atterbury (age 40) was appointed Dean of Carlisle.
In 1713 Bishop Francis Atterbury (age 49) was appointed Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster Abbey.
On 24th September 1714, in the evening, Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland was buried at south side of the King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map] next to her husband in the same vault as Charles II, Mary II, William III, and Prince George of Denmark.
On the 23rd her coffin, draped in purple velvet, was brought from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey in a funeral chariot drawn by eight horses in purple hoods. A vigil was held in the Prince's Chamber at the Palace of Westminster, where the Duchess of Somerset was designated Chief Mourner (Her husband was one of her supporters). Also present were the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, and fourteen countesses in black crepe veils. 100 Yeoman of the Guard were on duty. The service was conducted by Francis Atterbury (age 51), Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster. Thirty Children of the Chapel Royal sang the anthems for the service, and several menial servants were in attendance (including Samuel Stubbs, the Queen's Rat-Catcher). Her coffin was carried to the service by fourteen carpenters and six honorific pallbearers. The funeral began in the Painted Chamber at the Palace of Westminster. They processed through the Prince's Chamber and into the Palace Yard. A gun was fired from the tower every minute until the Queen was interred.
Those in the procession as detailed in the image below are as follows:
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 of the Household, Earl of Suffolk as exercising the office of 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 Crown on a purple velvet cushion, A Gentleman Usher, Lord Chamberlain of Queens Household with his White Staff.
The canopy born by Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, Supporters of the Pall. 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, … The Chief Mourner Supported by two Dukes, her Train born by the Queen’s Vice-Chamberlain.
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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Minutes of the Society of Antiquaries. 14th January 1719. It was proposed by Mr President (age 57) wheather every subscriber to the Plate of Richard II have each five prints, and by Ballot carried in the Affirmation, for their 7s:6d.
It was ordered that the Right Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Rochester & Dean of Westminster (age 55), for giving leave to take the Drawing be presented with two of the said prints, and that Mr Director (age 41) and Mr Treasurer (age 36) be desired to wait upon him on that Amount.
Mr Director brought in a proof of an Etched Plate of a Roman Lamp, to be used as a Symbol or Ticket of the Society which he was pleased to make a present of to the Society for which their unanimous thanks were ordered to be given to him.
On 22nd February 1732 Bishop Francis Atterbury (age 68) died. His body was brought to England, and interred in Westminster Abbey [Map] where he has a simple black slab indicating his name, birth and death dates; he had exxpressed his desire to be buried "as far from kings and politicians as may be."