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After these communications, steps were taken without loss of time to forward the necessary arrangements preparatory to the ensueing Funeral of our late much lamented & King-- No Embalming took place on this occasion, but the Corpse was carefully wrapped up in a Cere Cloth-- a simpler and perhaps a more lasting preservative than the former process, when well performed. Among the accustomed ceremonies on such mournful occasions, that of setting up with the Royal Corpse is an invariable one-- In the usual alloted attendance called for on the King's demise, The Lords & Grooms of the late King's Bedchamber on the Windsor Establishment would have formed a part--had these still remained to this time--but wanting these, on this occasion, an awkward change in this selection, was adopted through necessity-- 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
