BURIAL IN ABBEY
DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND
PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHT $0 BK
EXERCISED
Brttttfc Official WretoM
RUGBY, 25th August.
The Duke of Northumberland, wh« died on Saturday, is to be buried S* Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, The Dukes of Northumberland hay« a prescriptive right to burial in the JA>r bey, and also to use the great wee* door, which is the entrance to the Abbey reserved for Koyalty. No other family in the land has this prescriptive fight, but it haa not always been will be taken through the great west door and placed in the Northumberland's tomb in the Ohapei of St. Nicholas. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 9
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102BURIAL IN ABBEY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 9
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