BURIAL AT WESTMINSTER
DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. . ... Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright ) RUGBY, Aug. 25. • The Duke of Northumberland, who died on Saturday, is to be buried tn Westminster Abbey on Wednesday. The Dukes of Northumberland have prescriptive rights to burial in the Abbey and to the use of the great west door, which is an entrance to the Abbey reserved for Royalty. No other family in the land has this prescriptive right, hut it has not always been exercised. The coffin will be taken through the great west door and placed in the Northumberland tomb in the chapel of St. Nicholas.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 August 1930, Page 5
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101BURIAL AT WESTMINSTER Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 August 1930, Page 5
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