Burial in Abbey
DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHT. By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn. RUGBY, August 25. The Duke of Northumberland, who died on Saturday, is to be buried m Westminster Abbey on Wednesday. The Dukes of Northumberland have a prescriptive right to burial in the Abbey, and also to use fhe great west door, which is the entrance to the Abbey reserved for Royalty. No other family in the land has this prescriptive right, but it has not always been exercised. The coffin will be taken through the great west door >and placed in the Northumberland’s tomb in the Chapel of St. Nicholas.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 27 August 1930, Page 8
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