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and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in
their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and

Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of
Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr
William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all
Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of
the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the
honorary secretary of the society of friends. After them march the
guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird
fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners,
masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners,
tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church
decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers,
lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers
and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic
seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and
archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and
glovers, plumbing contractors. After them march gentlemen of the
bedchamber, Black Rod, Deputy Garter, Gold Stick, the master
of horse, the lord great chamberlain, the earl marshal, the high
constable carrying the sword of state, saint Stephen’s iron crown,
the chalice and bible. Four buglers on foot blow a sennet.
Beefeaters reply, winding clarions of welcome. Under an arch of

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