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"LE ROI EST MORT—VIVE LE ROI."
a form, and yet not wholly a form, since there was no Protector as yet. The Archbishop of Canterbury made report of the decree of the Council of Executors concerning the obsequies of his late most illustrious majesty, and finished by reading the signatures of the Executors, to-wit: the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lord Chancellor of England; William Lord St. John; John Lord Russell; Edward Earl of Hertford; John Viscount Lisle; Cuthbert Bishop of Durham—
"A SECRETARY OF STATE PRESENTED AN ORDER."
Tom was not listening—an earlier clause of the document was puzzling him. At this point he turned and whispered to lord Hertford—
"What day did he say the burial hath been appointed for?"
