COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES

BY

KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON,

Upon the Completion of Two Hundred Years,

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1886.

THE

HE decoration of King's Chapel, both exterior and interior, for the occasion, was designed with the purpose of making everything employed illustrative of the unique and historic significance of the church. On the outside of the Chapel, over the front porch on the face of the tower behind the colonnade, was a tablet (six feet six inches by three feet six inches) surrounded by six colonial and patriot flags, extended over the main door and upon the walls on either side, a total width of eighteen feet. A large palm-leaf, painted a dead green, extended across the tablet, upon which in a ribbon was written "King's Chapel, 1686-1886."

The flags, beginning at the left hand, were: First, the sea-colors of New England in use as early as the end of the seventeenth century; the British Union of 1707; the Pine Tree flag of New England; the Grand-Union flag, first raised by Washington at the camp at Cambridge on Jan. 1, 1776; another early flag of New England; and the flag of New England sent by King James the Second with Governor Andros in 1686.

The interior decorations consisted of portraits of Royal Governors and others; of twenty-four Colonial and Revolutionary flags; of the coats-of-arms of the Governors and of other distinguished persons. The Governor's pew was restored, its dimensions remaining clearly outlined on the plaster ceiling, and its shape given by a drawing from memory by Miss Sarah H. Clarke.

The galleries of the Chapel are supported by eight Corinthian columns in pairs, which continue to the ceiling. On the bases of these columns were placed the portraits of several of the Royal Governors and of some noted persons who worshipped at King's Chapel, in the following order:

REBECCA, wife of Governor Joseph Dudley.

Governor Joseph Dudley.

Governor BURNET.

Governor BELCHER, painted by F. Liopoldt in 1729, in London. Lieutenant-Governor DUMMER, said by tradition to have been painted by Lely or Kneller.

Governor HUTCHINSON, painted by Edward Truman in 1741. Governor POWNALL, a copy, painted by Pratt, of the original portrait.

PETER FANEUIL, painted by Smybert.

Rev. JAMES FREEMAN, pastor of King's Chapel 1787-1836, painted by Guliger.

These portraits were kindly loaned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, with the exception of that of Governor Burnet, which hangs in the senate-chamber at the State