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The Centenary
" The landlord to furnish three or more small candles ; a slate for the Junior Warden to keep an account of tlie liquor . The landlord not to speak , except as to the reckoning . " Visitor ' s fee , Is . 6 d If a St . John ' s man , 2 s . " Master ' s Lodge , for Raisings . The money received for this ceremony , and the nightly Is . 6 d ., to be applied to the supper , to which visitors were admitted gratis .
The following proposition is au interesting epoch in the Lodge annals : " Jan . 13 , 1774 . —A proposition was made by the Master , Brother Mercer , and carried , nem . con . " To establish a fund for the support of each other under sickness , lameness , blindness , imprisonment , & c . " The said Society to consist of Free and Accepted Masons only , not
exceeding sixty-one in number ; age not above thirty-eight . No . soldier , sailor , waterman , labourer , plumber , bricklayer ( nor shall any one change to such trade , calling , or employment ) , or any business manifestly prejudicial to health , or dangerous . No livery servant , apprentice , slieriff ' s-officer , bailiff , or their assistant , common bail , felon , or any excluded by other benefit societies . No one afflicted with any disorder that precludes his getting 15 s . per week , & c .
" Admission fee , 5 s . Monthly payment , 2 s . " While three members continue , this Society shall not dissolve . " Ten Pounds to be paid to widows , heirs , or executors . " Three Pounds to be paid to a member on the decease of his wife . " Master and Officers to attend the funeral of each deceased member .
" Until 60 < * . shall have been paid in , no money to be parted with . Then 10 s . a week during illness , & c . " Signed by Brothers Mercer , Sen ., Mackinder , Evans , Dyer , Mercer , Vincent , Murray , Legg , Ireland . " There appears to be no account after 1779 , when the society was probably dissolved . The Lodge memoranda appear to have ceased until 1790 when the
, meetings now became more regular , and the lectures regularly explained in a Sunday Lodge of Instruction , at the Crown , Duke ' s-court ; the Master heing chosen for four nights . The subsequent minute-books record various changes in the location of the Lodge—few , perhaps , so frequently changed its quarters . Bro . Peter Gilkes appears to have been at one time Master ; during the period that it was held at Brother Givens ' s , in Maiden-lane , the
landlord died , and Brother Gilkes , with many other Brethren , attended his funeral . After this came the greatest change of all . Brother R . L . Wilson joined the Lodge , and , aided by the introduction of a few friends , admirers of his great zeal , he rallied its expiring embers , and having done so , at once transplanted it to the London Tavern , where it has become gradually re-animated , and takes a lead equally by the respectability of its membersas by their Masonic interpretation of social qualitiesstill
, , more so , however , by their steady discipline and practice . If , in this rough sketch of the Annals of the Lodge , we shall be considered as bringing into notice the records of the past days—not to some pleasing perhaps to peruse—be it remembered that our object is truth . Had we leaped over the few facts , however unimportant , we
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Centenary
" The landlord to furnish three or more small candles ; a slate for the Junior Warden to keep an account of tlie liquor . The landlord not to speak , except as to the reckoning . " Visitor ' s fee , Is . 6 d If a St . John ' s man , 2 s . " Master ' s Lodge , for Raisings . The money received for this ceremony , and the nightly Is . 6 d ., to be applied to the supper , to which visitors were admitted gratis .
The following proposition is au interesting epoch in the Lodge annals : " Jan . 13 , 1774 . —A proposition was made by the Master , Brother Mercer , and carried , nem . con . " To establish a fund for the support of each other under sickness , lameness , blindness , imprisonment , & c . " The said Society to consist of Free and Accepted Masons only , not
exceeding sixty-one in number ; age not above thirty-eight . No . soldier , sailor , waterman , labourer , plumber , bricklayer ( nor shall any one change to such trade , calling , or employment ) , or any business manifestly prejudicial to health , or dangerous . No livery servant , apprentice , slieriff ' s-officer , bailiff , or their assistant , common bail , felon , or any excluded by other benefit societies . No one afflicted with any disorder that precludes his getting 15 s . per week , & c .
" Admission fee , 5 s . Monthly payment , 2 s . " While three members continue , this Society shall not dissolve . " Ten Pounds to be paid to widows , heirs , or executors . " Three Pounds to be paid to a member on the decease of his wife . " Master and Officers to attend the funeral of each deceased member .
" Until 60 < * . shall have been paid in , no money to be parted with . Then 10 s . a week during illness , & c . " Signed by Brothers Mercer , Sen ., Mackinder , Evans , Dyer , Mercer , Vincent , Murray , Legg , Ireland . " There appears to be no account after 1779 , when the society was probably dissolved . The Lodge memoranda appear to have ceased until 1790 when the
, meetings now became more regular , and the lectures regularly explained in a Sunday Lodge of Instruction , at the Crown , Duke ' s-court ; the Master heing chosen for four nights . The subsequent minute-books record various changes in the location of the Lodge—few , perhaps , so frequently changed its quarters . Bro . Peter Gilkes appears to have been at one time Master ; during the period that it was held at Brother Givens ' s , in Maiden-lane , the
landlord died , and Brother Gilkes , with many other Brethren , attended his funeral . After this came the greatest change of all . Brother R . L . Wilson joined the Lodge , and , aided by the introduction of a few friends , admirers of his great zeal , he rallied its expiring embers , and having done so , at once transplanted it to the London Tavern , where it has become gradually re-animated , and takes a lead equally by the respectability of its membersas by their Masonic interpretation of social qualitiesstill
, , more so , however , by their steady discipline and practice . If , in this rough sketch of the Annals of the Lodge , we shall be considered as bringing into notice the records of the past days—not to some pleasing perhaps to peruse—be it remembered that our object is truth . Had we leaped over the few facts , however unimportant , we