Some Memorials Of The Globe Lodge, No.23, And Of The "Red Apron."

depend entirely upon foreign material for the construction of our " Wooden Walls , " a prospect quite the reverse of agreeable , yon may be sure , to the " John Bull" of the period . In 1758 , therefore , the Society of Arts proposed to give three medals , one of Gold and two of Silver , to those gentlemen who had planted the largest number of acorns on

their estates . These medals were awarded in 1759 , the Gold one to the Duke of Beaufort who had planted the largest number , the second to Philip Carteret Webb for the next largest quantity , and the third to a gentleman whose name has escaped my memory .

In 1756 , Webb was appointed Solicitor to the Treasury , an office which I assume to have been equivalent to that of Solicitor-General of the present day , and filled that office until 1765 . His first wife died in 1756 , and he married again in 175 8 . He died at Busbridge Hall in 1770 , having bequeathed everything he possibly could to his widow ; she married in

1771 Edward Beaver , Esq ., of Farnham , and it was from this gentleman that the Grand Lodge purchased the premises in Great Queen Street in 1774 . Webb had been an ardent collector for many years of Historical Manuscripts , some of which he had disposed of in his later years , the remainder were sold by his widow to the

Earl of Shelburne , first Marquess of Lansdowne , and they now form part of the " Lansdowne Collection " in the British Museum , it is , therefore , well within the range of probabilities that the unique document in that collection , known to Masonic Students as "The Lansdowne MS . of the Old

Charges of the British Freemasons , " a facsimile of which is in the Grand Lodge Library , was formerly owned by Philip Carteret Webb , one of the original members of the Globe Lodge . Webb was the author of several political pamphlets , as well as of sundry works on Antiquarian subjects . Besides manuscripts and printed books , he had a large

collection of Bronzes , Brasses , Marbles , and Coins and Medals , the whole of which were sold by auction in 1771 . Although I have not said all I might have said about him , I think I have done enough to give you reason to be proud of your old brother , at all events , sufficient to justify my statement that he was probably the most remarkable member in the

annals of the Globe Lodge . A few words in conclusion on the street in which he lived . The first houses in this street are said to have been built after the designs of that eminent architect , Inigo Jones , between 1620 and 1623 , as in the latter year , I have it on

good authority , there were but fifteen houses in the street , erected on what had formerly been meadow land , reaching from the East side of Lincoln ' s Inn Fields to the open country Westward , and nearly down to the Strand . What is now Great Queen Street was formerly a footpath ,

or , more probably , a bridle path , leading from Holborn Hill in a South-westerly direction , being a short cut to the village of Charing . The first houses were situated on the South side of the street , and I have not the slightest doubt but the house subsequently acquired by Philip Carteret Webb

was one of them . At first the buildings were all private houses with gardens and stables attached , inhabited chiefly by members of what we term the aristocracy , of course I mean the houses only , not the stables .

The earliest information I have been able to get relating to the Grand Lodge property , is that at some time prior to 1702 it consisted of one capital messuage or tenement and a large garden in the occupation of the Marquess of Normanby , that subsequently another house was built in the garden , and in 1702 it came into the possession of an eminent Turkey Merchant , Ralph Lane , whose eldest daughter was married to the Honourable George Parker , who became the second

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