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

yearly Avas discontinued , the elections and appointments henceforth taking place annually . The minutes of the 3 rd of February , 1803 , disclose an unusually keen competition for the honour of the Red Apron .

REN . IAMIN WEIiSTER , GRAND STEWARD [ ''OR THK GLORE LODGE , 18 IS-1 ( 1 . "This being the usual time for nominating a brother of this Lodge to succeed Br . Warwick as Grand SteAvard , and the list of members present who had not served the office

being read over , and all having declined , Br . Robert Albion Cox , Esq ., Avas proposed at his request by Br . Warwick , Br . Thomas Goodlake , Esq ., Avas also proposed . After which Br . Hopkinson , J . W ., declared himself a candidate . But on account of its having been omitted to be noticed in the

summons , it was agreed to defer the ballot to the next Lodge night , and that special notice should be given in the summons to every member , and that those brethren who were absent this evening might be candidates for the same . " There Avas a very fair attendance at this meeting , 29

members being present . The Master , however , Avas absent , his place being filled by Peter Gilkes , and the Senior Warden's chair by Br . Hopkinson , Junior Warden , Avho Avas the only one of the three candidates for the Red Apron present . Whatever difference of opinion may have existed at this

meeting Avas amicably adjusted before the next lodge night , for , on the 3 rd of March , Br . Samuel Cleaver Avas raised to the degree of a Master Mason , he having been initiated and passed at the previous meeting . " Br . Roche proposed Br . Samuel Cleaver to succeed Br . Warwick as Grand Steward for 1804 , seconded by Br . Sir

William Rawlins . There being no other candidate , it was carried by a show of hands . " It seems probable that the brethren objected to being represented by either Cox or Goodlake on account of their indifference to the affairs of the Lodge , neither of them

having attended since , at the request of Sir William Rawlins , the three degrees were conferred on them on the night of their initiation , nor , so far as the minutes show , did they ever attend the Lodge again . On the 7 th of April , 1803 , there being no particular

business before the lodge , "The R . W . M . and brethren worked part of the first lecture , " and this subsequently became a general practice when time permitted . At the end of 1803 , there being a small sum due to the Treasurer , the brethren having been rather more indulgent

than heretofore , it AA \ TS agreed , in 1804 , to raise the initiation fee to ^ 5 5 s ., the joining fee to £ 1 is ., and the annual subscription to £ 2 2 s ., the visitors' fee having been raised from 2 s . 6 d . to 5 ? . in 1799 . On the 4 U 1 of June , 1807 , " Br . ShaAV made a motion that

the initiation fee of this Lodge be three guineas-and-a-half , which Avas seconded by Br . Gilkes and carried unanimously . " As there Avas at this time a balance of £ 7 8 s . 3 d . due to the Treasurer , and the Lodge seems to have been fairly Avell attended , the idea of lowering the initiation fee appears , on the face of it , rather strange .

In 1810 there appears to have been again some little difficulty in disposing of the Red Apron , as the election of a Grand Steward AA'as postponed at the February and March meetings , and is not again mentioned until May , Avhen the Senior Warden ( Br . Gilkes ) proposed " Bro . Worsley Holmes , Esq ., of the Somerset House Lodge , to become a member of

this Lodge and to receive the Apron from Bro . Manson . " The above-named brother , who subsequently became Sir Leonard Woi - sley-Holmes , Bart ., AA'as duly elected a member of the Lodge and Grand Steward at the next meeting , but does not appear to have paid a joining fee nor attended a single

meeting of the Lodge while this book AA'as in use . He , however , appears in the Grand Lodge reports as Grand Steward for the Globe Lodge at the Grand FestiA'al in 1811 . The 3 rd of May , 1810 , Avas the last occasion in this Lodge when the three degrees were conferred on a brother at the

same meeting . Hitherto it had been a common practice to confer the first and second degrees on candidates on the same evening , but it Avas only in cases of emergency that the three degrees were given , the " emergency " in some instances being more imaginary than real , as in the case of

the brother just referred to , AVIIO attended the next meeting of the Lodge as Avell as several other consecutive meetings , and was apparently appointed Junior Warden on the folloAVing installation night , but as the Secretary omitted to enter the minutes of that meeting , the cash account and the names

of those present only being recorded , we are not quite clear on that point ; his name , hoAvever , appears amongst the officers as J . W .

( To be Continued ) .

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