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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY .
FLEET STREET . ( Continued from page 180 . )
" jl / TASONS assuredly do not stand in need of any such invitation - " - * - as that grand old lexicographer , Dr . Samuel Johnson , of pious memory , had he been now alive , would doubtless have extended to them , to " take a walk down Fleet Street . " It is not surprising that being as it is a central and busy thoroughfare , within easy reach of important
railway termini , our Lodges and Chapters should seek a home for themselves in its most favoured hostelry . As a matter of fact , indeed , more Masonic bodies met at Anderton ' s than in any other hotel or tavern in the metropolis ; Freemasons' Hall , with the adjacent tavern , being the only locality which can boast of a more numerous and
influential patronage than the house so ably presided over by Bro . Clemow . Nor is it of late years only that Fleet Street and its neighbourhood has found favour with Craftsmen . If we go back to the list published in 1723 , by Bro . Eman Bowen , who figures in the list of Lodges contained in the first edition of " Anderson ' s Book of Constitutions" as one of the Wardens of Lodge 9 , we find there were
Lodges meeting at the Greyhound and the Old Devil , near Temple Bar . Two years later other Lodges had their quarters at the Globe , the Legg , and the F fleece . In 1738 , No . 7 met at Daniel's Coffee House , and No . 91 at the Sun . In 1768 , Time Immemorial Lodge Antiquity , No . 2 , then described as " No . 1 , West India and American
Lodge , " met at the Mitre ; and it was by going in procession from this tavern to attend Divine service at St . Dunstan ' s Church , in all the glory of Masonic regalia , that Bro . William Preston and other members of this Lodge gave offence to Grand Lodge , and were excluded from the Craft for some ten or a dozen years .
Fleet Street , therefore , holds a conspicuous place among the " early " as it does among the present " Haunts of Freemasonry , " and a perambulation of this busy thoroughfare cannot fail to be attended with agreeable results to admirers of our Fraternity . Few streets in . London have so fine a history , and what is infinitely more satisfactory to the student of that history so far as it relates to former E
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY .
FLEET STREET . ( Continued from page 180 . )
" jl / TASONS assuredly do not stand in need of any such invitation - " - * - as that grand old lexicographer , Dr . Samuel Johnson , of pious memory , had he been now alive , would doubtless have extended to them , to " take a walk down Fleet Street . " It is not surprising that being as it is a central and busy thoroughfare , within easy reach of important
railway termini , our Lodges and Chapters should seek a home for themselves in its most favoured hostelry . As a matter of fact , indeed , more Masonic bodies met at Anderton ' s than in any other hotel or tavern in the metropolis ; Freemasons' Hall , with the adjacent tavern , being the only locality which can boast of a more numerous and
influential patronage than the house so ably presided over by Bro . Clemow . Nor is it of late years only that Fleet Street and its neighbourhood has found favour with Craftsmen . If we go back to the list published in 1723 , by Bro . Eman Bowen , who figures in the list of Lodges contained in the first edition of " Anderson ' s Book of Constitutions" as one of the Wardens of Lodge 9 , we find there were
Lodges meeting at the Greyhound and the Old Devil , near Temple Bar . Two years later other Lodges had their quarters at the Globe , the Legg , and the F fleece . In 1738 , No . 7 met at Daniel's Coffee House , and No . 91 at the Sun . In 1768 , Time Immemorial Lodge Antiquity , No . 2 , then described as " No . 1 , West India and American
Lodge , " met at the Mitre ; and it was by going in procession from this tavern to attend Divine service at St . Dunstan ' s Church , in all the glory of Masonic regalia , that Bro . William Preston and other members of this Lodge gave offence to Grand Lodge , and were excluded from the Craft for some ten or a dozen years .
Fleet Street , therefore , holds a conspicuous place among the " early " as it does among the present " Haunts of Freemasonry , " and a perambulation of this busy thoroughfare cannot fail to be attended with agreeable results to admirers of our Fraternity . Few streets in . London have so fine a history , and what is infinitely more satisfactory to the student of that history so far as it relates to former E