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Article EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 4 of 7 →
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
assistants or woi'kmen , and carried on a most prosperous business as printer , from 1502 to 1534 , at the sign of the " Sun . " No . 134 , the Globe Tavern , is rich in traditions of Oliver Goldsmith , with whom it was a very favourite resort . Among those of his friends who frequented this hostelry was Macklin , King , the comedian , Hugh
Kelly , a barrister , originally a staymaker ' s apprentice , then a magazine hack , and sentimental comedian ; Captain Thompson , an Irish doctor named Glover , Ned Purdon , one of his proteges , who dropped dead in Smithfield , and whose epitaph Goldsmith wrote on his way from his chambei's in the Temple to this tavern . It runs thus :
Here lies poor Ned Purdon , from misery freed , Who long was a bookseller ' s hack ; He led such a miserable life in this world , I don't think he'll wish to come back . Other frequenters of the Globe were Boswell's friend Akerman ,
keeper of Newgate , William Woodfall , the celebrated parliamentary reporter , Brasbridge , etc . Anderton ' s Hotel , where so many of our lodges meet , occupies the site of a house which , according to Mr . Noble , was in 1405 given to the Goldsmiths' Company , when it rejoiced in the singular title of The Horn ha . the Hoop . At No . 162 , Richard Carlisle , a Freethinker ,
had a lecturing , conversation , and discussion establishment , hanging effigies of bishops outside his shop , and was eventually quieted by being sentenced to a term of nine years' imprisonment . No . 161 was the shop of Thomas Hardy , bootmaker and agitator , who was implicated in the John Home Tooke trials in 1794 ; while hereabouts ,
somewhere between Bolt and Johnson ' s Courts , lived , in the reign of George II ., at the sign of the Astronomer ' s Musical Clock , Mr . Christopher Pinchbeck , an ingenious musical clockmaker , who invented the cheap , useful imitation of gold that bears his name . Mr . Pinchbeck often exhibited his musical automata in a booth at
Bartholomew Fair , and in conjunction with Fawkes the conjuror , at Southwark Fair . According to Mr . Wood , he made an exquisite musical clock , worth some £ 500 , for Louis XIV ., and a fine organ , for the Great Mogul , valued at £ 300 . His clocks played tunes and imitated the notes of birds . Peele ' s Coffee House , Nos . 177 and 178 ,
at the corner of Fetter Lane , once boasted a portrait of Dr . Johnson , said to have been by Sir Joshua Reynolds , on the keystone of the mantle-piece . It is of great antiquity , and a few years ago was known for its useful files of newspapers , and as having been the central committee room of the Society for Repealing the Paper Duty .
One of its old frequenters was a bencher of the Middle Temple , the late Sir W . Owen Barlow , who had never travelled in a stage coach 2 B
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
assistants or woi'kmen , and carried on a most prosperous business as printer , from 1502 to 1534 , at the sign of the " Sun . " No . 134 , the Globe Tavern , is rich in traditions of Oliver Goldsmith , with whom it was a very favourite resort . Among those of his friends who frequented this hostelry was Macklin , King , the comedian , Hugh
Kelly , a barrister , originally a staymaker ' s apprentice , then a magazine hack , and sentimental comedian ; Captain Thompson , an Irish doctor named Glover , Ned Purdon , one of his proteges , who dropped dead in Smithfield , and whose epitaph Goldsmith wrote on his way from his chambei's in the Temple to this tavern . It runs thus :
Here lies poor Ned Purdon , from misery freed , Who long was a bookseller ' s hack ; He led such a miserable life in this world , I don't think he'll wish to come back . Other frequenters of the Globe were Boswell's friend Akerman ,
keeper of Newgate , William Woodfall , the celebrated parliamentary reporter , Brasbridge , etc . Anderton ' s Hotel , where so many of our lodges meet , occupies the site of a house which , according to Mr . Noble , was in 1405 given to the Goldsmiths' Company , when it rejoiced in the singular title of The Horn ha . the Hoop . At No . 162 , Richard Carlisle , a Freethinker ,
had a lecturing , conversation , and discussion establishment , hanging effigies of bishops outside his shop , and was eventually quieted by being sentenced to a term of nine years' imprisonment . No . 161 was the shop of Thomas Hardy , bootmaker and agitator , who was implicated in the John Home Tooke trials in 1794 ; while hereabouts ,
somewhere between Bolt and Johnson ' s Courts , lived , in the reign of George II ., at the sign of the Astronomer ' s Musical Clock , Mr . Christopher Pinchbeck , an ingenious musical clockmaker , who invented the cheap , useful imitation of gold that bears his name . Mr . Pinchbeck often exhibited his musical automata in a booth at
Bartholomew Fair , and in conjunction with Fawkes the conjuror , at Southwark Fair . According to Mr . Wood , he made an exquisite musical clock , worth some £ 500 , for Louis XIV ., and a fine organ , for the Great Mogul , valued at £ 300 . His clocks played tunes and imitated the notes of birds . Peele ' s Coffee House , Nos . 177 and 178 ,
at the corner of Fetter Lane , once boasted a portrait of Dr . Johnson , said to have been by Sir Joshua Reynolds , on the keystone of the mantle-piece . It is of great antiquity , and a few years ago was known for its useful files of newspapers , and as having been the central committee room of the Society for Repealing the Paper Duty .
One of its old frequenters was a bencher of the Middle Temple , the late Sir W . Owen Barlow , who had never travelled in a stage coach 2 B