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FREIiKIiICK A. POWKLL, PAST G, STAXDAKD lUiAREK, 
 W,M. OF THK CI^Dlili LODGK, i.,o,V4. 
 
SOME MEMORIALS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE GLOBE LODGE, No. 23, 
 
 OF 
 
 ancient ]frcc ^ acceptc^ flDasons of l£nolan^ 
 
 (ILLUSTRATED), 
 
 WIlH A SKKTCH OF THE OKIGIX AND HISTORY OK 
 
 THE RED APRON, 
 
 BY 
 
 HENRY SADLER, P.M. & P.Z , 
 
 GRAND TYLER AND SUB-LIBRARIAN OF THE GRAND LODGE OF 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 Author of " Masonic Facts and Fictions," 
 " Thomas Dnnckerlev , His Life, Labours, &c." 
 
 Chcs are tbc absnacts anO brief cbronieley of tbc tiiue."- 
 
 LONDON ; 
 
 WAKKixc.Tux ^v CO,. spI';x..I';k & co,. 
 
 56, r.KE-\T OrtE.V STKEKI, W.C, l.i, <iKI-.\l OrhtN" SiKltl, \V,C. 
 
 1904. \, ■'} .H I 
 
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^bc Morsbipful riDaster, 
 past noaeters, aiib otber fIDcmbcrs 
 
 of 
 
 ^be (3lobe Xoboc 
 
 anO 
 
 past anb ipvcscnt Mcareus 
 
 ot 
 
 XTbe IReb Hpion 
 
 Ubese /IBemorials ave rcspecttuU? 
 an5 fraternally H)e&icateC>. 
 
 London. 1&04. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 IxTKdliUCTOKY AND HlSTdRICAI I — 12 
 
 Pnii.li' Caktkkkt Wkhh, Esy., M.P., K.K.S,, F.S.A 12 — 16 
 
 Alexandkk McKdWi,, Past Gkaxd Steward 17 — 19 
 
 The tii.oHE LdiKiE, a Hakhingkk he Peace and Coxcukd ... 20 — 25 
 
 The Kind de Chakitv, now The Fl'nd oe Benevolence ... 25 — 27 
 
 SdME OTHER CEI.EliRlTlES OE THE Gl.OlUi LoDGE 27 — 36 
 
 (iLEANINc;S EROM THE RECORDS OF THE GLOIIE LoDGE, 
 
 1703-18(11 30 — 56 
 
 The EiRST Lists oe Members oe the Gloi'.e Lodge 
 
 RETTRNKD TO THE GRAND LolKiE ... ... ... ... 57 
 
 The Orrun of thic Gr.^nd Stewards and oe The " Red 
 
 Apron" ... ... 58 — 70 
 
 Probable reasons for the Blue, and the Red Aprons ... 70— So 
 
 Grand Stewards eko.\i the CiLOBE LoixiE and the years 
 
 IN WHICH they served ... ... 8l — 83 
 
 >Lasters of the Globe Lodge, Xi>. 2T„ ero.m 1793 to i<,)04, 
 the list being incomplete owlnii to the ,\bsence oe 
 
 R'ECORDS ^4 — i^ii 
 
 XlMBERS BORNE BY THE GLOBE LoDGE SINCIO ITS CONSTITUTION 
 
 IN 1723 S*! 
 
 General Index ^7—9- 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 VAC.K 
 
 Fkkdekick a. Po\\i:i.[,, Past G. Standard Hicakkr, WMVI. iif 
 
 THK, Gi,oiiK L()Ik;k, H)0,V4 Froiitispiirc 
 
 Si'KCIAL CkXTEXAKY JeWEI, ())■• THIi (jLOliE LODGE, No. 23 ... f, 
 SlciXS OI' THE T.W EK'XS AT WIILCII THE GLciHE LoDGE \V.\S 
 
 HELD EI-'DM 172;, TO 17(14 ... S 
 
 Ye Oliie I^eli, T.wekx, wheke THii Gluiie LiuxiE was heed 
 
 FE(iM 1755 TO 1757 (; 
 
 DoXATloX-; TOWARDS REBi:il,l)IX(i KrEEM\S()Xs' TaVI';|;N IX 17.SS II 
 
 BrsuKiDGE Haei , IX Si'K'RicY ... ... ... 17 
 
 Freemasoxs' Hall Medai d; 
 
 Peter William Ciii.KES, P.M. ... ... 24 
 
 GEoR(n-, Shii.liheer ... ... ;,o 
 
 Shii.liheer's Omxiiuls ... ... ... ... 32 
 
 SHII.LIHEEK's PaTEXT P'l'XERAL CARRIAGE ... ^2 
 
 PEX.IAMIX W'EDSTliK', P.G.U. ... ... ... ... ... ... 3-; 
 
 William Watsox, tiRAxii .Steward eor the Gloise Lodgic ;,(; 
 Thomas .-Vlex. .-Vd.xms, C;r.\xd Plrsl'ivaxt, Waster of the 
 
 Gloiie Lodgi-:, i.sfii ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 
 
 ChAR'I.ES MaRTIX, I'..'\.G.I).C., TREASERER of the Cil.oUE LoDGI' 4S 
 
 SiE' Leoxarg WoK'sley Holmes, |-!art.... ... ... ... 52 
 
 lilGHTKEXTH CEN'TLRY SlMMoXS oI- THE Cil.oliE LoDGE ... 5(1 
 
 Graxd Stewards' Jewel, desigxed dy Hogarth, 1735 ,.. 5,s, ^c) 
 
 Charles K. C<jllixs, P.G.S., Secretary of the Gloiie Lodge ();, 
 
 The P'ri-.emasox-.' T.wI'.rx, Gre.xt Qleex Streei', i\ iSi=;... 72 
 
 Signatures of the (Jraxd Oeeicfr's, 1723-24 ... ... ... 77 
 
 John Theofhilus Desa(;uliers, LL.U., K.I\,S 7y 
 
SOME MEMORIALS 
 
 OF 'I' III': 
 
 GLOBE LODGK, 
 
 No. 23. 
 
 AT :i meeting of the (ilobe Lodge, No, 23,011 the igth 
 Xoveniber last, one of the Special Centenary Jewels, 
 which had previously been voted b)' the Lr)dge as a 
 contribution to the Grand Lodge IMuseuni, was handed to 
 the sub-Librarian, who had attended at the invitation of the 
 \V. Master (Bro. F. A. I^owell, P.(i. Std. B.), to receive 
 it. In thanking the Lodge, on behalf of the Library 
 Committee, for their presentation, Br. Henry Sadler 
 expressed his admiration of the jewel and the appro- 
 priateness of the design, which he had no doubt was 
 due to one r)f their former members, as, at the time per- 
 mission was given to wear it, the Lodges applying for a 
 Centenary Warrant were expected to submit a design for 
 the Grand Master's approval. He assured the brethren that 
 he, personally, considered the Globe Lodge Jewel a very 
 valuable acL|uisition to the Grand Lodge collection, and for 
 this reason, out of the 2500 Lodges on the Register of the 
 Grand Lodge of England, about 235 had Centenary Warrants, 
 but only 42 of these were legally entitled to Special Centenary 
 Jewels. Of this number he had had the good fortune to 
 
 li 
 
2 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 acquire, either bv the hberahtv of the various Lodt^^es or hy 
 purchase, for the Grand Lodge Museum, 29, and this would 
 nial-;e the 30th. He hoped bv the exercise of a Httle patience 
 and perseverance to eventuallv make the series complete. 
 It had become the fashion amongst certain brethren to 
 decorate their persons with various unauthorized Jewels, a 
 practice which, m his opinion, was to be deprecated, although 
 it nrateriallv enhanced the value of those that ictvr authorized. 
 At all events he cjuite believed these Special Jewels attracted 
 more attention than anv other jewels in the collection, for 
 nil two were alike, althiiugh thev were all, more or less, 
 apprnpriate to their respecti\"e Lodges. 
 
 At a subsequent period of the exening, on being requested 
 to respond to the toast of the Grand Officers, Bro. Sadler 
 said he was sure the W. M.ister would not desire that he 
 should dilate at anv great length upon a theme with which 
 thev were all to some extent familiar. However, he might 
 assure the brethren that the Grand Oflicers, buth collectively 
 and indi\"iduallv, tullv appreciated the value and the ser\"ices 
 of thiisc veneralTle Lodges, of which the Globe Lridge was 
 one of the oldest and most respected. The\' had a verv 
 fair sample ot the Grand Officers anmngst their own members, 
 who were now standing round the table, but if thev were to 
 resume their seats he should teel more at ease during the 
 short time he should occupv their attentinn. He had learnt 
 til-night in the Lodge room that the earlv records of the 
 Lodge had been lost, and no one could possibly regret that 
 Irtss mure than he did hiniself, for he well l^new how intenselv 
 interesting they would ha\"e been to the Masons of the 
 present generation. It wotild be but small consolation to 
 the brethren to tell them that thev were not at all singular 
 in this respect, but it was nevertheless a fact, much to be 
 regretted, that probably not more than a half-dozen Lodges 
 
GLOBE LODCIC, NO. 23. 3 
 
 in London were in possession of their records reaching back 
 for a period of 150 years. I'ersonaUy lie nnly knew of three. 
 They were the Lodge of Anticjnity, No. 2 ; the Lodge of 
 
 SPECI.VL CKXTI',X.\r;V IKWI'.I. (IF TH1-; CroriE I.OnOK, Xr: 
 
 Friendship, No. 6 ; and the Old Icing's Arms Lodge, No. 28 ; 
 which old Lodge, lie was glad to see, had a representative 
 
 B 2 
 
4 s(,nri': ^rI^^roI■iIAI,s of •riii', 
 
 here t(i-iiio]it in the persnn r<i F.ro. N'ewlancl, its imicli 
 esteemed Past Afaster and Treasurer. The earlv histiiry of 
 K]i,L;hsh Masonry and dl' "Id Eii,i;lisli Lodj^eswas tn liini a 
 must laseinatin,!,; study, and when he heaixl to-ni,i;lil that their 
 iild reeords had thsappearecl, it neenrred lo him, that shuuld 
 au iip|i(irtLinity ol'l'er, he y^aaild eall their attention tn a few 
 ineidents relatinsj; to the early eareer of their Lodge that had 
 eoine under his notiee in the eourse of Masonic research, 
 which, he thought, would probalily interest them more than 
 the usual after-dinner oratory, and, by so doing, enable them 
 to draw a compai'ison between the Fi-eemasonry of the period 
 when this I^odge was constituted, and the gigantic Institution 
 it lias since become. 
 
 ISro. Sadlei' then addressed the Lodge as aboye indicated, 
 and a lieartN' \iite ol thanks was accorded to him. 
 
 The Treasurer (Mro. Charles Alartm, l'..\.C..I).C.), in 
 releriaug to the interesting address which they had listened 
 to with so much pleasure, said Ijro. Sadler would confer a 
 still greater ta\our on the brethren it he would consent to 
 dictate the substance ot it to a shortdiand writer, so that 
 they could get it printed tor preseryation, and eyery member 
 be in possession ol a cop^". 
 
 I5i"o. Sadler, in I'esponse, said he would readily accede to 
 the re(|uest, but he thought he could do e\en belter than 
 that. lie h.acl ( niiitted much he would have said, knowing 
 that he was in iront ol a nnisital eutertainnieni, but if the 
 brethren would gi\"e him time (his hands being rather full 
 just now) he would himscll write the address for the printer, 
 as near as he could remember, and jiossibly make some 
 additions to it, which he has now done. 
 
 You are, no doubt, aware Brethren, that the Cilobe Lodge 
 was constituted on the i(Sth September, rjj^ It was not, 
 lioweyer, then known by its present name, indeed, it had no 
 
GLOHK LODGIC, XO. 23. 5 
 
 name, nor had it a nLuiiber, neither had any other Lodge. 
 At that period L(.Klges were simply distinguished bv the 
 names of the ta\erns at which they were lield, and it was not 
 until live or six years after this Lodge was constituted that 
 it was deemed advisable that the Lodges should bear con- 
 secutive numbers. This curious little book which I will pass 
 round lor inspection, will serve to simplify my remarks on 
 this subject. As yon will observe from the inscription on 
 the co\er, it was presented to the Grand I^odge some years 
 ago. On the frontispiece is the date 1729, and it is the 
 Inst List m which the Lodges bear numliers. 
 
 It is known as " Pme's Engraved List of Lodges" for 
 1729, and when I tell you it is the oiih' one of (hat veai" 
 known to be in existence, you will readily understand how 
 valuable it is, and I am sure you will take the greatest cai-e 
 of it. 
 
 W'e have two earlier lists of a siniilai" kind in Ihc ("irand 
 Lodge Librar\', nameh', lor 172 ^ anil 1725, hut in them Ihc 
 tigns ol the ta\erns, theii" locality, and the ilays of meeting 
 only are given. 
 
 If \'ou will turn to No. 2^ in the List, von will lintl Ihc 
 sign of Tlu-Iiiilf Moon in Cheapsidc, and that was the house 
 at which this Lodge had its birth, although it could not 
 ha\'e i-emainctl there \"ei\' long, lor, in Ihc 1725 Lis!, it was 
 stated 111 be hehl at The Sun, South side of SI. Paul's Church 
 ^'ard, ,^oing back to the lormer house in 1726. It is a ralhci" 
 curious coincidence that at the hrst enmncration of the 
 Lodges, this Lodge should ha\e been gi\en the number 23, 
 and afler all the interxcuing years since 1729, lia\ing had Inc 
 clilfeix'ut innnliers in Ihc iuler\'al, it should now be undci" ils 
 original innnber. 
 
 77/1' Ilall -Miion, in Chcapside, wa:. the cailie:.l Masonic 
 house of which we ha\e any ilcluiile knowleel.ne, ami ak.o 
 
6 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 the scene of the first Masonic banquet recorded. On 
 the J4th of [nne, 1731, tlie Grand Lodge held a meeting 
 there. 
 
 Ehas Aslimole, the Antiquary, in his celebrated Diary, 
 under date March loth, 1682, writes that he received a 
 summons to a Lodge to be held ne.xt day, at Alasons' Hall, 
 London; he savs : " Accordingly I went, and about Xoone 
 were admitted to the Fellowshi}^ of Free Masons, Sir 
 William Wilson, Knight, Capt. I^ich. Borthwick, Mr. Will. 
 Wiiiidman, Mr. Wm. Grev, iNIr. Samuell Taylor, and Mr. 
 \\'iliiam Wi>e." 
 
 He gives also the names of se\'eral brethren who were 
 present on the occasion, and imishes the entrv thus : " AVee 
 all dyncd at the Halle AI'miuc Ta\ erne in Cheapeside, at a 
 Xoble Dinner, prepaired at the charge of the New Accepted 
 Masnns." 
 
 The Li Kl!.;e remained at The HdltMooii until 1755, when 
 it was remii\'eel to 77/r 7u7/, in Xoble Street, thence, in 1757, 
 \ii The Siihildlioii, in Xewgate Street, where it met until 17(12, 
 and then made ani'ther mii\"e to 77;(' Foniiliiin, on Snow" Hill. 
 In 17(14 we find it meeting at another celebrated Masonic 
 taxeru, 'The (ih^lw, in Fleet Street. At this peridd Lodges 
 generalK" began tn be distinguished Iw names, and, although 
 tile I^odge (uih" remained there four years, it has ever since 
 been kiKiwu as "The Gli'be Lodge." From 1768 till I7g2, 
 It was held at The Croieii iind Ri<lh, in Chancery Lane, 
 so-called from its pro.\imit\- to The Rolls Honse, or Record 
 Office. During the year I7g2, the Lodge returned to The 
 (ih'he. but only remained there fur a short time, for in the 
 fdlldwiug year we fiml it located at 77/c' H7;/7c Heiil. Holborn, 
 where it ci mtinuetl ti i meet till 1815, when it was remoycd 
 til The T ireiiiinoiis' Tdeerii, and in i8():;, an the comjiletion of 
 the Li.idge rooms in the new Building of Freemasons' Hall, 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 7 
 
 it took up its quarters there. It will thus be seen that the 
 Lodge has only been held at ten different houses during 
 the 180 years of its e.\istence, and that the last 88 years have 
 been passed on the Grand Lodge premises. 
 
 The Globe Tavern, from which the Lodge takes its name, 
 was not only a well known Masonic meeting place, but is 
 immortalized in history as the home of a certain literary and 
 convivial club, much frequented by that versatile genius, 
 Oliver Goldsmith, historian and poet, at the period when 
 the Globe Lodge was held there. Unfortunately the Register 
 of the Grand Lodge, so far as the Globe Lodge is concerned, 
 is blank from 1730 to about 1776, had that not been the case 
 it is not unlikely that some ot ihe members of that celebrated 
 club would have been found to have also been members of 
 this Lodge. 
 
 Of the ten different houses at which this Lodge has found 
 a home, it may be noted that, with the exception of the 
 adjoining premises, not one is now to be found in the con- 
 dition in which it was at the time the Lodge was held there, 
 several of them have been entirely swept away, others have 
 been rebuilt, and one seems to have been only slightly altered. 
 The last referred to is the house at which the Lodge was 
 held, from 1755 to 1757, and judging from external appear- 
 ance this old tavern has undergone very little structiu-al 
 change, notwithstanding that it is situated in the very heart 
 of London. Only recently I made an inspection of it, 1 didn't 
 
 go inside because well, I don't hold with liquid refresii- 
 
 ment in the forenoon, but, with the exception of the windows 
 having been slightly modernized, the house has every 
 appearance of venerable age, indeed, I see no reason to 
 doubt its being quite 200 years old, and may have jiossibly 
 occupied its present position ever since the rebuikhug of the 
 city after the great lire m 1666. Should any of the brethren 
 
8 SOME MEMORIALS OE THE 
 
 desire to pav it a visit and test the quality of its liquids, it 
 is now called Yt OIJc Bell, and is situated in Xoble Street, 
 Falcon Square, Aldersgate. 
 
 X.B. The entrance to the Saloon Bar is in Oat Lane. 
 
 Since writing the foregoing paragraph, I have l^een 
 fortunate enough to make the acquaintance oi the proprietor 
 
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 \\"A^ m-j.li i-i;ini ,-2;, to i7(._| 
 
 I'l thi^ old ta\"crn, ]:!i'ii. Gei Tge H. Sweet, who courteouslv 
 in\ited lue tn inspect the mtei'iur, and having done so from 
 ,ittics to cchars, I see no reasnn tn alter I'r mndif\- the opinion 
 ,ilread\" expressed. Ci uisider,ible .ilteratii ni^ h.a\"e undoubt- 
 edlv been nuide, both internallv and externallv, but unless I 
 
VE OLDE HEI.I. TAVEKX, WHERE THE GLOBE LUDCE WAS HELD EKOM 
 
Gr.oiii': LODC.K, NO. 23. 9 
 
 am much mistaken, the room in wiiich Masonic meetings 
 were held is practically intact. 
 
 The old brickwork of the front outer walls, as will he seen 
 fiom the accompanying photogiaph, has been hidden by 
 stucco, and the windows enlarged and modernized bv the 
 removal of the old-fashioned, broad wooden framing, but I 
 have not the shadow of a doubt that it is the identical house 
 in which the Globe Lodge was held from 1755 to 1757, and 
 the Lodge of Industry, No. 186, in 1815. 
 
 On account of the narrowness of the street and the 
 dulness of the weather at this season, it was very difficult to 
 get a good photograph of the building, and 1 shall only be 
 doing bare justice to the photographer in saying that he has 
 done much better than I expected. 
 
 While on this subject I may mention a circumstance which 
 will, iKj doubt, interest as well as surprise the brethren 
 jiresent. The ground on which this tavern stands, oi- that 
 part of it which includes the room \\ c are nnw in, was former!}' 
 owned bv a very old member of this Lodge, one of its earliest, 
 1 might say, for in the lirst list of its members returned to 
 Grand Lodge, in the year 1725, comprising 17 names, the 
 1 Jth name on that list is that of Philip Carteret Webb, who, 
 I have every reason to belie\e, was for several years tlie 
 freeholder of the premises and gi'ounds on which the miginal 
 Freemasons' Tavern stood and where our Grand old Hall 
 was afterwards erected. 
 
 During the lirst 59 \'ears of the existence of the Grand 
 Lodge, it had neither home nor habitation, nor, indeed, 
 an\-thing else in the sha)ie of real estate. Its ordinary 
 meetings were held at \arious taveiiis, and tlie Annual 
 Festivals at one of the Halls nf the Cilv Cimipanies hiied 
 for the (jccasion. 
 
 About the year I7'i7, strong ellorts were made to raise 
 
10 SOME MEMOKIALS OF THE 
 
 a Fund to provide furniture and jewels for the Grand Lodj^e. 
 This movement eventually developed into the formation of 
 a Fund for buildint; a Hall and proper oflices. It may 
 interest the brethren to know that the Globe Lodge was 
 one of tlie earliest contributors to this Fimd. In 1773, a 
 Hall Committee, consisting of the leading Masons in London, 
 headed bv the Grand Master, was formed, with certain 
 powers delegated to it by the Grand Lodge. This Com- 
 mittee soon set to work, and after having inspected several 
 places that were unsuitable, had practically decided to 
 recommend the purchase of certain Freehold premises 
 situated on the Xorth side of Fleet Street, when word was 
 brought to the Committee that two commodious dwelling 
 houses and a large garden in Great Queen Street, late in the 
 possession of Philip Carteret Webli, Esq., deceased, were 
 to be disposed i;f. They at once deputed Thomas Dight, 
 Cirpenler, of Great Wild Street, who had brought the 
 intelligence, and Brother Ale.\ander McKowl, Bricklayer, to 
 make a careful surveN' of the premises and report the result. 
 I'^verything being found satisfactory, the Committee made 
 their report to the (jrand Master, who wrote his opinion at 
 the foot of the report in the minute book, " I have considered 
 the aliiive and think it the most desirable ]ilau that has yet 
 
 been olfered to the Committee. 
 
 "(Signed) Pktri-:." 
 
 Earlv in 1774 the purchase was completed, and it was in 
 the garden above referred to that our line old Hall, in which 
 the meetings of Grand Lodge and Gi'and Chapter are now 
 held, was built. The premises consisted of a front house 
 facing the street, and a smaller or back house adjoining 
 the garden, probablv used as a museum. 'J'lie former was let 
 oil a short lease, to a Mr. Brooks, paper-stainer, and the 
 latter became the (jriginal Freemasons' Coffee lujuse, or 
 
[ ^ ] 
 
 Donations of the following Lodges towards re-building Freemafons* 
 Tavern, agreeable to the Refolution of the Grand Lodge^ on the 
 2oth of March, 1788. 
 
 No 2. Somerfet-Houfc Lodge, Freemafons' Tavern — — — — — >C 105 o o 
 
 15. Globe-Lodge, Crown-and-Rolls, Chancery-lane — — — — 5 5 o 
 
 11. Old King's- Arms Lodge, Freemafonsi' Tavern — — — — S S ° 
 
 28. Corner-stone Lodge, Dean Street, OxfoJd-Street ■— — — 5 5 o 
 
 1Q. Britannic Lodge, Star-and-Gartcr, Pail-Mall — — — — 52 10 o 
 
 47. The Stewards Lodge — — — — — — — — — 25 o o 
 
 130. Lodge of Regularity, Thatched-Houfe Tavern, St. James's Street Jo 10 o 
 
 216. Tufcan Lodge, King'j-Head Tavern, Holborn — — — — 5 5° 
 
 /ai4 o o 
 
GLOHE LODGE, XO. 23. II 
 
 Tavern, a portion of it being litted up as offices and a 
 committee room for the pnrposes of the Grand Lodge. 
 
 Notwithstanding the large expcnditnre in repairs and 
 alterations of the old premises pieviously occupied by 
 Philip Carteret Webb, it was found that, as the business 
 increased, they were ill adapted for Tavern purposes, the 
 Grand Lodge, therefore, on the advice of Thomas Sandby, 
 Esq., K.A., Grand Architect ; William Tyler, Esq., P.G. 
 Steward, another eminent architect, decided to demolish the 
 old buildings and erect instead a large tavern connected with 
 the Hall, with suitable accommodation for the Grand Secretary, 
 and the meetings of Lodges and other Societies. This was a 
 serious undertaking in view of the fact that the Hall was not 
 yet paid for, and the amount received for its use was barely 
 enough for working expenses — still it was, no doubt, the right 
 thing to do, considering the great age of the structure. 
 
 The next question was how to raise the money to pay 
 for the rebuilding", and, as a matter of course, the Lodges 
 and individual brethren were iirst appealed to for contribu- 
 tions. At that time there were but 104 Lodges on the 
 London List, many of which were, doubtless, not in a con- 
 dition to be able to contribute anything to the object in view, 
 but the few that responded did so in a liberal spirit, as will 
 be seen from the iirst and only list of donations printed in 
 the Grand Lr)dge f-Jeport, and here reproduced in facsimile. 
 
 It will be observed that all the contributions came from 
 what were then, and are still, " Red Apron Lodges." 
 
 The Caledonian Lodge subsequently contributed Xio los. 
 The sum required (about /."50()0) was eventually raised In- 
 borrowing from the Euncl of Charity and from certain 
 wealthy members of the Hall Coiumittee. 
 
 In those days the Grand Lodge "was cimsiderablc on 
 the borrer," as Mark Twain says, lor when either of the 
 
J^- SOIIE MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 lenders called in his loan and the Grand Treasurer had not 
 sufficient cash in hand to meet the claim, the ditliculty was 
 easily surmounted by borrowing from some one else. To the 
 credit of the Society, be it noted that the Grand Lodge 
 seldom, if ever, had occasion to go outside the Order to 
 obtain the money required. 
 
 The iirst Constituted Lodge on the Register of the Grand 
 Lodge of England is the Lodge of Friendship, Xo. 6, which 
 the Engraved Lists tell us was Constituted on the 17th of 
 Jannar\, 1721. Between that date and the Constitution of 
 this Lodge in 1723, eighteen other Lodges were recorded, 
 so th.it the Globe Lodge was the 20th tn be formallv enrolled 
 on the Register of the Grand Lodge, bist half of these 
 Lodges ha\e at \arious periods died out and have been 
 removed tioni tlie list ; ten, however, are still flourishing, and 
 long ma\' the\" conliiuie In llourish ! Of the existing ten, six 
 ha\e nuilcd with nlher Lodges, leaxing four nnlv which, so 
 I.U" as wc can learn, ]ia\c stood alone and unaided tln'uugh 
 storm autl sunshine, I mm the chite of their Constitution, now 
 \erging upon joo wars ago, down to the ]iresent time. They 
 are the Ijiitish Lodge, Xo. 8, tlie W'cstnnnster and Keystone 
 Lodge, Xo. 10, the Old Dundee Lodge, Xo. iS, and the 
 Globe Lodge, X'o. j v 
 
 riiiLii' C.\KTi'.ivi;i \Vi-.i',i;, Escj., M.l'., E.K.S., h'.S.A. 
 
 We will now relnru to Philip Carteret Webb, who was 
 probablv the most remarkable member the Globe Lodge 
 ever had on its books (1 mean of the old school, pi"esent 
 members are, of course, excejited), and, 1 think, when you 
 have heard what 1 ha\e to say about him, \ou will agree 
 with me that he dcseiAcs more than .1 cui-soi-\- mention. 
 He is said to have been born at l)e\ i/es in the \ear 1700, 
 so thai he was about J5 \'ears of age when he became a 
 
OLOP.K LODGl', XO. 23. I3 
 
 membei' of the (ilohe Lod.Lje. I cannot sny much for him as 
 a Afason, asliis name does not appear in the List of ]\[emhcis 
 returned in ] 730, either from that or an^- other I-^od.ue. He 
 certainly imiy have joined another Lod,t;e, lint, if so, we liave 
 no evidence of it, as only 55 out of 102 Lodges on the 
 Register sent in the names of their members in the \ear 
 last mentioned. He was lirought up to the legal profession, 
 and at an early period of liis career practised as ;m attorney, 
 fust in the Old Jewrv, next in Budge f^ovv, and lastly in 
 Cireat Oueen Street. His abilities quicldy attracted notice, 
 and he was employed liy the Government in the prosecution 
 of some of those misguided persons who took part in the 
 Scottish f-^ebellion of 1745, the last attempt to replace the 
 Stuarts on the Throne of England, when, it is said that liy 
 his conspicuous ability he rendered great ser\'ice to the 
 State. 
 
 He was an eminent Antiquarv, and was elected a Fellow 
 of the Societv of Antiquaries in 1747, and a Fellow of the 
 Royal Societv two years later. lu 1751 he is said to have 
 materially assisted in olitaining a Charter of Incorporation 
 for the iirst named Society. In 1748 he purchased an estate 
 called Busl^ridge, near Haslemere, in Surrey, and turned his 
 attention to Agriculture, so you see he was "a man of many 
 )iarts." In 1754 he was elected Member of Parliaiuent for 
 Haslemere, and continued to represent that Borough till 
 1768. 1 need not remind von that the use of iron for the 
 purposes of shipbuilding had not come " within measurable 
 distance " in the middle of the i8th century. It was feaiccl 
 that unless energetic measures were taken we should ha\e to 
 depend entirely upon fcjreign material for the construclion 
 of our "Wooden Walls," a prospect quite the re\ei-se of 
 agreeable, you may be sure, to the "John Bull" (.f the 
 period, In 1758, therefore, the Society of Arts proposed to 
 
14 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 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 mv 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 
 1758. 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, lirst Marquess of Lansdowne, and they 
 now form part of the " Lansdowne Collection " in the British 
 Museum, it is, therefore, well within the range of proba- 
 bilities that the unicjue 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 
 I^hilip 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 told vou about him, I think I 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 1 5 
 
 have done enough to give you reason to be j-iroud of your 
 old brother, at all events, suflicient to justify my statement 
 that he was })robably the most remarkable member in the 
 annals of the Globe Lodge. A few words in eonelusion on 
 the street in which he lived. 
 
 The iirst 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 lifteen houses in the street, 
 erected on what had formerlv been meadow land, reaching 
 from the East side of Lincohi's Inn Fields to the open 
 countrv Westward, and nearly down to the Strand. 
 
 What is now Great Queen Street was formerly a foot- 
 path, 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 iirst houses were situated on the 
 South side of the street, and I have not the slightest doubt 
 but the front house subsequently accjuired by Philip Carteret 
 Webb was one of them. 
 
 At hrst 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 Marcjuess of Normanby, 
 that subsec]uently another house was built in the garden, 
 and in 1702 it came into the possession of an eminent Turke\' 
 Merchant, Ralph Lane, whose eldest daughter was married 
 to the Honourable George Parker, who became the second 
 Earl of Maccleslield, and whose widow, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Lane, bec]ueathed it in 1753 to George Lane Parker, her 
 
l6 SOMK :\IEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 .ijianclson, younger son of the nobleman alcove-mentioned. It 
 was liom this gentleman that Webb acquired the freehrild 
 of tile two houses and garden in 1764. At this time the 
 front house was occupied, and had been for many years, by 
 Tlinmas Hudson, a celebrated portrait jiainter, who is said to 
 have taught Reynolds, afterwards Sir Joshua of that ilk. 
 With him lived Tliomas Worlidge, a miniature painter and 
 etclier of equal celebiitv, who died in 1766, and wdiose widow- 
 was li\'ing in the house for some years afterwards. It 
 wiiuld thus appear tliat Webb never occupied the front house 
 himself. 
 
 If vou wish to know the kind of house Mr. Hudson 
 h\e(l in V'lii liave only tri cross the road and turn West- 
 ward a few yaids, till ^■ou come opposite to the premises 
 imw iiccupied b\ A. [. t\: C. Hocking, and Messrs. Woolf 
 and Son. These two houses, said to ha\e been originally in 
 Mue, beai a striking resemblance externally to the old Free- 
 masons' 'ra\eMi, and are probably the earliest houses in this 
 neighboiuhoocl. 
 
 The author of "Old and Xew London" is evidently in 
 error in stating that Hudson and Worlidge resided on the 
 premises last mentioned, now X'os. 55 and 5O. Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Lane, in describing lier ireehold property in her will, made in 
 1753, rclerring to the two houses, says, " one of them being in 
 myiiwn occupation, and the nther adjoining thereto, in the 
 iiccupatiou of Mr. Hudson." The title deeds of the property 
 alsn show that the Imut house was formerh' occupied by 
 Mr. Hudson, painter, and later by Mr. Worlidge, and that the 
 widow ot the last-named geutleiuan was living in the same 
 house in 1 768, 
 
 As the aristocratic residents migrated to the West, 
 their places were taken by the next grade — professional men 
 of high standing, wealthy Merchants, judges, Doctors, and 
 

 JJU^r.KlDCE HAIJ,, JX SURREY, Till'; SEAT OE I'HILIl' CAKTI-:kE-1' \VICI;i;, ESO , 
 
 M.f, IIEMIIER l)E THE CLOllE LOIJGE IN 172 
 
GLOKK LODGE, NO. 23. 17 
 
 what we should now describe as the upper middle class, the 
 social status of the inhabitants gradually descending until, I 
 think, with a common lodging house staring us in the face, 
 it is almost impossible to descend any lower, we may, there- 
 fore, now, reasonably hope for an improvement. 
 
 Having up to now failed in my efforts to iind a portrait of 
 the subject of the foregoing sketch, I concluded that the next 
 best thing to do would be to reproduce a view of the fine old 
 Surrey mansion in which he li\'ed for many years. 
 
 Alex.w'uer McKowl, Past Gr.4ND Steward. 
 
 It may possibly interest the brethren to know that Bro. 
 Alexander McKowl, the bricklayer previously mentioned, 
 was a member of the Globe Lodge, but it must not 
 be inferred that he was an ordinary workman, he was 
 a master bricklayer, who eventually contracted for doing 
 the brick work in the erection of the Hall, and exceed- 
 ingly well he did his work, for I am morally certain that 
 not a brick or stone in the building has been found defective 
 or required replacing since its completion in 1776, except, 
 of course, an occasional pointing of the walls. The British 
 workmen of the present generation have, in my hearing, 
 expressed decidedly iciinn testimony to the strength and 
 solidity of his work when they have had occasion to cut 
 through the old walls in order to make new doorways. His 
 bill for his part oi the work amounted to ^'1312 6s. 6d. 
 Bro. McKowl was not only a good workman in an operati\e 
 sense, but he was also an ardent and zealous member of the 
 Masonic Order. His place of residence was in Great Wild 
 Street, at that period a very different kind of street to what 
 it is now. I am unable to state definitely the Lodge in which 
 
 c 
 
l8 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 he was initiated, but, for sundry reasons, I tliink it higlily 
 probable it was the Globe Lodge. He seems to have had a 
 partiality for The Globe Tavern, for, in 1766, he joined another 
 old Lodge there meeting on the first and third Mondays, 
 this lodge being then held at the same house on the first 
 Thursday. On the 12th of July, 1775, he joined, in company 
 with his friend and neighbour, Dight, the carpenter, a 
 Lodge held at Tlie Crou<n and Horse-shoe in Bartlet's Buildings, 
 Holborn. This Lodge was at once removed to The Free- 
 masons' Tavern, and named The Foundation Stone Lodge 
 (its first name), doubtless in commemoration of the Laying 
 of the Foundation Stone of the Freemasons' Hall. It was 
 the first Lodge to hold its meetings on the Grand Lodge 
 premises, and for many years was very prosperous, being 
 joined by most of the oflicials and the tradesmen employed 
 by the Grand Lodge. It lapsed, however, about 1805, and 
 the warrant was transferred to Abingdon in 1807, thence to 
 Cheltenham in 1817, where it is now held as The Foundation 
 Lodge, No. 82. 
 
 In 1769, Bro. McKowl joined the Corinthian Lodge, then 
 held at The ]\'hlle Hart in the Strand, and about this period 
 he is credited with £2 2s. to the Fund then being raised for 
 the purchase of Furniture and Jewels for the Grand Lodge. 
 In 1775, he joined the Grand Stewards' Lodge, it being 
 customary in those days for all Grand Stewards to be 
 members of that Lodge during their term of office. 
 
 As Grand Steward for the Globe Lodge in 1775, he took 
 an active part in the ceremony of Laying the Foundation 
 Stone of the Hall by Lord Petre on the ist of May in that 
 year, and was one of the earliest subscribers of £2^ to the 
 " Hall Loan," instituted in 1779 to assist in paying for the 
 building of the Hall, for which service he received the 
 Freemasons' Hall Medal, a very line f.-icsimile of which. 
 
GI,OP,E LODGI'-,, XO. 23. 
 
 ly 
 
 made by Mr. Ready, of the British Museum, is in tlie Grand 
 Lod.tje Museum. The oritjinal is the property of the Nation 
 
 !■■ kl',l-:M.\S()\^ IL\1,L >ri-,lJAL IM;I>I'.X TKIi \:\ i.kaXIi l.nliia-. 
 Til A(,F,XAXI)|:K' MtKllWI, IX ly.Sj, 
 
 and is preserved in the Coins and JVTcd.ils Department of 
 tlie grand Institutinn just named 
 
SOMK MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 Thi-: Globh Lodge a Hari!i\'c;1':r of Pkace axd 
 
 COXCOKI). 
 
 On a former occasion I ventured to express an opinion 
 that this old lodge contributed more than any other lodge in 
 the Craft to bring about that important event in the history 
 of English l^Iasonry, not inaptly described as the " Glorious 
 Union of 1813." That opinion has since been strengthened, 
 but before giving my reasons for it I will briefly sketch the 
 history of the two rival societies in order that the brethren 
 may the better be able to estimate the value of my belief. 
 
 Down to the year 181 3, and for about sixty years prior to 
 that period, there were two Grand Lodges in London, each 
 having man\- suliordinate lodges under its jurisdiction in 
 nearly every part of the civilized world. The older of these 
 bodies was established in the year 1717, and has been 
 variouslv designated " Tlie Grand Lodge of Free and 
 Accepted Masons of England," " The Regular Grand 
 Lodge," "The Modern Grand Lodge," and, later, "The 
 Grand f^odge under the Prince of Wales," George, Prince 
 of Wales, afterwards King George the Foiu'th, having been 
 its Grand Master from 1790 to 18 13. 
 
 The other Grand Lodge started in the vear 1751 as a 
 Grand Committee, wliich blossomed into a Giand Lodge two 
 years later. This body was at lirst chiefly composed of 
 Irish Masons, and was known as "The Grand Lodge of 
 tlie Antients," or, to give it its full description, "The Grand 
 Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons According to the Old 
 Institutions." Its members were also designated " Athole 
 Masons," because two Dukes of that name had presided over 
 them as Grand ALasters. For the sake of brevitv and as a 
 
GLOBE LODGE, XO. 23. 21 
 
 simple distinction these two Societies were, and still are, 
 referred to by Masonic writers as " Antients " and 
 " Moderns," the " Antients " being the organization of 1751, 
 and the " Moderns" that of 1717. 
 
 The regular Grand Lodge, although undoubtedly the 
 older as an organized body, had so altered the ceremonies 
 and deviated from the old customs of the Craft, that, 
 according to their opponents of 1751, they had forfeited 
 their right to the title of " Antient," while they themselves, 
 having preserved the traditional usages and ceremonies 
 unaltered, were the real "Antient" Masons, and no doubt 
 there was a certain amount of truth in these allegations. 
 A strong and bitter rivalry existed between the two 
 Societies for many years, promoted and fostered, I regret to 
 sa3", chiefly by some of the leading Masons on both sides. 
 In fact, it was at first a struggle for absolute supremacy on 
 the part of the Moderns — the older and possibly more 
 respectable community — and for existence as an organization 
 on the part of the Antients, who were stigmatized by their 
 rivals as seceders, schismatics, rebels, and even still more 
 offensive terms were applied to them. 
 
 Edicts and proclamations of non-intercourse were freely 
 promulgated by both parties, the brethren were forbidden to 
 visit or join the opposition lodges under severe pains and 
 penalties, unless they consented to be re-made and pay the 
 usual fee in conformity with the usages and customs of the 
 body they desired to join — in short, the famous " Kilkenny cats " 
 were not "in it "with these two factions of the Brotherhood. 
 
 In the course of years, however, the anger of tlie ri\'als 
 became softened, they found that neither of them could gain 
 the mastery, and as they became better acquainted by joining 
 each others Lodges, edicts and e.x-communications for which 
 " nobody seemed one penny the worse," were practically 
 
22 SOME m1':mokials of the 
 
 disrc.^;irded, and owing to tlic exertions of some of tlie more 
 enlightened members of lioth (irand Lodges, an Union, on 
 terms mntnally hononrable, was linally eonsunimated in the 
 ^"ear i8i ;. Since tliis peri(jd, our Society lias been known as 
 the I'nited Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free, and Accepted 
 i\Iasons of England. 
 
 The most hillnential member of the " Antient " Grand 
 Lodge for about twenty-live years prior to the union above 
 mentioned, was Thomas Harper, a silversmith in Fleet Street, 
 who was |unior Grand Warden of that body in I7<S(), Senior 
 Grand Warden from 17H7 to lySij, Deputy Grand Secretary 
 fi-om about lygJ to iSoo, and Deput\' Grand Master from 
 iSoj to iSi:;, during the latter term being practically the 
 Gr.ind Master. 
 
 He |oiued the Globe t^oclge m T7!~i7, was Master in 
 171)^, and ser\ed as Grand Steward in I7</). The truth of 
 the pi-o\erb, " .\. man cannot serve twij masters" was forcibly 
 e.\emjililied in the case nf (iiii- distinguished old brother, who 
 seems to have been higlih' respected b\' both sides and to 
 ha\e de\i)ted much of his time and attention to the ser\ice 
 of the Craft generallv, irrespective of party, but who, never- 
 theless, met with expulsion from the "Modern" Grand 
 Lodge in 1 80:;, ostensibly on account of his refusal to sever 
 his connection with the njiposition bod\' with which he had 
 been so long associated and of whicli he was then Deput\' 
 Grand i\taster, but reallv because he had failed 111 his promised 
 eiidea\oui"s to bring about the important e\"ent which 
 happened ten years later, and which he jirobably more than 
 aii\- other single indixidnal was then instrumental in 
 accomplishing. He was one nl the signatories to (he Articles 
 of Lninn, ami, of cnnrsc, rclainetl his rank" ol Hepiitv (Hand 
 iMaster in the I'nited Grand l^odge, at which he was a most 
 regLilar attendant, and notwithstanding his great age and 
 
GLOBE LODGE, N!0. 23. i^ 
 
 increasing infirmities his zeal for Masonry never slackened. 
 He scarcely ever missed a meeting of the Grand Lodge, and 
 frequently presided over the Lodge of Benevolence nntil 
 within about a year of his death, which occurred on the very 
 day of the Grand Festival, 25th April, 1832. 
 
 I am glad to say that many of the best specimens of 
 ALasonic jewellery in the Grand Lodge Museum bear the 
 initials of our old brother, Thomas Harper. 
 
 The next of the " Antient " regime to join the Globe 
 Lodge was Robert Leslie, who had formerly been their Grand 
 Secretary. 
 
 According to the Grand Lodge Register he was initiated 
 in this lodge in November, 1787, This was evidently a case 
 of remaking, as he had already been initiated in No. 5 of the 
 " Antients " in 1779, and was appointed Grand Secretary in 
 1783, but retired in 1785, being re-appointed in 1790, and 
 remaining in office until 1813, with Thomas Harper as his 
 assistant from 1792 to 1795. In the capacity of Grand 
 Secretary his signature is appended to the Articles of Union. 
 
 It is evident that Bro. Harper was not unmindful of his 
 former friends, although he did not resume membership of 
 the Globe Lodge after his expulsion, for we lind that James 
 Alexander Frampton who was initiated in this Lodge in 1810 
 was appointed Senior Grand Deacon in 1818, and William D. 
 Cummins who joined in 181 1 was appointed Grand Sword 
 Bearer in 1818, and continued in that oflice until 1821, when 
 he was promoted to that of Junior Grand Deacon. 
 
 In 1789 this Lodge was joined by William Comerford 
 Clarkson, who was Grand Treasurer for the " Antients " from 
 1798 to 1813, the last, longest and best Grand Treasurer 
 they e\er had. He was Grand Steward for the Globe Lodge 
 in 1791. The next of the "Antient" fraternity to become 
 a member of this Lodge was James Agar, who joined in 1790, 
 
SOME .MEMOKIAI.S OF THE 
 
 I'l.ll.K WII.IJAM (,II.KI--,^ I'M. Ill-- Till, r,l,iiiiK \.nln,K. 
 
GLOIiK LOIIGI'',, NO. 2T,. 25 
 
 he being at that time Senior Grand Warden of the rival 
 Grand Lodge, from which post he was promoted to the ofiice 
 of Deputy Grand Master, tilling that chair for a term of four 
 years. He also was one who signed the Articles of Union, 
 and for many years sat as Deputy Grand Master in the United 
 Grand Lodge, occasionally presiding, in the absence of the 
 Duke of Sussex, as Grand Master. He was the first to hold 
 the oflice of President of the Board of General Purposes. 
 
 In 1791, John Bunn, a prominent member of the 
 "Antients," joined this Lodge while he was Junior Grand 
 Warden of the opposition body. He served the ofiice of 
 Senior Grand Warden from- 1793 to 1795. 
 
 Another influential brother of the " Antient " fraternity 
 was Robert Gill, who joined the Globe Lodge in 1797, and 
 served as its Grand Steward in 1799. He was junior Grand 
 Warden of the Antient Grand Lod.ge in 1795, and Senior 
 Grand Warden from 1796 to 1801, with the exception of the 
 year 1797. You now have my reasons for crediting this 
 Lodge with having done good service in reconciling the two 
 great rival Masonic societies, and thus paving the way 
 to the union of all English Masons under one head. It 
 captured the principal officers in the camp of the enemy, 
 but they were willing captives, and evidently did not regret 
 their captivity, for two out of the six mentioned continued 
 members of the Lodge long after the union, until their death 
 in fact. It is not improbable that some of the rank and lile 
 were also captured, but the absence of an alphabetical list 
 of members renders identification somewhat difficult. 
 
 The Fr\i> uh ClI.\K^l^•, xow ihe Fiwd of Bhnicxoei-.nci;. 
 
 In the Freemasons' Calendar, under the head " Remark- 
 able Occurrences in Masonry," will be found, " Committee 
 
26 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 of Charity established 1725." At iiist sight there does not 
 appear to be anything particularly remarkable in the forma- 
 tion of a Committee of Charity in connection with Free- 
 masonry, but in those days it was doubtless considered very 
 remarkable indeed, and it certainly was a most important 
 event. 
 
 Prior to this period when it was desired to relieve a 
 distressed brother to a larger extent than conld be done by 
 his own Lodge, his case was brought before the Grand Lodge, 
 and if deemed worthy a collection was made on his behalf 
 from the representatives of the Lodges who were present. 
 At this time the Grand Lodge had no funded property what- 
 e\er, nor any source of income, there were no paid officials, 
 and the working expenses were borne by the Grand Master 
 lor the time being. 
 
 It was not until 1730 that Lodges paid a fee for being 
 Cnnstitutecl, and then it was only Two Guineas to the Fund 
 of Charity. The Earl of Dalkeith, Grand Master, 1723-4, is 
 credited with having conceived the idea of establishing a 
 ]-iermanent Fund for the relief of the distressed, at any rate 
 he brought the subject before the Grand Lodge in 1724. A 
 Ciimmittee was subseLjuently appointed, and at once proceeded 
 to draw up a code of Rules applicable to the new Fund. Xot- 
 withstanding that several appeals were made to the brethren 
 in Cjrand Lodge m the meantime, it was not until 1729 that 
 the first contributions were received, when on the 27th of 
 November, in response to an earnest exhortation from the 
 Dejiuty Grand Master, five brethren, whose names are given, 
 handed to the Treasurer the several sums they had collected 
 in their Lodges. The total amount was £i-) 8s. 6d., of which 
 the Lodge, now called the Lodge of Antiquity, Xo. 2, con- 
 tributed /-"4 los., the other four, £."4 i8s. 6cl. between them. 
 01 these four two arc still in existence, they are the Fortitude 
 
GLOIih; LdDCIC, XO. 2T,. 27 
 
 and old Ciinihciiaiid Lodi^c, No. 12, and the Royal Alpha 
 Lodge, Xo. 16. A month later, on St. John's Day, 27th (jf 
 December, a marked impnnement was evinced, 17 Lodges 
 contrilniting between them ^,"41 os. Ocl., more that half of 
 which came from Lodge \o. 2, now the Royal Somerset 
 House and hnerness Lodge. No. 4. This Lodge, at that 
 time, was by far the most numerons as well as the most 
 aristocratic Lodge in the Order, and it headed the list 
 
 Wltll -I22 2S. 
 
 Amongst tlie other contribntions, ranging from X"3 down 
 to los. Od., is one from the Lodge at Tlw Half Moon in 
 Cheapside, £1 is. (id. It will, tliei-efore, no doubt, be some 
 little gratilication t(i the brethren to know that this venerable 
 Lodge was one of the earliest to assist in establishing that 
 Grand Fund of Charity which has enabled us to do so much 
 to alleviate the sufferings and relieve the necessities of the 
 worthv, but imtortunate members of oiu' Order, and from 
 which Fund no less a sum than £12,705 has been 
 disbursed dining the past year by the Board of Benevolence, 
 exclusix'e of ,£-117 ifis. from another source m casual relief. 
 
 SuMK (J'rHHk Cl'.r.I'MiRlTlES OF THK Gl.OI'.K LoDGE. 
 
 In 1780 the L(jdge was joined b\' Henry Strickland, 
 who, on the decease of Dight the carpenter, originalh' em- 
 ploved in the erection of the Hall, took up the work and 
 carried it to completion. In the minutes of the Hall 
 Committee he is referred to as the Society's carpenter, and 
 an order was given that no carpentering work shouki be 
 done on the |irennses e.xcepl under Ins sii]"ier\"ision. He was 
 also einplo\'e(l as superxisor, or clerk ol the works, , at the 
 rebuikling of The l'rc'Ciiuisoii\' Jiivcni in I7(S(), but tiled liehjre 
 it was hnished. 
 
28 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 Probably no man was better known, or more highly 
 respected, in metropolitan Masonry during the latter part of 
 the i8th century, and the early part of the 19th, than Peter 
 William Gilkes the celebrated Masonic Instructor. The 
 writer of his biography says he was born in 1765, was baptised 
 a member of the Catholic Church, and named after Lord 
 Pctrc (Grand Master 1772-76), who had been an excellent 
 friend to his family. The same authority states that he was 
 received into Masonry in the British Lodge in 1786, but the 
 ('■rand Lodge Register gives the year of his initiation as 1794, 
 and this is probably correct. He joined the Globe Lodge in 
 1798, and continued a subscribing member until about a 
 year before his death in 1833. His name is not on the 
 Register of the British Lodge in 1814, and we have no means 
 of ascertaining the period of his membership of that Lodge. 
 It seems, however, that the "Globe" was his favorite Lodge, 
 altlKJugli he joined several others and served the office of 
 Master in all of them. 
 
 An engraved portrait drawn by his friend, John Harris, of 
 Tracing Board fame, published in 1820, bears the following 
 inscription : " To the Globe Lodge of Freemasons, No. 25. 
 This portrait of one of their Past Masters, is, with their per- 
 mission, most respectfully Dedicated by their most Obedient 
 Servant, Brother Jno. Harris." The portrait, of which the 
 accompanying is a reduced copy, is said to have been a 
 striking likeness. 
 
 In 1822 he was presented by some of his pupils with a 
 handsome Past Master's jewel set with brilliants, which he 
 hati intended to bequeath to Br. Mever of the Globe Lodge, 
 Init that brother having pre-deceased him, he left it to another 
 of his pupils, Bro. Key, also a member of this Lodge, whose 
 hime as a teacher of Masonry is said to have been nearly 
 equal to that of Gilkes himself. This Jewel ultimately became 
 
GLOHH LODGE, NO. 23. 29 
 
 the property of the Percy Lodge, which Lodge was good 
 enough to allow me to have it for reproduction in my recent 
 history of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement, in which a 
 short sketch of the life of Peter Gilkes a]-)pears. 
 
 In 1888, while seeking information relative to the Instal- 
 lation Ceremony, I was fortunate enough to make the 
 accjuaintance of a venerable brother who had been on terms 
 of personal intimacv with Peter Gilkes, and had worked with 
 him in various Lodges of Instruction. This was the late 
 John Canham, Past IMaster of the Lodge of Honour and 
 Generosity, who was initiated in that Lodge as far back as 
 1825. As Master of his mother Lodge he attended the 
 meetings of the authorized Board of Installation appointed 
 by the Duke of Sussex in 1827, and was, therefore, able to 
 give most valuable information on the subject of my search, 
 as well as to relate some amusing reminiscences of Peter 
 Gilkes and other old craftsmen. 
 
 Our worthy brother passed away on the 15th of July, 
 189^, in his 90th vear, and his 68th year as a Mason. I was, 
 I believe, the only one of his Masonic friends who attended 
 his funeral in Norwood Cemetery, most of them having 
 preceded him, and those that were left being unable to be 
 present. 
 
 In the course of my previous address the name of George 
 Shillibeer was mentioned as having joined the Globe Lodge 
 in 1829, and as being the inventor of a certain vehicle used 
 by undertakers for their patrons of the humbler class — a 
 combination of hearse and mourning coach — one part being 
 for those who had " gone before," and the other part for 
 those who were "left behind." 
 
 This distinguished brother, who, I lind, was initiated in 
 the Etonian Lodge, Windsor, 25th February, 1827, has, quite 
 unwittingly, of course, been a source of considerable anxiety 
 
3° 
 
 SOMK MKMOIx'I.M.S OF THK 
 
 CI'.' ii;i;k sini,i.ii;i-;|.:i;, Mi-;Mi;i-:k ol-' nil': r.i.oiil". I.olici".. 
 
GLOHE I,01)GE, NO. 23. 3I 
 
 to me. He is registered as a coachmal<er, residing at No. 12, 
 Bury Street, Bloomsbury. Having some knowledge of tlie 
 period when the vehicle which bears his name, a very 
 uncommon one be it noted, came into use, I considered 
 myself justiiied in crediting him with its invention. But 
 after-dinner speaking is one thing and printing your remarks 
 is another ; so before venturing into type I deemed it advisable 
 to verify my statement. 
 
 The fame of this gentleman is based, not so much upon 
 the afore-mentioaed invention, as upon the fact of his having 
 undoubtedly been the first to introduce that popular and 
 useful conveyance, the omnibus, to the streets of London, 
 and eventually all over the country. On consulting such 
 ordinary books of reference as we have in our library, I found 
 that the gentleman in question is generally described as 
 "Air. Shillibeer," and occasionally as "J. Shillibeer," but one 
 of these works, which professes to give the fullest information, 
 boldly refers to him as " John Shillibeer, coach proprietor." 
 This description seemed hardly to tally with the Grand Lodge 
 Register, but, in my experience, historians are not c|uite 
 infallible, nor, for that matter, are Grand Lodge records. 
 
 Happening to have in the library a copy of Pigot's London 
 and Provincial Directory for 1826-7, I consulted that, and 
 found to my disgust that the only Shillibeer therein mentioned 
 was " Shillibeer and Cavill, Livery Stable Keepers," I, how- 
 ever, derived no little consolation from the fact that the 
 address there given is the same as that given in the Grand 
 Lodge Register. Being still in doubt as to whether there might 
 not have been two Shillibeers at the same house, I have since 
 extended my research to that never failing source of reliable 
 information, the British Museum, when I had the satisfaction 
 of learning that the Grand Lodge Register is correct, and 
 that his name was George and not John. 
 
32 so^rK memorials of the 
 
 He was born in Tottenham Court Road in 1797, and at 
 an earlj' period of his life served for a short time as a midship- 
 man in the Royal Navy, on board the Sun foscf and the 
 Rovdl Gcori^c. He afterwards learnt coach building in Long 
 Acre, London, subsequently setting up in business for himself 
 and building the iirst two omnibuses in England, which 
 he started on the 4th of July, 1829, from Tlit Vorkshiir 
 Sliiii^o at Paddington, to the Bank. Each of these vehicles 
 carried 22 passengers inside, with only the driver outside, 
 and were drawn by three horses abreast, the fare for the 
 whole journev was one shilling, half way, sixpence, with light 
 literature thrown in. It is said that his Iirst conductors were 
 the sons of naval officers, and that they were succeeded by 
 men attired in a handsome uniform. 
 
 The enterprise was financially successful until railways, 
 litigation, and competition, drove Shillibeer off the road. He 
 then set up in business as an undertaker, and invented the 
 machine before referred to, thereby greatly reducing the 
 cost of funerals. 
 
 As secretary to the committee of post-masters he took 
 the lead in securing the repeal of the post-horse duties and 
 the tax upon carriages let on hire. In celebration of this 
 auspicious event a large gathering of the post-masters of 
 England, Scotland and Wales took place at Tlif London 
 Tavciii on the loth of October, 1853, on which occasion a 
 valuable testimonial was presented to Bro. Shillibeer in 
 acknowledgment of his services. The testimonial took the 
 form of a handsome silver candelabrLun bearing the following 
 inscription ; — " Presented by the Postmasters of Great Britain 
 to George Shillibeer as a testimonial of their respect and of their 
 admiration of that unceasing energy by which he succeeded in 
 procuring the repeal of the Post-horse duties, and of the 
 assessed tax on Postmasters' Carriages, October 10, 185:;." 
 
i^MMm^ 
 
 
 53s&3?fe^;i--;_7 
 
 SHILLIBEERS OMNIBUS. 
 
 ,A jYew Carnage oft tJu /'aruian Mndf. /"/■ t/if Conveya^ic*:- oi' Jn.iid£ J'afseTtgerj from FAJtHrNeTOX lo fJifBANE 
 £jta.dCuA£j- Oy O-S/ullti/eer. Cooj^A M/a/i/^r ^A'^Jl Bury Str^ hl^onubuV'V -.SaJf/Jrc 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 33 
 
 The presentation included a purse of 500 sovereigns, and 
 I am informed that a further testimonial, consisting of a 
 handsome silver cigar-box and a considerable sum of money, 
 was subsequently received, mainly from the post-masters of 
 Scotland and Wales. 
 
 Bro. Shillibeer appears to have been the pioneer, not 
 only of omnibuses and cheap funerals, but of public recreation 
 grounds also, for on the authority of a surviving member of 
 his family we learn that by his untiring energy and public 
 spirit, almost single handed, and at great expense, he obtained 
 50 acres of land in Hainault Forest as a recreation ground 
 (for ever) for the inhabitants of Lambourne and Chigwell, 
 in Essex. 
 
 He subsequently removed to Brighton, and for many 
 vears carried on the business of an undertaker in that town, 
 dying there on the 21st of August, 1866, and was buried in 
 Chigwell churchyard, Essex. 
 
 For much of the foregoing information as well as for the 
 accompanying prints of the first " Bus," and Shillibeer's Patent 
 Funeral Carriage, we are greatly indebted to his only daughter, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Mary-Ann Wyman, who is now living in 
 Brighton in fairly good health, although in her 83rd year. 
 This lady w-as a passenger in her father's " Bus " on its first 
 journey. 
 
 Henry Ralph Willett, Esq., joined the Lodge in 1816, 
 having been initiated in the Royal Somerset House Lodge 
 the previous year. Li the course of a long Masonic life he 
 became a member of several other " Red Apron " Lodges. 
 He served as Grand vStevvard for his mother Lodge in 18 16, 
 and was appomted fimior Grand Warden in 1823. In 1854 
 he was appointed Prov. Grand Master for Dorset, his residence 
 in that ccumty being Merley House, near Wimliorne Minster. 
 He served the office of High Sheriff of IJorsetshne, and was 
 
 D 
 
34 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 reputed the best jud^Lje living of the productions of William 
 Hogarth, his collection of originals by that artist being 
 unequalled. 
 
 He died at his chambers in the Albany on the 9th of 
 December, 1857. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Isaac Knapp, who had been Deputy 
 Grand Chaplain of the "Antients," and also of the 
 United Grand Lodge, joined the Lodge in 1838 from 
 the Grand Master's Lodge, No. i. In 1814 he was appointed 
 by the Grand Master one of the members of the Lodge of 
 Reconciliation. 
 
 In 1848 the Globe Lodge seems to have been in rather low 
 water, for in the latter part of that year it was joined by 24 
 new members from various London Lodges, ten of whom came 
 from the Robert Burns Lodge, Xo. 2-,, several of them being 
 celebrated Masonic workers and Installing Masters, headed 
 b\' the late venerable brother, William Watson, familiarly 
 known as " Old Billie," whom, doubtless, some of you 
 remember. He ser\ed as Grand Steward for this Lodge in 
 1841.), and was a member of the Grand Stewards' Lodge and 
 several other Lodges. For several years he was part pro- 
 prietor of Tlw Firc'iiicisoiis' Tavciii. He it was who initiated 
 the N'awab of Oude in 1851, and in the same year a valuable 
 Testimonial was presented to him, when Bro. W. F. Beadon, 
 P.G.W., who made the presentation, stated that Bro, Watson 
 had installed 43 Masters in 2], different Lodges, and 96 
 Principals in the Royal Arch. 
 
 As he continued to take an active part in Masonry almost 
 u]i to the time of his death, in 1879, the number of installa- 
 tions, consecrations, and other ceremonies which he had 
 jierformed during his 40 years of Masonic life must have been 
 something enormous. I was the last Principal to be installed by 
 him m the Temperance Chapter, Xo. 1^)9. He had consecrated 
 
GLOBE LODGH, NO. 23. 
 
 35 
 
 this Chapter in 1S62, and installed all the ol'licers up to 1878, 
 when the writer succeeded him as Installint; Principal. 
 
 Another celebrity of this batch was the late Benjamin 
 Webster, actor and theatrical manager. He joined from the 
 
 iii-;xj.\Mix wKiisTKi;, (n;.\xii 
 
 (.I.OIiK l.ODCK, 
 
 STI'.WAI. 
 
 Bedford Ludge, and served as (Irand Steward for the Globe 
 Lodge at the Festival in i^4<-), in the place of a brother who 
 had been nominated and approved at the preceding Grand 
 Festival, but owing to either death or resignation, ins dues 
 
 u J 
 
36 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 not being paid after 1847, had not continued in the office. 
 " Ben Webster " was appointed Junior Grand Deacon in 1851, 
 and died at the ripe age of 84, in 1882, having, only a few- 
 years previously, taken unto himself a young wife. 
 
 On the 5th of August, 1851, His Royal Highness 
 Ekbaloddowla, Xawab of Oude, was made a IMason in the 
 Globe Lodge, his secretary having been previously initiated 
 in order to interpret the ceremony to his Royal Master. 
 There were about 70 brethren present, consisting chiefly of 
 members of the Lodge and distinguished visitors. .41 the 
 close of the evening His Royal Highness and his secretary 
 expressed the great delight they had experienced in being 
 enrolled as members of the Fraternity. The Nawab was duly 
 passed and raised at the two succeeding meetings, but did 
 not become a subscribing member. 
 
 Another Eastern potentate joined from the Lodge Rising 
 Star (S.C.), Bombay, vn the 2otli of August, 185J, in the 
 person ot All Mahomed Khan, who contiuucd a member for 
 a short period. 
 
 On the 19th of January, 1854, was initiated that distin- 
 guished and witty writer, Mark Lemon, editor of Piiiuh from 
 its commencement in 1S41 until his death ni 1870. 
 Benjamin Webster was his projioser, but he appears not to 
 have proceeded beyond the lirst degree, nor attended any 
 sLibsequent meeting of the Ltxlge. 
 
 Gl-E.WIXtrS FROM THE ReCONDS OF THE GEOmC LoDGE, 
 
 1793-18(11. 
 
 Hitherto I have had to dejiend mainly upon the Grand 
 Ijodge records and outside sources for material, but am now 
 enabled to examine the actual records of the Lodge. 
 
GLOBE I,ODGE, \0. 23. 37 
 
 The earliest minute book now in possession of the Globe 
 Lodge commences on the 4th of April, 1793, on which clay 
 a meeting was held at Tin- While Hurl Tuvliii, Holhorn, 
 Br. Millett, R.W.M., Harper, P.M., and ten others being- 
 present. The only officers named are the Master, Wardens, 
 Treasurer, Secretary, and Tyler. Deacons and Inner 
 Guard were not appointed until after the completion of 
 this book. 
 
 As the minutes of this meeting are brief and quite to 
 the point, it may interest the brethren to read them in their 
 entirety. 
 
 " Lodge opened in due form. 
 
 " The Minutes of the last Lodge read and coniirmed. 
 
 " Bro. Harper, who was on the last Lodge nominated 
 Grand Steward, to succeed Bro. Tremain, declined the 
 office. 
 
 "A Bro. Qninton Adams having applied for relief, 
 the Lodge voted him five shillings, which were paid him 
 accordingly. 
 
 " Bro. Harper proposed Bro. Chas. Carpenter, of Cole- 
 man Street, London, Escj., to become a member of this 
 Lodge, which was duly seconded and carried unanimously 
 in the affirmative.* 
 
 " Bro. Harper then proposed that Br. Carpenter be 
 nominated to succeed Br. Tremain as Grand Steward, 
 which was duly seconded and carried unanimously in the 
 affirmative. 
 
 " All business being over, the Lodge was closed with 
 Order and Harmony." 
 
 * This brother paid no joining fee, nor was he registered as a 
 member of the Glrjbe Lodge. 
 
3^ SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 The Treasurtr Dr. — k s. cl. Per C'onlra Cr. — £ s. d. 
 
 I-lallance hnil. Inim did Pd. Inr this Bunk 17 o 
 
 Pjiiiik 31) o (1 Pd. Inr Paper, Pens, etc. o 3 5 
 
 ()l l!r. Haille\- by P>|-. Pd. a vrs. Siibscriptirni 
 
 St. ill I I (1 tu Free .Magnus SchrnI 1 1 n 
 
 Relie\d. (^Liintitii Ackims 030 
 
 Pd. Uniisc Kill ;, 4 (1 
 
 Balkinee in hand 34 10 7 
 
 £40 I d £40 I () 
 
 It will thus be seen that at this period the Locltj;e was in 
 a llourishini^" condition iinanciallv, and that then, as now, the 
 brethren were not unmindful of tlie claims of charity. Tlie 
 meetings were held every month throughout the year, on the 
 iirst Thurscla\', with an occasional Lodge of Emergency. 
 The JMastei' and Treasurer were elected every six months, 
 in June and December, but there is no mention of a ceremony 
 of installation. The honour of Mastership seems to have 
 been pretty evenh- divided between Charles iMillett and 
 Thomas Harper, the latter succeeding the former in June, 
 1793, and feeing re-elected until Deceml^er of the lnUowing 
 year. 
 
 The Master was paid half-a-crown from the Lcidge funds 
 for attending each Quarterly Cc)mmunication of the Grand 
 Lodge, and live shillings when he attended a Committee of 
 Charity. 
 
 The initiation fee was £."3 3s., including the ]iroposition 
 fee of los. 6d., and the joining fee los. 6d. 
 
 The annual subscription was one guinea, and the visitors 
 fee, 2s. Od. 
 
 On the 12th of October, 1793, an emergency meeting 
 was held, when three candidates received the three degrees 
 on account of their being about to leave the Kingdom. Each 
 (if the candidates paid a giuiiea in addition to the usual fee, 
 
GLOBE LODGE, XO. 23. 
 
 39 
 
 and as the house bill on the occasion only came to £t, 3s., 
 they practically paid the expenses of the meeting". 
 
 On the 2nd of January, 1794, it was " Resolved unani- 
 mously that the Master of this Lodge be complimented with 
 
 WILLIAM WATSUX, (jKAXI) STI'lWAKI) FOJ.; THE CLOIir: LODGE, 
 
 l.S4()-5o. 
 
 a ticket for the Grand Feast yearly at the expence of the 
 Lodge." At the same meeting the sum of Five Guineas was 
 voted to the fund then being raised for the purpose of 
 
40 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 building a new house for the children of the Royal Cumber- 
 land School — now the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls — 
 and _^~i I2S. for a Constitution Book and binding for the 
 same. 
 
 The clothing for the outer man seems to have been pro- 
 vided with the same strict regard to economy as the provision 
 for the creature comforts of the brethren, eighteen shillings 
 per dozen being the price paid to the Tyler for aprons, 
 while the tavern bill generally averaged from four to hve 
 shillings per head, slightly increasing as time went on, 
 although at the last meeting recorded in this book, when 
 fourteen brethren appear to have been present, the house 
 bill only amounted to £6 12s. 6d. 
 
 Like many other lodges, the Globe has had its periods 
 of depression as well as of prosperity. In May, 1798, the 
 accounts show a balance on the wrong side, there being 
 _^"6 2S. 2d. due to the Treasurer. It was at once resolved 
 that each member of the Lodge subscribe half-u-guinea to 
 pay off the debt due to the Treasurer. 
 
 The minutes of the 6th of December, 1798, are interesting, 
 as evincing the brotherliness prevailing between the members 
 of this Lodge and another old Lodge meeting at the same 
 house. 
 
 '' Bro. William Virgoe, Master of the Lodge of Cordiality, 
 No. 20, being present with several members of that Lodge 
 (some whereof being also members of this Lodge), requested 
 permission of the Master and Brethren of this Lodge to join 
 and unite with the Brethren of this Lodge with their 
 Furniture and all other advantages or disadvantages to be 
 mutual to both Lodges. Whereupon Brother Roche moved 
 and Brother Shaw seconded his motion — that the proposition 
 made by Bro. Virgoe be accepted, and that all the members 
 of the Lodge of Cordiality who shall declare their wish and 
 
GI.OBF. LODGE, XO. 23. 4I 
 
 intention, on or before tlie iirst Thnrsday in March next, 
 and then paying up all arrears due to the Lodge of Cordiality, 
 shall be considered and inrolled members of this Lodge, 
 and that the fee of los. 6d. charged for the admission of 
 members into this Lodge do not extend to the members of 
 the Lodge of Cordiahty, which motion being duly put, was 
 carried unanimously in the affirmative — and the several 
 members of the Lodge of Cordiality now present desired to 
 have their names inrolled in this Lodge, which is ordered 
 accordingly." 
 
 Tlris appears to have been sometliing like " a split " in 
 the Lodge of Cordiality, but whether it was so in fact we 
 have no means of ascertaining, as no further mention of the 
 matter appears in the minutes. The Globe Lodge certainly 
 had no lack of members, there being twenty present at the 
 meeting in ciuestion, with eight members of the Lodge of 
 Cordiality and another visitor. The last-mentioned Lodge 
 removed to Walham Green m 1800, and was erased from the 
 roll of Lodges in 1830. 
 
 At the regular meeting in August, 1799, it was " I'Jesolved 
 that the Lodge do adjourn this evening until the lirst 
 Thursday in November next." This practice was continued 
 for several years, but afterwards the adjournment was from 
 June to October. 
 
 In May, 1800, the annual subscription was raised to 
 £1 los. At this meeting it is recorded that 6s. 8d. was 
 paid to the clerk of the jieace for registering the members. 
 
 Peter Gilkes seems to have been a sort of perpetual 
 Senior Warden, being lirst appointed to that ofhce in 1799. 
 and rc-appriinted every ye;u- to the end of the book, in 
 r8i I. 
 
 In the records of a meeting in April, 1801, we get the 
 first and only glimpse of the natm-c and quantity of the 
 
40 SOME MEMORIAI^S OF THE 
 
 building a new house for the children of the Royal Cumber- 
 land School — now the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls — 
 and £i 12s. for a Constitution Book and bindint; for the 
 same. 
 
 The clothing for the outer man seems to have been pro- 
 vided with the same strict regard to economy as the provision 
 for the creature comforts of the brethren, eighteen shillings 
 per dozen being the price paid to the Tyler for aprons, 
 while the tavern bill generally averaged from four to five 
 shillings per head, slightly increasing as time went on, 
 although at the last meeting recorded in this book, when 
 fourteen brethren appear to have been present, the house 
 bill only amounted to £6 12s. 'xl. 
 
 Like many other lodges, the Globe has had its periods 
 of depression as well as of prosperity. In May, 179!^, the 
 accounts show a balance on the wrong side, there being 
 £h 2s. 2d. due to the Treasurer. It was at once resolved 
 that each member of the Lodge subscribe half-a-guinea to 
 pay off the debt due to the Treasurer. 
 
 The minutes of the 6th of December, 1798, are interesting, 
 as evincing the brotherliness prevailing l^etween the members 
 of this Lodge and another old Lodge meeting at the same 
 house. 
 
 " Bro. William Virgoe, Master of the Lodge of Cordiality, 
 Xo. 20, being present with several members of that Lodge 
 (some whereof bemg also members of this Lodge), recjuested 
 penuission of the Master and Brethren of this Lodge to jom 
 and unite with the Brethren of this Lodge with their 
 Furniture and all other advantages or disadvantages to lie 
 mutual to both Lodges. Whereupon Brother Roche moved 
 and Brother Shaw seconded his motion — that the proposition 
 made by Bro. Virgoe be accepted, and that all the members 
 of the Lodge of Cordiality who shall declare their wish and 
 
r,I,OBE LODGE, XO. 2^. 4I 
 
 intention, on or before the irrst Thursday in March next, 
 and then paying up all arrears due to the Lodge of Cordiality, 
 shall l-ie considered and inroUed members of this Lodge, 
 and that the fee of los. 6d, charged for the admission of 
 members mto this Lodge do not extend to the memliers of 
 the Lodge of Cordiality, which motion being duly put, was 
 carried unanimously in the aflirmative — and the several 
 members of the Lodge of Cordiality now present desired to 
 have their names inrolled in this Lodge, which is ordered 
 accordingly." 
 
 This appears to have been something like " a split " in 
 the Lodge of Cordiality, but whether it was so in fact we 
 have no means of ascertaining, as no further mention of the 
 matter appears in the minutes. The Globe Lodge certainly 
 had no lack of members, there being twenty present at the 
 meeting in c]uestion, wdth eight members of the Lodge of 
 Cordiality and another visitor. The last-mentioned Lodge 
 removed to Walham Green in 1800, and was erased from the 
 roll of Lodges in icS^o. 
 
 At the regular meeting in August, 1799, it was " I^esolved 
 that the Lodge do adjourn this evening until the first 
 Thursday in November next." This practice was continued 
 for several years, but afterwards the adjournment was from 
 June to October. 
 
 In Alay, 1800, the annual subscription was raised to 
 /- 1 I OS. At this meeting it is recorded that 6s. 8d. was 
 paid to the clerk of the peace for registering the members. 
 
 Peter tiilkes seems to have been a sort of perpetual 
 Senior Warden, being lirst appointed to that office in 1799, 
 and re-appointed every year to the end of the book, in 
 1811. 
 
 In the records of a meeting in April, 1801, we get the 
 first and rmly glimpse of the nature and quantity of the 
 
42 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 liquids consumed by the brethren. There were 25 present, 
 and if the record represents all that was consumed, their 
 moderation is very commendable. " Wine, twelve bottles, 
 one pint of Lisbon, and Punch, 5s." As the house bill for the 
 evening only amounted to _£7 5s. qc\., it is not improbable 
 that the wine consumption is correctly recorded. 
 
 The minutes of a meeting on the 5th of November, 1801, 
 contain the following : — " Brother Rawlins, a Past Grand 
 Steward, and for many years a member of this Lodge, having 
 been elected bv the suffrages of his fellow citizens to the 
 office of High Sheriff for London and Middlesex, the 
 brethren of this Lodge drank his health, wishing that health 
 and prosperity might attend him in the execution of his 
 office, well convinced that his exertions would be always 
 used for the benefit of his country." William Rawlins, Esq., 
 of Old Bethlehem, joined the Lodge in 1796, and was Grand 
 Steward in 179S. He afterwards received the honour of 
 knighthood, and was appointed Senior Grand Warden in 
 1M02. 
 
 At the regular meeting in May, 1802, he proposed 
 " Robert Albion Cox, the other High Sheriff, to be made a 
 Mason in this Lodge this evening." The election being 
 unanimous, the candidate was introduced, duly initiated, 
 passed, and raised at the same meeting. 
 
 In 1802, the old practice of electing the Master half- 
 yearly was discontinued, the elections and appointments 
 lienceforth taking place annually. 
 
 The minutes of the 3rd of February, 1803, disclose an un- 
 usually keen competition for the honour of the Red Apron. 
 
 "This being the usual time for nominating a brother of 
 this Lodge to succeed Br. Warwick as Grand Steward, and 
 the list of members jiresent who had not served the office 
 being read over, and all having declined, Br. Robert Albion 
 
GLOHE r^OnOR, NO. 23. 
 
 43 
 
 Cox, Esq., was proposed at his request by Br. Warwick, Br. 
 Thomas Goodlake, Esq., was also proposed. After whicli 
 Br. Hopkinson, J.W., declared himself a candidate. But on 
 account of its having been omitted to be noticed in the 
 
 THOMAS AI.KX \V)AMS, (,|;A\I) PrksriVAX'l 
 
 ci.oiii-; LoDoi-:, IN', I, 
 
 smnmons, 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 lirethren who were absent 
 this evening might be candidates for the same." 
 
44 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 There was a very fair attendance at this meeting, 29 
 members being present. The Master, however, was absent, 
 his place being tilled by Peter Gilkes, and the Senior Warden's 
 chair by Br. Hopkinson, funior Warden, who was the only 
 one of the three candidates for the Red Apron present. 
 
 Whatever difference of opinion may have existed at this 
 meeting was amicably adjusted before the next lodge night, 
 for, on the ^rd of March, Br. Samuel Cleaver was raised to 
 the degree of a Master Mason, he ha\ing" been initiated and 
 passed at the previous meeting. 
 
 " Br. Roche proposed Br. Samuel Cleaver to succeed Br. 
 Warwick as Grand Steward for 1S04, seconded l^y 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 
 tliey ever attend the Lodge again. 
 
 On the 7th of April, 1803, there being no particular 
 business before the lodge, "The R.W.M. and brethren 
 worked part of the tirst lecture," and this subsecjuently 
 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 was agreed, in 1804, to raise the initiation 
 fee to ;A3 5s., the joining fee to :^'i is., and the annual 
 subscription to £2 2s., the visitors' fee having been raised 
 from 2s. 6d. to 5s. in 1799. 
 
 On the 4th of June, 1807, " Br. Shaw made a motion that 
 the initiation fee of this Lodge be three gnineas-and-a-half, 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. J3. 45 
 
 which was seconded bj' Br. Gilkes and carried unanimonsly." 
 As there was at this time a balance of ^^'7 8s. 3d. due to the 
 Treasurer, and the Lodge seems to have been fairly well 
 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 
 difiiculty in disposing of the Red Apron, as the election of a 
 Grand Steward was postponed at the February and March 
 meetings, and is not again mentioned until May, when 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 Worsley-Holmes, Bart., was 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 was in use. He, 
 however, appears in the Grand Lodge reports as Grand 
 Steward for the Globe Lodge at the Grand Festival in 181 1. 
 
 The 3rd of May, 1810, was 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 iirst and second degrees on candidates on the 
 same evening, but it was 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, who attended the next meeting 
 of the Lodge as well as several other consecutive meetings, 
 and was apparently appointed Junior Warden on the following 
 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 lhat]ioint ; 
 his name, however, appears amongst the olliccrs as J.W. 
 
46 
 
 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 This Year, 1810, there appears to have been some little 
 troulile with the landlurd, probably the house had changed 
 hands, and a motion was made in April to remove the 
 Lodge, which motion was eventually negatived at the June 
 meeting, when ''Br. Gowing proposed that this Lodge do pay 
 the landlord three shillings for each member for supper, and to 
 include S. Beer, Bread, tKrc, which was seconded and carried 
 in the aflirmati\e." " S. Beer " probalily meant strong beer, 
 ser\-ed as a sort of appetizer, manv of the dinner bills of 
 Lodges in the i8th centur^- being headed, "strong beer and 
 bread." 
 
 On the 7th of February, iSii, we read that "Br. Gill 
 proposed Br. jnhn Waterhouse, Esq., who was initiated into 
 Masonry in tlie Suciety held under the sanction of the Duke 
 of Athol, to be admitted a member ot this Lodge, which was 
 dub' seconded and cairiecl unanimously. He was then intro- 
 duced and duly obligated in the diflerent degrees, and 
 admitted a member accordingly." 
 
 At this period the Secretary appears to have been 
 particularly careful in not committing too much of the 
 transactiniis of the Lodge to writing, leaving yer\- little worth 
 transcribing. Ha\ing, howeyer, given the minutes of the 
 lirst meeting recorded in this book, in extcnst.i, it seems but 
 right that the last transactions sluaild be treated in like 
 manner. 
 
 " Friday, April 5, 181 1. 
 
 Members Present. 
 Br. Millett, K.W.M. Vale, Steward. 
 
 Gilkes, S.W. 
 Richardson, |.W. 
 Miller, P.M. 
 Cjowing, Sec. 
 
 Abraui. 
 Waterhouse. 
 Serjeant. 
 Gill. 
 
 Manson. 
 Wood. 
 Hawes. 
 Tiley. 
 
GLOHE LODGE, NO. 23. 
 
 47 
 
 " The Lodge being opened in due form, the minutes of 
 the last Lodge were read and conlirmud. 
 
 "Br. Frampton proposed Mr. Alexander Wm. IVIills, of 
 Great Shire Lane, to be made a IVIason on the next Lodge 
 night, seconded by Br. Tiley, and referred for ballot to the 
 next Lodge night."* 
 
 
 i s. d. 
 
 
 £ s. ci. 
 
 Bal. Brot. Id. ... 
 
 ... 5 1,1 11 
 
 "Pd. Ho. Bill 
 
 . ... (1 12 6 
 
 Br. Tilt-y 
 
 I r 
 
 Tyler 
 
 . ... 4 6 
 
 HawLS 
 
 ... 1 1 
 
 Bal. ill lid 
 
 . ... iS 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 i? 15 II" 
 
 
 i'7 15 11 
 
 There is now a wide and lamentable gap in the records 
 of the Globe Lodge, embracing a period of twenty-three 
 years, during which an event of supreme importance in the 
 history of English Masonry had taken place — the union of 
 the former rival Societies under one Grand Master, His Koyal 
 Highness the Duke of Sussex — and had the minutes of the 
 Lodge been still available, they would probably have thrown 
 much light on this auspicious occurrence. Unfortunately 
 we have nothing in the shape of Masonic journalism to refer to 
 for assistance, as the hrst Masonic periodical in England was 
 not started until the beginning of the year 1834, while the 
 minute book now under examination was begun on the 13th 
 of November of the same year. We know, however, that 
 the Lodge had been making satisfactory progress from the 
 fact of the Grand Stewards and Masters having been 
 regularly returned to the Grand Lodge. 
 
 From a printed copy of the Lodge by-laws, revised in 
 1821, we learn that the regular meetings were then held on 
 the second Thursday in the months of January, February, 
 
 ' Alexander W, Mills w.is a Law Slatimiei", ulin fnr .1 Iuiil; pcrind 
 su|iplicd the Gi'and Lodye with Warrants, Balents, t\:e. 
 
48 
 
 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 March, April, May, June, Koveniber, and December. That 
 there were 52 subscribing members, inckiding W. C. 
 Clarkson, Past Grand Treasurer ; Robert Gill, Past J.G. 
 Warden ; James A. Framptun, Past S.G. Deacon ; and W. D. 
 
 cHAKi,i:s >r\kTix, p.aj; d.c, tukasi-kiu; oi' Tiir: ci.oi;!-: loikU';, 
 
 Cummins, (^irand Sword Bearer, tlie lisl being headed by the 
 name of |ohu Abram, Past Treasurer, who had been a regular 
 member ol the Li)dge lium 1784. 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 49 
 
 The initiation fee was iive gnineas, exclusive of the fees 
 for registering and Grand Lodge certilicate ; the joining fee 
 three guineas, the annual subscription four guineas, and the 
 visiting fee fifteen shillings. 
 
 Having transcribed the first minutes in the earlier book 
 I will do the same by the second one. 
 
 " Globe Lodge, No. 23, Freemasons' Tavern, 
 
 Nov. 13TH, 1834. 
 
 Present, 
 
 Br. Langley, W.M. 
 „ Bell, S.W. 
 
 ,, Roberts, pro tem., J.W. 
 „ Fenn, P.M. 
 ,, Morgan, P.M. 
 ,, Hazard, J.D. 
 „ Fell, LG. 
 ,, Bulmore. 
 ,, Kemball. 
 ,, Walmsley. 
 " Lodge opened in due form in the ist Degree. Minutes 
 of the last Lodge were read and conhrmed. 
 " Lodge opened in the 2nd Degree. 
 " Lodge opened in the 3rd Degree. 
 
 " Br. A. C. Kemball was raised to the Sublime Degree of 
 a Master Mason. 
 
 " A letter was received from Br. Mills tendering his 
 resignation, which, on the motion of Br. Clarkson, seconded 
 by Br. Morgan, was accepted. 
 
 " Br. Bell proposed for initiation, and to become a 
 member of the Lodge, Mr. Charles Moreing, of Great 
 Marlborough Street, Architect, seconded by Br. Walmsley. 
 
 E 
 
jO SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 " Lodge closed in harmony. " 
 
 " Dr. Treasurer. Cr. 
 
 " To Balance from Old Book, ^"84 5s." 
 
 We gather from the foregoing that in 1834 the preceding 
 minute hook, since missing, was then in possession of the 
 Lodge, that the attendance of members was smaller than 
 heretofore, that the receipts and expenditure were not 
 recorded in the minutes of each meeting, and that the 
 Treasurer had a good balance in hand. 
 
 The regular meetings were held on the same days as in 
 1821, and at the ne.xt meeting on Dec. nth, at which, 
 notwithstanding that it was election night, only six members 
 were present, the sum of hve guineas is entered as having 
 been paid in March to the Gilkes' tribute — a monument 
 erected by subscription in St. James' Church, Piccadilly, to 
 the memory of Peter Gilkes. 
 
 At the installation meeting, Jan. 8th, 1835, eleven members 
 attended and one visitor. The accounts are fully recorded, 
 and we find that the tavern bills from Nov., 1833, to June, 
 1834, inclusive, amounted to £8g 13s. The annual sub- 
 scription appears to have been reduced since 1821 from 
 four guineas to two guineas-and-a-half, and the visitor's fee 
 increased to one guinea. Br. Knowles, S. Warden and 
 Grand Steward, was elected Master on Dec. loth, 1835, but 
 having died before the installation meeting in Jan., 1836, the 
 Lodge elected Br. Bell, the preceding Master, to continue in 
 the chair for another year, and Br. Hazard was at the same 
 time elected Grand Steward in the place of Br. Knowles. 
 
 At the meeting on March the 8th, 1838, Br. Clarkson 
 stated that he had been 48 years a member of the Lodge, 
 but according to the Grand Lodge Register it should have 
 been 49. 
 
 In June, 1841, it was agreed to adjourn the Lodge till 
 
GLOBE LODGK, NO. 23. 5 1 
 
 December next, thus reducing the meetings to six, and in 
 the following year they were further reduced to live, by 
 omitting the June meeting. 
 
 In January, 1842, it was resolved " That a cash account 
 showing the then state of the funds of the Lodge be sub- 
 mitted for the inspection of the brethren at each future 
 meeting of the Lodge." Notwithstanding that this motion 
 is said to have been carried unanimously, it appears to have 
 been ignored so far as the minutes are concerned, although 
 it limy have been read from the Treasurer's book, but nothing 
 in the nature of a cash account is entered in the minute book 
 until 1848, in which year several changes were made in the 
 Lodge as will appear hereafter. 
 
 At the meeting in May, 1843, the Secretary called the 
 attention of the Lodge to the fact that the name of Br. 
 Paine had not been submitted to the Pro Grand Master at 
 the last Grand Festival, as the Grand Steward elected to 
 represent this Lodge at the ensuing Festival, and states that 
 to the best of his belief he had left at the Grand Secretary's 
 ofhce in March last a letter containing the usual return with 
 the name of Br. Paine as Grand Steward elect. The Grand 
 Secretary, however, said he had not received any such letter, 
 and it was thereupon resolved to memorialize the Pro Grand 
 Master immediately explaining the circumstances. 
 
 The memorial is duly entered in the minutes of the next 
 meeting, Dec. 14th, together with a reply thereto from the 
 Grand Secretary, in which he stated that the Pro Grand 
 Master had fully considered the circumstances set forth in 
 the memorial, and had been pleased to receive the nomi- 
 nation of Br. John Davis Paine as Grand Steward for the 
 year 1844. 
 
 For several years past the Lodge appears to have been 
 on the decline, a considerable amount of arrears being on 
 
SOMIC -MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 the books, very few members attending, and the oflicers 
 seldom at their posts at the time for commencing business, 
 notwithstanding that efforts had been made to luring them 
 up to the scratch liy means of fines for their absence. 
 
 
 
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 v, 
 
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 4 
 
 
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 11 
 
 J^/l.t^^hra^ C^ 
 
 
 
 SIl; l.l-.iiN AUI) Wiil;si.KY lIol.MliS, uakt,, 
 UHAXU STliWAKl) FOK fHE CEOUE LODGE, L\ i.Si 
 
GLOBE LODGK, NO. 23. 53 
 
 In May, 1844, the Rev. Dr. Knapp and four other 
 members sent in their resignations, the former referring' to 
 some " irregular, iHadvised, if not un-Masonic proceedings 
 which have taken place." 
 
 At the installation meeting in January, 1845, only nine 
 members and one visitor were present, and on the next 
 Lodge night there not being a sufficient number of members 
 present tlie Lodge was not opened, but " the brethren 
 adjourned to the banquet." Something seems to have 
 been amiss with the Master installed in January, 1845, J. D. 
 Paine, for he does not appear to have attended any subse- 
 quent meeting of the Lodge. 
 
 In January, 1846, there not being three Past Masters of 
 the Lodge present, the installation was postponed until the 
 next monthly meeting, when the Master was installed but 
 only appointed the Wardens, vSecretary, and Deacons, two 
 of whom appear not to have been present at the meeting. 
 
 In 1847 the appointment of ofticers was again deferred 
 until February, when the Wardens, Secretary, and Deacons 
 were appointed, the Junior Deacon having been previously 
 raised at the same meeting. Instead of an Inner Guard the 
 Master appointed Br. Marsden " Orator." This appears to 
 have been the last occasion on which an Orator was 
 appointed in the Globe Lodge. In some of the old Lodges 
 the office was regularly filled, and was certainly known as far 
 back as 1761. 
 
 In February, 1848, there being only a Past Master and 
 the Secretary present the Lodge was not opened. Xo 
 attempt appears to have been made to hold a meeting on 
 the usual day in M;irch, but on the 24th of that month a 
 Lodge of Emergencv was held, seven members being present, 
 with the former "Orator" as Inner Guard. From this 
 meeting may be dated the return of the prosperity of the 
 
54 SOME MEMOKIALS OK THE 
 
 Lodge, eiyht joining members were elected headed by 
 William Watson of the Robert Burns Lodge. "TheW.M. 
 expressed his elesire to be relieved from the duties of the 
 chair, and requested the brethren would, at the next meeting 
 of the Lodge, elect a successor," the Treasurer also giving 
 expression to a similar desire. 
 
 At the next regular meeting the new members were all 
 elected. Br. Watson was chosen ALaster, and Br. Thomas 
 Tombleson, a celebrated worker, also of the Robert Burns 
 Lodge, Treasurer. Br. Watson then proposed six other 
 members. 
 
 This infusion of new blood having been previously 
 noticed little need be said about it, except that Bro. Watson 
 and his friends continued for manv years the main support 
 of the Lodge. The by-laws were revised, the meetings lixed 
 tor the 3rd Thursday, and the annual suliscription reduced 
 to two guineas. The new members included the most 
 famous Masonic workers in London, and as a natinal 
 sequence lectures and sections in the Globe Lodge became 
 the order of the day, when time admitted, as they had been 
 in the earlier period of its career when Peter Gilkes was to 
 the fore. At an emergency meeting on the 3rd of October, 
 1S49, the sanction of the Lodge was given for a Lodge tif 
 Instruction to be attached to it, and to hokl its meetings at 
 The Turk's Head, Motcombe Street. It subsequently met at 
 The Red Horse in Old Bond Street, and was noticed in the 
 Grand Lodge Calendar down to i8(iq, when we assume it 
 had died out. 
 
 On the i8th of March, 1832, it was proposed and carried 
 that a P.M. jewel of the value of £3 3s. he presented to 
 Br. Blackburn for his efficient services as W.M. for the 
 memorable year, 1851. This is the lirst occasion recorded 
 of the presentation of a P.M. jewel b\' the Globe Lodge, and 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 55 
 
 the practice appears to have been continuous. In 1853 the 
 annual subscription was raised to three guineas. 
 
 In 1857 another Masonic veteran entered the ranks of 
 the Globe Lodge in the person of Thomas Alexander Adams 
 the well known bandmaster — equally celebrated in the 
 musical world and in the Masonic — he joined from the 
 Domatic Lodge and was appointed Senior Deacon the 
 following year. In 1859 he was promoted to the office of 
 Junior Warden. While in that chair he was elected Grand 
 Steward for 1859-60, and was duly presented at the ensuing 
 Grand Festival as the representative of the Globe Lodge, but 
 at a meeting of the Lodge on the 17th of November follow- 
 ing, " A communication from the Grand Secretary was read 
 requesting the Lodge to proceed to the election of another 
 member to fill the office of Grand Steward in place of Br. 
 T. A. Adams, whom the M.W. Grand Master has appointed 
 to the newly created office of Grand Assistant Pursuivant." 
 Br. John Bennett, P.M., was thereupon elected in his stead. 
 " Tommy Adams's Band " was for many years as popular in 
 West End circles as was its conductor in the various old 
 Lodges of Instruction in the same locality. In i860 he was 
 promoted to the office of Grand Pursuivant, and served the 
 Globe as its Master in 1861. He died in 1880. 
 
 On the 20th of December, i860, Matthew Cooke of the 
 Egyptian Lodge was elected a member and requested to 
 undertake the duties of Secretary pro tem. This brother, 
 who seems to have been an efiicient Secretary, although some- 
 times injudicious, was duly appointed at the following 
 installation meeting. 
 
 The minutes of an audit committee, held January 3rd, 
 1861, include what was intended for an " Inventory of the 
 effects of the Globe Lodge," but after the above heading is 
 a blank space on the folio, the inference being that the 
 
56 
 
 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 " effects " were to have been catalogued at some future time. 
 Lower down on the same foho is another heading. " In 
 the Secretary's hands," followed by a list of books and 
 documents, many of them being of neither value nor interest, 
 but the two first mentioned may be considered worthy of 
 notice. 
 
 "A minute book (numbered 14) commencing April 4th, 
 1793, ending April 5th, 181 1. The present minute book." I 
 think it only fair to mention this as I believe Matthew Cooke 
 has been credited with having lost, or otherwise disposed of, 
 the eailier records of the Lodge, whereas unless he snbse- 
 queiitly obtained them he could never have had them in his 
 possession. 
 
 The nnmber 14 on the cover of the old minute book was 
 the number of the Lodge at the time it was commenced, 
 and does not, as the Secretary seemed to infei', indicate the 
 nnmber of the volume. 
 
 ^..^ 
 
 '^I^^'^f'VK: 
 
GLOBK LODGE, \0. 23. 57 
 
 THE FIRST LISTS OF MEMBERS OF THE 
 
 GLOBE LODGE RETURNED TO THE 
 
 GRAND LODGE. 
 
 1725. 1730. 
 
 Sini, Soiilli Sith-, SI. Ptnil's. Half Moon, in Chcapsidc. 
 
 Mr. D.^x'l. Skixxek, Master Mr. Thos. Wells, Master 
 
 ,, ,^ .., ,, WiLLLVM Hopkins, ) War- 
 Mr. Geo. M,\RKH.\M -, ,,T„„ „ T> f rl^nc 
 
 / VVai- ,, Ch.arles Bignall, j ciens 
 
 Mr. Rich'i). Loyde ) '^'^"^ ,, Willlvm Bridges 
 
 ,, RiCH.AKD D.-\NN 
 
 Rich. Cook __ j^^^^, aldridgk 
 
 Joseph Bird .. William Smithers 
 
 ,, Matthew Hussey 
 
 Edw'i). Fry ^, Joseph Star 
 
 r r- 1, Edward Yeakdly 
 
 [as. Gatliff " 
 
 ,, Edward Gregg 
 
 Wm. Lewis ,, Richard Balchen 
 
 ,, Richard Tomkins 
 
 Tho. Coxeter 
 
 Geo. Thorxhaugh 
 
 JOHX XaPP .. JOH^' SORRELL 
 
 ,, Joseph Leicester 
 
 Cha. Trixquaxd ,, Edward Satchwell 
 
 ,, Michl. Martindale 
 
 Phil. Carterett Webb _^ ^^^^^^ Kv.i^^^^ 
 
 Peter Moulsox ■• John Blckwith 
 
 ,, William March 
 
 RoF,. Chamberlaix ,, JoHX Williams 
 
 ,, Charles Trixouaxd 
 
 JoHX Hills _^ jo^^^, K^j ,,„ 
 
 Tho. CHrRciER " Postox Starye 
 
 ,, Major Smith 
 
 JoHX Phillips ,, Johx Derry 
 
58 
 
 SOME MEMORIALS OE THE 
 
 THE ORIGIN OF THE CtRAXD STEWARDS AND 
 OF THE "RED APRON." 
 
 HAVING finished my examination of the records of the 
 Globe Lodge I will now attempt a brief dissertation 
 relative to the origin of the " Red Apron " and the 
 earlier duties and privileges of the Grand Stewards. The 
 Grand Lodge of England was established, as is well known, in 
 
 CRAXU STKW.VRDS JKWl 
 
 Di-.sK.xri) i:\ \vn.i.r\M nocARTi 
 
 the year I7i7,bnt the existing written minutes onlv reach back 
 to 172^, consequently we have no details of its proceedings 
 prior to that year, other than the \erv meagre account given 
 by Dr. Anderson in his Book of Constitutions of 1738. It 
 seems that from the earliest days, a " Feast " formed a part of 
 the proceedings at the Annual Assembly, but no mention is 
 
GLOBE I>ODGE, NO. 23. 
 
 59 
 
 made of Stewards until the year 1721, when the Duke of 
 Montague was elected Grand Master. After the election, 
 Anderson quaintly says, " Then the Gniiid U^nnfi-iis were 
 order'd, as usual, to prepare the Feast, and to take some 
 Slni'iinis to their Assistance, Brothers of Ability and Capacity, 
 and to appoint some Brethren to attend the Tables ; for that 
 no Strangers must be there. But the Grand Officers not 
 finding a Proper Number of Slcuuinls, our Brother, Mr. Josiah 
 Yilleneau, Upholder in the Biinviij^Ii, Soiillitvark, generously 
 undertook the whole himself, attended by some Waiters." 
 
 GRAND STKW.VKDS JKWEL, IJKSIGXKI) l;Y WILLIAM H(J(L\UTH, ly.ij. 
 
 In 1722, a serious dissension occurred which nearly 
 wrecked the newly formed Grand Lodge, consequently there 
 was no Grand Festival, but in 1723, the differences had 
 been settled, and things went on with comparative smooth- 
 ness, as before. Six Stewards were appointed for the 
 
fio SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 Festivals of 1723 and 1724, hut of the mode of selection we 
 know nothing. We may assume that fresh difliculties pre- 
 vented the obtaining of Stewards in the three following 
 years, for two brethren undertook the duties, with assistance, 
 as in 1721. It appears that the prelix "Grand" was hrst 
 applied to the Stewards in 1725, for in the Grand Lodge 
 Minutes of the 27th December, we read, " After the Generall 
 healths were over, one was drank to the Grand Steward, 
 viz., John James Heidegger, and his two Deputys." This 
 arrangement, howe\er, seems to have been unsatisfactory, 
 for, on the 19th of December, 1727, a Special meeting 
 of the Grand Lodge was called for the purpose of making 
 arrangements for the ensuing Feast, when the Deputy Grand 
 Master addressed the brethren at considerable length, and 
 made several suggestions for their guidance and comfort, no 
 Stewards, however, were appointed, but a Brother, Edward 
 Lambert, kindlv undertook the duties of the ofhce. In 
 arranging for the Festival of 172S, further discussions took 
 place, and complaints were made of irregularities at the last 
 Festival. 
 
 It was ultimatelv agreed to consider at the next meeting 
 how to prevent such irregularities in future. Accordingly, on 
 the 26th November, 172S, after the election of Lord Kingston 
 as Grand Master for the ensuing year, it was decided to 
 have a Grand Feast at Stationers' Hall on next St. John's 
 Day. 
 
 " And Dr. Desaguliers proposed (that in order to have 
 the same conducted in the best manner), a certain number of 
 Stewards should be chosen, who should have the entire care 
 and direction of the said Feast (together with the Grand 
 Wardens), pursuant to the printed Regulations, which being 
 seconded by Mr. Collis, 
 
 " The Deputy Grand Master desired that all those who 
 
GLOBE LODGE, XO. J3. 6l 
 
 were willing to accept the said ofiice of Steward would 
 advance to the Talile and declare the same by signing their 
 names before the Cliair." 
 
 The brethren were evidently in no great hurry to avail 
 themselves of a privilege which is now an object of ambition 
 to many, and is considered a very distinguished honour, for 
 the record says : 
 
 " The Earl of Inchiquin was thereupon pleased to offer 
 himself, in a very obliging manner, to be one of the Stewards 
 on that occasion, But his lordship having been so lately Grand 
 Master, the Lodge thought it would be too great a trouble 
 to, as well as too great a condescention in his Lordship to 
 accept of that Office, therefore would not suffer it, But at the 
 same time exprest their utmost gratitude for the great 
 Honour and Love his Lord'p. had shown for the Brother- 
 hood and the Craft." 
 
 Eventually 12 brethren advanced to the table and signed 
 their names as Stewards for the next Grand Feast, and 
 Dr. Desaguliers received the thanks of the Grand Lodge for 
 having revived the office of Steward. 
 
 It will thus be seen that the year 1728 was the lirst year 
 in which twelve Grand Stewards were officially appointed. 
 
 On the 25tli of Noveml^er, 1729, " Tlie Deputy Grand 
 >.Iaster acquainted the brethren that the Tickets were pre- 
 paring for the Grand Feast, and that as this was the proper 
 time, for choosing Stewards for the said Feast, he proposed 
 that such as were willing to serve that office might advance 
 to the Chair, and signify their Inclination by signing their 
 Names as was done last year. 
 
 " Thereupon several Brethren came up to the Talile and 
 signed their Names, but there being some objections raised 
 against persons interested, and Disputes arismg, the same 
 was debated, and it was jirnposed by the Deputy Grand 
 
62 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 Master, that such of those Brethren as had served as 
 Stewards at the last Grand Feast, and were wilHng to continue 
 in the said Post another year might have the preference. 
 Whereupon Mr. Samuel Stead, jNIr. John Revis, Mr. Wnr. 
 Wilson, Mr. Thos. Reason, and Mr. W'm. Hopkins late 
 Stewards being asked whether they were willing to serve 
 again this year, they desired leave to withdraw to consider 
 of it. 
 
 "They accordingly withdrew, and being returned ac- 
 quainted the Grand Master, that they had consulted together, 
 and were willing to accept the Oflice of Stewards again, 
 provided they might have Liberty of iilling up the Vacancies 
 in the room of those who were not inclined to act, which 
 was thought reasonable, and their Healths (by the names of 
 Stewards elect) were drank and the Grand Master returned 
 them Thanks, for the readiness they had shewn to serve the 
 Society. 
 
 " They were at the same time directed to return a List 
 of the Stewards for the present vear as soon as perfected to 
 the Grand Master or his Deputy." 
 
 The Grand Stewards will do well to bear in mind the 
 occasion on which the privilege of nominating their successors 
 was readily granted liy the Grand Lodge and for what 
 reason, a privilege which they have preserved practically 
 undisturbed, down to the present day. 
 
 The name of the lirst Grand Steward I have been able 
 to identify as a member of the Globe Lodge is that of Charles 
 Trinquand, who was a member of the Lodge in 1725 and 
 1730, and was Grand Steward in 1731. It must not, how- 
 ever, be inferred that he was the lirst to represent the Lodge 
 in that capacity, identihcation being somewhat difficult, as 
 the names only of the Stewards are given, with no reference 
 to their respective Lodges, and the Grand Lodge records 
 
GLOBK L0D(5E, NO. 2^ 
 
 63 
 
 containing no list of members of the Globe Lodge between 
 the years 1725 and 1730, nor liom the year last named until 
 about 1765, 
 
 CHARLES 1-;. COLLINS, ]'.(; S., sliCKIirAKV OK rHK GLOHL LODGE. 
 
 It must be borne in mind also that in the early days of 
 Grand Stewardships, the brethren did not invariably nomi- 
 liate their successors from amongst the members of their 
 
64 SOMK MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 own Lodges, although they generally did so. This practice 
 was, doubtless, of gradual growth. 
 
 The first mention f have met with of a distinctive colour 
 for the Grand Stewards is in the minutes of the 17th March, 
 1731, wherein it is recorded that "Dr. Desaguliers taking 
 Notice of some Irregularities in wearing the Marks of 
 Distinction which have been allowed by former Grand 
 Lodges, 
 
 " Proposed 
 
 " That none but the Grand Master, his Deputy and 
 Wardens shall wear their Jewels in Gold or Gilt, pendant 
 to blue Ribbons about their Necks, and White Leather 
 Aprons lined with blue Silk. 
 
 "That all those who have served any of the three Grand 
 Oflices shall wear the like Aprons lined with blue Silk in 
 all Lodges and Assemblies of Masons when they appear 
 clothed. 
 
 "That those Brethren that are Stewards shall wear their 
 .\prons lined with red Silk, and their proper Jewels pendant 
 to red Ribbons. 
 
 "That all those who had served the office of Steward 
 be at libertv to wear Aprons lined with red Silk and not 
 otherwise. 
 
 " That all Masters and W^ardens of Lodges may wear 
 their Aprons lined with white Silk and their respective 
 Jewels with plain white I-^ibbons and no other colour 
 whatsoever. 
 
 " The Deputy Grand Master put the Question whether 
 the above Regulation should be agreed to 
 
 "And it was carried in the aflirmative Xemine Con." 
 
 After the Installation of Lord Lovell as Grand Master on 
 the 27th March, 1731, 
 
 " Then the twehe present Grand Stew ards were called 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 65 
 
 up and Thanks returned them from the Chair for the care 
 they had taken in providing such an elegant Entertainment, 
 and at the same time the Grand Master proposed the Drinking 
 of their HeaUlis, which was done accorcHngly ; the Feast was 
 conchided with mirth and unanimity." 
 2nd March, 1732. 
 
 " A Motion was made by Br. Pitt, one of the Stewards 
 for tlie ensuing Feast, that the twelve present Stewards, shall 
 after dinner at the said Grand Feast, each of them chuse 
 his successor for the year ensuing, which being seconded. 
 The Question was put, and carried in the affirmative. 
 
 " It was likewise proposed that the said method of electing 
 Stewards for the future shall be in the same manner, and the 
 same was agreed to Nem. Con. 
 
 From this period no particular reference to the Grand 
 Stewards appears in the Grand Lodge records until the 24th 
 of June, 1735, when the Past Grand Stewards applied for 
 permission to form themselves into a Lodge, also for certain 
 other privileges, which were eventually granted by a very 
 narrow majority. The third paragraph in their application 
 is as follows : — 
 
 " 3. That no person who had not served the Society 
 as a Steward might be permitted at a Quarterly Communi- 
 cation or elsewhere to wear their coloured Ribbonds or 
 Aprons," But 
 
 " That such as had been Stewards might be indulged 
 with wearing a particular Jewel by way of distinction 
 suspended in their proper Ribbond whenever they appeared 
 as Masons, the Pattern of which they then ofl-ered. These 
 were granted them upon a Division, 45 of the Assembly 
 being on the Affirmative side, and 42 on the Negative. 
 
 It would seem from the above that the privilege of the 
 " Red Apron " had been infringed upon or copied by those 
 
 F 
 
66 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 not entitled to that distinction. One of the Grand Stewards 
 who served at the Festival in 1734 was William Hogarth, 
 Painter, who was also one of the founders of the Grand 
 Stewards Lodge, and the " particular jewel " referred to is 
 said to have been designed by him and to have been worn by 
 Grand Stewards and Past Grand Stewards for many years. 
 
 Dr. Anderson, in his brief summary of the Grand Lodge 
 proceedings on the nth of December, 1735, says that the 
 Grand Stewards appeared with their nnv Badges the first 
 time. By the term " new Badges " I assume he alluded to 
 the jewel which the Stewards had recently obtained per- 
 mission to wear. 
 
 Personally I have every reason for believing in this 
 tradition, as well as in the following, which was told me 
 many years ago by an old member of the Grand Stewards 
 Lodge, now deceased. 
 
 In the first minute book of the Grand Stewards Lodge 
 there was a drawing of this jewel by Hogarth himself, and 
 that some unprincipled vandal had stolen it. As, however, 
 the minute book itself has now vanished, we can neither 
 prove nor disprove the statement. I have seen these jewels 
 of various periods, from 1773 to 1795, and I believe that still 
 older and more recent ones are in e.xistence. 
 
 In consequence of the gap in the register, before referred 
 to, I am unable to complete and connect the chain of identili- 
 cation of Red Apron Lodges between the early and the latter 
 part of the i8th century with positive certainty, but in the 
 year 1775 we are on firm ground, and from that period my 
 task is comparatively easy, for in the oldest minute book of 
 the Board of Grand Stewards that has come under my notice, 
 I find on the first page the following record — 
 
 '' Lodges that had Red Aprons in 1775. 
 "Somerset House Lodge (present No. 4) ... 3 
 
GLOBE LODGK, NO. 
 
 67 
 
 "Royal Lodge (united with the Alpha, No. r6).. 
 
 " Lodge of Friendship (present No. 6) 
 
 " St. Alban's (present No. 29) 
 
 " Pons (present No. 28) 
 
 " Mourning Bush (present No. 21) 
 "Crown and Rolls (present No. 23) 
 "Angel in the Minories (erased in 1800) 
 
 The next page gives the names of the Stewards for 1775, 
 as well as those of the brethren they succeeded, with the 
 names of their different lodges in the following order — 
 
 " Present Board. Who ihcv succeeilcd. From wliat Lodge. 
 C. Frederick, Esq. R. Butler. Lodge of Friendship. 
 
 T. T. Tutt. 
 W. White. 
 H. Fowke. 
 S. Sayre. 
 T. Lynch. 
 A. Murray. 
 Wm. Smith. 
 Wm. Atkinson. 
 A. McKowl. 
 J. Turner. 
 J. Littlehales. 
 
 A. Dow. Pons Coffee House. 
 
 ]. Hatch, Esq. Somerset House Lodge. 
 
 Thos. Fowke. do. 
 
 T. Martin. St. Albans. 
 
 Minshall. Royal Lodge. 
 G. Durant. do. 
 
 P. Simonds. Mourning Bush, 
 R. Barker. Crown and Rolls, No. 16. 
 
 R. Templer. Angel in the Minories. 
 Lodge of Friendship." 
 It will be seen from the foregoing that in 1775 there 
 were but eight Red Apron Lodges, the Royal Somerset 
 House Lodge sending three Stewards to the Grand Festival, 
 the Lodge of Friendship two, the Royal Lodge two, and the 
 remainder one each. I have every reason to believe that at 
 this period the Stewards nominated as their successors a 
 member of the same lodge, and in the event of the brother 
 
 F 2 
 
^^ SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 SO nominated declining to act, then the Board proceeded to 
 elect another brother in his place. 
 
 As far back as 1765 we find two members of the Globe 
 Lodge in the list of the Grand Stewards for that year, but 
 whether they both represented that Lodge or one of them 
 stood for some other Lodge, it is now impossible to decide. 
 Unfortunately the minutes of the Grand Stewards proceed- 
 ings are not continuous, there being gaps between the years 
 1775 and 1787, and between the year last named and 1797 ; 
 but by other means I have been able to ascertain that this 
 Lodge has been represented by a Steward at the Grand 
 Festivals in 1765, 1770, and every year from 1774 down to 
 the present time, indeed I sec no reason whatever to doubt 
 that it has preserved the privilege of the " Red Apron " 
 continuously since Charles Trinquand served as its Grand 
 Steward in 173J . 
 
 The actual " Red Apron " Lodges at the time of the 
 Union, 1813, were as follows : — 
 
 Lodge of Antiquity, Xo. i 
 Somerset House Lodge, Xo. 2 
 Lodge of Friendship, Xo. 3 
 Lodge of Emulation, Xo. 12 
 Glolie Lodge, Xo. 14 
 Corner Stone Lodge, Xo. 26 
 Old King's Arms Lodge, Xo. Ji 
 Lodge of Regularity, Xo. 117 
 Shakespeare Lodge, Xo. 131 
 
 
 
 
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GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 69 
 
 The Stewards for the Festival in honour of the Installa- 
 tion of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex on the 2nd May, 1814, 
 were Past Grand Stewards nominated by the W. Master of 
 the Grand Stewards Lodge at the command of the Grand 
 Master, who gave strict injunctions that they were not to 
 allow their expenses to exceed the amount of money 
 received for the tickets, which on this occasion were to be 
 One Guinea each. 
 
 The Grand Master nominated the Lodges who were to 
 return Grand Stewards for the Festival m 1815, by adding 
 nine others to the above mentioned, making 18 in all, each 
 to be represented by one Grand Steward. 
 
 The additional Lodges, several of which had had the 
 privilege of the " Red Apron "' in past years, were the 
 Grand Masters Lodge, No. i ; British Lodge, No. 8 ; 
 Tuscan Lodge, No. 14 ; Castle Lodge of Harmony, No. 
 26 ; St. Alban's Lodge, No. 29 ; Lodge of Felicity, No. 58 ; 
 Lodge of Peace and Harmony, No. 60 ; Pilgrim Lodge, 
 No, 238 ; and the Prince of Wales's Lodge, No. 259. 
 
 As a matter of course these Lodges readily adopted the 
 privilege which had been handed down from their pre- 
 decessors, that of electing one of their own members to 
 represent them as Grand Steward, and, with the exception 
 of two, they have preserved that privilege intact down to the 
 j-iresent day. 
 
 The Pilgrim Lodge resigned its " I^ed Apron " in 1834 
 owing to paucity of members, and the Grand Master nomi- 
 nated the Jerusalem Lodge, No. 197, in its place, and the 
 Old King's Arms Lodge lost its privileges in 1852 owing to 
 the neglect of the Secretary in not retiu'ning the name of the 
 brother elected within the specilied time, when it was 
 succeeded by the Old Union Lodge, No. 46. 
 
 Being under the impression that on the occasion referred 
 
70 t50^tE Memorials oP the 
 
 to this venerable Lodge, which had done good service in the 
 past, was somewhat severely dealt with, I have much pleasure 
 in recording the tact that at the last Grand Festival, 1904, 
 the M.W. Grand Master, with the hearty concurrence of the 
 Grand Lodge, was pleased to restore its ancient privilege by 
 replacing it on the Roll of " Red Apron " Lodges. 
 
 Prohahee reasons eor the Blue, axd the Red Aprons. 
 
 I feel that I shall not have completed my essay on the 
 " Red Apron " if I do not endeavour to furnish a probable 
 reason for the selection of the distinctive colour of the regalia 
 of the Grand Stewards of England, differing as it does from 
 that worn bv tiie same olTicers in the sister jurisdictions of 
 Ireland and Scotland, in both of which the colour of the 
 Grand Stewards clothing corresponds with that of the other 
 Grand Otticers, the formei' being light blue and the latter dark 
 green. 
 
 As has already been noted the records of the Grand 
 Lodge contain only the bare mention of the selection of the 
 distinctive colours for the Grand Officers, the Grand Stewards, 
 and the other members of the Grand Lodge, giving us also 
 an inkling of the period of their adoption, but for the why ? 
 and the wherefore ? we are left quite in the dark, nor, 
 so far as I can learn, do the numerous Masonic books of 
 reference and the general works of Masonic writers from 
 Dr. Anderson, the father of Masonic historians, down to those 
 of the present day, with one single exception, throw the 
 smallest reasonable light on the subject. 
 
 The exception referred to is Frederick J. W. Crowe, 
 Grand Organist, author of " Masonic Clothing and Regalia," 
 and several useful Hand-books on Freemasonry, who may 
 justly be credited with ha\ing made a special study of th^ 
 
GLOBE LODGE, KO. i^i- 7^ 
 
 subject in hand, and whose opinions thereon are consequently 
 entitled to the greatest respect and consideration. 
 
 In a paper on " Colours in Freemasonry," recently read 
 before the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, Bro. Crowe expresses 
 a strong opinion that the symbolism now attached to the 
 colours of Masonic regalia is of comparatively modern 
 adaptation, and that their selection had its origin from a 
 more homely and practical source, and I am bound to say 
 that I quite agree with him. 
 
 Bro. Crowe's theory is that the dark blue of the Grand 
 Lodge regalia is derived from the ribbon of the Order of the 
 Garter, and the red of the Grand Stewards from that of the 
 Order of the Bath, and in my opinion he has reasonable 
 grounds for his conclusion. Having already quoted from the 
 minutes of the Grand Lodge certain paragraphs relating to 
 the introduction of these colours, I need not here repeat 
 them, but will content myself with supporting Bro. Crowe's 
 theory by a few historic facts, which seem to me to bear, 
 although perhaps indirectly, upon this interesting and not 
 unimportant subject. I think it will be generally conceded 
 that during the first six years of the existence of the Grand 
 Lodge of England there was no distinctive colour of the 
 clothing, either for the Grand Officers or the other brethren 
 What little evidence we have bearing on the subject indicates 
 that -ix'hitc was the original colour of the badge worn by all 
 members of the Order, doubtless derived from the plain 
 white apron of the operative Masons. 
 
 The earliest representation of a Masonic apron that has 
 come under my notice is in the well-known engraved portrait 
 of Anthony Sayer, Grand Master in 1717, painted by Joseph 
 Highmore, an eminent brother contemporary with Sayer. 
 This apron has the appearance of being quite plain and 
 white, without border or other ornament. 
 
SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 There is no date on the plate, but as the inscription 
 thereon describes Sayer as " Grand Master of the Masons," 
 it was probably engraved during his Grand Mastership. 
 
 THI', I'KKKMASdXS I.WI-.HX, CI^ICAT nrKKX STIJKI-.T, 
 
 AS ii- Ari'i,Ai;Ki) wiiKx Till-: i\\M\:\-: midck iu^ld rrs iiksy 
 Mi-;i:i'ix(;s thi.ki-: ix isi,^ isa- I'.iy in 
 
 Nothing ni the shape of a riblion or collar for the Grand 
 Master's jewel is shown in this ptirtrait nor in the beautifully 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 73 
 
 engraved frontispiece to the iirst printed Constitntions, 
 wherein the Dnke of Montagne is represented as handing the 
 Compasses, the Grand Master's emblem, and the Constitutions 
 to liis successor, the Duke of Wharton, while another 
 brother is in attendance with white aprons and gloves, 
 presumably for the investiture of the new Grand Oflicers. 
 
 There is no mention of colour in the Constitutions nor in 
 the Grand Lodge minutes prior to the 24th of June, 1727, 
 when it was " Resolved, nem. con., that in all private Lodges 
 and Quarter!}' Communications and Generall Meetings, the 
 ]\fasters and Wardens do wear the Jewells of Masonry 
 hanging to a White Ribbon (vizt.) That the Master wear the 
 Scjuare, the Senr. Warden the Levell, and the Junr. Warden 
 the Plumb-I-^ule." This order, it will be observed, applies to 
 privdlc Lodges and Masters and Wardens only. 
 
 In all i8th century editions of the Constitutions after 1727 
 the colour for the Grand Lodge regalia is ordered to be 
 "blue," that for the Grand Stewards, " red," and for the 
 ]\Lasters and Wardens, "white," liut since the revision of 
 the Constitutions at the Union, in 181 3, the Grand Oflicers' 
 clothing has always been described as of Garter-Blue. We 
 know, however, from existing ante-union relics, that dark 
 blue was the distinguishing colour of Grand Officers' clothing 
 long before that event. 
 
 Although white is the only colour named in the order of 
 1727, a reasonable inference would be that at this period some 
 other colour was used in the Grand Lodge and by the Grand 
 Oflicers, hence the resolution and the restriction. 
 
 AssLuuing this to have been the case, the question is, 
 what was that colour ? why and when was it intiodnced ? 
 
 There can be no doubt that the election of that popular 
 and talented soldier, the Duke of Montague, to the Grand 
 Mastership in 1721 (the Inst of a long line of noble Grand 
 
74 SOMK MEMORIALS OV THE 
 
 Masters), was the means of bringing the infant Grand Lodge 
 from comparative obscnrit)-, and of attracting to the ranks of 
 the Craft a large number of aristocratic and military recruits, 
 also of evolving order and a regular system of government 
 out of comparative chaos, or, at least, a very '' happy-go- 
 lucky " condition (jf things. For instance, records of the 
 transactions of the Grand Lodge do not appear to have been 
 kept, nor was a Secretary appointed prior to 1723, in which 
 year the first Book of Constitutions was published, the author, 
 Dr. Anderson, having been ordered to prepare the work by 
 the Duke of Montague during his Grand Mastership. More- 
 over, no attempt appears to have been made to ascertain the 
 membership of the various Lodges until the eventful year 
 last mentioned. If necessary other facts might be adduced 
 to show that the organization, progress, and stability of the 
 Grand Lodge as a governing body dates from 1723 rather 
 than from 1717. In view of the altered state of affairs 
 indicated, it seems but natural that some ofiicial mark should 
 have been deemed desirable to denote those who were, or 
 had been. Grand Officers, and equally feasible is it that a 
 change in the colour of the clothing would be considered 
 the most simple, as well as the most eliective distinction. 
 
 It is evident that a change in this direction had been 
 made between the years 1723 and 1731, and in all proba- 
 bility, so far as relates to the Grand Officers, prior to 1727. 
 As an expression of opinion only, I should be inclined to 
 place the lirst alteration — that of the Grand Lodge clothing — 
 to about the year 1726. 
 
 At this jieriod there were at least four prominent 
 members of the Craft who were also Knights of the Garter. 
 They were the Duke of Montague, G.1\I. 1721 ; the Duke of 
 Richmond, G.M. 1724 (both of whom evinced the warmest 
 interest in the welfare of the Craft) ; the Duke of St. Albans, 
 
GLOftK Lol)O.K, No. 23. 75 
 
 Master of a Lodge at Bath in 1725 ; and the Earl of 
 Chesterfield. There was also an important ofticial of that 
 Most Noble Order in the person of John Anstis, Register of 
 the Garter, a member of the University Lodge — the first 
 Lodge to adopt a distinctive title — of which Dr. Desaguliers 
 and many other notabilities were members. 
 
 The original ribbon or sash of the Order of the Garter is 
 said to have been light blue, worn over the right shoulder, 
 but in the reign of Charles II. it was changed to a deeper 
 blue, and ordered to be worn, as at present, over the left 
 shoulder. 
 
 About the middle of the eighteenth century the colour 
 was again changed to a still darker shade. 
 
 In the portraits of various princes and nobles painted in 
 the early part of that century wearing the ribbon of the 
 Garter, the colour shown is distinctly blue, neither light nor 
 dark, and I make no doubt that the subsequent change of 
 colour was followed by a corresponding alteration in 
 that of the clothing of the Grand Officers, and that it has 
 been so continued with but slight variation down to the 
 present day. 
 
 In the valuable and unicjue collection of Masonic 
 scraps and documents forming part of the Kawlinson MSS. 
 preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, recently 
 described in chronological order by Dr. W. J. Chetwode 
 Crawley in Vol. XI. of the Transactions of the Quatuor 
 Coronati Lodge, will be found conclusive evidence that in 
 the year 1734 the Grand Oflicers' aprons were trimmed with 
 Garter Blue silk. It is in the shape of an order given by 
 Thomas Batson, Esq., Deputy Grand Master, for " Two 
 Grand Master's aprons lined with Garter Blue silk and turn'd 
 over two inches, with white silk strings. Two Deputy Grand 
 ^Iaster's aprons turn'd over an inch and half ditto. One 
 
76 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 apron lined with the deepest yellow silk for the Grand 
 Master's Sword Bearer."* 
 
 The earliest reference to colour, other than white, in the 
 Grand Lodge minutes, is found in the order for a procession 
 of the Grand Officers on the occasion of the installation of 
 the Duke of Norfolk, 29th January, 1730, and is as follows : — 
 " The Marshall, Mr. Pyne, is to bear a Truncheon painted 
 lilew and tipt with Gold." 
 
 I have given priority to the blue of the Grand Officers, 
 being of opinion that it preceded the nil of the Grand 
 Stewards as a Masonic colour, and will now endeavour, as 
 brielly as possible, to state my reasons for having arrived at 
 a conclusion similar to that of Bro. Crowe, that this colour 
 is derived from the ribbon of the order of knighthood, then 
 next m point of rank to that of the Garter, the Order of 
 the Bath. The sash or ribbon of this Order is red, worn 
 over the right shoulder. 
 
 In my opinion, the office of Grand Steward really 
 dates from the year 1728, for although there had been 
 Stewards previously, their apjiointment was intermittent 
 owing to the difficulty of tinding brethren willing to discharge 
 the duties thereof. In 1728 twelve Stewards were appointed 
 iiir the lirst time, and from that period to the present no 
 difficultv whatever has been experienced in iinding the 
 requisite number of qualihed brethren ready and even eager 
 to undertake the duties of the office. 
 
 Now, although the " Red Apron " is not mentioned in the 
 Grand Lodge records prior to 1731, it does not follow that 
 it was previously unknown, for we must bear in mind that 
 the minutes of the Grand Lodge werexery brief — being but a 
 
 * At this perirxl the Sword Rearer did nut talce rani.: as a Grand 
 Ulliecr. 
 

GLOBE LODGE, \0. 23. 77 
 
 bare record of the actual transactions in the Grand Lodge 
 itseh" — and do not inchide any action of the Grand Master 
 ontside of that assembly. 
 
 I think it quite probable that about the year 1728, the 
 Grand Master as a further inducement for brethren to serve 
 the office of Grand Steward, gave a verbal sanction to their 
 being distinguished from the ordinary Masters and Wardens, 
 and that this sanction was formally ratiiied by the Grand 
 Lodge on the 17th of March, 1731. 
 
 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, after having 
 been many years in abeyance, was revived by George IL on 
 the 17th June, 1725, on which day thirty-six knights were 
 installed, at least live of whom were active members of the 
 Craft, headed by the Duke of Montague, who was appointed 
 by the King, Grand Master of the revived Order, the 
 Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Deloraine, the Earl of 
 Inchiquin, Grand Master 1726, and Sir Thomas Coke, who. 
 as Lord Lovell, was installed Grand Master in 1731. The 
 before-mentioned John Anstis, Register of the Garter, was 
 also appointed Genealogist and Herald of Arms of the Order 
 of the Bath on its revival. 
 
 It will thus be seen that a strong Masonic leaven permeated 
 both the Xoble Orders above-mentioned at the period of tlie 
 selection of distinctive colours for the Craft, and having looked 
 at the subject from every conceivable point of view, rejectmg 
 several possibilities, I am unable to think of a more feasible 
 explanation of their adoption than that now enunciated. 
 
 In concluding these memorials of the Globe Lodge a 
 brief notice of the eminent brethren whose signatures, in all 
 probability, were appended to its original Constitution, may 
 not be without interest. 
 
 At the period of the enrolment on the Grand Lodge 
 Register of the Lodge which subsequently adopted the 
 
7^ SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 distinctive appellation of " The Globe," Warrants in their 
 present form were unknown, or, at all events, not in use by 
 the Grand Lodge of England until about 30 years later. The 
 method of constituting a Lodge in the metropolis was for 
 the Grand Officers to appear in person at the intended 
 meeting place of the new Lodge, and having performed the 
 usual ceremonies of Constitution and Installation, to sign a 
 declaration to that effect on the first page of the Lodge 
 Minute Book. 
 
 For Lodges in the provinces and abroad an official 
 document known as a " Deputation " was issued by the Grand 
 Master to some eminent brother, generally residing in the 
 district, authorizing him to act as his Deputy in the per- 
 formance of the necessary functions. 
 
 The signatures here reproduced are from the first 
 Minute Book of the Grand Lodge of England, and were 
 appended to the minutes of a meeting held at the Merchant 
 Taylor's Hall on the 24th June, 1724. No other official was, 
 at this period, acknowledged as a Grand Officer. 
 
 Francis Scott, 3rd Earl of Dalkeith, subsequently 2nd Duke 
 of Buccleugh, was a grandson of the ill-advised and unprincipled 
 Duke of Monmouth, executed for rebellion in 1685, and was 
 therefore of Royal descent, being great grandson of King 
 Charles II. His bold and striking autograph is characteristic 
 of the man, who has already been mentioned in these pages 
 as having been the first to suggest the formation of a Com- 
 mittee for the General Fund of Charity. On the Committee 
 being established he was appointed by his successor, the 
 Duke of Richmond, one of its members in conjunction with 
 the Duke of Montague. It is on record that he attended 
 every meeting of the Grand Lodge during his Grand 
 Mastership, and evinced a keen interest in the affairs of the 
 Craft during the remainder of his life, 
 
GLOBE LODGE, NO. 23. 
 
 79 
 
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 IllllX rlll-.olMlll.l's l)KSAr,|-|,lh:KS, 1.1,1), K.K.S., 
 
So SOME MEMORIALS OF THE 
 
 111 1725 he was a member of a Lodge held at The Riiiiniicr, 
 Clianng Cross. 
 
 The second signature is that of the celebrated John 
 Theophilus Desaguliers, LL.D., F.K.S., who was Grand 
 Master in 171Q, subsequently serving as Deputy to the Duke 
 of Wharton, 1722-3, the Earl of Dalkeith, 1723-4, and Lord 
 Paisley, 1725-6, the only instance in the history of the 
 English Craft of a Past Grand Master lilling the subordniate 
 post of Deputy Grand Master. 
 
 Dr. Desaguliers is not inaptly described as the " Father 
 of Modern Speculative Masonry," and there can be no doubt 
 that he well merited that distinction, for he certainly con- 
 tributed more than any other perscm to the consolidation of 
 the Society and the diitusion of its principles ; indeed, he 
 may justly be deemed to have been the back-bone of the 
 Grand Lodge irom its formation until shortly before his 
 death iu 1744. He was a member of several Lodges, one of 
 them being a Lodge held at The Horn Tavern, Westminster, 
 one of the four old Lodges that formed the Grand Lodge 
 of England, now represented by the Royal Somerset House 
 and Inverness Lodge. 
 
 Francis Sorell, Esq., was a member of the same Lodge, 
 and was, doubtless, a zealous member of the Order, as he 
 was appointed Senior Grand Warden by two successive 
 Grand Masters. He died in 1743, and was then Secretary of 
 the Ta.\ OfTice. 
 
 Jf)hn Senex was an eminent Cartographer, Bookseller, 
 and Globe-Maker, having a shop "against St. Dunstan's 
 Church, Fleet Street." He was a member of a Lodge held 
 at The Fleeie, in Fleet Street. In 1728 he was elected a Fellow 
 of the Royal Society. He died Decemlier 30th, 1740. 
 
GI.OT.K LODGl':, \0. 2-:;. 
 
 8i 
 
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 years ix which ihky sfr\fi), thic list i'.kixc 
 ixcomit^ftf: owixg to the absexcic of rfcorhs. 
 
 770, 
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 7-^4 
 
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 Clirixlnplier CnUeiel. 
 
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 Ricluird liai l<ci-, Tii'iisiinr. 
 
 Alcxaiulci- McK'.wl. 
 
 Aaron Italcman. 
 
 J.4in Mill^. 
 
 |i )hn ^'ci Jinans, 
 
 Kiiulancl Minns. 
 
 Oliver Ci'(im\vi.-ll Vile, Si-r- 
 
 7s 1. jolm .Mar^liall, Scacturv. 
 
 Sanuiel l->en^c. 
 
 William -Miller. 
 
 Jnlm Millci-. 
 
 AiTlnir Onslow. 
 
 Thrjnia^ Hai'tley. 
 
 Geiir.^'e lilaki^liin. 
 
 I. lines Hiiwell. 
 
 Ki4ierl I'.acldelev. 
 
 Kieliarcl W. Jeiinini^'s. 
 
 William C. Clarkson, Scc- 
 liliii'V, (jr.iiid Treasurer. 
 
 702. David I'.iieklee. 
 
 70,1. William Treinain. 
 
 704. Charles Carpenter. 
 
 70=;. Jnlm (indwin. 
 
 7(|0. Tlirnn.is Harper, D.G.M. 
 
 1707. Charles Millelt. 
 
 ]7oS- Sir William I-Iawlins, 
 S.i;.W. 1H02. 
 
 1701). Rdherl Ciill, S.O.W, 1700. 
 
 j.Soo. James Koelie. 
 
 iSoi. (reor.Lie Sangw'iiie. 
 
 1S02. Cienr^e (It lU'ini;". 
 
 iJ^o.s. William W.ii"\\ieK". 
 
 i^^04. Samuel L4ea\er. 
 
 1.S05. J(ihn E. Keynolds. 
 
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 T^'o;. James Savaye, Tiiiii^iiifr. 
 
 rSoH. Thmnas C. Junes. 
 
 I^^OI). James Manley. 
 
 iSio. John Manscin. 
 
 iXii. Sir Leonard Wnrslev 
 Holmes, Pn.\-. C.M., 
 I.W. 
 
 iSt2. William D. Cummins, 
 
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 Saiiun4 MMrt^aii. 
 
 
 
 
 l8(iS. 
 
 S',_' 
 
 W. K (;. Kl-w JiiiL 
 
 18(111. 
 
 S:;:; 
 
 l-:>ihirl I'.cll. 
 
 1870. 
 
 '\U 
 
 W. H. Laii.ylcv. 
 
 
 '"^35 
 
 Jnliii T. Ha/aril. 
 
 1871. 
 
 S v 
 
 William Fell, 
 
 187 J. 
 
 ^37 
 
 Cliarlc^ -Ml irciiiu. 
 
 1873. 
 
 S^iS 
 
 William M c. 
 
 
 s;,<i 
 
 Ku\. Iv C l\KKniaii. 
 
 1874. 
 
 N40 
 
 Ccnr^c F)i,U,u"s, G.S.1-1. 
 1S54. 
 
 1875 
 
 
 
 187(1 
 
 S4I 
 
 tie irL;c v.. la'Di ik^. 
 
 
 !^4-' 
 
 Jnlm Malvii. 
 
 1877 
 
 ^43 
 
 J.iliii 1). I'aiiic, 
 
 1878. 
 
 ^44 
 
 William I'ai->li. 
 
 1 87*) 
 
 '"^45 
 
 William Fiilmi ^la-. 
 
 ] 88u 
 
 ,S4h 
 
 J. M. Fa-.iuii. 
 
 1881 
 
 ^47 
 
 |i iliii SU-\aai^. 
 
 188J 
 
 S4S 
 
 1 all iamiii Wubsk-r, [.G.D. 
 
 
 
 1.S51. 
 
 1 883 
 
 N4<, 
 
 William Walsnii. 
 
 1884 
 
 ,S^:l 
 
 William Fvaiis 
 
 188:; 
 
 ^34- 
 
 William J. Xewtrin, 
 
 Lewis Lemaiiski. 
 .\iillii.ii\- A. Heu lelt. 
 William -Anted. 
 
 lS8(i. 
 
 1887. 
 1888. 
 
 I88I). 
 
 C;abriel S. Hrandini. 
 William (;, Ml 11 lis. 
 Arthur Rekbeck. 
 Jnbii R. Hai.y. 
 Julm ISeimett. 
 Ralph yi. Smith, 
 (leiirj^e Smith. 
 |i ihn tjurtiai. 
 Gem ye S. States. 
 William RirlTW 
 Tlinmas J. Hnoper. 
 William H. Warr. 
 I'kUvard F Fa.ye. 
 |i ihn ]\F Sti'dwell. 
 Fimes F. W.tlsh. 
 Samuel -^Fl^^ Treiisa rer. 
 l-'redeiaek C. \\'. I'.raudt. 
 lonathaii Ikandoii. 
 Herbeit Dieketl^. .S'lVvr- 
 
 lames Warner. 
 
 Geiir.ye \i. Shcr\ill, Tica- 
 
 J. ihn Biivd. G. Purst. 1872. 
 
 Charles Martin. Tn'iisii rrr, 
 F.A.G.n.G. 1887. 
 
 I>;iiberl Dniiykis. 
 
 i'kiw .lid Gh.i^. Da\ies. 
 
 |t'liii F.iliiKr. 
 
 .\u.l;lisIiis S. Wilch'. 
 
 I ienrs' \'emi. 
 
 ll.uiv \. -Mills, Inaniia-. 
 
 Ji.hn J. Fnvd. 
 
 ddidiiKi^ W. G. Feiit\-. 
 
 Fdw.ird Xi\e\-. 
 
 Ivieh.ird Glnu-sen. 
 
 (ienri^e Simiinds, 
 P.A.CFD.G. luoi. 
 
 Fredei iek Pinehes. 
 
(iLOHlC LODCK, NO. 23. 
 
 iSdo. lirncst M, Miine\-, y'/vs/- 
 ,lciit, P.A.G.D.C\ iS()7. 
 
 iSiii. K(ibei-1 \Vill.iut;hbv, Jrcn- 
 siiiir, G. Std. B. "i.Si)^ 
 
 |S.)_\ 1 loll, William F.B. M;Lsse\-- 
 -Maiiiwariii^, Ti'LiisurL)-. 
 
 iSiTv Ch.ulcs K. C.illins, ,Si'(7-f- 
 Idi-v. 
 
 1N1J4. I'^iudcrick M. llranclon. 
 iNi)5. HcnrvJ. Hunter, Prexhlnil . 
 iSiid. l-;rl^.ii- MdiTis BraiKliiii, 
 
 |S()7. John B. Verily. 
 iSi)S. fames \V. Mallhews, 
 St'i-ri-larii. 
 
 iSt)W. .-Vle.v.mder .A. "I'eatman, 
 ^I'rrehirii. 
 
 11)00. |useph Husbands, .SV-cz-c 
 
 1001. [ncelvn Brandon. 
 
 lOOJ. 1^'rederiek A. Powell, Tri'd- 
 siiivr, P.O. Std. P,earei-. 
 
 11)03. Alexander A. Yeatman. 
 
 J004. Thiimas S. Cooks. 
 
 The above-named brethren were presented at the Cirand 
 Festhals in the years prelixed t(.) their names. 
 
 The Iltilici denote the office held on the Board of Grand 
 Stewards for the 3'ear indicated. 
 
SOMK MI-;M()K'IAI,S of thic 
 
 AIastkhs of 'rHi'. Gloue Lonci-:, Xo. 2^, from 1793 to 
 rgo4, 'ini-; list i-;I';ixo, ixcoiuiij-:tf owixc; to thf: 
 
 Al;SF\CF OF l^l^COKDS. 
 
 i7');i 
 
 i7')4- 
 
 i7m'i. 
 
 CIkuIcs Millfll ( 
 
 Tllnlll.ls H,ir|UT 
 
 'J'hdiiias U.iipci 
 l).i\iil l-Uaklcc ( 
 
 lll-llil.l- II,|1|1L|- 
 |. K.idlC (I). 
 
 
 C'Ii.ii-Il'x Mlllell 121 
 
 I7II7. 
 
 Clinic, .Milk-;i (II 
 
 
 Tiids. Il.iipcr 121. 
 
 I7MS, 
 
 Tlins. ilar|icr 1 I 1. 
 
 
 Chjilc, Millcll 12) 
 
 1 7' '''• 
 1 Soo. 
 
 
 1 So 1 . 
 
 „ 
 
 iSo_\ 
 
 
 iSo;v 
 
 
 1 So_|. 
 
 
 1 Sri:;. 
 
 
 iSo(.. 
 
 
 IS07. 
 
 '1 
 
 INOS, 
 
 11 11 
 
 iSnu. 
 
 
 lSi,i, 
 
 
 1 S 1 1 . 
 
 
 lSl_\ 
 
 IVk-i- Cilkcs. 
 
 iSi :;. 
 
 l-^lilC \\i\L-. 
 
 1S14. 
 
 1 
 
 I.SlS. 
 
 (Iciif^c H\clc. 
 
 I Nih. W". I), Ciiminins. 
 iSi 7, J, A. l-'i.iiiipton. 
 iN IS. 'riininas LnlUis. 
 iShi. 
 
 1S2.1. il'iikiiiiwn.l 
 1S21. W. I,;. Tiii-iicr. 
 1 S22. S.inuiul Rutgers. 
 1S23. W. II. Fciin. 
 
 <^^4 
 
 I S25. (.'Il.lllcs Me\cl-. 
 
 lS2(i. (riikiinu III. 
 
 IN27. 
 
 1S2S. 
 
 1S21). 
 
 |S,^I. J. W. Wiilmslcv. 
 
 1S32. W. K. G. Kf\-, Jiiii. 
 
 iStv SaniLKl ^I'Mi^.m. 
 
 is;,4 W, II Linylcv. 
 
 ii^.i.S. Ivilxrl )-;fll. 
 
 |S;,7. J. T. lla.-anl. 
 
 1S3S. Willi. nil l-'cll. 
 
 1S31). Knv. K. C. I'ankiii.ni. 
 
 1X4:1. C'li.nlc,. M-a-ciii^. 
 
 1541. kn\. II. I. ICiiapp, I). I). 
 
 1542. tic.aa^L- I!i.L;.i;"s. 
 184,1. Gci>rye K. Bia.oks. 
 
GLOBE LODGE, \0. 23. 
 
 8S 
 
 1844 
 KS45 
 
 i,S4(, 
 1S47 
 1S4S 
 1S4., 
 I N30 
 1 .S5 1 
 1X52 
 I S33 
 1 N54 
 1S55 
 I :<=.(>. 
 1S57 
 
 I S( )0 
 |N()[ 
 iSdJ 
 I SI 13 
 l,S(4 
 |S(I5 
 I S(i() 
 iShJ, 
 iNdS 
 
 1S70 
 |S7[ 
 1S7J, 
 IS, , 
 
 i S74. 
 
 Jnlin Malvii. 
 Jnllll L). I'.iiiic. 
 A\'il!iam Bi.ilini"n"c. 
 Jnllll Slf\nis. 
 William W'atsiMi. 
 W. G. Mnii-is. 
 liillll MlmhicU. 
 William IMackbiini. 
 kicliarcl Hanks. 
 \\'illiain [. Xcwlcin. 
 A. H. Hculctl. 
 M. T. HLiiiiplii'CN'. 
 Ci. S. Hiaiidon. 
 Ct. V. GniicUiiaii. 
 Arlliur Rcbheck. 
 Jnllll K, Hai.u. 
 
 H. H. CnllillS. 
 
 T. A. Adams. 
 Frederick J. Hill. 
 K.ilph M. Smith. 
 Iv ihert (iibhuiis. 
 (.jcnr^e Smith. 
 Ed.uard J. Page. 
 W. H. Wan-. 
 J. lines F. Walsh, 
 ji ihnatliaii lirantlnii. 
 S.imuel .M.iw 
 Jnllll M. Slecluell. 
 Fred C. W. F>raiult. 
 [allien Walller. 
 Ijerbeit Dieketts. 
 
 1S7;;. G. R. Shervill. 
 
 1X7(1. Charles Martin. 
 
 1S77. Jnhii IJnyd. 
 
 1S7S. Knlieit Dniiglas. 
 
 1S71). Kdu .ird G. I). ivies. 
 
 iSSo. Jnlm Faliner. 
 
 iS.Si. Aii.i^iislus S. Wildv. 
 
 1 552. Henry \'ciiii. 
 
 1553. Hari-v X. Mills. 
 
 1554. Jnllll J. Bnyd. 
 
 iS^'5. Tlininas W. G. Leiitw 
 
 iSSd. F:dmund G. Mather. 
 
 JSS7. F.:(luard Xi.\ey. 
 
 iSSS. Kieh.ird Glnwser. 
 
 iSSi). Geni\Lie Siiiiniicls. 
 
 iS()0. Frederick I'inches. 
 
 lS()i. F^rnest M. .Mniiey. 
 
 iSi,2. Filbert Willnughbv. 
 
 I Sir,. Hnii. W. I'-, r,. :\Fi-sey- 
 
 I\Iaiii\\"arinu. 
 
 iSi)4. Gliarles F. Gnlliiis. 
 
 iSi(5. F'rederick 'SI. HraiKlnii. 
 
 iSijO. Henry J. Hunter. 
 
 iSi;7. FIdgar M. lirandi.in. 
 
 i.Si)S. Jnllll B. Verity. 
 
 lSi|i) Janice \\'. Matthews. 
 
 11)00. Ale.x.nider .\. Yeatmaii. 
 
 iijoi . jnsepli Husbands. 
 
 lijoJ. Jncelyn Brandi in. 
 
 11)113. Frederick .\. I'nwell. 
 11)04. 
 
 " Prior to 1801 ;i Mtistcr was elected every six months, 
 titter tlitit yetti" the election toolv phice tiniuitilly. 
 
86 SOME MEMORIALS OF THE GLOIilC LODGE, XO. 23. 
 
 NUMKI-'.KS LOKXE ]!Y TIIE GlOKE LoDGE SINCE I'lS 
 
 CoxsrriTTKjx ix 17-' v 
 
 Al the i\\~-[ cllLillKl\iti< in III" Liitige^ ill 1729 
 At liic cinsiiig up (i| Ihc Xiunbt-rs in 1740 
 
 /.I. -I 
 
 I bccaiiif Xi 
 
 Alkr Ilic nil inn nl' Ihu iwr, Ci.ind Lnd^r^ in 1S13 
 Al lliu .^lmilimI clii-in;; np III lllc Xuirih'. r^ in I S3 2 
 
 'I'lic last ciumifiatiiiii (il Lnd^i^es was in iSd^, when, 
 tliLTc bciipL; nil \acaiic\" in IVunl ol the lilnbe Lnclge, its 
 nnnibcr was nncbanijccl. 
 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 T-AllE 
 
 Ahin^thm ... ... ... iS 
 
 .Vbram, lnlin ... ... ... 4S 
 
 .\ccuunts (if the Lndgt.', .^,S, 511, 51 
 
 .\danis, 'riiniiias .\. ... 4,^, 55 
 
 Quiiitnii ... ... ... 37 
 
 Al;.!!", J.iiin.'^ ... ... J,",, 25 
 
 .Amlci'^'in, Di-. James 5H, 51), 74 
 
 -\nnu.il Subseriptii in .>S, 41, 30, 55 
 
 .\iistis. |i 'hu ... ... 75- 77 
 
 .\iitiquil\-, Lncl^Jc (if ... .1, 2(1 
 
 -Vpinns piircliased ... ... 40 
 
 Aificles of I'liidii ... 22, 2}, 25 
 
 .V^liniolc. Elias ... ... f' 
 
 Ath(jlc, The Duke of ... 4(> 
 
 Malaiiee Sh 
 
 eet, I 
 
 ( idj;-e 
 
 
 :5,S 
 
 47 
 
 l-lath. The 
 
 Jrdei 
 
 of tlie, 
 
 -T, 
 
 7f' 
 
 77 
 
 Hatsoii, Th 
 
 anas 
 
 D.G.M 
 
 
 
 7,^ 
 
 Beadon, \\ 
 
 . V. 
 
 
 
 
 ■U 
 
 Heaver, Kc 
 
 wLirtl 
 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 liedfoicl la 
 
 ,d-e, 
 
 rhe 
 
 
 
 .■i5 
 
 Beer, Sfidi 
 
 «. (N-'e 
 
 
 
 
 4'' 
 
 Jl,-/I rarer 
 
 /, l/,e 
 
 
 0, 
 
 7i 
 
 ■<, ') 
 
 }ir.ard (if V, 
 
 eiier; 
 
 1 I^LII4^( i>es 
 
 
 -5 
 
 liodleiati L 
 
 ibrar 
 
 •, Tlle 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 liritisli Lo( 
 
 ,Ue, 'I 
 
 he ... 
 
 IJ, 
 
 jS 
 
 (H, 
 
 - — Museum... 
 
 
 4. 
 
 i() 
 
 3 1 
 
 Hiiceleueh, 
 
 ']"he 
 
 )nke 01 
 
 
 
 -,s 
 
 1 liiiiii. |(.hi 
 
 
 
 
 
 -D 
 
 I'aishi id;4e 
 
 Hall 
 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 I'.v-Laus 
 
 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 Caiihaiii, John ... ... 2') 
 
 Caiq^entei", Cliarles ... ... 37 
 
 Casfle Lod.i;c of Hainion\' ... '»; 
 Celelirities of file Globe 
 
 Lodae 27 
 
 CeiUenai"\' ^\"ala"anls ... i 
 
 Chan'lv, The Fund of, 
 
 25, 20, 27, 7,s 
 
 Cheltenham ... ... ... 1 .S 
 
 Chestei-lield, The Karl of ... 75 
 
 Clarks(ai, \V. C, 2}. 4X, 4(1, 50 
 
 Cle.i\ei". Samuel ... ... 44 
 
 Clerk of the Pe.aee, IVn'ment 
 
 to 41 
 
 Cl(ithiii,i;, Craft, deseiabed ... 04 
 Collins, Cliarles E., P(-jrtr.iit of 03 
 Coleiurs of Clothinj,', 
 
 '-'4, ''5( 70 — 77 
 
 Earliest reference to ... 76 
 
 Constitution liook j'auxhased 40 
 
 of, I73« 5'"^ 
 
 Constitutions, First printed... 73 
 Constifutin.^ Lodges, mode of 7N 
 
 Fust Paxinent for 26 
 
 Cooke, M.ifthew ... 55, 36 
 
 Cordiality, The Lodye (4, 40, 41 
 Corinthian Tod.iie, 'l"he ... IN 
 Cox, Robert A., Iiutiated, 42, 43 
 Crau lew Dr. W. J. Cheludde 75 
 Cro\\e, lo J. W, ... 70, 71, 7'i 
 
 Cfn,r„ ,n,.l I!,„-s,-xl,,,e . Th,'... IS 
 
 Crniri, „,„l Roll.,, TIh\ (i, 07 
 
 Cuunnins, W, D. ... 23, 4S 
 
88 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PACK 
 
 IJalla^illi, Tlic Karl of, 2fi, 78, So 
 Dc.itli 111 :Maslci--L-lcct ... 50 
 
 DL\u;rec>, Tlii-ce Ciinlcrix-d ,it 
 
 niic niectiii.L; ... ... ,18 
 
 - - Di>ci iiitinued ... 45 
 
 Dell iraiiic, The Kail nl ... 77 
 
 Dc'-ayuliLa^, Jirhii T , do. ()l , 
 
 75. 7' I. So 
 Dielil, ThiiMias ... 10, iN, 2- 
 
 1-aiuil.ilit 111 LikIl;^ dI lnii">ri)\e- 
 
 mcnt ... ... ... 21) 
 
 Kli.iii.in Liiduu, The Jii 
 
 l-^\piiKitiii iif Thiiina^ Harper zi 
 
 1^'ee^, 1 iiiti.ilii 111, [i liniiiL;, \e . 
 
 ,v^, 44. 4.^. 4'' 
 Keliutv, I4ie l.iitl.^e nl ... dil 
 
 /•Vrnr T„r,r,i. Thr, Kleel 
 
 .Mieel So 
 
 l^"i ii tiliKle aiKl (>kl Ciiiiiher- 
 
 l.iiul LiKl,i;e ... 2I1, 27 
 
 FiiiilKl.iliiiii l.ml.ye. The .,. IS 
 
 Fr.iiiipliui, J. .A. ... 2,',. 4S 
 
 Kreeiiiasniis' Hall ... 10, IS, nj 
 
 Fri i'iinnrii\' 'r.nrru ... n, ij, i.S, :;^. 
 
 Kelniikliiiu; nl i 1 , 27 
 
 ill 1S13 ,.. ... 72 
 
 frieluNllip, The Iaid,L;e nl, ,',, 
 
 12, (17 
 
 Fi iiiilispieee In C^ll^liUllil ins 
 
 Flu iii'.iire. I' iiiul |i tr ( ir.iiul 
 
 Fndee IS 
 
 Ci.ip 111 tlie J,ii(I,l^e Keenrds... 47 
 (.Ir.uul Liitl2e Register (13 
 
 Gap in Uie Grand Stewards' 
 
 Kecnrds ''S 
 
 G.irter, The Order of the 71— 7.=i 
 
 Gilkes, Peter, 24, 2S, 2n, 4 1 , 44, 45, 
 
 50. 54 
 
 Gill, Kohert 25, 4S 
 
 (Jlohe Lod.ye, The, Constitu- 
 tion of 4 
 
 Meetin,Li Plaees oi, 
 
 5. <'i 7. s 
 
 First Grand 
 
 Steward (12, dS 
 
 First named ... 
 
 First Lists of Mem- 
 bers ... ... ... yi 
 
 ,\ H,irbiii^i.r ot 
 
 Peace 20 -25 
 
 . "In to A' w.iLer,' .^4, 
 
 — Gle,uiiii,ets from 1 
 
 Records of 
 
 l.iln],,- Tan,-,,. Tin 
 
 (.joldsmith, 01i\ ei" 
 (;i)odl.d<e, Thom.is ... 
 (hand l-'e.isf, ^Flster p 
 
 • .1'' 
 , 7, S, iS 
 
 7 
 ... 43 
 
 senled \\ 1 
 the 
 
 a Ticket lor 
 
 Fcsliwil in 1S14, Tickets 
 
 to be < )ne (iiiille.i ... Oi) 
 
 Masters' Lod,i;e, The, ,H. <'i| 
 
 -— Liid,L;e, Minutes of the... ,SS 
 
 Dissension in ... 30 
 
 Re.L^.di.i of 70, 71 
 
 Rise .iiid Progress 
 
 of 74 
 
 .Museuin and 
 
 Libr.ii V ,.. ... 1, 2, 14, 23 
 
 I'urelrisu of 
 
 Premises for ... 10, 14 
 
 Property, OriL;in,il 
 
 Owners of ... 13, u> 
 
 Lodges, Description of 
 
 riv,il .,. ... 20. 21. 22 
 
I\DEX. 
 
 89 
 
 PAG1-; 
 
 (Jrand Sltward's name iml 
 
 retuiiicd ... ... ... =^\ 
 
 Stew .11" els, ()l"iL^ill of, s'^, 5''i ''0 
 
 T\\"cl\x- lirst ai^- 
 
 pointed ... ... (11, 7(1 
 
 l'iivilej;es ot [lie... (12 
 
 Distinctive Colours 
 
 lor ... ... (14, f)5 
 
 Clioose their suc- 
 cessors ... ... ... fit^ 
 
 Thanks of G. L. lo 65 
 
 Not tilways from 
 
 same Lod.^e ... ... 63 
 
 Jewels of, 64, (15, 6'i 
 
 Ribbons .md 
 
 .\prons of ... ... ()S 
 
 ill 1775 '>7 
 
 of the Globe Lod,i;e — 
 
 Lodye, 18, 34, (15, (i(),»[ 
 
 Sword Bearer ... ... 76 
 
 Great Queen Stieet, 10, 13, 14, 15 
 Great Wild Street ... 10,17 
 
 ll„ll-Mn„„ Tar.'.-H, The, ^, (1, 
 
 f<. -7, 57 
 M.ill, Fiecnia^ons', Fund for 
 
 Jjuiidiu,^ ... ... 10, iS 
 
 Medal ... iS, II) 
 
 il.uper, Th.jinas, DJJ.M,, 22, 
 
 -M. .V. .vS 
 llaiiis, |,,lni jS 
 
 Hcide,y--er, J. [., Fint GranJ 
 
 .Steiniril '. do 
 
 Hi.;,'h Sheriffs of London 
 
 and .Middlese.v ... ... 42 
 
 Hi^^hiiKJic, Joseph ... ... 71 
 
 Hockin.U, A. J. and G ... iii 
 
 Ho-arth, William ... 5S, 5.), (,(, 
 
 Holnies, Sir L. \V., Elected 
 
 "■S 45 
 
 Portrait (.f ... 52 
 
 IIonoLU" and (jenerosit\', 
 
 Lod^e of 21) 
 
 Hopkinsun, lir. [Joseph] 43, 44 
 
 Jlurii Tin-e,;,, Tin- So 
 
 House bills ... ... 3P, 42 
 
 Hudson, Thomas, Painter ... 10 
 
 Inchiquin, The Earl of, 61, 67 
 
 Industry, The Lod.L^e of ... 9 
 
 Installation, B(jard of ... 2<) 
 
 Postponed ... 53 
 
 Instruction, Lod^c of, 
 
 s.metinned ... ... 54 
 
 Jerusalem Litdge, The ... 6g 
 
 [ewel designed by Hogarth, 5S, 31) 
 fewels. Unauthorized 
 
 for otlicei's of I^odges. 
 
 lones, Iniijo ... 
 
 Key, \V. I^. G 20 
 
 Kingston, Lord, C. Jfux/er ... (>o 
 Kiipg Charles II. ... 75, 7S 
 
 Knapp, Ke\'. H. I. ... 34, 53 
 
 Lambeit, Edward 
 Lane, lilizal ictli 
 Kaliih 
 
 .. 1 10 
 
 15, "' 
 
 , . . 15 
 
90 
 
 IXDKX. 
 
 I'A(,E 
 
 Laiisdriwiic'riie MaixnicsMif, 14 
 
 Cnllcxiinn nf MSS. 14. 
 
 Luctnies aiul Sectiniis 
 
 W'jrkcd 44. 54 
 
 Lemon, M.irli, InilialccI ... ,i'i 
 
 Lolie, Rnlxil J3 
 
 J^inculn's Inn Fields... ... 15 
 
 I.nd.^'es nil Register, Xunihcr 
 
 ijf I 
 
 First eniiiner.ilit 111 ( 4 ... 5 
 
 Lnvell, Li.rd 04, 77 
 
 M.iiliii, L4i,nlcs 
 
 - r..rlrail uf 
 
 M.lslcr elttU-d ll.ill-yc.irl\' .. 
 
 aniiii.illv 
 
 >[.is1lis .a Ihc (ilulif L.iduc 
 
 4- 
 f<4 
 -MlRuuI, .Vlcx.mder, 10. 17. IS, 
 
 Mt't'tini.;, Days ui ... 47, 4S, 50 
 
 Mcediiii^s reduced ... ... 51 
 
 Member, 44ie < ilde^l ... ... 4S 
 
 .Membei"^ present, .\i^ril 4, 
 
 .\pril 5, i;^ I 1 ... 4(1 
 
 X,,\ 13, iS:i4 ... 4,, 
 
 - — XuihIkt (it Suhscrihii iL^ 4N 
 
 Menifiri.il til the Pm (w-.nid 
 
 Master 51 
 
 jMereli.anl 'I'axlors' Hall ... 7S 
 
 Mever, lir. [Cliarles] . JS 
 
 Millelt, Ch.irles ... ,',7. .v"^ 
 
 Mills, ,\. W 47, 4,S 
 
 Mniimniitli, The Duke nl ... 7S 
 
 Moruimeiil, 'I4ie (jilkes ... 5^1 
 Miiiit.iULie, 44ie Duke nl, S'l, 
 
 73, 74i 77i 7iS 
 
 I'.AGE 
 
 Xau-ab of Oude, The 34, 3^' 
 
 Xewland, Br. [Henr.v] ... 4 
 
 Xiirfiilk, 44ic Duke of ... 7(1 
 
 ,\iirmanby, The i\I.irquess ol 15 
 Xuinher nf Locl.^^es mi 
 
 Kcttister 1 
 
 OlTieers, ,\p]iniiitmciif of 
 
 deferred ... ... ... 53 
 
 Old Dundee Lnd.^e, The ... 12 
 Old Iviiyys .Anns Lod,:;"e, The, 
 
 3, bo, 70 
 Old ruioii Li.d.iie, The ... bi) 
 
 Oiiimbii^, The first ... 31. 32 
 
 Or.itor appi liiiled, .-\ii ... 53 
 
 I'.niie, |iihii D. ... 31 , 53 
 
 P.u^ley, Lnrd ... ... ... So 
 
 I'.uker, The Hmi. tieeirge ... 15 
 
 I'avment for Suppers ... 46 
 
 Peace and H.irmi an' Lndiie, 
 
 The ... "... ... (10 
 
 Peres' Lnd.^e. The ... ... 20 
 
 Peril irlic.il. The first M.isnnie 47 
 
 Peire, Lord, l/nm,/ Ma.<:lfr, 10, iS 
 
 Pilyiim Liid.ue, The Oi) 
 
 Pines EnyiMVed Li^t nf 
 
 I.i.d,i;-e^ 5 
 
 P.iuell, F. .\ I 
 
 Presentatii.il nl P.M. Jewel... 54 
 
 Prince of Wales' Li id.i;e ... bo 
 
 Pinsperitynf the t; lobe Lml.i^e, 54 
 
 (Ju.ltUnr Cnrnll.lli 
 
 The 
 
 Lodue, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 9i 
 
 I'ADE 
 
 Rawlins, Sir William 42, 44 
 
 "Kawlinsdii MSS.," The ... 75 
 
 Rf.idy, Mr., ,-,f (he IJiilish 
 
 Museum ... ... ... H) 
 
 K'ecnneili.ilinu, The Liiil,^e nl 34 
 
 Keci.i-cls I., si, Kaiiy 
 
 Red .\pi-nn, Orijjin of the ... 5S 
 
 The, Ciiiiipelitinii 
 
 f'"- 4-^ 
 
 DittieuItN' in dis- 
 
 piisiiig of the ... ... 45 
 
 First mentiiin nt 
 
 the (14 
 
 Restored In Old 
 
 King's .Vrnis Lndi^e ... 70 
 
 .\priins, Lodges that h. id, 
 
 in 1775 ^)(), (17 
 
 IS 1 3 (iX 
 
 .\dditinual, in 
 
 1 S 1 5 ... ... ... 09 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua ... r6 
 
 Riehnn>nd, Tlie Duke of, 74, 
 
 77. 7^ 
 Ri>ing Star Lodge, The ... 3(1 
 Ri.ibert Burns Lodge, The, 34, 54 
 Royal Lodge, The f)/ 
 
 .-ilpha Lodge, The, 27, 07 
 
 - - Cumberland Sehool ... 40 
 
 Somerset House and 
 
 Inverness Lodge, 27, 33, 
 
 t^d, (17, Xo 
 
 Soeiety, The ... ... So 
 
 l^niniiifr Tarerit, The ... So 
 
 Sadler, Hein-\' ... 1,2,4 
 St, .Alb.inx, The Duke of ... 75 
 Li.dge, The ... ('7, ("; 
 
 St. Dunstan's Chureh ... So 
 
 Sahilntioii Tavfrii, The ... 0, S 
 
 Sandh\', Thomas, R.,\, ... 1 1 
 
 Sayer, .\ntlion_v, (;./!/. 1717, 71,72 
 
 Sene.x, J(.hn, .^(olt' So 
 
 Shelburne, The Earl of ... 14 
 
 Shillibeer, George ... 20 — 33 
 
 .Signs uf the Ta\'erns at which 
 the Globe Lodge was 
 held S 
 
 Signatures of Grand Oltieers 
 
 in 17^4 7''^ 
 
 Sorell, Francis, .S'.G.jr, ... So 
 Special Centenarv Jewels, i, 1,}, 
 
 Stationers' Hall, Gi'.nid t'cast 
 
 at 00 
 
 Stewards tii'st mentioned ... 59 
 
 Si.x appi.jiutecl ... ... Oo 
 
 Strickl.uid, Heniy ... ... 27 
 
 ,V«», The. St. Paul's Church 
 
 Yard 5, S, 57 
 
 Sussex, The Duke of, 25, 29, 47, («) 
 
 Sweet, George H. ... ... S 
 
 Temperance Cli.iptci", The ,.. 34 
 
 Tombleson, TiKimas... ... 54 
 
 Treinain, Bi-o. [William] ... 37 
 
 TriuLiu.ind, Charles ... t)2, 'iS 
 
 Tuscan Lodge, Tlie .,. ... tn) 
 
 Tylci", Willi, un ... ... 1 1 
 
 I'nion of the rix.il Gr.ntd 
 
 Lodges ... 20, 2 I, 12, 47 
 
 Lm\ eiMtN" L(kI^c, rile ,.. 73 
 
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 IXDEX. 
 
 ^'illcllc.lu, Jii^iah 
 \"iruiic, William 
 
 PAGE 
 
 •• 5') 
 .. 40 
 
 A\',illiain Gi'ccii ... ... 41 
 
 W'.iiTant^, Cciitcn.iry ... i 
 
 — - LticlLiu. Ill it ill u^c ... 7S 
 
 W.iru ick, l!ni. r\\-i||i,,ni] 4J, 43 
 
 W'.ilLa-linii^c. Jiihii, .Vn 
 
 ■■ .\iicieiit " rc-iilili.u.itcd, 4'i 
 
 W.itMjii, Willi, iin, 34, 35, 31), 54 
 
 Webb, Philip Cartercl, q--U> 
 
 Wcbslci", bcnj.imin ... 33, 3'i 
 
 Westminsler .ind Kuv^lmic 
 
 Lodyc, The 12 
 
 AX'hartMii, The Duke nl. 73, So 
 
 7/7,/Vr Jfn,-/. Tin- 
 Willett, Heiu-v K. 
 Winibi irne IMiiister 
 Wine CI iiiMunptitin 
 Wn, ill .uid Sun 
 Worhil-e. Tli.iiii.is 
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