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ADDRESS ON ThE TRANSFER OF ThE hAll mEDAl
AND hAll-STONE JEWEl
TO ThE W.m. DuRiNG ThE CEREmONy OF iNSTAllATiON

.m. to W.m. (immediately after the presentation of the By-laws).

II now have much pleasure in placing about your neck our ancient Hall Medal, which
was presented to the Lodge in 1781, being one of the first Lodges, together with nine
of its members, to subscribe to the repayment of the debt incurred in building the first
Freemasons’ Hall. Only seventeen Lodges remain whose Masters are entitled to wear it. In
most, it is attached to their Master’s Jewel but our Lodge has always worn it pendent to a
blue ribbon, owing to the special nature of our Jewels.
I also place about your neck the Hall-Stone Jewel of the Lodge, which was given to us
for supporting the gift of a new Temple, on the former site, in memory of those brethren
who fell in the 1914-1918 War.
These Jewels should always be worn as part of your Masonic clothing as Worshipful
Master of this Lodge and in your turn you will transfer them to your successor.
The wearing of these Jewels fulfills a double purpose. First, it provides visual evidence
that the Lodge has faithfully discharged its duty to the Craft in the past and secondly it
should ever be an inspiration to each Master to put Service before Self.

Plate 18 illustration oF old hall medal