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102 An Account of the

[14 March 1837] The businefs of the day was concluded and the Lodge closed
in solemn prayer when the Members retired to a Banquet and enjoyed the
evening with Masonic affection and hilarity.
Bro. Crew’s minutes usually end in this way, but seldom twice alike: [12 March
1839] ... the brethren ... pafsed the evening in harmony and brotherly feeling
afsisted by the profefsional ability and kindnefs of Brothers Parry and Fitzwilliam.
(The second name should actually be Fitzwilliams.)
These Brothers appear thus in the list of those present:
Visittors Introduced by
Br. Parry No 2 profefs. W.M.
Br. Fitzwilliam ,, ,, W.M.

These Brothers belonged to a body of professional musicians attached to the
Lodge of Antiquity, No. 2, and known as Honorary Members of the Second Class.
The writer has to thank R. W. Bro. Sir Kynaston Studd, the present Secretary,
for calling his attention to passages in the printed History of the Lodge of
Antiquity bearing on the matter.
Persons who had enabled the Lodge to acquire, either by purchase or gift, its
collection of songs, glees, catches, etc., were:
elected Hon. Members for the purpose of forming a choir during the ceremonies,
and of singing after the banquet. These generally numbered about 15, and included
John Parry, the elder, Richard Clark and T. L. Bellamy, who had both published
collections of glees, and Samuel Wesley, G. Organist. [All or whom were of sufficient
importance to be included in the Dictionary of National Biography.] We find also
in the Minutes of May 21, 1813, that 14 Brethren were initiated and admitted
as members “to assist the Musical Department”. Their names are entered in the
Grand Lodge Register, where it is stated that they were Members of the Band
belonging to· H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, and were admitted as Serving Brethren of
the Lodge. They are only once more mentioned in the Minutes, when, on January
25, 1815, at four o’clock, the Band of the Lodge being in attendance, His Royal
Highness the G.M. entered as Master of the Lodge and took his seat.