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of the matter. You will see by the inclosed that we relinquish all claim to the
candlesticks, we only think the ‘Nine Muses’ might have acted with less rudenefs.
Their conduct on the occasion was not such as would have been expected from
such accomplished ladies
I am Dear Sir
Grays Inn Place
11th January 1814 Yrs truly
To Fred . Turner Esq
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Secretary to the lodge of the Nine Muses STRAT: Robinson.”
The following is the extract of Proceedings referred to in the foregoing letter
of Mr Robinson viz “Extract from the minutes of the Prince of Wales’s Lodge at
a meeting held the 3rd June 1813.
The Report of the Committee on the subject of the Candlesticks presented
to the lodge by Bro . Ruspini was read when the following resolutions by the
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R.W.M. were proposed and unanimously carried. First ‘That the lodge finding
from the report of their Committee that by persisting in their claim to the
Candlesticks in question they may probably involve their Bro . Ruspini in an
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unpleasant dispute with the members of the lodge of nine Muses do therefore
relinquish all claim thereto, at the same time entertaining and being anxious to
exprefs towards their Brother Ruspini the same grateful respect and attachment
as if his munificent Donation had remained in their hands.’ Secondly ‘That the
lodge cannot conclude this matter without exprefsing their very great regret that
the lodge of the nine muses should not have thought it expedient in the first
instance to have offered a temperate and amiable representation to them on the
subject in dispute and they feel it due to themselves and to the Society of free and
accepted Masons in general, to exprefs their strongest indignation at the forcible
and hostile measures resorted to by the members of that lodge for securing to
themselves the pofsefsion of the articles in question, measures equally inconsistent
with the principles of the masonic Institution and the liberality, courtesy, respect,
and decency, the observance of which should invariably regulate the conduct of
Masons’ Third ‘That copies of the above Resolution be sent to the lodge of the