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It bears at the left-hand top corner the seal of the Grand Lodge. Immediately
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below the seal is “N. 502” the original number of the Lodge. In minute letters at
the bottom are the words “Tho. Harper, script.”

Plate 2 1977 CASE WITH THE THREE WARRANTS DISPLAYED.
It was from the older of the two principal Grand Lodges then at work in
England – the “Regular” or “Constitutional” Grand Lodge (“Moderns”) – that
the Lodge derived its warrant. The subject is referred to at greater length in
Chapter Five.
The minutes of the Lodge start with the meeting on 28 January 1814. A
minute-book for the whole, or at least a part, of the period between this date and
that of the warrant at one time existed, as will be seen, but no trace of it can now
be found. It may have been missing as early as 1829, for it is minuted under 12
May in that year that “A petition ... from Mr. Solomon Levien was read – but the