Page 151 - An account of the Lodge of Nine Muses No. 235. 1777 to 2012UGLE

Lodge of the Nine Muses 151

ALBERT EDWARD, G.M.
To the Master and Wardens and other Officers and Members of the Lodge
of Nine Muses, No. 235, and all others whom it may concern.

GREETING. Whereas, it appears by the Records of the Grand Lodge, that on the 25th day
of March, 1777, a Warrant of Constitution was granted to certain Brethren therein named,
authorising and empowering them and their regular Successors to hold a Lodge of Free
and Accepted Masons, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James’ Street, London, and which
Lodge was then registered in the Books of the Grand Lodge as No. 502. But in consequence
of the Union of the two Grand Lodges, and the formation of the United Grand Lodge on
the 27th December, 1813, it became No. 421; since which, owing to the general closing up
of the numbers in 1832 and 1863, it has become and now stands on the Register as No. 235,
meeting at Long’s Hotel, Old Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, under the Title or
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Denomination of THE LODGE OF THE NINE MUSES.
AND WHEREAS the Brethren composing the said Lodge are desirous, when it has
completed the CENTENARY of its existence, on the 25th day of March, 1877, to be
permitted to wear a JEWEL Commemorative of such Event, and have prayed our sanction
for that purpose.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, having taken the subject into our consideration, have acceded
to their request, and in virtue of our prerogative DO HEREBY GIVE AND GRANT
to all and each of the actual subscribing Members of the said Lodge, being MASTER
MASONS, permission to wear, in all MASONIC MEETINGS, suspended to the left breast
by a sky blue ribbon, not exceeding one inch and a-half in breadth, a JEWEL or MEDAL,
of the pattern or device that we have already approved of, as a CENTENARY JEWEL. But
such Jewel is to be worn only by those Brethren who are bonâ fide subscribing Members of
the said Lodge, and for so long only as each shall pay his regular stipulated subscription to the
Funds thereof, and be duly returned as such to the Grand Lodge of England.
GIVEN at LONDON, this 6th day of April, A.L. 5877, A.D. 1877.
By Command of the M.W., GRAND MASTER, His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF
WALES, K.G., &c., &c., &c.
JOHN HERVEY, G.S.

60 Actually in New Bond Street. (then).????