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40 An Account of the

1841
Jan 8 Arden R. E. Summoned
Clarkson do.
Browne Br W.M.Officer
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Arden Jos Treas
Finney – SD
Twynam JD
Pilcher DC.
All these are in Bro. Crew’s handwriting. The last two pages are blank.
In the third book the actual minutes do not begin until p. 10. The first entry
on the first page is “Dawes Br – 18 Bullers Place, Horsley Down”. Bro. Dawes was
the Tyler from 1834 to 1861. Then on another line “Fines instituted 9th March
1841”. Below this is a line across the· page, and below this again a list of members
for 1858. The second page is occupied by lists of members for 1848, 1850-1
and 1853-4-5-6, the third by a list of members for 1836, carefully corrected and
annotated, and the fourth by an undated list similarly treated. On the fifth page
are lists of officers for 1837 and 1842 with notes of their rotation, and below them
the curious table of rotations printed in Chapter Seven. The sixth page has lists
of members for 1841 and 1857; the seventh the list for 1851 carried over-page.
At the top of the eighth page, in pencil, “1845/Feb 11/Rotation/Kersey/
Pocock/Scales”, with a line below; on the ninth a list of members for 1861. As
will be seen the lists are in no intelligible order and all are crossed out, altered and
annotated with dates of the conferring of degrees, of joinings or resignations, or
merely “dead” or “abroad”, quite promiscuously.
Most of this too is in Bro. Crew’s unmistakable hand.
The last two pages are filled with an inventory dated 10 April 1894.
The fourth minute-book is without these vagaries, but inside the front
cover is pasted a half-tone reproduction of a photograph depicting nine rather
lackadaisical young females, long-haired and draped, save for one bare back, with
Victorian decorum, grouped in silvan surroundings and patently bored and
uneasy. Beneath are the words “FABLE BY PHOTOGRAPHY NO. 4. THE NINE MUSES
Edwin Neame, New Era Photograph.”