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CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTORY .............................................................................7
CHAPTER TWO EARLY HISTORY ............................................................................ 10
Plate 1 Original Warrant as mounted prior to 1977 .................................................. 12
Plate 2 1977 Case with the three Warrants displayed. ................................................. 13
Plate 3 Lodge Certificate of Bro. Solomon Levien 1801 ............................................ 15
CHAPTER THREE THE MINUTES............................................................................. 29
CHAPTER FOUR MEETING-PLACES ......................................................................... 42
Table 1 List of meeting places ............................................................................... 42
CHAPTER FIVE MEMBERSHIP ................................................................................. 49
CHAPTER SIX FINANCE ......................................................................................... 62
CHAPTER SEVEN WORK ........................................................................................ 71
Table 2 Bye laws of 1824 ...................................................................................... 78
CHAPTER EIGHT RECREATION .............................................................................. 83
CHAPTER NINE BENEVOLENCE .............................................................................. 94
CHAPTER TEN THE TABLE ..................................................................................... 98
Plate 4 Loving Cup presented in 1899 .................................................................. 108
Plate 5 Alms Box, Cigar Box, Two of th Pre-WWII Firing Glasses, Overseas
Loving Cup and One of the Ivory Gavels .......................................................... 110
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE FURNITURE OF THE LODGE .............................................. 112
Plate 6 (a) S.W’s. Chair (b) W.M’s. Chair ............................................................... 120
Plate 7 Candle sticks and Columns ...................................................................... 121
CHAPTER TWELVE THE JEWELS ............................................................................. 125
Plate 8a Apollo - W.M. Plate 8b Apollo - I.P.M. ................................................... 127
Plate 8c - S.W. Plate 8b - J.W. ........................................................................... 127
Plate 9a - Treasurer, Plate 9b - Secretary .............................................................. 128
Plate 9c Mecrury - M.C. ................................................................................... 128
Plate 10 The Jewel worm by the P.M. of the Lodge of Symbolic Masons. ................... 130
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE BOOKS AND PICTURES ................................................... 140
Plate 11 Page from the Signature Book .............................................................. 143
Plate 12 Bro G. B. Cipriani, 1727 – 1782 From a copy of the self-portait in the
Uffizi Galleries, Florence ................................................................................ 147
CHAPTER FOURTEEN CELEBRATIONS .................................................................... 150
CHAPTER FIFTEEN MISCELLANY ........................................................................... 159
Plate 13 Bro Walter Webb, P.G.D. ......................................................................... 170
APPENDIX A List of Members of the Lodge of the Nine Muses, no. 235 ..................... 173
APPENDIX B List of Members of the Lodge of Rural Friendship,No. 350 .................. 223
NOTE thereto ..................................................................................................... 224
APPENDIX C Lodge of the Nine Muses, No. 235 List of Masters and other Officers ........ 226
APPENDIX D List of Tylers of the Lodge of the Nine Muses ...................................... 234
APPENDIX E Current Bye-laws. ........................................................................... 235