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92 An Account of the

Masters of the Lodge beginning with Sir Wm. Rawlins, and ending with Francis
Walsh. This is followed by a list of the number of bottles of wine drunk on these
occasions and at Richmond.
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The end-paper is ruled in columns in ink, the first headed “Mem . ”, the second
“No who dined”, the third “Bottles of wine drank”; the fourth column gives a
few of the places of meeting.
This curious table is reproduced below:
Bottles
Mem . a No who of wine
dined drank
1827 decembr 11 16 17
1828 Feby 12 18 18
March 11 13 14
April 8 16 21
May 13 13 16
June 24 ............................. Star and Garter Richmond
Novr 11 15 17
Decr 9 16 19
1829 Jany 13 Recreation Secretary
Feby 10 14 16
March 10 15 18
April 14 15 22
May 12 17 23
June. 24 Star and Garter
July 14 recreation Stamford Hill
Novr 10 19 26
decr 8 22 23
The page is ruled for more, but here unfortunately the list stops; all these lists
and tables are in Bro. Thornton’s handwriting; naturally there is no entry for the
night when he entertained the Lodge at his own house.
The number of bottles works out at six between five men – temperate for
those days.
So much of this work is unavoidably dry and pedestrian that it may be
pardonable to linger over these junketings longer, perhaps, than their relative