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III. ThE CENTENArY WArrANT

LBERT EDWARD, CM.

A To the Master and Wardens and other Officers and Members of the
Lodge of the Nine Muses, No. 235, and all others whom is 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 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 bona fide subscribing Members