Page 30 - Centennial Sketch of the History of the Lodge of Nine Muses No. 235. 1777 to 1877 UGLE

IV. EXTrACT frOM ‘The Freemasons’ magazine’
February, 1796.

Pp. 75-76
s OME ACCOuNT of the Lodge of the Nine Muses, with an elegant

engraving of the Master’s Jewel.

On the 14th January, 1777, a Meeting was held at the “Thatched
House Tavern”, st. James’s street, by the following: ~

BRETHREN:

John Hull, Esq., as R.W.M.
Raphael Franco, Esq., as s.W.
The Rev. Dr. William Dodd,* as J.W.
Robert Biggin, Esq., as Treasurer, and
The Chevalier Bartholomew Ruspini.

VIsITORs:

Richard Barker, Esq.
William Porter, Esq.
Jean Baptiste Cipriani, Esq.
~. Borghi, Esq.

On the 23rd following, having obtained permission of the Grand Master to
assemble as Masons, and to make and raise Masons, till a constitution could be
made out, Brother Cipriani was raised to the degree of a Master Mason.
At this meeting Brother Biggin very generously offered to furnish a Bible
and Jewels; at the same time Brother Cipriani engaged to suggest suitable and
proper designs.

* He was expelled on the 13th February following, “having behaved unbecoming a man of
honour and a Mason.”