Here is a selection of the records held at UGLE in the Library at Freemason’s Hall.
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Here is a selection of the records held at UGLE in the Library at Freemason’s Hall.
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Lodge 55 1801 Return, Star & Garter, Paddington.
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Return for Lodge 55, Loyal Vacation Lodge, Began year at The Fountain Inn Wiveliscombe, Somerset Ended year at Freemasons Hall , Wiveliscombe
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Star & Garter, Paddington
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1800
Vacation Lodge, No. 55A [erased], London
Annual returns giving names, professions and residence of members of the Vacation Lodge [Moderns], 1800-1801, 2 docs.
Ref: GBR 1991 AR/195
1737
Minute and subscription account book of Vacation Lodge, No. 148, London, ref: GBR 1991 ELM/1201
9 February 1737 – 16 June 1769
1737
Minute and quarterly subscriptions book of Vacation Lodge, No. 148, London [SN 195] includes minutes between 9 February 1737 and 16 April 1747 and 18 November 1751 to 11 November 1757, with lists of members attending meetings from 15 August 1760 to 16 June 1769. Also includes details of quarterly subscription payments by members from 1730 until 1757
1776
List of petitioners to the Moderns Grand Lodge Committee of Charity, ref: GBR 1991 HC 12/C/83
William Lang, a mason for fifteen years requests financial support as he is ill and has problems. He has lost the use of his limbs, leaving him unable to work and be self-sufficient. Recommended by Vacation Lodge, No. 75 [SN 195], London, 1776
1730
Moderns’ Grand Lodge Committee of Charity index of petitioners, ref: GBR 1991 MOD 4/2/1
13 November 1730 – 19 November 1813
Petition for William Tanner, a bankrupt, recommended by Vacation Lodge, No. 55 [SN 195], London
1786
Moderns’ Grand Lodge Committee of Charity minute book, Ref. code: GBR 1991 MOD 4/1/2
27 January 1786 – 19 November 1813
Complaint by [?] Rich against [?] Brackstone, Worshipful Master, Vacation Lodge, No. 55 [SN 195], London for refusing to grant a membership certificate to [John Jacob Henry?] Donner, who departed England before paying his subscription arrears, which was then issued;
Loyal Vacation Lodge, No. 67 [SN 1398], Dulverton, Somerset:
LF SN 1398 Lodge File
1802
Annual returns of Loyal Vacation Lodge, No. 67 [erased] Dulverton, ref: GBR 1991 AR/1398
5 docs, 1802 – 1812
1779
Minute books of Loyal Vacation Lodge, No. 67 [erased], Dulverton
GBR 1991 ELM/1290. 1779 – 1859
Bye-laws of the Loyal Vacation Lodge, No. 76, Wivelscombe, ref: BE 167 (76) LOY
1812
Loyal Address from Loyal Vacation Lodge, No. 55 to George, Prince Regent, ref: GBR 1991 LA 1/1/6a-b 1812. Signed by William Jenkins, Worshipful Master, John Waldron, Senior Warden, Joseph Clarke, Junior Warden, William Ternlett, Past Master, Charles Marsh, Secretary, J. Gherin, Provincial Grand Chaplain and Henry Sully, Past Grand Senior Warden.
1818
Loyal Address from Loyal Vacation Lodge, No. 76, to the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master, ref: GBR 1991 LA 1/2/11
1818. Signed by members of the Lodge including William Jenkins, Worshipful Master, James Waldron, Past Master, Henry [Dully], Past Master, William Hancock, Senior Warden and L. Wist, Junior Warden.
1813
Post-1813 Annual returns, 1813 – 1862