Some Memorials Of The Globe Lodge, No . 23, And Of The "Red Apron."

said to have been designed by him and to have been worn by Grand Stewards and Past Grand Stewards for many years . Dr . Anderson , in his brief summary of the Grand Lodge proceedings on the nth of December , 1735 , says that the Grand Stewards appeared with their new Badges the first time . By the term " new Badges " I assume he alluded to the jewel which the Stewards had recently obtained permission to wear .

Personally I have every reason for believing in this tradition , as well as in the following , which was told me many years ago by an old member of the Grand Stewards Lodge , now deceased . In the first minute book of the Grand Stewards Lodge there was a drawing of this jewel by Hogarth himself , and

that some unprincipled vandal had stolen it . As , however , the minute book itself has now vanished , we can neither prove nor disprove the statement . I have seen these jewels of various periods , from 1773 to 1795 , and I believe that still older and more recent ones are in existence .

In consequence of the gap in the register , before referred to , I am unable to complete and connect the chain of identification of Red Apron Lodges between the early and the latter part of the iSth century with positive certainty , but in the year 1775 we are on firm ground , and from that period my

task is comparatively easy , for in the oldest minute book of the Board of Grand Stewards that has come under my notice , I find on the first page the following

record" Lodges that had Red Aprons in 1775 . " Somerset House Lodge ( present No . 4 ) 3 "Royal Lodge ( united with the Alpha , No . 16 ) ... 2 " Lodge of Friendship ( present No . 6 ) ... ... 2 " St . Alban's ( present No . 29 ) ... ... ... 1 " Pons ( present No . 28 ) ... ... ... ... 1

"Mourning Bush ( present No . 21 ) ... ... 1 " Crown and Rolls ( present No . 23 ) ... ... 1 "Angel in the Minories ( erased in 1800 ) ... r " 12 " The next page gives the names of the Stewards for 1775 , as well as those of the brethren they succeeded , with the names of their different lodges in the following

order"Present Board . Who they succeeded . From what Lodge . C . Frederick , Esq . R . Butler . Lodge of Friendship . T . T . Tutt . A . Dow . Pons Coffee House . W . White . J . Hatch , Esq . Somerset House Lodge . H . Fowke . Thos . Fowke . do .

S . Sayre . T . Martin . St . Albans . T . Lynch . Minshall . Royal Lodge . A . Murray . G . Durant . do . Wm . Smith . Wm . Atkinson . P . Simonds . Mourning Bush .

A . McKowl . R . Barker . Crown and Rolls , No . 16 J . Turner . R . Templer . Angel in the Minories . J . Littlehales . Lodge of Friendship . "

It will be seen from the foregoing that in 1775 there were but eight Red Apron Lodges , the Royal Somerset House Lodge sending three Stewards to the Grand Festival , the Lodge of Friendship two , the Royal Lodge two , and the remainder one each . I have every reason to believe that at this period the Stewards nominated as their successors a

member of the same lodge , and in the event of the brother so nominated declining to act , then the Board proceeded to elect another brother in his place . As far back as 1765 we find two members of the Globe Lodge in the list of the Grand Stewards for that year , but

whether they both represented that Lodge or one of them stood for some other Lodge , it is now impossible to decide . Unfortunately the minutes of the Grand Stewards proceedings are not continuous , there being gaps between the years 1775 and 1787 , and between the year last named and 1797 ;

but by other means I have been able to ascertain that this Lodge has been represented by a Steward at the Grand Festivals in 1765 , 1770 , and every year from 1774 down to the present time , indeed I see no reason whatever to doubt that it has preserved the privilege of the " Red Apron " continuously since Charles Trinquand served as its Grand Steward in 1731 .

The actual " Red Apron" Lodges at the time of the Union , 1813 , were as follows : — Xlimber of Sleii'ards . Lodge of Antiquity , No . 1 now No . 2 ... 1 Somerset House Lodge , No . 2 ,, „ 4 ... 3

Lodge of Friendship , No . 3 ,, ,, 6 ... 2 Lodge of Emulation , No . 12 ,, ,, 21 ... 1 Globe Lodge , No . 14 „ ,, 2 3 ... 1 Corner Stone Lodge , No . 26 ,, „ 5 ... 1 Old King ' s Arms Lodge , No . 21 ,, ,, 28 ... 1

Lodge of Regularit } -, No . 117 ,, ,, 91 ... 1 Shakespeare Lodge , No . 131 ,, ,, 99 •••1 0 12

The Stewards for the Festival in honour of the Installation of H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex on the 2 nd May , 1814 , were Past Grand Stewards nominated by the W . Master of the Grand Stewards Lodge at the command of the Grand Master , who gave strict injunctions that they were not to

allow their expenses to exceed the amount of money received for the tickets , which on this occasion were to be One Guinea each . The Grand Master nominated the Lodges who were to return Grand Stewards for the Festival in 1815 , by adding

nine others to the above mentioned , making 18 in all , each to be represented by one Grand Steward . ( To be Continued ) .

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