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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY .
GREAT QUEEN STREET AND VICINITY . ( Continued from page 34 ) . r T 1 HE average Londoner , who makes his Avay westward from Lincoln ' s-
- * - inn-fields via Great Queen Street , hardly bestows a thought on the many interesting associations that are connected with it . Wh y should he , iudeed ? Its houses are not palatial in appearance ; its shops , with a feAV exceptions , not particularly attractive , not such , at all events , as he would expect to find in what is , unquestionably , a
busy thoroughfare . There is , it is true , an air of substantiality about most of the houses and other buildings , as if a good deal of hard and remunerative work were done by the owners or occupiers . Nor is the neighbourhood a particularly odorous one . Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , according to the old Chronicler , was , and it may be admitted still
remains , " a very curious , spacious place , with an excellent air , and therefore garnished AA'ith three roAvs of very good houses . " But Drurv-lane , Great Wild-street , Parker ' s-street , and others we might
name , are not the localities which a reasonable person in search of fresh air Avould select for purposes of perambulation . Be this as it may , there are probably few who have visited the neighbourhood once who would care to repeat the visit , except on business , to join in some festivity at Freemasons' Tavern , or because , being members of the
Mystic Fraternity , they are desirous of exhibiting their interest in the work that is continually being done quietly , yet none the less efficiently , at its head-quarters all the year round . Either of these reasons is a very sufficient one ; but the last of the three it is that explains the deep interest we take in Great Queen-street and its
surroundings , be they the " curious , spacious place , " such as is Lincoln ' sinn-fields , or dingy , dismal , and out-at-elbows like Drury-lane . This , too , will explain why it is we have made it our business to rout up old records and make ourselves acquainted with some jjortion of its history , so that we may initiate our readers into some , at all events , of its numerous and interesting associations .
We remarked in our opening article that this particular locality appears , for reasons which we cannot pretend to exj ) laiii , to have from the very outset found favour Avith the members of the Craft . At the time our Grand Lodge was constituted Parker ' s-lane was the home of
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY .
GREAT QUEEN STREET AND VICINITY . ( Continued from page 34 ) . r T 1 HE average Londoner , who makes his Avay westward from Lincoln ' s-
- * - inn-fields via Great Queen Street , hardly bestows a thought on the many interesting associations that are connected with it . Wh y should he , iudeed ? Its houses are not palatial in appearance ; its shops , with a feAV exceptions , not particularly attractive , not such , at all events , as he would expect to find in what is , unquestionably , a
busy thoroughfare . There is , it is true , an air of substantiality about most of the houses and other buildings , as if a good deal of hard and remunerative work were done by the owners or occupiers . Nor is the neighbourhood a particularly odorous one . Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , according to the old Chronicler , was , and it may be admitted still
remains , " a very curious , spacious place , with an excellent air , and therefore garnished AA'ith three roAvs of very good houses . " But Drurv-lane , Great Wild-street , Parker ' s-street , and others we might
name , are not the localities which a reasonable person in search of fresh air Avould select for purposes of perambulation . Be this as it may , there are probably few who have visited the neighbourhood once who would care to repeat the visit , except on business , to join in some festivity at Freemasons' Tavern , or because , being members of the
Mystic Fraternity , they are desirous of exhibiting their interest in the work that is continually being done quietly , yet none the less efficiently , at its head-quarters all the year round . Either of these reasons is a very sufficient one ; but the last of the three it is that explains the deep interest we take in Great Queen-street and its
surroundings , be they the " curious , spacious place , " such as is Lincoln ' sinn-fields , or dingy , dismal , and out-at-elbows like Drury-lane . This , too , will explain why it is we have made it our business to rout up old records and make ourselves acquainted with some jjortion of its history , so that we may initiate our readers into some , at all events , of its numerous and interesting associations .
We remarked in our opening article that this particular locality appears , for reasons which we cannot pretend to exj ) laiii , to have from the very outset found favour Avith the members of the Craft . At the time our Grand Lodge was constituted Parker ' s-lane was the home of