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Letter of John Mansfield, Secretary, Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon...

Catalogue reference: AR/998/76

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AR/998/76

Title

Letter of John Mansfield, Secretary, Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter

Date

22 January 1813

Description

Letter of J[ohn] Mansfield, Secretary, Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, meeting at Lichfield, Staffordshire to Robert Leslie, 28 Tokenhouse Yard, London, informs the Grand Secretary that a membership certificate sent should read John Sparkes and requests a replacement. Thanks Leslie for the other certificate received for Brother Clarke and requests a copy of the Illustrations of Masonry by William Preston.

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Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter
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1 letter

Administrative / biographical background

A Lodge meeting in the 1st Regiment of the East Devon Militia was granted a warrant by the Antients' Grand Lodge to meet as No. 216(A) on 24 October 1781. The Lodge met at Roborough Down, Devon but the regiment was soon on the move. The Regiment was stationed usually within counties along the South Coast but it also spent some time in Gloucestershire?, Staffordshire and Ireland. In 1817 the Regiment settled at Exeter, Devon, where the Lodge met at the Golden Ball inn, Mary Arches Street. In 1830 the Lodge relocated to the Market House Inn, Guinea Street, Exeter, where it continued to meet until it was erased in 1835.

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Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter

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Letter of John Mansfield, Secretary, Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter