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Letter from officers of the Lodge held in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, No. 262 to Robert...

Catalogue reference: AR/1379/24

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AR/1379/24

Title

Letter from officers of the Lodge held in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, No. 262 to Robert Leslie, Grand Secretary

Date

3 November 1810

Description

Letter from William Rowe, Worshipful Master, William Young, Senior Warden, Thomas Smyth, Junior Warden and John Leech, Secretary of the Lodge held in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, No. 262 at Brabourne Lees, Kent to Robert Leslie seeking a membership certificate and registration for [John] Woodhouse Martin, surgeon, who has been 'called away on service'.

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Museum of Freemasonry
Creator(s)
Rowe, William
Physical description

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Administrative / biographical background

This unnamed lodge was established on 1 January 1801 as No. 298(B) by the Antients' Grand Lodge. It was a travelling military lodge based in the 1st Battalion of the Eighty-fifth Regiment. In 1801 the regiment was based in Jersey, where the lodge met at an unknown location. In 1803 the Lodge relocated with the Regiment to Stoney Hill, Jamaica, West Indies. When the Regiment returned to England in 1809, the Lodge met in barracks at Brabourne Lees and Hythe, Kent and at Ottery St. Mary, Devon. After 1814, a year after the union between the Antients' and Moderns' Grand Lodges to form the United Grand Lodge of England, the Lodge was renumbered as No. 379 and represented members from all battalions of the Eighty-fifth Regiment. The Lodge was renumbered again to meet as No. 262 in 1832. The movements of the Regiment and Lodge after 1814 are unclear although they met on St. Vincent's, West Indies, in 1845. The warrant was returned on 3 August 1846 by order of the Regiment's commanding officer and the Lodge was erased.

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Letter from officers of the Lodge held in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, No. 262 to Robert Leslie, Grand Secretary