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Letter of Thomas Channon, Secretary of the Lodge held in the First Regiment East...
Catalogue reference: AR/998/47
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AR/998/47
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Title (The name of the record)
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Letter of Thomas Channon, Secretary of the Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter
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Date (When the record was created)
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10 May 1803
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letter of Thomas Channon, Secretary of the Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, to Robert Leslie, Grand Secretary, stating that the regiment will soon be moving from Exeter so the Lodge will be leaving with them. Several Lodge members stationed in Exeter wish to form another lodge and request details about obtaining a new or revised warrant. This request was approved and Chosen Friends Lodge, No. 293, Exeter [SN 1421] was granted a warrant..
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Museum of Freemasonry
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Channon, Thomas
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 letter
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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.
Chosen Friends Lodge, No. 293B, Exeter [SN 1421] was granted a warrant by the Antients' Grand Lodge on 21 May 1803 and met at the Vine Inn, Alphington Street, St. Thomas, Exeter, Devonshire. It was renumbered after the union between the Moderns' and the Antients' Grand Lodges to form the United Grand Lodge of England in 1814 to meet as No. 372. The Lodge relocated in 1825 to meet at the Courtenay Arms, Starcross, Devonshire but was erased in 1829.
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Record URL
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AR/998
Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter
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Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter
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Letter of Thomas Channon, Secretary of the Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter