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

Letter from Benjamin Gee, Worshipful Master, William Rowe, Senior Warden and William Young, Junior Warden at Brabourne Lees, Kent of the Lodge held in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, No. 262 to Robert Leslie, Grand Secretary expressing the concerns of Lodge members that no acknowledgement of donations to the Charity Fund were included in Grand Lodge's circular letters. Seek membership certificates for William Barry and former member, David Dobbin, which should have been sent to Jamaica. With draft reply by Robert Leslie apologising for not responding sooner, lists sums of money received from the Lodge and notes the two cetificates have been sent.

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.