Letter of John Wallace, Worshipful Master, Hirsel Lodge to Robert Leslie

Letter of John Wallace, Worshipful Master in Newcastle-​upon-​Tyne to Robert Leslie asking the Grand Secretary if he received the last letter and three bank notes from Hirsel Lodge, as no acknowledgment has been sent. Endorsed with draft reply from Robert Leslie mentioning the earlier letter sent from Kilmarnock, Scotland but apologising for omitting the payment details in the last Quarterly Communications circular report from Grand Lodge. Leslie also sends regulations about the Grand Charity.

Hirsel Lodge was granted a travelling warrant as No. 237B by the Antients Grand Lodge on 28 March 1811 and named in 1814. After the Antients' and Moderns' Grand Lodges formed a Union in 1813 as the United Grand Lodge of England, the Lodge was renumbered as No. 297.  The Lodge was a military lodge meeting in the Berwickshire Regiment of Militia. The Lodge travelled with the regiment, which in 1811 was stationed at Woodbridge, Suffolk. Although the complete movements of the regiment are unknown, it appears to have spent some time in Edinburgh in 1812 and at Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1813. There are no entries for the Lodge after 1814 and it was erased in 1820.