Letter of Matthew Cowper junior, Secretary, Lodge of Inhabitants, Gibraltar to William...

Letter from Matthew Cowper, Secretary, Lodge of Inhabitants, Gibraltar [Moderns] to William White, Grand Secretary, acknowledging receipt of a letter and the annual Freemasons' Calendar and copies of the Quarterly Communications for the previous three years and confirming that all correspondence will be sent to the Rev [William Martin] Leake, District Grand Master, to prevent future miscarriages. The letter is sent to London with seven Pounds by Alexander Adams, with three Pounds and ten Shillings intended for the Grand Charity and the remainder as initiation and registration fees for fourteen new members. Confirms the Lodge meets the first Thursday in each calendar month. Delighted to hear about the flourishing state of freemasonry in England and the admission of HRH the Prince of Wales as a member in a letter sent to the Rev Leake.

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Lodge of Inhabitants was granted a warrant to meet as No. 285 by the Moderns' Grand Lodge on 12 July 1762. It met at an unknown location in Gibraltar. In 1770 the Lodge was renumbered as No. 231, as No. 185 in 1780, as No. 186 in 1781 and as No. 159 in 1792. No membership subscriptions or charity fund payments were received from the Lodge after 1800. Therefore it was erased after the union between the Moderns' and Antients' Grand Lodges to form the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813.