Letter of Henry Liggan, former Secretary, Lodge at the White Hind Inn, Newark to...

Letter of Henry Liggan, West House, near Otley, Yorkshire, former Secretary, Lodge at the White Hind Inn, Newark to Robert Leslie informing the Grand Secretary about his departure from Newark nine months previously. Liggan resides about 18 miles from Leeds and 12 miles from Knaresborough where there are Moderns' lodges meeting but no Ancients' lodges. Seeks advice on the legality of visiting such lodges after receiving a circular from Grand Lodge concerning Moderns' lodges and membership. Liggan seeks support and advice about George Hunter, a flaxdresser, admitted as a freemason at a Lodge in Woolwich, London, who is experiencing mental illness and is under medical care at Knaresborough, Yorkshire. With draft note by Leslie mentioning that Hunter does not appear to have received a certificate from a Lodge and therefore the Grand Secretary did not answer the request.

This unnamed Lodge was granted a warrant by the Antients' Grand Lodge to meet as No. 107B at Newark in December 1806. The Lodge met at the White Hind Inn, Carter Gate, relocated to the White Lion Inn, Stodman Street in 1807 and met at the White Hind Inn, Carter Gate, Newark-?upon-?Trent, Nottinghamshire from 1808. The Lodge returned its warrant in January 1813 but was granted a number to meet as No. 132 after the union between the Antients' and Moderns' Grand Lodges in 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England. The Lodge appears in the Masonic Calendar for 1815, issued in 1814.