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Note by Robert Clark, member of a Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia,...
Catalogue reference: AR/998/65
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AR/998/65
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Title (The name of the record)
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Note by Robert Clark, member of a 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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[c. March 1790]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Note written by Robert Clark, Drum Major, 1st East Devon Militia Regiment and a member of the Lodge No. 216 meeting at the Mermaid Tavern, Preston Street, Exeter seeks news about the lodge. Asks that the Grand Lodge return is sent to him at the Post Office, Reigate, Surrey where the Regiment is now located.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Museum of Freemasonry
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter
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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.
Robert Clark was initiated as a member in the Lodge meeting in the 1st Regiment of East Devon Militia, No. 216 on 19 June 1783, when it was meeting at the Mermaid Inn, Exeter. The Secretary mentions that the Lodge moved from Reigate to Dover by July 1793. Therefore this note may have been written between 1783 and 1793 but is not dated.
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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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Note by Robert Clark, member of a Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, No. 193 [erased], Exeter