Letter of Thomas Channon, Secretary, Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon...

Letter of Thomas Channon, Secretary, Lodge held in the First Regiment East Devon Militia, meeting at the Union Inn, Plymouth Dock, Devon to Robert Leslie, 28 Tokenhouse Yard, London, seeking the registration of two new members, John Laws Avent, a stone mason and Thomas Greenwood, a Sergeant in the 1st West Yorkshire Militia. Aks for certificates to be sent as soon as possible as the Regiment is under marching orders and sends a £2 note for the certificates and a donation to the Charity Fund. With a postscript requesting details concerning the proposed union with the Moderns' Grand Lodge received by other Antients' Lodges and seeking names of excluded members.

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.