File 66 820 G739+
Acquired October 2021
63 L698 824
Acquired July 2021
File 63 798 So678+
Acquired March 2021
Manuscript in multiple hands and records the names of new members and their supports as well as the election of officers of the Lodge from 1792-1813, with occasional summaries of expenses and minutes of specific meetings, including motions taken to fine members for a failure to behave according to Lodge rules p. On the first page of the manuscript are neatly tabulated the ‘Names – Trade or calling – Place of Abode – [and] When Enterd.’ It is quite clear that this was chiefly a professional class as the list includes three Watch Makers on this first page, but also a surgeon, a ‘H[ouse] Carpenter’, ‘Hair Dresser’, Victullar, Broker, Baker, Breeches maker and Joiner. In all 280 members are tabulated until the first phase of the Lodge petered out in 1797. The trades were all chiefly connected with Naval construction many being shipwrights, Sail Makers, Rope Makers, Founders, Bricklayers, Plumbers, Painters, Blacksmiths, Engravers, ‘Rigor’ with just a few Mariners, Coachmen, Gardners, Husbandmen, and quite a few more ‘Hair Dressers’ but only one Schoolmaster.
LWL Mss Vol. 265
Acquired May 2020
First line of text: Sir, your company is desired to dine with the president, vice presidents & governors of the Lying in Charity for married women at their own habitations on Wednesday the 29th of April …
Dated upper right: “London 11th April 1778.”
File 66 778 L984
Acquired July 2012
An invitation to a dinner with the president, vice president and governors of the Lying-in Charity at the Pauls Head Tavern, Cateaton Street. Includes a list of 12 stewards and the announces the date of the sermon to be preached by the Right Revd. Samuel Lord Bishop of Gloucester at St. Martin’s in the Fields.
File 66 786 L984
Acquired July 2011