L. B. charges the entrance fee of William Paschal.

1733, April 5, Boston. The Boston Weekly News Letter has an account of a Grand Lodge meeting in London on January 15, 1732/3. | rea
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1733, April 6, Annapolis, Maryland. The Maryland Gazette contains the following item:
London, Dec. 16. Yefterday Seven-night, there was a Grand Committee of Free and Accepted Mafons, from feveral Lodges, at the Horn Tavern in Palace-yard, Weftmin{ter, to confider of raifing a Sum of Money, by Subfcription, for the Reléef of their poor Brethren, throughout Britain and Ireland. If in this, they meet with good Succefs, it will convince the Werld that there is fome real Merit in the Mafon Word.
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Why these Masonic newspaper items in Annapolis unless the Brethren were meeting there also ‘according to the Old Customs” ?