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SCG-C.737.020
2-9 Apr 1737:22 (167)
Paris, January 2. On the 27th of last month, being the
festival of St. John the Evangelist, there was held at the
Great St. Germain in the Street of Paon, a general assembly
of the most ancient and honourable society of Free-Masons,
in order to proceed to the election of a Grand Master.
After the ordinary ceremonies, they proclaimed with great
acclamations the (pretended) High and Mighty Lord Sir James
Maclean, Knight and Baronet of Scotland, who had been
continued in that honourable charge by election for several
years, to the satisfaction of the Society. Upon that
occasion there was a magnificent feast, where many persons,
to the number of sixty, appear'd in the habits of ceremony,
and went in coaches to the great lodge; when after the
entertainment, the proclamation of the Grand Master and his
officers was accompany'd with a general applause, under the
sound of trumpets, kettle-drums, and hunting-horns, followed
by a concert of vocal and instrumental musick. The festival
being ended to the contentment of the whole assembly, each
lodge returned home in the same manner as they came.
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