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Those Arms were borne by Sir William Cavendish, second husband of Bess of Hardwick, and by her second son, Sir William Cavendish, created Baron Cavendish in 1605 and Earl of Devonshire in 1618. The fourth Earl was raised to Dukedom in 1694 whereupon the Arms were added to as follows: "Supporters on either side;
a buck proper wreathed about the neck The motto "Cavendo tutus" is a play on the name Cavendish and means "Safe by being cautious", or, as more liberally expressed by the poet, Dryden: "The wise are ever on their guard, |
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For some inexplicable reason - the earliest Minutes of the Lodge meetings are quite silent on this point - whilst the arms depicted on both the old and new Banners are correct, the Arms as displayed on the Summons of the 12th October 1904 for the Ceremony of the Constitution of Consecration of the Lodge, and on every other Summons since that date, and as displayed above, have lost the 'crest a serpent nowed proper'. Also, contrary to the present Arms, the Arms on every such Summons have acquired around the 'sable three stage heads' the motto 'Honi soit qui mali pense'. The reason for this is no doubt because the Eighth Duke was a member of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and was permitted to display the motto of the order. |
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In 1909 the Lodge reached an agreement with Scarsdale Lodge No. 81, and, the necessary alterations to the By-laws having been granted, from 7th May 1909 onwards the Lodge has met at the Masonic Hall, Chesterfield At that time and for many years earlier, Scarsdale displayed its banner. No doubt this gave our founder members food for thought, because, at a regular lodge held on 6th May 1910 at 7.30 p.m. - the lateness of the hour did not seem to trouble our Founders - a sub-committee was appointed "to take in hand the purchasing of a Banner". At the installation Meeting on Friday, 7th October 1910 W. Bro. H. Eustace Edmunds "reported the purchase of the Lodge Banner and formally delivered the same into the custody of the Worshipful Master asking him to accept it on behalf of the Lodge". That Worshipful Master was Brother, the Reverend Larret Pearson Sayles, the Vicar of New Whittington, initiated in this Lodge on 18th November 1904. There is no record of such a ceremony as we are holding today. It is presumed that the Banner graced this Temple from then on. Whether it was paraded at Provincial Grand Lodge is not recorded. However, over the passage of time, the Banner having deteriorated, in 1953 it required repair, and this was done by the Royal School of Needlework at a cost of Sixteen Guineas. Ten years later the condition of the banner was causing concern, and so in 1963 the late Bro. Cyril H. Bird presented the Lodge with a "dust proof frame" for which he was warmly thanked, and today you see the original Banner over the Junior Warden's pedestal in its "dust proof frame". |
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In recent years the ceremony of parading Banners at Provincial Grand Lodge has been introduced. Clearly, the original Banner could not be paraded, and so the Lodge, very much at the instigation of our late Secretary, of happy memory, Worshipful Brother R. V. Cutts D. F. C., P. Pr. G. Reg., decided to obtain a second portable Banner. A Banner fund was established. Mrs Margaret Cutts, Bro. Cutts' widow, most generously donated the materials for, and organised a team of Ladies to make, this new Banner by copying the old banner. The Lodge acknowledges with gratitude its indebtedness to Mrs. Cutts and her team of Ladies for the high quality of a Banner which, in some measure, is a memorial to the late Bro. Cutts. |
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Finally, the Lodge thanks most warmly W. Bro. F. I. Ellis, P. Pr. G. Reg. of Cestrefeld Lodge No 3889 and Bro. L. Hardwick, P. Pr. G. Org., the one for the poles to carry the Banner, and the other for the box in which to store it. W. Bro. G. A. Hotter P. Pr. S. G. W. |
