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FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,

GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."-CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

THIRD SERIES.-VOLUME SECOND.

JULY-DECEMBER, 1862.

LONDON:

BELL & DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET.
1862.

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LONDON SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1862.

CONTENTS- No. 27.

observed in the choice of their members. They
had a president, a secretary, an examiner, and
two stewards. When there was a call of serjeants,
that is, on their first admission, they were to at-
Théroigne de Méricourt, 2-Lowndes's Bibliographer's tend in their coifs and proper habit of the order,

“ Τὶ ἐστὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου ;

"Do you bear true allegiance to His Majesty?

"Are you a member of the Church of England as by

law established?

"Will you be faithful to your friends in prosperity,

and cherish them in adversity?

"Do you desire to be admitted a member of this

Society?

"Will you faithfully observe the rules and orders that

have been read to you?

"Will you, upon the honour of a gentleman, keep the
secrets of the Society, and the form of your admission
into it?"

From the period of the revival of the Society
until its dissolution, there were three presidents:
Colonel William Barlow was the first; at his
death, Richard Gwynne, Esq., of Taliaris, was
elected president; and the first meeting under his
auspices was held at Tenby, on the 2nd of June,
1733. Mr. Gwynne died in 1752; and at a meet-
ing of the Society, held at Swansea on the 13th of
June in the same year, Sir John Philipps, Bart., of
Picton Castle, was elected in his stead. In the year
1754, when Sir John Philipps was candidate for
the city of Bristol, his being at that time presi-
dent of the Society of Sea-serjeants was made
the subject of various invectives, and tortured
every way to prejudice him with the citizens;
which drew forth the following answer from the

honourable baronet :·

"I acknowledge that I am of that ancient Society,
which is composed of gentlemen of the first rank and
fortune in Wales: gentlemen who are as good and as
well affected subjects as any in His Majesty's whole
dominions, and whose delight it always will be to see
great Prince, and a free and flourishing people, mutuo

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