This Medal was struck by the Minden Lodge as a Centennial in 1848. The Lodge
was founded in 1748. It was granted to Lord George Sackville, Colonel Edward Cornwallis,
and Captain Milbourne. It was a Military Lodge attached to the 26th Regiment of Foot on
the Register of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. All the records of the transactions of the Lodge
from the date of the Warrant until 1802 have been lost, which is accounted for by the Regiment
having been constantly on the move from 1748, in consequence of the threatened invasion of
this country by France.
The Centenary was celebrated in 1848. At a meeting held on the 28th July, 1848, it
was resolved that a Medal be struck for each Member of the Lodge, showing the names of
the Worshipful M*aster and Wardens to whom the Warrant was originally granted, and also
the existing Members, and "the Worshipful Brother Past Master Capt. South undertook to devise
and procure a suitable frame" for the Ancient Warrant, showing the names as upon the Medals.
This Lodge is not mentioned in Lane's "Masonic Records 1717 — 1894", although there is
another Lodge of the same name enumerated therein, whose constitution was dated 15th July,
1816, as being attached to the "Fifty first Regiment of Foot", but that Warrant was returned
to Grand Lodge, and the Lodge was erased in 1843. The Medal is probably unique, the only
specimen known being in the Collection of the Grand Lodge of England.
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Plate IX.
No. 89.
Centenary Medal of the Grand Masters' Lodge,

Dublin, Ireland.
