Fine Antique Silver & Objects of Vertu
No. Z015
George III Silver Masonic Jewel
Made by Crispin Fuller
London 1796
Diameter 2" (5cm); Weight 0.6 troy oz (19g)
Price £4,400.00
Engraved
LIONEL SELF, LYNN REGIS
AM 5796 SIT LUXE TLUX FUIT AD 1796
&
THE LODGE OF STRICT BENEVOLENCE
CONSTITUTED APRIL 5, 1796, No.552
Notes & Condition Report
A very rare Masonic jewel
The Lynn Regis (Kings Lynn) Lodge of Strict Benevolence was founded on 5th April 1796.
Meetings were held at the Maid’s Head, Tuesday Market Place.
The Lodge only lasted for a few years, lapsing in about 1803.
The Lynn Masons then merged with the Wisbech Lodge of Strict Benevolence, constituted in 1805.
The jewel is beautifully hand pierced and engraved
Good hallmarks and condition
Without damage or repair
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Lionel Self
Lionel Self was 22 years of age and a seaman when he joined the lodge in 1796.
However, he later became Mayor of Kings Lynn in 1814 and several times again after that.
Here is an extract from local records from 1814:
“Another serious riot originated among the Lynn sailors in a strike for wages. The ringleaders were apprehended and lodged in gaol.
The infuriated mob dispossessed the special constables of their staves, and procuring a huge piece of timber, they improvised a battering-ram
and proceeded to charge the prison door. But the mayor Lionel Self interposed his own august person, shouting,
“I have charge of this place; no one shall break these doors, except through the body of the mayor!”
Awed by such a magnificent display of unlooked-for heroism, our jolly tars hesitated and then grumblingly desisted.
To quell the disturbance and restore peace it was, however, necessary to send for the military.
The ‘German Legion’ accordingly drew up in front of the Town Hall with a theatrical display of drawn swords; soon after, the Dragoons also arrived.
Instead, however, of directing their united attention to the disaffected seamen, the soldiers of the different regiments began to quarrel among themselves,
so that one regiment was prudently withdrawn during the night. The imprisoned seamen were tried at the next assizes”.
On 20th January 1815 it is also recorded that:
“Notice was given by Lionel Self, mayor, and other influential persons, that the reported stoppage of payment,
at the bank of Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, Bevan and Co., was unfounded and malicious”.
The 1841 Census records Lionel Self, merchant, living in the southern half of St Ann’s House, St Ann’s Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
Norfolk Record Office shows on 24th May 1852 the: “dissolution of partnership between Francis Hulton, late of North Runcton,
and Lionel Self of King’s Lynn, partners in business of timber, deal, coal and general merchants”.
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