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CHAPTER II
Practices
and regula-
tions of the
Society.
Places,
dates, and
hours of
meeting.
Practices and regulations of the Society—Places, dates, and
hours of meeting—The President: his toga and curule
chair—The Secretary and Treasurer—The High
Steward—The Arch-Master and his insignia—The
Regalia: Bacchus's Tomb, the Ballot-Box, Seal, and
Inkstand—Dining practices: forfeits and fines-
Convivial excesses—Toasts—'Election Radices:
qualification, admission, abdication—Committees and
quorums.
SO much as is known concerning the origin
of the Society of Dilettanti having been set
forth in the preceding chapter, and brief
notes having been added as to the character and
individuality of some among the most conspicuous
of its early members, the next step is to give such
account of the constitution, practices, rules, and
regulations of the Society as can be gathered from
the official minutes kept during the first half-century
of its existence. The text of these minutes has
a character and quaintness of its own, which makes
it seem desirable to quote them in most instances
verbatim.
The first meeting of the Society of which a regular
record is kept appears to have taken place at the
Bedford Head Tavern in Covent Garden on March <J,
1736, for it was then ord red
'That the La Boyne, Mr. How, Sr. James Gray, S' Francis
Dashwood, Mr. Gray, Mr. Degge, Sr Hugh Smithson, MT. Archer,
Sr Brownlow Sherrard, Mr. Whitmore, MT. Denny, or any five
Practices
and regula-
tions of the
Society.
Places,
dates, and
hours of
meeting.
Practices and regulations of the Society—Places, dates, and
hours of meeting—The President: his toga and curule
chair—The Secretary and Treasurer—The High
Steward—The Arch-Master and his insignia—The
Regalia: Bacchus's Tomb, the Ballot-Box, Seal, and
Inkstand—Dining practices: forfeits and fines-
Convivial excesses—Toasts—'Election Radices:
qualification, admission, abdication—Committees and
quorums.
SO much as is known concerning the origin
of the Society of Dilettanti having been set
forth in the preceding chapter, and brief
notes having been added as to the character and
individuality of some among the most conspicuous
of its early members, the next step is to give such
account of the constitution, practices, rules, and
regulations of the Society as can be gathered from
the official minutes kept during the first half-century
of its existence. The text of these minutes has
a character and quaintness of its own, which makes
it seem desirable to quote them in most instances
verbatim.
The first meeting of the Society of which a regular
record is kept appears to have taken place at the
Bedford Head Tavern in Covent Garden on March <J,
1736, for it was then ord red
'That the La Boyne, Mr. How, Sr. James Gray, S' Francis
Dashwood, Mr. Gray, Mr. Degge, Sr Hugh Smithson, MT. Archer,
Sr Brownlow Sherrard, Mr. Whitmore, MT. Denny, or any five