Excerpt from Sermons on Public Occasions As the increafing reputation of the fociety ren dered it more numerous, and the firl't place of meeting, the Ship Tavern, Ratclifi Crofs, made it inconvenient for members refiding at a diflance, to attend fo often as they wiflied; applications were made to the original fociety, to confiitnte particular lodges at different parts of the metropolis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.