Shakespeare’s play echoes in Shakespeare’s ceremony
Explore the revised and updated version of online learning resource Solomon
February 23, 2024
Go on, ask me another: Brad gears up for quiz night
February 24, 2024
Little did Shakespeare know when he grabbed his quill to write Henry V that the play would link to his namesake Freemasons’ Lodge in Spilsby more than 400 years later!
It’s a tenuous link, but in the play the king rallies his troops before the Battle of Agincourt by calling them a ‘band of brothers’; in the Lodge the latest ceremony involved two pairs of brothers.
The picture above, from Shailen Mullen, shows them all when Simon Clayton, the Lodge master, initiated Christopher Lake with the help of his real brother Mark Clayton, and Chris’s brother Tim.
