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why did Antiquity break away from Grand Lodge in 1777
The breach began on St. John the Evangelist's Day in 1777, when members of the Lodge of Antiquity walked back to their lodge venue from a church service at St. Dunstan-in-the-West clothed in Masonic regalia without first obtaining a dispensation, as Quatuor Coronati Lodge records. The Grand Lodge of England ruled this a breach of its regulations prohibiting public processions, while William Preston and his supporters argued that as a time-immemorial lodge existing prior to the Grand Lodge's formation, Antiquity retained inherent privileges exempting it from such restrictions.
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