Tylers Toast

The Tyler's toast serves as the traditional conclusion to a Masonic banquet or festive board, bringing the evening to a close 2. In the ceremonial structure of formal Table Lodges, the final obligatory toast—the seventh in the standard sequence—is offered to all Freemasons wheresoever spread over the face of the globe 1.

Systematized methods of drinking toasts were once widely practiced in English-speaking lodges, though many elaborate customs were later modified or discontinued 1. Despite these changes, key toasts remained an established part of lodge gatherings 1.

The supplied sources record the Tyler's toast as the functional end of the banquet 2 and describe the universal scope of the final obligation toast 1, but the library does not contain a full historical account of how the specific tradition of the Tyler's toast originated or evolved over time.