ABSTRACT
John Pine was born in 1690 and died in 1756. He spent most of his working life in London although he may have brie y been apprenticed to the Amsterdam engraver Bernard Picart.7 A Freemason from the early days of the Grand Lodge, records at the United Grand Lodge of England do not record when Pine joined, but he was a member of the Lodge at the Horn Tavern in Westminster8 and the Lodge at the Globe Tavern in Moorgate.9 e engraved lists were not the only works Pine carried out for the edgling Grand Lodge. He engraved the frontispiece of the original Constitutions in 1723 and a charity report in 1730.10 From 1730 Pine was listed in Grand Lodge minute books as Marshall Pine because he led Grand Lodge’s annual St John’s Day processions.11 During the period that Pine was responsible for the lists, the number of lodges increased from 50 to 189:
Moreover, he also had to update the list every time a lodge moved, changed its time of meeting or was erased … At rst it seems that Pine recouped his costs by the sale
of the list, but in 1738 he found the expense of these constant alterations too much to bear, and it was agreed in the years when the list was published that he should be paid 2s 6d by every lodge whenever they changed their meeting place and 1s when they changed their time of meeting.12
