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Analysis Of The Returns.
. OXFORDSHIRE . Judging it by thc ordinary tests , if may be said to have played its part fairly well . It raised a trifle over £ 90 for Bro . Terry in February , and followed this up with a contribution of £ 61 at Bro . Hedges' Festival in May . It is now entered for £ 141 14 s . 6 d . There are but 10 lodges on . thc roll of the province , so that if we strictly obey our own canons of
criticism , we ought perhaps to suggest that for a single year an aggregate of £ 293 for such a province was decidedly a good one . And so it is in ordinary circumstances . But Martin Tupper , or some other kindred spirit , is credited , we believe , with having remarked sentcntiously , " Blessed is the man that expecteth nothing , for he shall not be disappointed . " We have been faithless to thc Tupperian maxim . We did expect that Oxfordshire
would have [ acquitted itself exceptionally well at this Festival , because , in the first place , its late lamented Chief had graciously consented to take the chair , and then , because death having made the fulfilment of that intention impossible , we had imagined the influence of the late Prince's name would have been only in a slight degree less powerful for good than his personal
influence . Perhaps the best and only course for lis to pursue is to apologise for having allowed ourselves to be betrayed into a very natural error . Oxfordshire has done well both on extraordinary and ordinary occasions , and if we have been over-sanguine in this instance , it is our own fault . The transition to
SOMERSETSHIRE , , a province that is ruled by a distinguished Oxford graduate , involves us in np difficulty . We have , as a rule , had the pleasure of associating with this county somewhat heavier figures than the £ 64 is ., of Bro . Budge's list of Saturday last . But in February , Bro . Else , Lord Carnarvon's Deputy ,
raised £ 505 5 s . for the Benevolent , and there was a further sum of £ 71 Ss . contributed in May per Bro . Major Thrale Perkins . Thus the total for the present year is slightly in excess of £ 640 , while in 1883 "Our Boys " received from this source £ 357 ios . 6 d ., making a round £ 1000 for the four Festivals . SOUTH WALES ( EASTERN DIVISION )—
has 16 lodges , and the list of Bro . T . Matthews , its representative on Saturday , reached £ 200 exactly . In May it contributed £ 160 to the Girls ' School , and it furnished a Steward for the Benevolent Festival in February , but the amount of his list was not published . At Bro . Binckes's Festival in June , 18 S 3 , 't raised for him £ 230 , and it did a like service to the extent of
£ 21 7 for Bro . Hedges the Maj' previous , while in 1882 the sum of its contributions to the two Schools was £ 574 , of which £ 374 appeared in Bro . Binckes's returns . ' Our one remark must be— 'Well done , South Wales East ! • • -. . Its next door neighbour , SOUTH WALES —( WESTERN
DIVISION)which a short time since had the misfortune to lose its respected and popular P . G . M ., Bro . Col . Lloyd-Philipps , has only nine lodges on its 'roll , but the small amount of ten guineas standing to its credit , or rather to the credit of its representative , Bro . Aaron Stone , on this occasion , must not be taken as any criterion of what it usually does when it figures atone of our Festival , celebrations . It was only in May last that it raised £ 262 10 s . for the Girls' School ,
its then Steward being Bro . Rev . J . Marsden . Last year , under the auspices of the same Bro . Aaron Stone , it contributed £ 350 to the Boys' School , and in 1 SS 2 , when its late lamented chief took the chair for Bro . Terry , its subscriptions and donations amounted to £ 360 and a fraction . Thus in the three years , 1 SS 2-3-4 , we manage to get within measurable distance of £ 1000 , which for a province with only nine lodges is worthy of high commendation . There always have been good men and true among the Masons of
STAFFORDSHIRE , b ut they seem—it may be in our imagination only—to have placed themselves more prominently than usual before the Masonic world during the past few years . At all events , their labours in behalf of our Institutions strike us as being more beneficial , reminding us of what frequently happened when the late Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot was at the head of the province . Thus it began the year with a subscription of £ 152 5 s . to the Benevolent .. In
May it somewhat exceeded this amount , and presented the Girls' School with £ 180 19 s . 6 d . On Saturday , three Stewards , acting for as many lodges , together amassed £ 313 is . 6 d ., the Abbey Lodge , No . 624 , Burtonon-Trent , occupying the place of honour with £ 141 15 s ., Bro . Richard Tooth , for the Portland , No . 6 37 , Stoke-upon-Trent , being second with £ 94 6 s ., and Bro . F . Derry , of St . James ' s Lodge , No . 482 , Handsworth , third with £ 77 os . 6 d . Here then we have a total of £ 646 for one year only , while in 18 S 3 it raised £ 790 , and in 1 S 82 over £ 6 i 6 V or for the triennial period , over £ 2052 .
SUFFOLK , with 21 lodges , though principally an agricultural district , is both regular and liberal in its assistance . Last year it raised £ 568 , namely £ 166 for the Benevolent , £ 136 for the Girls , and £ 265 13 s . for the Boys .. . In February it started with £ 201 is . 6 d . ; in May it helped Bro . Hedges with £ 247 16 s ; , and on this occasion it swells Bro . Binckes ' s total to the extent of
£ 157 4 s ., thus carrying its total tor ibb 4 to £ 606 , or not much short of £ 40 more than it contributed even in so good a year as 18 S 3 . Here a ' gain we find an eminently popular chief in the person of Lord Waveney , and a most zealous Deputy in Bro . Rev . C . J . Martyn . Thus the . reason why this kindly spirit is so active may very easily be explained . In the case of - *
SURREY , we see another good province with a fair muster roll of 26 lodges , a popular chief , General Brownrigg , a most indefatigable Deputy , Bro . Rev . C . W . Arnold , and a general desire everywhere noticeable to do a good turn to all our Charities . This desire was evinced on Saturday , by an aggregate of subscriptions and donations amounting to £ 252 6 s .,- which , added to a total
of £ 89 5 s . in May , and £ 244 4 s . in February , gives for 1884 altogether about £ 5 85 . In 18 S 3 it raised over £ 1083 , but then General Brownri gg presided at the Festival of the Benevolent Institution , and a supreme effort was made in honour of the occasion . In 18 S 2 and previous years the returns show most excellent results . The contiguous Province of
: SUSSEX enjoys all thc advantages we have enumerated in the cases of Suffolk and Surrey , and , like them , is resolved on turning them to the best possible account . It has some 25 lodges , and of these Royal York , No . 315 , and St .
Analysis Of The Returns.
Cecilia , No . 1636 , both of Brighton , were jointly represented by Bro . W . I-I . Gibson , whose total was just 150 guineas ( £ 157 . 103 . ) In May it figured . for £ 237 6 s ., and in February for £ 63 only , giving for the year within a few shillings of £ 458 . In 1883 it gave the Benevolent £ 210 ; the Girls / , £ 363 ; and the Boys ' , £ 375 7 s ., or slightly less , if we take them together , than £ 950 ; in 1 SS 2 the sum of its . contributions was £ 920 , nearly ; for the three years £ 2328 . Very well done , Sussex 1
WARWICKSHIRE , with its 30 lodges , is entered for a small £ 73 ios ., the sum of two lists ; bill , as we remarked in respect of the Girls' School returns iii May last , this province has given us no just measure of its strength since 18 S 2 , when that Institution was benefited to the extent of £ 810 . Three totals , making
together less than £ 250 , is not what we look for even on ordinary occasions from so influential a province , presided over by so experienced and able a chief as Lord Leigh . . Warwickshire can do the thing well when it exerts ¦ ' itself . What we venture to ask for is just a little more exertion . The sum contributed by
WILTSHIRE is little more than nominal , a list of £ 10 ios ., which but ill represents eveij so small a province . But it swells the total for the year to over £ 253 , and in 1 SS 3 and 18 S 2 it gave £ 183 and £ 300 respectively . Thus , if Wilts has ' only 10 lodges , it finds the . wherewith to assist in replenishing the treasuries of our three Institutions ' .
WORCESTERSHIRE , in respect of numerical strength , is only slightly ahead of Wilts , its lodges being 11 in number , while in both there is apparent the same kind of zeal , though ' it may not be as perceptible , or be it said rather , as effective on all occasions alike . To-day the five Worcestershire Stewards give in a total of
£ 201 17 s . ; in May the amount was only £ 105 , while in February itwas slightly more— £ 11053 . —the three returns producing ovter £ 416 . But last . year it raised over £ 764— £ 219 for thc Benevolent , £ 217 for the Girls ' , and £ 328 for the Boys' ; while in 1 SS 2 the total was £ 387 . Thus , if the totals vary , the will remains unchanged , and , doubtless , will be found unchangeable . . .
The total contributed by - . NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE during the current year is in round figures £ 256 , namely , £ 49 18 s . to the . Old Men and Women , £ 131 ios . to the Girls' School , and £ 75 to - " Our Boys . " At the first blush this seems but a modest sum for a province which - has 28 lodges on its roll , and a legendary Masonic history dating back
from a very remote antiquity . But , even in his most : sanguine moments , Bro . Binckes can never have anticipated that last year ' s magnificent results would be repeated this . Even the most powerful of our provinces—that is , from a numerical point of view—are incapable of displaying uniformly the same brilliant effects , and what it would be unreasonable to expect from the Lancashire or West Yorkshire , would be still more unreasonable in the case
of the far smaller province of -North and East Yorkshire . True , it raised £ 920 in 18 S 3 , of which £ 873 7 s . was for the Boys' School , while in 1882 its contributions reached £ 695 , of which the Girls' absorbed the lion ' s share in the shape of £ 500 . But efforts such as these justify a term of comparative or absolute rest ,- and it is to the credit of North and East Yorkshire that it has preferred thc comparative to the absolute , and supplemented its work ' of the last 10 ' years by such contributions as we have specified already .
On the other hand , and for the very obvious reason that it is one of our biggest provinces , the returns strike us as being somewhat out of sortssomewhat deficient—of
WEST YORKSHIRE , which is undoubtedly below its average . We have become so habituated to associating with it many Stewards and big figures that any' contribution below £ 600 strikes us as being disappointing . We remember we had a sort of despondent feeling come over us , as though a grave catastrophe had overtaken the province , in February last , when we saw no more than £ 352 and odd shillings standing to the credit of West Yorkshire in the Benevolent
Festival returns . We know well our feelings were the reverse of despondent in May when it sent up a total of £ 906 . The figures on Saturday last £ 589 12 s . —raise the year ' s aggregate to £ 1841 , and the aggregate of the last 10 years—from 1875 to 1884 , both inclusive—to £ 20 , 463 . This means that , during the decennial period over which our inquiries have extended , West . Yorkshire has contributed at these celebrations rather more than an average of £ 680 per Festival .
FOREIGN STATIONS , & C . Three of the . Stewards who figure under this head- have made their returns and the result is £ 37 16 s . It only remains for Bro . J . M . P . Montagu , as representing the Royal Order of Scotland , to go and do likewise , and the figures relating to this section of the Board of Stewards will be complete .
CONCLUDING REMARKS . We have completed our . examination of the Returns . We have conscientiously striven to avoid exaggerating either the good or the indifferent that is in them . Plain facts and figures that tell their own tale are best dealt with in plain hopiely fashion . We have been actuated throughout by a desire to carry out this mode of treatment , and we hope we have succeeded in our purpose . One further remark may justifiably be made . If we
exclude from last years figures the sum total of the moneys subscribed to the Building Fund , we shall find no very great difference in the support accorded last year and this to the General Fund . On this point we may congratulate not only the Chairman and his Stewards , but in a particular degree thc House Committee and the Secretary . It is by their efforts the efficiency of the school is maintained , and consequently it is their influence which has brought about these great successes .
. MANUSCRIPTS . —The word comes from " manu , " " scriptus , " and means the labour of Masonic chirography . In 1717 many old MSS . were collected together by request-of Grand Master Payne , and in 1720 sortie foolish brethren' are said by Anderson to -have burnt several important MSS ., especially one by Nicholas Stone . And no doubt there always has been , ( there still is in England ) , a dislike to open out the lodge archives , and peruse or publish any MS . evidences . Thanks to the labour of a
zealous band of Masonic students—among them W . J . Hughan , D , Murray Lyon , and W . B . Ellis , may be specially mentioned—and some others , the search for and transcription of Masonic MSS . have for the last . few years been most successfully carried on . We know now more of the MSS . of Masonry than were open to Anderson , Preston , Hutchinson , or even were available by Oliver . Many MSS . still remain in England to be . disentombed from the dust of years . —Kenning's Cyclopedia of Freemasonry .
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Analysis Of The Returns.
. OXFORDSHIRE . Judging it by thc ordinary tests , if may be said to have played its part fairly well . It raised a trifle over £ 90 for Bro . Terry in February , and followed this up with a contribution of £ 61 at Bro . Hedges' Festival in May . It is now entered for £ 141 14 s . 6 d . There are but 10 lodges on . thc roll of the province , so that if we strictly obey our own canons of
criticism , we ought perhaps to suggest that for a single year an aggregate of £ 293 for such a province was decidedly a good one . And so it is in ordinary circumstances . But Martin Tupper , or some other kindred spirit , is credited , we believe , with having remarked sentcntiously , " Blessed is the man that expecteth nothing , for he shall not be disappointed . " We have been faithless to thc Tupperian maxim . We did expect that Oxfordshire
would have [ acquitted itself exceptionally well at this Festival , because , in the first place , its late lamented Chief had graciously consented to take the chair , and then , because death having made the fulfilment of that intention impossible , we had imagined the influence of the late Prince's name would have been only in a slight degree less powerful for good than his personal
influence . Perhaps the best and only course for lis to pursue is to apologise for having allowed ourselves to be betrayed into a very natural error . Oxfordshire has done well both on extraordinary and ordinary occasions , and if we have been over-sanguine in this instance , it is our own fault . The transition to
SOMERSETSHIRE , , a province that is ruled by a distinguished Oxford graduate , involves us in np difficulty . We have , as a rule , had the pleasure of associating with this county somewhat heavier figures than the £ 64 is ., of Bro . Budge's list of Saturday last . But in February , Bro . Else , Lord Carnarvon's Deputy ,
raised £ 505 5 s . for the Benevolent , and there was a further sum of £ 71 Ss . contributed in May per Bro . Major Thrale Perkins . Thus the total for the present year is slightly in excess of £ 640 , while in 1883 "Our Boys " received from this source £ 357 ios . 6 d ., making a round £ 1000 for the four Festivals . SOUTH WALES ( EASTERN DIVISION )—
has 16 lodges , and the list of Bro . T . Matthews , its representative on Saturday , reached £ 200 exactly . In May it contributed £ 160 to the Girls ' School , and it furnished a Steward for the Benevolent Festival in February , but the amount of his list was not published . At Bro . Binckes's Festival in June , 18 S 3 , 't raised for him £ 230 , and it did a like service to the extent of
£ 21 7 for Bro . Hedges the Maj' previous , while in 1882 the sum of its contributions to the two Schools was £ 574 , of which £ 374 appeared in Bro . Binckes's returns . ' Our one remark must be— 'Well done , South Wales East ! • • -. . Its next door neighbour , SOUTH WALES —( WESTERN
DIVISION)which a short time since had the misfortune to lose its respected and popular P . G . M ., Bro . Col . Lloyd-Philipps , has only nine lodges on its 'roll , but the small amount of ten guineas standing to its credit , or rather to the credit of its representative , Bro . Aaron Stone , on this occasion , must not be taken as any criterion of what it usually does when it figures atone of our Festival , celebrations . It was only in May last that it raised £ 262 10 s . for the Girls' School ,
its then Steward being Bro . Rev . J . Marsden . Last year , under the auspices of the same Bro . Aaron Stone , it contributed £ 350 to the Boys' School , and in 1 SS 2 , when its late lamented chief took the chair for Bro . Terry , its subscriptions and donations amounted to £ 360 and a fraction . Thus in the three years , 1 SS 2-3-4 , we manage to get within measurable distance of £ 1000 , which for a province with only nine lodges is worthy of high commendation . There always have been good men and true among the Masons of
STAFFORDSHIRE , b ut they seem—it may be in our imagination only—to have placed themselves more prominently than usual before the Masonic world during the past few years . At all events , their labours in behalf of our Institutions strike us as being more beneficial , reminding us of what frequently happened when the late Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot was at the head of the province . Thus it began the year with a subscription of £ 152 5 s . to the Benevolent .. In
May it somewhat exceeded this amount , and presented the Girls' School with £ 180 19 s . 6 d . On Saturday , three Stewards , acting for as many lodges , together amassed £ 313 is . 6 d ., the Abbey Lodge , No . 624 , Burtonon-Trent , occupying the place of honour with £ 141 15 s ., Bro . Richard Tooth , for the Portland , No . 6 37 , Stoke-upon-Trent , being second with £ 94 6 s ., and Bro . F . Derry , of St . James ' s Lodge , No . 482 , Handsworth , third with £ 77 os . 6 d . Here then we have a total of £ 646 for one year only , while in 18 S 3 it raised £ 790 , and in 1 S 82 over £ 6 i 6 V or for the triennial period , over £ 2052 .
SUFFOLK , with 21 lodges , though principally an agricultural district , is both regular and liberal in its assistance . Last year it raised £ 568 , namely £ 166 for the Benevolent , £ 136 for the Girls , and £ 265 13 s . for the Boys .. . In February it started with £ 201 is . 6 d . ; in May it helped Bro . Hedges with £ 247 16 s ; , and on this occasion it swells Bro . Binckes ' s total to the extent of
£ 157 4 s ., thus carrying its total tor ibb 4 to £ 606 , or not much short of £ 40 more than it contributed even in so good a year as 18 S 3 . Here a ' gain we find an eminently popular chief in the person of Lord Waveney , and a most zealous Deputy in Bro . Rev . C . J . Martyn . Thus the . reason why this kindly spirit is so active may very easily be explained . In the case of - *
SURREY , we see another good province with a fair muster roll of 26 lodges , a popular chief , General Brownrigg , a most indefatigable Deputy , Bro . Rev . C . W . Arnold , and a general desire everywhere noticeable to do a good turn to all our Charities . This desire was evinced on Saturday , by an aggregate of subscriptions and donations amounting to £ 252 6 s .,- which , added to a total
of £ 89 5 s . in May , and £ 244 4 s . in February , gives for 1884 altogether about £ 5 85 . In 18 S 3 it raised over £ 1083 , but then General Brownri gg presided at the Festival of the Benevolent Institution , and a supreme effort was made in honour of the occasion . In 18 S 2 and previous years the returns show most excellent results . The contiguous Province of
: SUSSEX enjoys all thc advantages we have enumerated in the cases of Suffolk and Surrey , and , like them , is resolved on turning them to the best possible account . It has some 25 lodges , and of these Royal York , No . 315 , and St .
Analysis Of The Returns.
Cecilia , No . 1636 , both of Brighton , were jointly represented by Bro . W . I-I . Gibson , whose total was just 150 guineas ( £ 157 . 103 . ) In May it figured . for £ 237 6 s ., and in February for £ 63 only , giving for the year within a few shillings of £ 458 . In 1883 it gave the Benevolent £ 210 ; the Girls / , £ 363 ; and the Boys ' , £ 375 7 s ., or slightly less , if we take them together , than £ 950 ; in 1 SS 2 the sum of its . contributions was £ 920 , nearly ; for the three years £ 2328 . Very well done , Sussex 1
WARWICKSHIRE , with its 30 lodges , is entered for a small £ 73 ios ., the sum of two lists ; bill , as we remarked in respect of the Girls' School returns iii May last , this province has given us no just measure of its strength since 18 S 2 , when that Institution was benefited to the extent of £ 810 . Three totals , making
together less than £ 250 , is not what we look for even on ordinary occasions from so influential a province , presided over by so experienced and able a chief as Lord Leigh . . Warwickshire can do the thing well when it exerts ¦ ' itself . What we venture to ask for is just a little more exertion . The sum contributed by
WILTSHIRE is little more than nominal , a list of £ 10 ios ., which but ill represents eveij so small a province . But it swells the total for the year to over £ 253 , and in 1 SS 3 and 18 S 2 it gave £ 183 and £ 300 respectively . Thus , if Wilts has ' only 10 lodges , it finds the . wherewith to assist in replenishing the treasuries of our three Institutions ' .
WORCESTERSHIRE , in respect of numerical strength , is only slightly ahead of Wilts , its lodges being 11 in number , while in both there is apparent the same kind of zeal , though ' it may not be as perceptible , or be it said rather , as effective on all occasions alike . To-day the five Worcestershire Stewards give in a total of
£ 201 17 s . ; in May the amount was only £ 105 , while in February itwas slightly more— £ 11053 . —the three returns producing ovter £ 416 . But last . year it raised over £ 764— £ 219 for thc Benevolent , £ 217 for the Girls ' , and £ 328 for the Boys' ; while in 1 SS 2 the total was £ 387 . Thus , if the totals vary , the will remains unchanged , and , doubtless , will be found unchangeable . . .
The total contributed by - . NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE during the current year is in round figures £ 256 , namely , £ 49 18 s . to the . Old Men and Women , £ 131 ios . to the Girls' School , and £ 75 to - " Our Boys . " At the first blush this seems but a modest sum for a province which - has 28 lodges on its roll , and a legendary Masonic history dating back
from a very remote antiquity . But , even in his most : sanguine moments , Bro . Binckes can never have anticipated that last year ' s magnificent results would be repeated this . Even the most powerful of our provinces—that is , from a numerical point of view—are incapable of displaying uniformly the same brilliant effects , and what it would be unreasonable to expect from the Lancashire or West Yorkshire , would be still more unreasonable in the case
of the far smaller province of -North and East Yorkshire . True , it raised £ 920 in 18 S 3 , of which £ 873 7 s . was for the Boys' School , while in 1882 its contributions reached £ 695 , of which the Girls' absorbed the lion ' s share in the shape of £ 500 . But efforts such as these justify a term of comparative or absolute rest ,- and it is to the credit of North and East Yorkshire that it has preferred thc comparative to the absolute , and supplemented its work ' of the last 10 ' years by such contributions as we have specified already .
On the other hand , and for the very obvious reason that it is one of our biggest provinces , the returns strike us as being somewhat out of sortssomewhat deficient—of
WEST YORKSHIRE , which is undoubtedly below its average . We have become so habituated to associating with it many Stewards and big figures that any' contribution below £ 600 strikes us as being disappointing . We remember we had a sort of despondent feeling come over us , as though a grave catastrophe had overtaken the province , in February last , when we saw no more than £ 352 and odd shillings standing to the credit of West Yorkshire in the Benevolent
Festival returns . We know well our feelings were the reverse of despondent in May when it sent up a total of £ 906 . The figures on Saturday last £ 589 12 s . —raise the year ' s aggregate to £ 1841 , and the aggregate of the last 10 years—from 1875 to 1884 , both inclusive—to £ 20 , 463 . This means that , during the decennial period over which our inquiries have extended , West . Yorkshire has contributed at these celebrations rather more than an average of £ 680 per Festival .
FOREIGN STATIONS , & C . Three of the . Stewards who figure under this head- have made their returns and the result is £ 37 16 s . It only remains for Bro . J . M . P . Montagu , as representing the Royal Order of Scotland , to go and do likewise , and the figures relating to this section of the Board of Stewards will be complete .
CONCLUDING REMARKS . We have completed our . examination of the Returns . We have conscientiously striven to avoid exaggerating either the good or the indifferent that is in them . Plain facts and figures that tell their own tale are best dealt with in plain hopiely fashion . We have been actuated throughout by a desire to carry out this mode of treatment , and we hope we have succeeded in our purpose . One further remark may justifiably be made . If we
exclude from last years figures the sum total of the moneys subscribed to the Building Fund , we shall find no very great difference in the support accorded last year and this to the General Fund . On this point we may congratulate not only the Chairman and his Stewards , but in a particular degree thc House Committee and the Secretary . It is by their efforts the efficiency of the school is maintained , and consequently it is their influence which has brought about these great successes .
. MANUSCRIPTS . —The word comes from " manu , " " scriptus , " and means the labour of Masonic chirography . In 1717 many old MSS . were collected together by request-of Grand Master Payne , and in 1720 sortie foolish brethren' are said by Anderson to -have burnt several important MSS ., especially one by Nicholas Stone . And no doubt there always has been , ( there still is in England ) , a dislike to open out the lodge archives , and peruse or publish any MS . evidences . Thanks to the labour of a
zealous band of Masonic students—among them W . J . Hughan , D , Murray Lyon , and W . B . Ellis , may be specially mentioned—and some others , the search for and transcription of Masonic MSS . have for the last . few years been most successfully carried on . We know now more of the MSS . of Masonry than were open to Anderson , Preston , Hutchinson , or even were available by Oliver . Many MSS . still remain in England to be . disentombed from the dust of years . —Kenning's Cyclopedia of Freemasonry .