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LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION BY NIGHT TRAINS . Improved Sleeping Saloons , lighted with gas , comfortably warmed , and provided with pillows , rugs , and lavatory accommodation , are run on the Night Express Trains between LONDON and MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL , Leaving > Leaving ^ Leaving at 12 . 0 Night . ) at 10 . 55 p . m . ) at 11 . 10 p . m . ( 10 . 45 p . m . Sundays . ) Extra charge 5 s . for each berth , in addition to the ordinary first-class fare . Separate apartments are provided for ladies and family parties , and an attendant accompanies each saloon . On arrival at destination the saloons are placed in a convenient position , and passengers may leave them at any time during the morning . Berths can be secured in advance on application to the Station Masters at Euston , Liverpool , and Manchester . G . F 1 NDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , April , 1 SS 3 .
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FIELD LANE REFUGES AND RAGGED SCHOOLS . The Committee have the honour to announce that HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT , K . G ., & c . has kindly consented to preside at the FESTIVAL DINNER at THE WESTMINSTER PALACE HOTEL , On WEDNESDAY , APRIL 25 th , 1 S 83 . Gentlemen willing to act as Stewards , or to attend the Dinner , are ^ requested to intimate their pleasure to the Secretary . Funds being urgently needed , the Committee are compelled to make a very urgent appeal for help . Treasurer , WILFRID A . BEVAN , Esq ., 54 , Lombard-street . Secretary , PEREGRINE PLATT , Vine-street , Clerkemvell-road , E . C .
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OPECULATION & INVESTMENT JN STOCKS AND SHARES ¦ ^ ITH A MINIMUM RISK HTO operate on the Stock Exchange profitably or , in other words , increase one's capital , limited though it be , may suggest itself as not very easy of accomplishment . Quick perception , however , tempered with experience and a true knowledge of the influences in force , will , in many cases , render the process comparatively simple . To purchase a stock or security of any description might not always prove judicious and safe , even were the position and prospects in the particular case the most sound and promising , because an immediate improvement , or , indeed , the mamtenance _ of the prevalent market value would be improbable , if not impossible , so long as the account remained a weak one , or one showing a heavy preponderance of weak operations for the rise . In like manner a stock might be intrinsically worth little or absolutely nothing , but from the fact of it having been largely oversold the price remains apparently firm . EXPLANATORY BOOK sent post free on application . "DEAD OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . WEEKLY and MONTHLY REPORT sent regularly to clients . SPECULATIVE ACCOUNTS opened on the most favourable terms . W GUTTERIDGE AND CO ., STOCK AND « SHARE BROKERS , 7 , DRAPERS ' -GARDENS , THROGMORTON-STREET , LONDON , E . C .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " The Broad Arrow , " "The Court Circular , " " Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "The Keystone , " "New York Dispatch , " "The Citizen , " "The Jewish Chronicle , " "TheAmerican Freemason , " " La Revista Masonica . " "The Gibraltar Chronicle , " "The Liberal Freemason , " " Die Bauhiitte , " "The New York Daily News , " "Thc Freemason ' s Manual for Kent , " "History of Ancient Land Mark Lodge , No . 17 , " " Masonic Record , " "Canadian Craftsman , " " Freemason ' s Repository , " "The Hull Packet . "
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^ gregfflg . BQMl SATURDAY , AX ' RIL 7 , 1883 .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fairplay to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . l — ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . APRIL ELECTION . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — In order to avoid possible disappointment to the friends of the candidates for the above election I shall feel
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obliged if you will kindly allow me to state for their information that there is no ground whatever for the supposition that there is to be no contested election on this occasion . Judging from thc number of questions which have been addressed to me there is evidently some misapprehension on the subject . —I am , dear sir and brother , yours faithfully and fraternally , F . R . VV . HEDGES , Secretary .
THE COMING ELECTIONS . Dear Bro . Kenning , As my letter has brought me one or two kind replies , let me again ask for the votes of any brethren who have no cases of their own . —Very fraternally ,
A . F . A . WOODFORD 5 a , Norfolk-crescent , Hyde-park , VV ., March 31 st .
To thc Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — The letter of " A Voter" in your last number draws attention to a growing evil in the charity voting system , and indicates with some emphasis that the recipients of our Charities are more frequently those who are
the most persistent beggars , or have the most friends , and can employ those who are most skilled in the manipulation of charity votes . It follows that the poor and needy—poor and needy through no faults of their own—those of whom One said "Ye shall give consideration , " are left out in the cold , and while , in the reversal of voting charity the rich are filled with good things , the poor are turned empty
away . I give my experience—a maiden experience in charity voting—and will a "plain , unvarnished tale" discourse . The widow of our poor Bro . Hennah , a good man and good Mason in every sense of the terms , who died at an early age through over-exertion while preaching his Master's
message , sought my assistance to obtain for our young "Lewis , " Frederick Wolfe Hennah , the benefits of the Boys' School . Her late husband's lodge ( the Union , Margate ) could do nothing , though the high deserts of her case were acknowledged , as thc Province of Kent had already taken up a case . My own lodge had a case of its own , and
could not help . Eminent brethren in the Craft , whose hearts were touched by the assurance of the real charity which would be done in this case , gave me their votes ; but in three unsuccessful appeals to the poll , each time the hope deferred leaving the heart sick , has landed the widow with less than a 1000 votes towards a goal where 2500 arc
required . I claim the privilege in your free columns to stand in friendly competition with our esteemed Past Grand Chaplain , Bro . Woodford , and while he asks for votes for unnamed cases , I ask for votes on behalf of the named case , F . VV . Hennah . Permit me , in conclusion , to thank our Worshipful Bros .
Sir John Monckton , Deputy VV . J . E . Saunders , Jabez Hogg , James Mason , and Horace Brooks Marshall especially , for the help they have given to this fatherless boy , and to pray them to continue their support . All votes given to me shall be faithfully applied , as well as most thankfully received . —I am , dear sir , yours faithful ! and fraternally , JOHN WHILE . 135 , Loughbrough-road , S . W .
To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — There being a natural objection to supporting the claims of a brother and sister to the benefits of the schools , I ask permission to state in your columns that of the two children of the late William Woodward ( formerly
serjeantmajor 3 ist Regiment ) , whose names appear as candidates for the Boys ' " and Girls' Schools respectively . One alone—Minnie Woodward—requires the assistance of subscribers , her brother , Thomas Woodward , being no longer a candidate . Serjeant-major Woodward having belonged to a military
lodge ( the Meridian , No . 743 , attached to the 31 st Regiment ) , his widow can turn to no provincial association for assistance . At a time , however , when the gallantry of our present day soldiers is being freely acknowledged , a word may be permissible in favour of those " near and dear "
to a worthy veteran who has gone to his rest . Serjeantmajor Woodward served the Crimean and North China campaigns with the 31 st Regiment . He was initiated in 1858 , and remained a member of the Meridian Lodge until death . —Yours fraternally , R . F . GOULD , P . M . No . 743 .
LONDON AND PROVINCIAL CANDIDATES . THE ELECTIONS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — There is a point I wish to call attention to which seems very unfair on our poorer London cases , namely the
fact that provincial cases in addition to those submitted by the Charity Committee of a particular province , are begging for the support of London subscribers . Considering the perfect organization and the great strength of the Provincial Charity Committees , this ought not to be . Indeed , as a rule , it may fairly be assumed that if a provincial case is worked outside its own province there is
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generally some valid reason why the case is not taken up in the province . Such a course of action tells doubly hardly upon many of our almost / rieiirf / rss London candidates . — Yours fraternally , . FAIR PLAY .
A WORD OF CAUTION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I greatly object to the absurd proportion as between Girls' and Boys' votes , which some are
endeavouring to create . 1 advise all who have Girls' votes not to exchange at all under such hopeless terms as seem now to rule ; but to poll their votes or insist on exchanges " at par . " It is only by this course that we can hinder and resist the movements of a " Ring . "—Yours fraternally , A VOTING BROTHER .
THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I have read my esteemed friend ' s , our R . W . Bro . D . Murray Lyon , letter in last week ' s Freemason . Of course every brother must know he is right and I must be
wrong , as who could dare to differ with such an authority . I 3 m much obliged for the information he gives as to the Master of Kilwinning being ex-ollicio Provincial Grand Master of Ayrshire , and his having as such the right to appoint the Provincial Depute Master , Substitute Master , Senior Warden , Junior Warden , Secretary , and Chaplain .
This means he appoints as of right to no less than six of the Provincial Grand Offices , these offices being the principal ones . Now I do not even know who are the Provincial Grand . Officers of Ayrshire save thc Provincial Grand Secretary ,, my friend and our VV . Bro . Wylie , who has filled that
post for years and who has also been the excellent Secretary of Mother Kilwinning . I cannot therefore say anything about them , but this statement of our R . W . Brother recalls to my mind a story I heard in my young days as toone of the greatest , most learned , and respected Lord High Chancellors who ever sat on the Irish Woolsack , and who
is always spoken of with respect and esteem , although he has notloccupied that high office for half a century and has for many years been dead . The story is , that having had one son made a bishop , another a judge , anothera very comfortable mastership in a law court , and a fourth a Crown prosecutorship , a friend hinted to him that getting his
sons such appointments might cause some comments to be made as to ' them , to which he replied , " Show me better , for I cannot sec them . " To this his friend could give no answer as his four sons knew their business and did it well . So the Master of Mother Kilwinning may for ought I know give the same reason at any time for filling up his
six provincial grand offices with Mother Kilwinning bre . thren , and if so I am sure every brother so appointed will know his business , and do his duty not only to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire , but also , by each of the six , giving his votes when necessary to Mother Kilwinning . I need not say what six votes ol Grand Officers mean in thc
Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire . Now , as to our R . W . Brother's first point . He is too modest . He should have referred to page eight of his " Freemasonry in Scotland , " where an excellent facsimile is given of part of the Schaw statutes of 159 S , and to pages 12 , & c , where Schaw ' s statute of December 27 th ,
599 . 'S given . This carries Mother Kilwinning ' s history back nearly half a century further as a Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire , Renfrew , and Dumbarton . Now , as to my reference to page 59 of Bro . Wylie ' s " History of Mother Kilwinning , " as to the minutes of December 20 th , 16 43 . I read the footnote at page 409 of " Freemasonry
in Scotland , " but did not look further as the footnote is complete in itself , and knowing I had marked these minutes in the "History of Mother Kilwinning " I at once turned to it . 1 have now compared these extracts , and find , so far as Bro . Wylie's minutes go , they agree most fully with my remembrance of them , and of course the rest must be word
for word thc same ( so far as they go ) with those given by our R . W . Brother at page 410 ; but in the middle of these minutes , at page 410 in "Freemasonry in Scotland , " our R . W . Brother gives a copy of the seal used by Mother Kilwinning for charters , & c . Bro . Wylie does not insert this seal in these minutes , but gives it at page 24 . My
remembrance is that the seal certainly does not appear in the original minute book . As to our R . W . Brother ' s remark that Bro . Wylie ' s is only an excerpt from an article of his , " No . 2 , Mother Kilwinning , " in the "Freemason ' s Magazine" of Sth
August , 1 SC 3 , I can say nothing , as I never as : yet have seen the " Freemason ' s Magazine " of that date , or did I know our R . W . Brother wrote anything as to Mother Kilwinning save what appears in his "Freemasonry in Scotland . "
This point must be settled by our R . W . Brother and Bro . Wylie between themselves ; but one thing I would urge every brother to do would be to procure copies of both " Freemasonry in Scotland " and " Thc History of Mother Kilwinning , " as the perusal of them will give
vast information and pleasure , especially " Freemasonry in Scotland , " which is a grand work , and has most life-like portraits of all the leading brethren in Scotland , including our R . W . Brother ' s own , at p . 29 . As to our R . W . Brother ' s second point . He has only
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LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION BY NIGHT TRAINS . Improved Sleeping Saloons , lighted with gas , comfortably warmed , and provided with pillows , rugs , and lavatory accommodation , are run on the Night Express Trains between LONDON and MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL , Leaving > Leaving ^ Leaving at 12 . 0 Night . ) at 10 . 55 p . m . ) at 11 . 10 p . m . ( 10 . 45 p . m . Sundays . ) Extra charge 5 s . for each berth , in addition to the ordinary first-class fare . Separate apartments are provided for ladies and family parties , and an attendant accompanies each saloon . On arrival at destination the saloons are placed in a convenient position , and passengers may leave them at any time during the morning . Berths can be secured in advance on application to the Station Masters at Euston , Liverpool , and Manchester . G . F 1 NDLAY , General Manager . Euston Station , April , 1 SS 3 .
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FIELD LANE REFUGES AND RAGGED SCHOOLS . The Committee have the honour to announce that HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT , K . G ., & c . has kindly consented to preside at the FESTIVAL DINNER at THE WESTMINSTER PALACE HOTEL , On WEDNESDAY , APRIL 25 th , 1 S 83 . Gentlemen willing to act as Stewards , or to attend the Dinner , are ^ requested to intimate their pleasure to the Secretary . Funds being urgently needed , the Committee are compelled to make a very urgent appeal for help . Treasurer , WILFRID A . BEVAN , Esq ., 54 , Lombard-street . Secretary , PEREGRINE PLATT , Vine-street , Clerkemvell-road , E . C .
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OPECULATION & INVESTMENT JN STOCKS AND SHARES ¦ ^ ITH A MINIMUM RISK HTO operate on the Stock Exchange profitably or , in other words , increase one's capital , limited though it be , may suggest itself as not very easy of accomplishment . Quick perception , however , tempered with experience and a true knowledge of the influences in force , will , in many cases , render the process comparatively simple . To purchase a stock or security of any description might not always prove judicious and safe , even were the position and prospects in the particular case the most sound and promising , because an immediate improvement , or , indeed , the mamtenance _ of the prevalent market value would be improbable , if not impossible , so long as the account remained a weak one , or one showing a heavy preponderance of weak operations for the rise . In like manner a stock might be intrinsically worth little or absolutely nothing , but from the fact of it having been largely oversold the price remains apparently firm . EXPLANATORY BOOK sent post free on application . "DEAD OPINIONS OF THE PRESS . WEEKLY and MONTHLY REPORT sent regularly to clients . SPECULATIVE ACCOUNTS opened on the most favourable terms . W GUTTERIDGE AND CO ., STOCK AND « SHARE BROKERS , 7 , DRAPERS ' -GARDENS , THROGMORTON-STREET , LONDON , E . C .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " The Broad Arrow , " "The Court Circular , " " Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "The Keystone , " "New York Dispatch , " "The Citizen , " "The Jewish Chronicle , " "TheAmerican Freemason , " " La Revista Masonica . " "The Gibraltar Chronicle , " "The Liberal Freemason , " " Die Bauhiitte , " "The New York Daily News , " "Thc Freemason ' s Manual for Kent , " "History of Ancient Land Mark Lodge , No . 17 , " " Masonic Record , " "Canadian Craftsman , " " Freemason ' s Repository , " "The Hull Packet . "
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^ gregfflg . BQMl SATURDAY , AX ' RIL 7 , 1883 .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fairplay to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . l — ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . APRIL ELECTION . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — In order to avoid possible disappointment to the friends of the candidates for the above election I shall feel
Original Correspondence.
obliged if you will kindly allow me to state for their information that there is no ground whatever for the supposition that there is to be no contested election on this occasion . Judging from thc number of questions which have been addressed to me there is evidently some misapprehension on the subject . —I am , dear sir and brother , yours faithfully and fraternally , F . R . VV . HEDGES , Secretary .
THE COMING ELECTIONS . Dear Bro . Kenning , As my letter has brought me one or two kind replies , let me again ask for the votes of any brethren who have no cases of their own . —Very fraternally ,
A . F . A . WOODFORD 5 a , Norfolk-crescent , Hyde-park , VV ., March 31 st .
To thc Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — The letter of " A Voter" in your last number draws attention to a growing evil in the charity voting system , and indicates with some emphasis that the recipients of our Charities are more frequently those who are
the most persistent beggars , or have the most friends , and can employ those who are most skilled in the manipulation of charity votes . It follows that the poor and needy—poor and needy through no faults of their own—those of whom One said "Ye shall give consideration , " are left out in the cold , and while , in the reversal of voting charity the rich are filled with good things , the poor are turned empty
away . I give my experience—a maiden experience in charity voting—and will a "plain , unvarnished tale" discourse . The widow of our poor Bro . Hennah , a good man and good Mason in every sense of the terms , who died at an early age through over-exertion while preaching his Master's
message , sought my assistance to obtain for our young "Lewis , " Frederick Wolfe Hennah , the benefits of the Boys' School . Her late husband's lodge ( the Union , Margate ) could do nothing , though the high deserts of her case were acknowledged , as thc Province of Kent had already taken up a case . My own lodge had a case of its own , and
could not help . Eminent brethren in the Craft , whose hearts were touched by the assurance of the real charity which would be done in this case , gave me their votes ; but in three unsuccessful appeals to the poll , each time the hope deferred leaving the heart sick , has landed the widow with less than a 1000 votes towards a goal where 2500 arc
required . I claim the privilege in your free columns to stand in friendly competition with our esteemed Past Grand Chaplain , Bro . Woodford , and while he asks for votes for unnamed cases , I ask for votes on behalf of the named case , F . VV . Hennah . Permit me , in conclusion , to thank our Worshipful Bros .
Sir John Monckton , Deputy VV . J . E . Saunders , Jabez Hogg , James Mason , and Horace Brooks Marshall especially , for the help they have given to this fatherless boy , and to pray them to continue their support . All votes given to me shall be faithfully applied , as well as most thankfully received . —I am , dear sir , yours faithful ! and fraternally , JOHN WHILE . 135 , Loughbrough-road , S . W .
To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — There being a natural objection to supporting the claims of a brother and sister to the benefits of the schools , I ask permission to state in your columns that of the two children of the late William Woodward ( formerly
serjeantmajor 3 ist Regiment ) , whose names appear as candidates for the Boys ' " and Girls' Schools respectively . One alone—Minnie Woodward—requires the assistance of subscribers , her brother , Thomas Woodward , being no longer a candidate . Serjeant-major Woodward having belonged to a military
lodge ( the Meridian , No . 743 , attached to the 31 st Regiment ) , his widow can turn to no provincial association for assistance . At a time , however , when the gallantry of our present day soldiers is being freely acknowledged , a word may be permissible in favour of those " near and dear "
to a worthy veteran who has gone to his rest . Serjeantmajor Woodward served the Crimean and North China campaigns with the 31 st Regiment . He was initiated in 1858 , and remained a member of the Meridian Lodge until death . —Yours fraternally , R . F . GOULD , P . M . No . 743 .
LONDON AND PROVINCIAL CANDIDATES . THE ELECTIONS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — There is a point I wish to call attention to which seems very unfair on our poorer London cases , namely the
fact that provincial cases in addition to those submitted by the Charity Committee of a particular province , are begging for the support of London subscribers . Considering the perfect organization and the great strength of the Provincial Charity Committees , this ought not to be . Indeed , as a rule , it may fairly be assumed that if a provincial case is worked outside its own province there is
Original Correspondence.
generally some valid reason why the case is not taken up in the province . Such a course of action tells doubly hardly upon many of our almost / rieiirf / rss London candidates . — Yours fraternally , . FAIR PLAY .
A WORD OF CAUTION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I greatly object to the absurd proportion as between Girls' and Boys' votes , which some are
endeavouring to create . 1 advise all who have Girls' votes not to exchange at all under such hopeless terms as seem now to rule ; but to poll their votes or insist on exchanges " at par . " It is only by this course that we can hinder and resist the movements of a " Ring . "—Yours fraternally , A VOTING BROTHER .
THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I have read my esteemed friend ' s , our R . W . Bro . D . Murray Lyon , letter in last week ' s Freemason . Of course every brother must know he is right and I must be
wrong , as who could dare to differ with such an authority . I 3 m much obliged for the information he gives as to the Master of Kilwinning being ex-ollicio Provincial Grand Master of Ayrshire , and his having as such the right to appoint the Provincial Depute Master , Substitute Master , Senior Warden , Junior Warden , Secretary , and Chaplain .
This means he appoints as of right to no less than six of the Provincial Grand Offices , these offices being the principal ones . Now I do not even know who are the Provincial Grand . Officers of Ayrshire save thc Provincial Grand Secretary ,, my friend and our VV . Bro . Wylie , who has filled that
post for years and who has also been the excellent Secretary of Mother Kilwinning . I cannot therefore say anything about them , but this statement of our R . W . Brother recalls to my mind a story I heard in my young days as toone of the greatest , most learned , and respected Lord High Chancellors who ever sat on the Irish Woolsack , and who
is always spoken of with respect and esteem , although he has notloccupied that high office for half a century and has for many years been dead . The story is , that having had one son made a bishop , another a judge , anothera very comfortable mastership in a law court , and a fourth a Crown prosecutorship , a friend hinted to him that getting his
sons such appointments might cause some comments to be made as to ' them , to which he replied , " Show me better , for I cannot sec them . " To this his friend could give no answer as his four sons knew their business and did it well . So the Master of Mother Kilwinning may for ought I know give the same reason at any time for filling up his
six provincial grand offices with Mother Kilwinning bre . thren , and if so I am sure every brother so appointed will know his business , and do his duty not only to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire , but also , by each of the six , giving his votes when necessary to Mother Kilwinning . I need not say what six votes ol Grand Officers mean in thc
Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire . Now , as to our R . W . Brother's first point . He is too modest . He should have referred to page eight of his " Freemasonry in Scotland , " where an excellent facsimile is given of part of the Schaw statutes of 159 S , and to pages 12 , & c , where Schaw ' s statute of December 27 th ,
599 . 'S given . This carries Mother Kilwinning ' s history back nearly half a century further as a Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire , Renfrew , and Dumbarton . Now , as to my reference to page 59 of Bro . Wylie ' s " History of Mother Kilwinning , " as to the minutes of December 20 th , 16 43 . I read the footnote at page 409 of " Freemasonry
in Scotland , " but did not look further as the footnote is complete in itself , and knowing I had marked these minutes in the "History of Mother Kilwinning " I at once turned to it . 1 have now compared these extracts , and find , so far as Bro . Wylie's minutes go , they agree most fully with my remembrance of them , and of course the rest must be word
for word thc same ( so far as they go ) with those given by our R . W . Brother at page 410 ; but in the middle of these minutes , at page 410 in "Freemasonry in Scotland , " our R . W . Brother gives a copy of the seal used by Mother Kilwinning for charters , & c . Bro . Wylie does not insert this seal in these minutes , but gives it at page 24 . My
remembrance is that the seal certainly does not appear in the original minute book . As to our R . W . Brother ' s remark that Bro . Wylie ' s is only an excerpt from an article of his , " No . 2 , Mother Kilwinning , " in the "Freemason ' s Magazine" of Sth
August , 1 SC 3 , I can say nothing , as I never as : yet have seen the " Freemason ' s Magazine " of that date , or did I know our R . W . Brother wrote anything as to Mother Kilwinning save what appears in his "Freemasonry in Scotland . "
This point must be settled by our R . W . Brother and Bro . Wylie between themselves ; but one thing I would urge every brother to do would be to procure copies of both " Freemasonry in Scotland " and " Thc History of Mother Kilwinning , " as the perusal of them will give
vast information and pleasure , especially " Freemasonry in Scotland , " which is a grand work , and has most life-like portraits of all the leading brethren in Scotland , including our R . W . Brother ' s own , at p . 29 . As to our R . W . Brother ' s second point . He has only