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DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E . ( Within seven minutes' of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School , Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . W . P . EVANS , M . A . . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) . English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 1 SS 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine's College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages : The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages-. Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford _ Modern School . Editor of Macmillan's Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . j . G . WOOD , M . A ., F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such other qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole , B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-row , Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Bnggs , M . A ., L . L . M ., 15 , New Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edmunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B ., Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex . Major Ed . Green , St . Mary ' s , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Lawn , Cheltenham . C . P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Strcatham Hill , S . E .
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ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY . 92 , CHEAPSIDE , LONDON , E . C . ' FIRE , LIFE ^ ACCIDENT . Capital—One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pound ? . Instituted 1808 , and Empowered by Special Act 0 / Parliament . The Company has been in existence more than 7 O Years . Moderate Rates . Prompt Settlements . Liberal Conditions . All its Funds are Invested in Great Britain . Transacts Home Business only . No Hypothecation of Funds for Foreign Policy Holders . Ample Reserves apart from Capital . LIFE DEPARTMENT-Wholc-World Assurances . Liberal Surrender Values given in Cash or by paid-up Policies . Payment of Claims immediately on proof of death . All kinds of Life Assurance transacted . ACCIDENTS—Assured Against , whether fatal or causing total or partial disablement , at moderate rates , and with liberal Compensation . FIRE—Policies issued free of expense . LOSSES OCCASIONED BY LIGHTNING "ill be paid whether the property be set on lire or not . LOSS OR DAMAGE caused by Explosion of Coal Gas in any building assureii will be made good . ScViii Yttrn' Policies panted tin payment if Six years' Ptitnittms , Active Agents Wanted . _ SAMUEL J . PIPKIN , Secretary .
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LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSIONS . CHEAP EXCURSIONS will be run from LONDON as under : — Friday Whit . Night Saturday , Monday , May 30 May 31 . June 3 ~ . A U I C I I ) fii F * From a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . L ' uston Station ... .,. ... 12 . 1 7 . 30 , 8 . 5011 . 20 6 . 30 10 . 35 p . m . I Broad-street 10 . 5 s ( M 5 S . 20 to . 40 Kensington ( Addison-rd . ) 11 . 3 S 7 . 5 S . 42 11 . 8 ... 10 . 38 Victoria ( L . B . & S . C . Ry . ) 10 . 14 6 . 458 . 25 ' 10 . 20 ... 10 . 20 A—For Carlisle , Windermere , Kendal , Barrow , Whitehaven , Grange , Cockermouth , Morecambe , Lancaster , Carnforth , and the English Lake District . For three or six days . B—For Abergavenny , Dowlais , Merthyr , Tredegar , Llandovery , Builth Road , Brecon , Swansea , Llandilo , Carmarthen , & . C . For eight days . C—For Holyhead , Bangor , Blaenau , Festiniog , Carnarvon , Conway , Llandudno , Llandudno Junction , Abergele and Pensarn , Corwen , Denbigh , Holywell , Rhyl , Ruthin , Birkenhead , Chester , Northwich , Blackburn , Blackpool ( Talbot Road ) , Bolton , Preston , Southport , Wigan , Crewe , Nantwich , Whitchurch , Craven Arms , Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Llanidloes , Llanidrindod ( Wells ) , Montgomery , Newtown , Minsterley , Oswestry , VVelchpool , Newport ( Salop ) , Shrewsbury , Wellington , Stafford , Macclesfield , Bollington , Marpie ( Rose Hill ) , Longport , Stoke , and Stone . D « -For Allerton , Ashton , Batley , Dewsbury , Ditton , Huddersfield , Bradford , Halifax , Leeds , LIVERPOOL , MANCHESTER , Oldham , Runcorn , Stalybridge , Stockport , Warrington , Widnes , Buxton , Chapel-en-Ie-Frith , Nottingham , Burton , Derby , Lichfield , Tamworth , Leicester , Nuneaton , Rugby , Coventry , Kenilworth , Leamington , BIRMINGHAM , Dudley , Dudley Port , South Staffordshire Stations , Stour Valley Stations , Walsall , Wednesbury , WOLVERHAMPTON . E—DAY TRIP , BIRMINGHAM , Wolverhampton , Wal' sail , Dudley , Wednesbury , Leamington , Kenilworth , _ and Coventry . F—DAY TRIP to St . ALBANS . Athletic Sports , & c . _ For fares and full particulars as to times of return see bills , which can be obtained at any of the railway stations , the various Parcels Receiving Offices , and at Gaze'sTourist Office , 142 , Strand . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Eus . ton Station , May , 18 O 4 .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
We are reluctantly compelled to hold over , owing to our extended report of the Festival of the Girls' School , the continuation of the history of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ; the translation of the Pope ' s Encyclical letter ; the sixth and final notice of vol . iii . of "Gould's History , " and some editoral comments on recent Roman Catholic attacks on Freemasonry in France . The following communications have been received , but are not inserted in this issue owing to want of space : —
CRAFT LODGES . —St . Hilda , 240 ; Affability , 317 ;• Royal Alfred , 777 ; Williamson , 949 ; Aldershot Camp , 1331 ; Toxtelh , 135 6 ; Thames , 1 S 92 ; Beaumont , 2025 . LODGES OK INSTRUCTION . —Westbourne , 733 ; Hyde Park , 1425 ; Earl of Lathom , . 1922 . MARK LODGES . —Aldershot Military , 54 ; York , " 334 . CRYPTIC MASONRY . —Grand Masters Council . Consecration of the Hanover Chapter , 1777 . Annual Banquet of the Henley Lodge of Instruction . Funeral of the late Bro . Frank Adlard at Louth .
BOOKS RECEIVED , & c . "The Immortal Schoolmaster , " "The Guiilc to Nice , " "The Debater , " " . Jewish Chronicle , " "Gem , " "Broad Arrow , " "La Abeja , " "Masonic World , " " Keystone , " . "'Freemasons' Repository , " " Citizen , " " Court Circular ! " " Victorian Masonic Journal , " " l-rcimanrer Zcitung , " " Loomis's Journal , " "Allen's Indian Mail . " " Tricycling Journal , " "El Taller , " "A Los Masoncs Espanoles la Logial ' rorinclal de Barccdona . "
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^ P ^^^^^ K Ppjr ^ j aVy ^^^^ v ^^ y ^^^ ihEgyyy ^ rl SATURDAY , MAY 24 , 1884 .
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 fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free ' discussion . ]
PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In your issue of the 17 th inst . you were good enough to suggest in a leaderette on the late ceremony at whicn the Pro Grand Master officiated that the Masons , as a body , should do something to show their sympathy with
the Dean and Chapter in the serious disaster which has befallen our cathedral . 1 trust that you will keep the subject prominentl y before the Craft , and that Grand Lodge may be induced to give a grant out of their funds towards the restoration of a building so full of interest to the public in general , and to Masons in particular . I much regret to state that the amount collected on the day the stone was laid was far below the amount anticipated , and will not pay
one-third of the expense to which the Committee were put in making the necessary arrangements . At'the same time you will be glad to learn that the Prov . Grand Lodge of Norths and Hunts , which met on the 7 th inst ., voted 50 guineas to the Restoration Fund , and if other Prov . Grand Lodges could render a little assistance the cathedral authorities would be highly gratified . —Yours fraternally , VV . DI . XEY , P . M ., & c , May 19 th . Secretary 442 ,
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CHESHUNT GREAT HOUSE . B y Bro . F . D . RUES COPESTICK , P . P . G . S . B . Herts , P . M . and Treasurer of the Gresham Lodge , No . 869 . London : George Kenning , 16 and i 6 . \ , Great Queen-street , W . C . We have perused with much pleasure this singularly wellprinted book , ( though perhaps we say it as shouldn ' t ) and this most interestino- account of th <» remain * of an r > M mnnnr
house , where the Gresham Lodge has , with great , rather singular good fortune , and through much Masonic kindness and consideration , found a very pleasant haven . Indeed , when many of our readers behold the agreeable representation of the banqueting hall of Cheshunt Great House , they will feel what a debt of gratitude the brethren of that excellent lodge owe to Bro . Chas . E . Mayo . It is truly a 10 asscmoie in locale
privilege sucn a , to be associated with such "souvenirs , " to be surrounded by such accessories . The Great Cardinal seems to have once lived at Cheshunt Great Hall , and his portrait itself still adorns the walls , with a large and enviable collection of those notable and historical personages who play such a part on the great stage of life , and so fill up the mighty roll and diptychs of humanity . We are not at all surprised to hear that since the
Uresliam nrst round itself not only in such comfortable quarters , but permitted graciously to assemble under such goodly auspices , they have truly found the munificent sympathy of a brother , not only the omen " mcliorisaVi " for themselves and their lodge life , but that there has been almost a revival , a striking progress in Masonic energy , vitality , and fellowship . Long may the Gresham Lod ge enjoy the abnormal privileges thus offered them by a sympathetic brother , and
may others be found to enable under similar circumstances our kindly and useful brotherhood thus to assemble in the midst of memories and associations so well qualified to gratify and develope the antiquarian , archaeological , and aisthetical taste of the Freemasonry of to-day , which tends so much to adorn and strengthen the efforts of contemporary Freemasonry , and to edify and gratify our thoughful and " brighter" brethren in the active and energetic lodge life of the nineteenth century .
STAFFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION . We have been favoured by Bro . T . M . Humphries with a copy of the report for the past year , the society being now . in the thirteenth year of its existence . Full particulars
Reviews.
aire afforded of the operations of the Institution , lists o subscribers arranged under lodges , and the names of the Stewards sent up by the province , the sums they raised , the total receipts of the three Institutions , and an analysis of the votes received locally for the use of the province . Since 1871 the London Charities have benefited to the extent of over £ 3000 , and of late years the average has been
about £ 370 per annum . The details given are ample and most satisfactory and the rules appear to provide for all possible contingencies . The annual subscription to the A . Fund is one guinea , and five shillings to the ' B . Fund , ' each successful member having to give a promise in writing to continue his subscription until the amount of his ** Life
Subscription " is paid . Such associations as these are doing a very good work by providing a medium for the reception of surplus guineas , with a frequent ballot' for Life Subscribcrships , the management expenses being literally nil . The " B . Fund " provides for the education locally of Staffordshire children , seven having thus been maintained in part during 1 SS 3 .
THE " MASONIC YEAR BOOK " FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE FOR 1 SS 4 is a great advance on its predecessor . Masonically and typographically its excellence is fully maintained . Save a single page for . the calendar , the bulk has been reduced and the ex-? ense lessened by the omission of the diary portion . Bro . V . P . Spalding , the printer and publisher . -has written a
neat preface , in which graceful allusion is made to the services of the late Bro . Deighton , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master , whose lamented decease on November 3 rd , 1 SS 3 , has filled the members of the province with heartfelt grief . The " Provincial Notes , " by one of the members of No . S 59 , are most interesting , and are quite a distinctive and admirable feature of this year ' s issue . We should like ' , however , to have seen some acknowledgment of the sources from
which he obtained the numerical information , as it is mainly based upon the works of Bros . Hughan and Gould . The first lodge was constituted in Cambridge A . u . 1749 , according to the compiler , and the second of the scries was formed in 1754 , at London , which removed to Cambridge in 1762 , and is now the Scientific Lodge , No . SS . There arc other lodges also mentioned ; but we must not in fairness say more now , as the'handsome little calendar can be obtained for a trifle from the nublisher .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
J "" 341 ] FOURTH NOTICE .-GOULD'S "HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY . " As _ I took exception to one of the previous editorials relating to Bro . Gould ' s history , it gives nie-all the more pleasure now to express my warm approval generally ot the fourth notice . Some few points about which we differ , ¦ arc still unsettled , but on the value , importanceand texts
, of the various MSS . we are now , as heretofore , in complete accord . The editor of the Freemason is one of the oldest labourers in the field of Masonic research , and therefore has earned the right to speak almost authoritativel y on the subject of the old MSS ., Rolls , and Books . . May I , however , point out that in his friendly and appreciative
review of the history he has made an error in declaring ' that Bro . Gould wishes us " arbitrarily to take out 'Windsor' and put in 'York , ' or vice versa . " 1 Jed certain that Bro . Woodford will correct this little oversight , as the " Windsor " legend refers to the initiation of Edwin , and the " York" to the holding of the annual assembly . W . J . HUGHAN .
343 I HARLEIAN MS . 1942 . It has been pointed out to mc in private correspondence that no matter how cogent my arguments ( " Notes and Queries , No . 340 " ) may be , they must fail to convince , because " any such system as a central authority controlling a net-work of lodges must have been , circa 1670 , impossible out of London . " 1 will first reply to this 5 in rreneral termsthat we arc not ennrcrni'H with thn nn « i .
, bility or otherwise of the results deducible from hard facts , ( such as the date of the MS . ); if these results antagonise our preconceived ideas of possibilities , we must simply modify our views : in other words , if the facts point to a central authority , wc must accept this conclusion , no matter how impossible it appears to us . ' To put a very strong case —we do ndt believe in the possibility of an original of
Krause's MS . —but if such original really turned up ( of course it never will , but still if it did ) , wc should have to accept all its improbable consequences . Next I would point out that , given a country-side containing live or six lodges within a circle of say 50 to 100 miles in diameter , it is not impossible to infer a mutual understanding amongst these lodges of which all evidence , except the Harleian
MS . 1942 , has disappeared . Nor in this case need we imagine any permanent central authority , anything in the nature of perpetual grand officers , for this is not the impression conveyed to my mind by the New Articles . ' In order to reconcile these views I shall now attempt a very bold and hazardous experiment ; that is , clothe these articles in such words as will do no violence to the original
and yet present to others the sense I think they are . intended toconvey : ( 26 ) No person ( of what degree soever ) shall in future be made a Freemason unless at least five Freemasons shall meet together to form a lodge ( wc might perhaps call _ it a special lodge or lodge of emergency ) for his admission . Of these five two must be actually working-, operative Freemasons , and further , one of these
two must be a Master Mason or a Warden ( that is a Master's foreman , not a lodge Warden as we understand it ) , actually resident or working in the immediate neighbourhood where such lodge shall be held ( ergo , the other three may be gentlemen-masons ) . ( 27 ) Requires ho gloss . ( 28 ) That no person hereafter be acknowledged as a Freemason , nor admitted into any ( stated ) lodge meeting or assembly until he hath brought a
certificate irom the lodge , i . e ., assembly of at least five Freemasons which accepted him , stating the time ( and possibl y the circumstances under which this occurred ) , which certificate he is to hand to the Master of the lodge to which he seeks admission or perhaps membership ; said Master to enter his name upon the roll of members , and to give an . account of such act to the general yearly meeting of the brethren of that particular lodge , or perhaps even to the
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DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E . ( Within seven minutes' of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School , Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . W . P . EVANS , M . A . . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) . English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 1 SS 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine's College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages : The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages-. Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford _ Modern School . Editor of Macmillan's Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . j . G . WOOD , M . A ., F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such other qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole , B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-row , Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Bnggs , M . A ., L . L . M ., 15 , New Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edmunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B ., Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex . Major Ed . Green , St . Mary ' s , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Lawn , Cheltenham . C . P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Strcatham Hill , S . E .
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ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY . 92 , CHEAPSIDE , LONDON , E . C . ' FIRE , LIFE ^ ACCIDENT . Capital—One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pound ? . Instituted 1808 , and Empowered by Special Act 0 / Parliament . The Company has been in existence more than 7 O Years . Moderate Rates . Prompt Settlements . Liberal Conditions . All its Funds are Invested in Great Britain . Transacts Home Business only . No Hypothecation of Funds for Foreign Policy Holders . Ample Reserves apart from Capital . LIFE DEPARTMENT-Wholc-World Assurances . Liberal Surrender Values given in Cash or by paid-up Policies . Payment of Claims immediately on proof of death . All kinds of Life Assurance transacted . ACCIDENTS—Assured Against , whether fatal or causing total or partial disablement , at moderate rates , and with liberal Compensation . FIRE—Policies issued free of expense . LOSSES OCCASIONED BY LIGHTNING "ill be paid whether the property be set on lire or not . LOSS OR DAMAGE caused by Explosion of Coal Gas in any building assureii will be made good . ScViii Yttrn' Policies panted tin payment if Six years' Ptitnittms , Active Agents Wanted . _ SAMUEL J . PIPKIN , Secretary .
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LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSIONS . CHEAP EXCURSIONS will be run from LONDON as under : — Friday Whit . Night Saturday , Monday , May 30 May 31 . June 3 ~ . A U I C I I ) fii F * From a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . a . m . L ' uston Station ... .,. ... 12 . 1 7 . 30 , 8 . 5011 . 20 6 . 30 10 . 35 p . m . I Broad-street 10 . 5 s ( M 5 S . 20 to . 40 Kensington ( Addison-rd . ) 11 . 3 S 7 . 5 S . 42 11 . 8 ... 10 . 38 Victoria ( L . B . & S . C . Ry . ) 10 . 14 6 . 458 . 25 ' 10 . 20 ... 10 . 20 A—For Carlisle , Windermere , Kendal , Barrow , Whitehaven , Grange , Cockermouth , Morecambe , Lancaster , Carnforth , and the English Lake District . For three or six days . B—For Abergavenny , Dowlais , Merthyr , Tredegar , Llandovery , Builth Road , Brecon , Swansea , Llandilo , Carmarthen , & . C . For eight days . C—For Holyhead , Bangor , Blaenau , Festiniog , Carnarvon , Conway , Llandudno , Llandudno Junction , Abergele and Pensarn , Corwen , Denbigh , Holywell , Rhyl , Ruthin , Birkenhead , Chester , Northwich , Blackburn , Blackpool ( Talbot Road ) , Bolton , Preston , Southport , Wigan , Crewe , Nantwich , Whitchurch , Craven Arms , Hereford , Leominster , Ludlow , Llanidloes , Llanidrindod ( Wells ) , Montgomery , Newtown , Minsterley , Oswestry , VVelchpool , Newport ( Salop ) , Shrewsbury , Wellington , Stafford , Macclesfield , Bollington , Marpie ( Rose Hill ) , Longport , Stoke , and Stone . D « -For Allerton , Ashton , Batley , Dewsbury , Ditton , Huddersfield , Bradford , Halifax , Leeds , LIVERPOOL , MANCHESTER , Oldham , Runcorn , Stalybridge , Stockport , Warrington , Widnes , Buxton , Chapel-en-Ie-Frith , Nottingham , Burton , Derby , Lichfield , Tamworth , Leicester , Nuneaton , Rugby , Coventry , Kenilworth , Leamington , BIRMINGHAM , Dudley , Dudley Port , South Staffordshire Stations , Stour Valley Stations , Walsall , Wednesbury , WOLVERHAMPTON . E—DAY TRIP , BIRMINGHAM , Wolverhampton , Wal' sail , Dudley , Wednesbury , Leamington , Kenilworth , _ and Coventry . F—DAY TRIP to St . ALBANS . Athletic Sports , & c . _ For fares and full particulars as to times of return see bills , which can be obtained at any of the railway stations , the various Parcels Receiving Offices , and at Gaze'sTourist Office , 142 , Strand . G . FINDLAY , General Manager . Eus . ton Station , May , 18 O 4 .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
We are reluctantly compelled to hold over , owing to our extended report of the Festival of the Girls' School , the continuation of the history of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ; the translation of the Pope ' s Encyclical letter ; the sixth and final notice of vol . iii . of "Gould's History , " and some editoral comments on recent Roman Catholic attacks on Freemasonry in France . The following communications have been received , but are not inserted in this issue owing to want of space : —
CRAFT LODGES . —St . Hilda , 240 ; Affability , 317 ;• Royal Alfred , 777 ; Williamson , 949 ; Aldershot Camp , 1331 ; Toxtelh , 135 6 ; Thames , 1 S 92 ; Beaumont , 2025 . LODGES OK INSTRUCTION . —Westbourne , 733 ; Hyde Park , 1425 ; Earl of Lathom , . 1922 . MARK LODGES . —Aldershot Military , 54 ; York , " 334 . CRYPTIC MASONRY . —Grand Masters Council . Consecration of the Hanover Chapter , 1777 . Annual Banquet of the Henley Lodge of Instruction . Funeral of the late Bro . Frank Adlard at Louth .
BOOKS RECEIVED , & c . "The Immortal Schoolmaster , " "The Guiilc to Nice , " "The Debater , " " . Jewish Chronicle , " "Gem , " "Broad Arrow , " "La Abeja , " "Masonic World , " " Keystone , " . "'Freemasons' Repository , " " Citizen , " " Court Circular ! " " Victorian Masonic Journal , " " l-rcimanrer Zcitung , " " Loomis's Journal , " "Allen's Indian Mail . " " Tricycling Journal , " "El Taller , " "A Los Masoncs Espanoles la Logial ' rorinclal de Barccdona . "
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^ P ^^^^^ K Ppjr ^ j aVy ^^^^ v ^^ y ^^^ ihEgyyy ^ rl SATURDAY , MAY 24 , 1884 .
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 fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free ' discussion . ]
PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In your issue of the 17 th inst . you were good enough to suggest in a leaderette on the late ceremony at whicn the Pro Grand Master officiated that the Masons , as a body , should do something to show their sympathy with
the Dean and Chapter in the serious disaster which has befallen our cathedral . 1 trust that you will keep the subject prominentl y before the Craft , and that Grand Lodge may be induced to give a grant out of their funds towards the restoration of a building so full of interest to the public in general , and to Masons in particular . I much regret to state that the amount collected on the day the stone was laid was far below the amount anticipated , and will not pay
one-third of the expense to which the Committee were put in making the necessary arrangements . At'the same time you will be glad to learn that the Prov . Grand Lodge of Norths and Hunts , which met on the 7 th inst ., voted 50 guineas to the Restoration Fund , and if other Prov . Grand Lodges could render a little assistance the cathedral authorities would be highly gratified . —Yours fraternally , VV . DI . XEY , P . M ., & c , May 19 th . Secretary 442 ,
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
THE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CHESHUNT GREAT HOUSE . B y Bro . F . D . RUES COPESTICK , P . P . G . S . B . Herts , P . M . and Treasurer of the Gresham Lodge , No . 869 . London : George Kenning , 16 and i 6 . \ , Great Queen-street , W . C . We have perused with much pleasure this singularly wellprinted book , ( though perhaps we say it as shouldn ' t ) and this most interestino- account of th <» remain * of an r > M mnnnr
house , where the Gresham Lodge has , with great , rather singular good fortune , and through much Masonic kindness and consideration , found a very pleasant haven . Indeed , when many of our readers behold the agreeable representation of the banqueting hall of Cheshunt Great House , they will feel what a debt of gratitude the brethren of that excellent lodge owe to Bro . Chas . E . Mayo . It is truly a 10 asscmoie in locale
privilege sucn a , to be associated with such "souvenirs , " to be surrounded by such accessories . The Great Cardinal seems to have once lived at Cheshunt Great Hall , and his portrait itself still adorns the walls , with a large and enviable collection of those notable and historical personages who play such a part on the great stage of life , and so fill up the mighty roll and diptychs of humanity . We are not at all surprised to hear that since the
Uresliam nrst round itself not only in such comfortable quarters , but permitted graciously to assemble under such goodly auspices , they have truly found the munificent sympathy of a brother , not only the omen " mcliorisaVi " for themselves and their lodge life , but that there has been almost a revival , a striking progress in Masonic energy , vitality , and fellowship . Long may the Gresham Lod ge enjoy the abnormal privileges thus offered them by a sympathetic brother , and
may others be found to enable under similar circumstances our kindly and useful brotherhood thus to assemble in the midst of memories and associations so well qualified to gratify and develope the antiquarian , archaeological , and aisthetical taste of the Freemasonry of to-day , which tends so much to adorn and strengthen the efforts of contemporary Freemasonry , and to edify and gratify our thoughful and " brighter" brethren in the active and energetic lodge life of the nineteenth century .
STAFFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION . We have been favoured by Bro . T . M . Humphries with a copy of the report for the past year , the society being now . in the thirteenth year of its existence . Full particulars
Reviews.
aire afforded of the operations of the Institution , lists o subscribers arranged under lodges , and the names of the Stewards sent up by the province , the sums they raised , the total receipts of the three Institutions , and an analysis of the votes received locally for the use of the province . Since 1871 the London Charities have benefited to the extent of over £ 3000 , and of late years the average has been
about £ 370 per annum . The details given are ample and most satisfactory and the rules appear to provide for all possible contingencies . The annual subscription to the A . Fund is one guinea , and five shillings to the ' B . Fund , ' each successful member having to give a promise in writing to continue his subscription until the amount of his ** Life
Subscription " is paid . Such associations as these are doing a very good work by providing a medium for the reception of surplus guineas , with a frequent ballot' for Life Subscribcrships , the management expenses being literally nil . The " B . Fund " provides for the education locally of Staffordshire children , seven having thus been maintained in part during 1 SS 3 .
THE " MASONIC YEAR BOOK " FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE FOR 1 SS 4 is a great advance on its predecessor . Masonically and typographically its excellence is fully maintained . Save a single page for . the calendar , the bulk has been reduced and the ex-? ense lessened by the omission of the diary portion . Bro . V . P . Spalding , the printer and publisher . -has written a
neat preface , in which graceful allusion is made to the services of the late Bro . Deighton , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master , whose lamented decease on November 3 rd , 1 SS 3 , has filled the members of the province with heartfelt grief . The " Provincial Notes , " by one of the members of No . S 59 , are most interesting , and are quite a distinctive and admirable feature of this year ' s issue . We should like ' , however , to have seen some acknowledgment of the sources from
which he obtained the numerical information , as it is mainly based upon the works of Bros . Hughan and Gould . The first lodge was constituted in Cambridge A . u . 1749 , according to the compiler , and the second of the scries was formed in 1754 , at London , which removed to Cambridge in 1762 , and is now the Scientific Lodge , No . SS . There arc other lodges also mentioned ; but we must not in fairness say more now , as the'handsome little calendar can be obtained for a trifle from the nublisher .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
J "" 341 ] FOURTH NOTICE .-GOULD'S "HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY . " As _ I took exception to one of the previous editorials relating to Bro . Gould ' s history , it gives nie-all the more pleasure now to express my warm approval generally ot the fourth notice . Some few points about which we differ , ¦ arc still unsettled , but on the value , importanceand texts
, of the various MSS . we are now , as heretofore , in complete accord . The editor of the Freemason is one of the oldest labourers in the field of Masonic research , and therefore has earned the right to speak almost authoritativel y on the subject of the old MSS ., Rolls , and Books . . May I , however , point out that in his friendly and appreciative
review of the history he has made an error in declaring ' that Bro . Gould wishes us " arbitrarily to take out 'Windsor' and put in 'York , ' or vice versa . " 1 Jed certain that Bro . Woodford will correct this little oversight , as the " Windsor " legend refers to the initiation of Edwin , and the " York" to the holding of the annual assembly . W . J . HUGHAN .
343 I HARLEIAN MS . 1942 . It has been pointed out to mc in private correspondence that no matter how cogent my arguments ( " Notes and Queries , No . 340 " ) may be , they must fail to convince , because " any such system as a central authority controlling a net-work of lodges must have been , circa 1670 , impossible out of London . " 1 will first reply to this 5 in rreneral termsthat we arc not ennrcrni'H with thn nn « i .
, bility or otherwise of the results deducible from hard facts , ( such as the date of the MS . ); if these results antagonise our preconceived ideas of possibilities , we must simply modify our views : in other words , if the facts point to a central authority , wc must accept this conclusion , no matter how impossible it appears to us . ' To put a very strong case —we do ndt believe in the possibility of an original of
Krause's MS . —but if such original really turned up ( of course it never will , but still if it did ) , wc should have to accept all its improbable consequences . Next I would point out that , given a country-side containing live or six lodges within a circle of say 50 to 100 miles in diameter , it is not impossible to infer a mutual understanding amongst these lodges of which all evidence , except the Harleian
MS . 1942 , has disappeared . Nor in this case need we imagine any permanent central authority , anything in the nature of perpetual grand officers , for this is not the impression conveyed to my mind by the New Articles . ' In order to reconcile these views I shall now attempt a very bold and hazardous experiment ; that is , clothe these articles in such words as will do no violence to the original
and yet present to others the sense I think they are . intended toconvey : ( 26 ) No person ( of what degree soever ) shall in future be made a Freemason unless at least five Freemasons shall meet together to form a lodge ( wc might perhaps call _ it a special lodge or lodge of emergency ) for his admission . Of these five two must be actually working-, operative Freemasons , and further , one of these
two must be a Master Mason or a Warden ( that is a Master's foreman , not a lodge Warden as we understand it ) , actually resident or working in the immediate neighbourhood where such lodge shall be held ( ergo , the other three may be gentlemen-masons ) . ( 27 ) Requires ho gloss . ( 28 ) That no person hereafter be acknowledged as a Freemason , nor admitted into any ( stated ) lodge meeting or assembly until he hath brought a
certificate irom the lodge , i . e ., assembly of at least five Freemasons which accepted him , stating the time ( and possibl y the circumstances under which this occurred ) , which certificate he is to hand to the Master of the lodge to which he seeks admission or perhaps membership ; said Master to enter his name upon the roll of members , and to give an . account of such act to the general yearly meeting of the brethren of that particular lodge , or perhaps even to the