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Kluights Templab.
by the Baldwin or other irregular Encampment within * your jurisdiction . Before the receipt of ydur ( G , G ) letter of the 26 th ultimo , a circular from the Baldwin Encampment was sent me from one of our 32 of Philo . I immediately replied with notes , showing that they were livirig and assuming authority , in violation of their vows and fealty to the Grand Conclave of England and Wales . It can make no impression except one unfavourable to its authors within our jurisdiction . ' "The proceedings of the Grand Conclave , in reference to the Baldwin Encampmentof Bristol , are as follows : —
" In December , 1856 , Fr . D . W . Nash signified to the Grand Chancellor his wish to retire from Masonic office ; but "before doing so , offered his mediation to bring the Baldwin and Antiquity Encampments under the banner of the Grand Conclave of England and Wales , hitherto restrained , owing to a difference with the Bladud Encampment , Bath . Both the G . C . and G . Y . C . gave every facility ,
and the M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , from their representations , was disposed to acquiesce , on receiving the usual official application in writing ; this was duly communicated to him by the G . Y . C ., and a reply was expected before printing and issuing the annual report , dated 8 th May , 1857 . Before this was put in the press , the Prov . G . Com . for Worcester communicated to the G .
Chancellor , that Fr . D . W . Nash had granted a warrant , on his own assumed authority , for an Encampment to be held at Birmingham ; this communication led to a caution beingprinted conspicuously in red on the annual report , and with this special caution the said annual report was sent to every Encampment , holding under Grande Conclave , in England , Wales , and the colonies . This assumption of authority being further promulgated and acted upon , as shown in a printed circular letter , issued by the said Er . D . W . Nash , it becomes incumbent on the
Grand Conclave of England also to show to the Order of Knights Templar that the Baldwin Encampment was a member of the old Grand Conclave of England and Wales in the time of the Duke of Kent , which is thus admitted in Fr . D . W . Nash ' s own words , in his letter to the present G . Chancellor , dated Cheltenham the 6 th December , 1856 : — ' The Encampment of Baldwin is one ol the oldest Encampments in England , and , like that of Observance , has always been entitled '' from time immemorial , " without a number . ' It was a member of the old Grand
Conclave in the time of the DuJce of Kent . His late Royal Highness , Edward , Duke of Kent , by letters patent , or warrant , under seal , dated 10 th April , 1809 , after the death of Sir Knight Thomas Dunkerly , formerly M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , and whilst Sir Walter Rod well Wright was M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , became Royal Grand Patron of Grand Conclave of England and Wales for life , as the statutes and charter with list of Encampments , declaring fealty to it , then printed , show , and which includes Baldwin Encampment . * A
former charter , dated March , 1804 , states tha * . the Ancient Grand Conclave had for many years been suspended , owing to the death and dispersion of many of its members . The Duke of Kent and the Duke of Sussex had been duly installed Knights Templar in the Encampment of Observance , London , of seven Degrees . When the "Duke of Sussex became M . E . and Supreme Grand Master of the Order , a conference was held , and measures successfully taken , effectually to establish the loyalty of the Knights Templar , and to exempt them from the ban
held over the then dangerous secret societies , and his sway over the Order , while his health permitted , was mi st beneficial . After his death application was made to the friend of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , and executor to his last will , Colonel Charles Kemeys Tynte , also a member of the Encampment of Observance in London , to become the M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , which , fortunately for the lasting benefit of the Order , he complied with , and there were no dissentient members of the several old Encampments to his elevation and installation .
" The course thus taken leaves to the Grand Conclave , as regards Baldwin Encampment , and those Encampments which it has illegally assumed the power
* With the statutes then printed , Antiquity Encampment , Bath , is mentioned as having ce ised to exist .
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Kluights Templab.
by the Baldwin or other irregular Encampment within * your jurisdiction . Before the receipt of ydur ( G , G ) letter of the 26 th ultimo , a circular from the Baldwin Encampment was sent me from one of our 32 of Philo . I immediately replied with notes , showing that they were livirig and assuming authority , in violation of their vows and fealty to the Grand Conclave of England and Wales . It can make no impression except one unfavourable to its authors within our jurisdiction . ' "The proceedings of the Grand Conclave , in reference to the Baldwin Encampmentof Bristol , are as follows : —
" In December , 1856 , Fr . D . W . Nash signified to the Grand Chancellor his wish to retire from Masonic office ; but "before doing so , offered his mediation to bring the Baldwin and Antiquity Encampments under the banner of the Grand Conclave of England and Wales , hitherto restrained , owing to a difference with the Bladud Encampment , Bath . Both the G . C . and G . Y . C . gave every facility ,
and the M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , from their representations , was disposed to acquiesce , on receiving the usual official application in writing ; this was duly communicated to him by the G . Y . C ., and a reply was expected before printing and issuing the annual report , dated 8 th May , 1857 . Before this was put in the press , the Prov . G . Com . for Worcester communicated to the G .
Chancellor , that Fr . D . W . Nash had granted a warrant , on his own assumed authority , for an Encampment to be held at Birmingham ; this communication led to a caution beingprinted conspicuously in red on the annual report , and with this special caution the said annual report was sent to every Encampment , holding under Grande Conclave , in England , Wales , and the colonies . This assumption of authority being further promulgated and acted upon , as shown in a printed circular letter , issued by the said Er . D . W . Nash , it becomes incumbent on the
Grand Conclave of England also to show to the Order of Knights Templar that the Baldwin Encampment was a member of the old Grand Conclave of England and Wales in the time of the Duke of Kent , which is thus admitted in Fr . D . W . Nash ' s own words , in his letter to the present G . Chancellor , dated Cheltenham the 6 th December , 1856 : — ' The Encampment of Baldwin is one ol the oldest Encampments in England , and , like that of Observance , has always been entitled '' from time immemorial , " without a number . ' It was a member of the old Grand
Conclave in the time of the DuJce of Kent . His late Royal Highness , Edward , Duke of Kent , by letters patent , or warrant , under seal , dated 10 th April , 1809 , after the death of Sir Knight Thomas Dunkerly , formerly M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , and whilst Sir Walter Rod well Wright was M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , became Royal Grand Patron of Grand Conclave of England and Wales for life , as the statutes and charter with list of Encampments , declaring fealty to it , then printed , show , and which includes Baldwin Encampment . * A
former charter , dated March , 1804 , states tha * . the Ancient Grand Conclave had for many years been suspended , owing to the death and dispersion of many of its members . The Duke of Kent and the Duke of Sussex had been duly installed Knights Templar in the Encampment of Observance , London , of seven Degrees . When the "Duke of Sussex became M . E . and Supreme Grand Master of the Order , a conference was held , and measures successfully taken , effectually to establish the loyalty of the Knights Templar , and to exempt them from the ban
held over the then dangerous secret societies , and his sway over the Order , while his health permitted , was mi st beneficial . After his death application was made to the friend of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , and executor to his last will , Colonel Charles Kemeys Tynte , also a member of the Encampment of Observance in London , to become the M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , which , fortunately for the lasting benefit of the Order , he complied with , and there were no dissentient members of the several old Encampments to his elevation and installation .
" The course thus taken leaves to the Grand Conclave , as regards Baldwin Encampment , and those Encampments which it has illegally assumed the power
* With the statutes then printed , Antiquity Encampment , Bath , is mentioned as having ce ised to exist .