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Provincial
LEICESTERSHIRE . prov ^ A quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of this province was held , in connection with St . John ' s Lodge , No . 348 , at the MasonicHall , Bell Hotel , Leicester , on Thursday , April 29 th . In the absence of the Right Hon . Earl
Howe , G . O . H ., J ? rov . G . M ., the D , Prov . ^ . M . Bro . William Kelly presided , supported by Bros . W . Pettifer ( P . Prov . G . S . W . ) as D . Prov . G . M . ; R . Crawford , Prov . S . G . W . V C . Morris , ( Prov . G . Reg . ) , as Prov . J G . W . ; P . Goodyer , Prov . G . Sec . ; Charles T . Freer ( High Sheriff of the County ) , Prov . G . Steward , and an unusually large assemblage of Grand Officers , Bast Grand Officers , and other Brethren of the province .
The Grand Lodge having been opened in form , and the minutes of the last quarterly communication read and confirmed , the D . Prov . G . M . informed the Lodge that he had received a letter from Bro . the Rev . W . J . Edlin , Prov . G . Chap ., announcing that having been preferred to a chaplaincy in his old college , Trinity , at Cambridge , which necessitated his removal from Leicester at a few
days notice ; he > regretted that he should be unable to meet his Brethren once more in Grand Lodge before his departure , and that he had placed his office at the disposal of the Prov . G . M ., should his lordship think the interest of the Craft required its immediate relinquishment . The D . Prov . G . M . added that the Prov . G . M . had arranged that Bro . Edlin should continue to hold the office until the annual meeting in October next .
The following resolution , proposed by the D . ProV . G . M * , and seconded by the G , S . W ., ( both of whom spoke in highly eulogistic terms of the exemplary and estimable character of the Rev . Brother , both as a Mason and a minister of religion ) , was unanimously adopted , and a copy of it ordered to be transmitted
to Bro . Edlin : —¦' That the members of this Grand Lodge have received with great regret the intelligence of the removal from the province of Brother the Reverend . William James Edlin , M . A ., Provincial Grand Chaplain , who during the period in which he has held the office has discharged its duties with punctuality , and gained the esteem and respect of everyone with whom he has come in contact . At the same time the Brethren beg to tender to Bro . Edlin their sincere congratulations on his preferment , and their most cordial wishes for his health and
happiness /' The D . Prov . G . M . then announced that the office of Prov . G . Sword-Bearer having been vacated by Bro . T . H . Pares , who had left the province on joining his regiment , Lord Howe had authorized him to request Bro . Capt . Freer , the worth High Sheriff , to accept it , who had kindly consented ; and that Bro . Freer ' s present office of Prov . G . Steward would be conferred upon Bro , Sir A . G . Hazlerigg , Bart ., at the next meeting . Bro . Freer having been called to the pedestal was duly invested .
Four of the sections of the lecture of the 2 nd Degree were then worked in excellent style by the D . Prov . G . M ., and Bros . M . Needham , A . Cummings , Dr . Sloane , and Wheeler—the four Brethren being junior members of St . John ' s Lodge , The fourth section was omitted , in consequence of the Brother who had undertaken it being suddenly called out of town . At the next quarterly meeting , to be held at the John of Gaunt Lodge , No . 766 , in July next , the lecture of the 3 rd Degree is to be worked by members of that Lodge , The plan recently adopted in the province of working one of the lectures at every meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge has been found very beneficial in creating a spirit of generous emulation among the Brethren .
Leicester . —St . Johns Lodge ( No . 348 ) . —A Lodge of emergency was held at the Bell Hotel , on Thursday evening last , for the purpose of raising Bro . J . Denton to the 3 rd Degree . Among the Brethren present were Bros . W . Kelly , D . Prov . G . M . ; Crawford , Pettifer , Kindei * , and Morris , Past Masters ; Holland , S . W . ; Cummings , J . W . ; Nedham , Sec . ; Wheeler , Thompson , Snowdon , Herbert , Marston , Emberlin , & c . Among the visitors were Bros . Capt . Freer , High Sheriff ; Smith , P . M . ; Goodyer , P . M . ; Kinton , P . M . ; and Davis , all of the
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Provincial
LEICESTERSHIRE . prov ^ A quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of this province was held , in connection with St . John ' s Lodge , No . 348 , at the MasonicHall , Bell Hotel , Leicester , on Thursday , April 29 th . In the absence of the Right Hon . Earl
Howe , G . O . H ., J ? rov . G . M ., the D , Prov . ^ . M . Bro . William Kelly presided , supported by Bros . W . Pettifer ( P . Prov . G . S . W . ) as D . Prov . G . M . ; R . Crawford , Prov . S . G . W . V C . Morris , ( Prov . G . Reg . ) , as Prov . J G . W . ; P . Goodyer , Prov . G . Sec . ; Charles T . Freer ( High Sheriff of the County ) , Prov . G . Steward , and an unusually large assemblage of Grand Officers , Bast Grand Officers , and other Brethren of the province .
The Grand Lodge having been opened in form , and the minutes of the last quarterly communication read and confirmed , the D . Prov . G . M . informed the Lodge that he had received a letter from Bro . the Rev . W . J . Edlin , Prov . G . Chap ., announcing that having been preferred to a chaplaincy in his old college , Trinity , at Cambridge , which necessitated his removal from Leicester at a few
days notice ; he > regretted that he should be unable to meet his Brethren once more in Grand Lodge before his departure , and that he had placed his office at the disposal of the Prov . G . M ., should his lordship think the interest of the Craft required its immediate relinquishment . The D . Prov . G . M . added that the Prov . G . M . had arranged that Bro . Edlin should continue to hold the office until the annual meeting in October next .
The following resolution , proposed by the D . ProV . G . M * , and seconded by the G , S . W ., ( both of whom spoke in highly eulogistic terms of the exemplary and estimable character of the Rev . Brother , both as a Mason and a minister of religion ) , was unanimously adopted , and a copy of it ordered to be transmitted
to Bro . Edlin : —¦' That the members of this Grand Lodge have received with great regret the intelligence of the removal from the province of Brother the Reverend . William James Edlin , M . A ., Provincial Grand Chaplain , who during the period in which he has held the office has discharged its duties with punctuality , and gained the esteem and respect of everyone with whom he has come in contact . At the same time the Brethren beg to tender to Bro . Edlin their sincere congratulations on his preferment , and their most cordial wishes for his health and
happiness /' The D . Prov . G . M . then announced that the office of Prov . G . Sword-Bearer having been vacated by Bro . T . H . Pares , who had left the province on joining his regiment , Lord Howe had authorized him to request Bro . Capt . Freer , the worth High Sheriff , to accept it , who had kindly consented ; and that Bro . Freer ' s present office of Prov . G . Steward would be conferred upon Bro , Sir A . G . Hazlerigg , Bart ., at the next meeting . Bro . Freer having been called to the pedestal was duly invested .
Four of the sections of the lecture of the 2 nd Degree were then worked in excellent style by the D . Prov . G . M ., and Bros . M . Needham , A . Cummings , Dr . Sloane , and Wheeler—the four Brethren being junior members of St . John ' s Lodge , The fourth section was omitted , in consequence of the Brother who had undertaken it being suddenly called out of town . At the next quarterly meeting , to be held at the John of Gaunt Lodge , No . 766 , in July next , the lecture of the 3 rd Degree is to be worked by members of that Lodge , The plan recently adopted in the province of working one of the lectures at every meeting of the Prov . G . Lodge has been found very beneficial in creating a spirit of generous emulation among the Brethren .
Leicester . —St . Johns Lodge ( No . 348 ) . —A Lodge of emergency was held at the Bell Hotel , on Thursday evening last , for the purpose of raising Bro . J . Denton to the 3 rd Degree . Among the Brethren present were Bros . W . Kelly , D . Prov . G . M . ; Crawford , Pettifer , Kindei * , and Morris , Past Masters ; Holland , S . W . ; Cummings , J . W . ; Nedham , Sec . ; Wheeler , Thompson , Snowdon , Herbert , Marston , Emberlin , & c . Among the visitors were Bros . Capt . Freer , High Sheriff ; Smith , P . M . ; Goodyer , P . M . ; Kinton , P . M . ; and Davis , all of the