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at Boston that year , on the subject . The question cwas there ventilated , and the utmost readiness evinced to comply with the suggestions which had been thrown out . Several of the Brethren of the Humber Lodge , at Hull ( of which the writer was a member ) , as well as those of the Lodges at Lincoln , Boston , Spalding , Spilsby , & c ., were pommunicated with on the subject , and a general satisfaction was felt that they had been desired to take part in the forthcoming proceedings . Invitations were accordingly forwarded from the mayor , through the town clerk , inviting eight Brethren from each of the Lodges to meet his worship and
the Earl of Yarborough , & c , on the 16 th of June , " 1858 , to breakfast in the old Mansion-house , and to join in the due performance of the important ceremony of the day . These invitations were accepted , and that day will long be remembered , and its recollections handed for generations to come , not alone on account of the foundation-stone of the new Town Hall being laid , and attracting the largest concourse of spectators ever assembled in the town to witness it , but chiefly from the circumstance of that stone having been laid with all the peculiar honours of Freemasonry , and that in the most impressive and attractive manner by the D . Grand Master of Freemasons .
Indeed , from that day may he dated the gradual rise and progress of the feeling which has led at last , in the present year , to the resuscitation of Masonry in the town of Louth , by the re-establishinent of the Lodge which had lain dormant for sixteen years , the warrant having been returned in 1841 . We now return to Freemasonry proper , prefacing the account of the re-opening of :. the Lodge by a brief review of Masonic matters as they have gone on since the commencement of the present century .
Somewhere about the beginning of the ; -century - a warrant was obtained , and a Lodge formed , mainly through the instrumentality of Dr . Orme , the then head master of the noble Grammar School founded by King Edward VI ., and who was for a long time W . M . of the St . James ' s Lodge , as it was entitled . The learned doctor , with a zeal of the most commendable character , worked the Lodge up to a degree of no ordinary eminence , and it soon contained a goodly number
of Brethren , not only of wealth and influence , but of right hearty Masonic industry and perseverance . It was during the many years of the existence of this Lodge that the death of the then locally celebrated Bro . Wolfe occurred . His funeral was conducted with Masonic ceremonies , amidst thousands of spectators , and the scene is oft spoken of to this day , amongst the older inhabitants , as a scene of wonderful interest .
This Lodge held its meetings in the large room of the King's Head , which , independently of its being by position properly suited for the business of the Craft , was fitted up in a manner in every possible way becoming its dignity , At length the ordinary leveller of all removed from earth every one of its members , including the learned and zealous Dr . Orme , who no oft had met
their" social band , And spent the cheerful , festive night ; Oft , honour'd with supreme command , Presided o ' er the sons of licrht . "
The good doctor was buried in the chancel of the parish church of-Louth , and the beautiful marble tablet erected to his memory bears the emblematic insignia of the order of Freemasonry artistically emblazoned thereon . Freemasonry then lay fallow until 1833 , when a Bro . Moody and a knot of Brethren who had become resident in the town commenced another Lodge , which was chartered as the " Lindsey Lodge , No , 633 ; " Bro . Moody being its
first W . M . This Lodge held its meetings in a spacious old mansion in Walkergate , known as " Madam Metcalfe ' s House , " which had the repute of possessing a rather greater number of ghosts and goblins than was its fair share , even in those days , prolific of belief in such-like midnight visitors . Whether any of them interfered with our Brethren in the prosecution of the business of their Craft , is not recorded . This Lodge , however , was but a rickety affair from the
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at Boston that year , on the subject . The question cwas there ventilated , and the utmost readiness evinced to comply with the suggestions which had been thrown out . Several of the Brethren of the Humber Lodge , at Hull ( of which the writer was a member ) , as well as those of the Lodges at Lincoln , Boston , Spalding , Spilsby , & c ., were pommunicated with on the subject , and a general satisfaction was felt that they had been desired to take part in the forthcoming proceedings . Invitations were accordingly forwarded from the mayor , through the town clerk , inviting eight Brethren from each of the Lodges to meet his worship and
the Earl of Yarborough , & c , on the 16 th of June , " 1858 , to breakfast in the old Mansion-house , and to join in the due performance of the important ceremony of the day . These invitations were accepted , and that day will long be remembered , and its recollections handed for generations to come , not alone on account of the foundation-stone of the new Town Hall being laid , and attracting the largest concourse of spectators ever assembled in the town to witness it , but chiefly from the circumstance of that stone having been laid with all the peculiar honours of Freemasonry , and that in the most impressive and attractive manner by the D . Grand Master of Freemasons .
Indeed , from that day may he dated the gradual rise and progress of the feeling which has led at last , in the present year , to the resuscitation of Masonry in the town of Louth , by the re-establishinent of the Lodge which had lain dormant for sixteen years , the warrant having been returned in 1841 . We now return to Freemasonry proper , prefacing the account of the re-opening of :. the Lodge by a brief review of Masonic matters as they have gone on since the commencement of the present century .
Somewhere about the beginning of the ; -century - a warrant was obtained , and a Lodge formed , mainly through the instrumentality of Dr . Orme , the then head master of the noble Grammar School founded by King Edward VI ., and who was for a long time W . M . of the St . James ' s Lodge , as it was entitled . The learned doctor , with a zeal of the most commendable character , worked the Lodge up to a degree of no ordinary eminence , and it soon contained a goodly number
of Brethren , not only of wealth and influence , but of right hearty Masonic industry and perseverance . It was during the many years of the existence of this Lodge that the death of the then locally celebrated Bro . Wolfe occurred . His funeral was conducted with Masonic ceremonies , amidst thousands of spectators , and the scene is oft spoken of to this day , amongst the older inhabitants , as a scene of wonderful interest .
This Lodge held its meetings in the large room of the King's Head , which , independently of its being by position properly suited for the business of the Craft , was fitted up in a manner in every possible way becoming its dignity , At length the ordinary leveller of all removed from earth every one of its members , including the learned and zealous Dr . Orme , who no oft had met
their" social band , And spent the cheerful , festive night ; Oft , honour'd with supreme command , Presided o ' er the sons of licrht . "
The good doctor was buried in the chancel of the parish church of-Louth , and the beautiful marble tablet erected to his memory bears the emblematic insignia of the order of Freemasonry artistically emblazoned thereon . Freemasonry then lay fallow until 1833 , when a Bro . Moody and a knot of Brethren who had become resident in the town commenced another Lodge , which was chartered as the " Lindsey Lodge , No , 633 ; " Bro . Moody being its
first W . M . This Lodge held its meetings in a spacious old mansion in Walkergate , known as " Madam Metcalfe ' s House , " which had the repute of possessing a rather greater number of ghosts and goblins than was its fair share , even in those days , prolific of belief in such-like midnight visitors . Whether any of them interfered with our Brethren in the prosecution of the business of their Craft , is not recorded . This Lodge , however , was but a rickety affair from the