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Masonic Notes And Queries.
JEWISH GBAND WARDEN . On the 4 th April , 1785 , Bro . M , J . Levy was appointed Junior Grand Warden of England , INLAND ' S DIALOGUE . The sham Masonic antiquity of the time of Henry VH . is laid to the
account of Leland , the topographer , and John Locke appears to have been put forward at Frankfort , in 1748 . LADIES AT GRAND FESTIVAL . On the 4 th May , 1772 , at the festival on the occasion of the installation of Lord Petre , held in the Merchant Taylors' Hall , "a great number of ladies were present in the gallery at the feast . "
OFFICE OF ORATOR . The French deficiency in readiness of public speaking being constitutional already , in 1738 , the French Orateur , or Bro . Orator , was a regular ancl important member of the French Lodge ; a post he continues to hold in most continental Loclges , ancl those derived from them , in the English empire , at the Cape of Good Hope , Mauritius , & c .
NO . Ill I'HCENIX LODGE , SUNDERLAND ., The Phccnix Lodge , No . Ill , at Sunderland , although dating from 1755 , and having celebrated its centenary , is not the oldest Lodge in that town , distinguished as a seat of Masonry , but only the second . In 1793 its Senior Warden was Bro . J . F . Stanfield , author of the song " Sing not the Fictions of Greece" of " Grave business being closed"
—, , and "A call from the South , " and of a Royal Arch song . Qy . —If these songs are still sung in the Phccnix Lodge , or its Royal Arch Chapter , the Chapter cle Lambton . There is a statement . that the Phccnix Lodge was dedicated onl y in 1785 , but this is a mistake for the Phccnix Hall , in ivhich it holds its meetings .
PROVINCIAL GRAND ' ARCHITECT . An early appointment wc have met with is that of Bro . G . Nicholson , Prov . G . A . of Durham , in 1794 . He was an architect , and not an ignoramus . The title behig * Prov . G . A ., and not Prov . G . Supt . of AVorks , it did not occur to the Prov . Grand Master then to pervert the office , any more than to appoint a Grancl Secretary who could not write . FUND OF BENEVOLENCE ..
Iii 1763 the stock of the Fund of Benevolence was £ 1 , 200 in bank stock . Blatters have improved since then , but still the accumulated stock is not what it shoidd be for the importance of the Order . £ 100 a year left to accumulate would in a century make a good aggregate fund . ROYAL LODGE . AVhch was the Royal Lodgeof which Bro . Chevalier Rusnini was
, W . M . in 1778 ? GRAND STEWARDS , 1794 . The Grand Stewards in 1794 were—Bro , Hon , T . J . Twistletom
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
JEWISH GBAND WARDEN . On the 4 th April , 1785 , Bro . M , J . Levy was appointed Junior Grand Warden of England , INLAND ' S DIALOGUE . The sham Masonic antiquity of the time of Henry VH . is laid to the
account of Leland , the topographer , and John Locke appears to have been put forward at Frankfort , in 1748 . LADIES AT GRAND FESTIVAL . On the 4 th May , 1772 , at the festival on the occasion of the installation of Lord Petre , held in the Merchant Taylors' Hall , "a great number of ladies were present in the gallery at the feast . "
OFFICE OF ORATOR . The French deficiency in readiness of public speaking being constitutional already , in 1738 , the French Orateur , or Bro . Orator , was a regular ancl important member of the French Lodge ; a post he continues to hold in most continental Loclges , ancl those derived from them , in the English empire , at the Cape of Good Hope , Mauritius , & c .
NO . Ill I'HCENIX LODGE , SUNDERLAND ., The Phccnix Lodge , No . Ill , at Sunderland , although dating from 1755 , and having celebrated its centenary , is not the oldest Lodge in that town , distinguished as a seat of Masonry , but only the second . In 1793 its Senior Warden was Bro . J . F . Stanfield , author of the song " Sing not the Fictions of Greece" of " Grave business being closed"
—, , and "A call from the South , " and of a Royal Arch song . Qy . —If these songs are still sung in the Phccnix Lodge , or its Royal Arch Chapter , the Chapter cle Lambton . There is a statement . that the Phccnix Lodge was dedicated onl y in 1785 , but this is a mistake for the Phccnix Hall , in ivhich it holds its meetings .
PROVINCIAL GRAND ' ARCHITECT . An early appointment wc have met with is that of Bro . G . Nicholson , Prov . G . A . of Durham , in 1794 . He was an architect , and not an ignoramus . The title behig * Prov . G . A ., and not Prov . G . Supt . of AVorks , it did not occur to the Prov . Grand Master then to pervert the office , any more than to appoint a Grancl Secretary who could not write . FUND OF BENEVOLENCE ..
Iii 1763 the stock of the Fund of Benevolence was £ 1 , 200 in bank stock . Blatters have improved since then , but still the accumulated stock is not what it shoidd be for the importance of the Order . £ 100 a year left to accumulate would in a century make a good aggregate fund . ROYAL LODGE . AVhch was the Royal Lodgeof which Bro . Chevalier Rusnini was
, W . M . in 1778 ? GRAND STEWARDS , 1794 . The Grand Stewards in 1794 were—Bro , Hon , T . J . Twistletom