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Article MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. ← Page 4 of 5 →
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
M 0 NKH 0 USE . Who was Richard Monkhouse , who , in 1805 , published in London , three volumes , 8 vo ., entitled Occasional Discourses on various subjects , which include several Masonic discourses ? He published two of these Masonic discourses separately . LODGES IN TEE UNITED STATES .
There is a list said to be of all the Lodges in the United States inserted in a song book , published in 1816 , atDcdham in New England , entitled " A Selection of Masonic , Sentimental , and Humourous Songs . "
STEPHEN JONES . Who was Stephen Jones , who published in London , 1811 , a large lSmo . volume , called the "Masonic Miscellany , in Prose and Verse ?" OLDEST PROA'INCIAL LODGE . The oldest provincial Lodge now existing in England is No . 20 , thc celebrated Royal Kent Lodge of Antiquity at Chatham , which was founded in
1723 , one hundred and thirty-six years ago . It has a Royal Arch Chapter attached . The history of this Lodge would be interesting . Of the Loudon Lodges having dates , two years is thc only seniority they possess . "LE TUILEUlt . " AVhen was "Le Tuileur" first published ? There was an edition of thc " Tuileur Ecossais" in 1813 .
FRENCH ENTERED APPRENTICE SONG . The only obligatory or recognized song in the French Masonic Songbooks is enrolled under the title of Couplets d'Obligations , which should be sung at the end of every Masonic banquet . These verses arc as follows : i . Freres et compagnous De la Maconnerie
, Sans chagrins jouissons Des plaisirs de la vie . Miuiis iViin rouge bord , Quo par trois fois le signal do nos vorres Soifc une preuvo que d ' accord JJous buvons a nos freres . ii ,
Joignous-nous main en main ; Tenons-nous ferme ensemble ; Hendons grace au destin Du nceud qui nous rasscmble ; Et soyons assures Qu'il no se soft sur les deux hemisphere . ! Point de plus illustres sautes
Que cello de nos freres . What this is will be well enough seen by thc first and last verses of the Entered Apprentice's Song : — " Come let us prepare , AVe brothers that are Assembled on every occasion ; Let us drink , laugh ancl sing ,
Our wine has a spring , ) Here ' s a health to an Accepted Mason .
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
M 0 NKH 0 USE . Who was Richard Monkhouse , who , in 1805 , published in London , three volumes , 8 vo ., entitled Occasional Discourses on various subjects , which include several Masonic discourses ? He published two of these Masonic discourses separately . LODGES IN TEE UNITED STATES .
There is a list said to be of all the Lodges in the United States inserted in a song book , published in 1816 , atDcdham in New England , entitled " A Selection of Masonic , Sentimental , and Humourous Songs . "
STEPHEN JONES . Who was Stephen Jones , who published in London , 1811 , a large lSmo . volume , called the "Masonic Miscellany , in Prose and Verse ?" OLDEST PROA'INCIAL LODGE . The oldest provincial Lodge now existing in England is No . 20 , thc celebrated Royal Kent Lodge of Antiquity at Chatham , which was founded in
1723 , one hundred and thirty-six years ago . It has a Royal Arch Chapter attached . The history of this Lodge would be interesting . Of the Loudon Lodges having dates , two years is thc only seniority they possess . "LE TUILEUlt . " AVhen was "Le Tuileur" first published ? There was an edition of thc " Tuileur Ecossais" in 1813 .
FRENCH ENTERED APPRENTICE SONG . The only obligatory or recognized song in the French Masonic Songbooks is enrolled under the title of Couplets d'Obligations , which should be sung at the end of every Masonic banquet . These verses arc as follows : i . Freres et compagnous De la Maconnerie
, Sans chagrins jouissons Des plaisirs de la vie . Miuiis iViin rouge bord , Quo par trois fois le signal do nos vorres Soifc une preuvo que d ' accord JJous buvons a nos freres . ii ,
Joignous-nous main en main ; Tenons-nous ferme ensemble ; Hendons grace au destin Du nceud qui nous rasscmble ; Et soyons assures Qu'il no se soft sur les deux hemisphere . ! Point de plus illustres sautes
Que cello de nos freres . What this is will be well enough seen by thc first and last verses of the Entered Apprentice's Song : — " Come let us prepare , AVe brothers that are Assembled on every occasion ; Let us drink , laugh ancl sing ,
Our wine has a spring , ) Here ' s a health to an Accepted Mason .