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gbpl pasamt | nstituttan far § xxhf ST . JOHN'S HILL , BATTERSEA RISE , S . W . Chief Patroness : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . Grand Patron and President : HJt . HIGHNESS THE PRWCE OY WALES , K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M . Grand Patroness : HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES . A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution will be held in tho Hall of the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Qneen-street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , London , on Saturday , the 11 th day of April 18 S 5 , at Twelve o'Olock precisely , on the General Business of trie Institution , to consider recommendation of General Committee " Thit one more vacancy bo declared for the Anril Election . " Also to eonsider Notices of Motion , as rrnrler , and to elect Twenty-two . o < - in the event of the above Recommendation being ndonted , Twenty-three girls into tho School from a list of Thirty approved , candidates . The election will commence at One o ' clock ( or after the usual business is over ) NOTICES OF MOTION . — By Bro . HENRY SMITH , Prov . G-. Sec . AVest Yorkshire , Vice-Patron . " That in pursuance of notice this Court accept the sum of one thousand guineas from the Province of West Yorkshire for the purchase of a perpetual presentation of one girl to tho School , to be called tho 'Sir Henry Edwards Presentation , ' the right of such presentation being vested in Col . Sir Henrv Edwards , Bart ., C . B .. D . L .. & c , for his life , and . in the event of his wife , Lady Edwards , surviving him , for her life , and afterwards to revert to the Provincial Grand Master of West Yorkshire for the time being , or such other dnly authorized person , in accordance with the terms of a similar Presentation , made in 18 , 90 , and named the 'Bentlcy Shaw Presentation . ' " By Bro . EOBEKT GREY P . G . D ., Patron , upon recommendation of the House Committee . " That in recognition of tho valuable services rendered to the Institution by Mrs . Howell , she be elected an Hon . Vice-Patron , with the Votes attaching thereto . " F . It . AV . HEDGES , Secretary . OFFICES—5 Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , London , W . O . 4 th April 1885 .

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A Voice From The "Antients."

A VOICE FROM THE "ANTIENTS . "

IT is inspiriting to find every now and then brethren devoting time , talents and money to the elucidation of Masonic history . We have a notable instance before us in the case of Bro . W . M . Bywater , Avho has compiled and published one of the most interesting records in connection

with the Craft . The work before ns * was suggested at the time Bro . By water was searching old books formerly belonging to the Grand Lodge of the " Antient " Masons , for the purpose of getting together material for a brief history of the Royal Athelstan Lodge on the occasion

of its Centenary in 1869 . He was so struck with the many

facts and . incidents scattered through the old records that he made full notes , strung them together , and embodied them in a paper which was read before the members of

his Lodge in May 1884 . This paper noAV sees the light in a compact and handsome shape . It may be described as a monograph , or even a Masonic autobiography of one of the foremost men in the Fraternity during a period of the

history of the Craft of momentous importance . It would

be altogether beyond our purpose to enter upon the causes that led to . the unhappy Schism that culminated in the formation of a third Grand Lodge in England , in 1738 . Masonic students will find material for a judgment

elsewhere . Brother Bywater , in briefly introducing his subject says , that Freemasonry was revived in the South of England in the year 1717 , " when the four existing Lodges constituted themselves a Grand Lodge , under the

title of ' The Grand Lodge of England , ' as distinctive from the York Masons , who designated themselves ' The Grand Lodge of all England . '" The seceders from the southern Grand Lodge styled themselves " Antient "

Masons , " in accordance with the accepted appellation of the Tork Grand Lodge . " They applied the term " Moderns " to the parent body they had left , in consequence of alleged departures from some of the old plans .

This feature of history has been dealt with by William Preston , but as Brother Bywater points out , his authority can hardly be considered impartial . Preston was initiated in an Ancient Lodge , in 1763 . That Lodge was

reconstituted under the " Moderns in the following year . But Preston and others , in 1779 , Avere expelled from his adopted Grand Lodge , " for disavowing

allegiance to it , " averring that his Lodge ( Antiquity ) "derived its rights from the Grand Lodge of Tork , and was therefore of more antient descent than that of the Grand Lodge of 1717 . " It will be seen that this

was a repetition of the events of 1738 . We shall not folloAV Preston nor the events that took place during the years involved further . It is a subject of keen interest , but at the present moment our attention is confined to the " Antients" and Lanrence Dermott . At first the " Antients " were ruled by a " Grand Committee presided over by a Master , selected iu rotation according to the number of his Lodge , a new Chairman being appointed for

each meeting . " Bro . Bywater says , " it is doubtful whether they preserved any minutes or records of these proceedings before 1751 , " the period when Dermott comes upon the

scene . We have it recorded that Laurence Dermott was an Irishman , and was born in 1720 , but in Avhat part of Ireland it is not stated . He was initiated in 1740 , when he was only

twenty years of age , an incident that would not be allowed in our day according to our English Constitution , He served all the offices , including that of Secretary , and was installed W . M . of No . 26 , Dublin , 24 th June 1746 . He

was a worker from the first , and must have been a man of large capacity . He was fairly well educated , and his character stood out " conspicuous amongst his felloAv . s . " Dermott soon found his Avay to London , where he first