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Lodges Of Instruction.
one , at the top of the list , named George Samuel Cox , who has made six applications without success . The child is an orphan , and hia widowed mother has three other children dependent on her for support . This orphan has only hitherto had 191 votes polled in his favour . Why the Province of Devon has not taken up this deserving
case , I know not ; except it be that the widowed mother has removed from Devonshire to Glebe Cottage , Stanstead , Sudbury , Suffolk , to earn her livelihood , and eke out some sustenance for her orphans . I plead in behalf of this orphan lad and the distressed widow .
I knew the father of the orphan , some years ago , in Devonshire , and then I little thought that for any of his family ho would require my humble assistance . A moro upright man , a moro sterling character , a more worthy Mason I never knew . As Master of Devonport Workhouse , the name of Cox was a household word for economy
and efficiency . Will not the Craft save this poor orphan from being rejected from the Masonic School through want of support ? I trust that every Mason whose votes for the Boys' School at the next election are not pledged will run to the rescue , save the orphan
who seems to havo but few friends , bind up the heart of tho bleeding widow , and reward tho virtues of a deceased worthy Mason and inestimable man , whose connection with our Fraternity was honourable , and of ten years' standing ,
I am , Sir , yours faithfully , DANIEL ACE D . D . Laughton Vicarage , near Gainsborough * 3 rd October 1876 .
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REVIEWS .
All Books intended for Beview should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 67 Barbican , E . C . An Address Delivered at the Centenary Meeting of the Grand Master's Lodge , No . I . By Bro . EDWARD JOSEPH POWELL , of Gray ' s . inn , Barrister . at-Law . London : Printed by Truscott , Son , and Simmons , Suffolk * lane , City .
WE have so often given utterance to the very great satisfaction we feel when anything in the shape of a Lodge History is brought under our notice , that we trust Bro . Powell will not deem it a mark of disrespect on our part if we follow an old rule with which he is certain to be familiar , and plunge forthwith in medias res ; in other words , if we momentarily overlook his very interesting introduction , and
enter ab once on the history of the Lodge of which he is so distinguished a member . The Lodge was instituted on the 13 th August 1759 , under a Warrant issued by the Right Honourable the Earl of Blessington , G . M . of the so-called " Ancients , " and authorising the Grand Officers to hold a Lodge bearing the name and title of the " Grand Master ' s
Lodge , " to admit , enter , and make Freemasons , and empowering the Brethren named therein to nominate , choose , and instal their successors . On Sunday , the 7 th December 1787 , at a meeting of Master Masons , held at the London Coffee House , Ludgate-hill , at which Bros . James Perry J . G . W ., John Teakins G . Treasurer , John MacCormick G . Secretary , W . James Agar , and W . Felix Mac Carthy ,
both P . M . ' s of No . 81 , George Gordon of St . John s , James Turner No . 81 , and George Games No . 81 , were present , the Lodge was revived under its original Warrant by order of the Right Honourable the Earl of Antrim G . M . Bro . Perry read the old Wan-ant , which had been delivered to him by Bro . Lawrence Dermott D . G . M ., the 6 th September preceding , in open Grand Lodge , with the Grand
Master ' s direction to assemble a Lodge of Grand Officers , associating with them such Master Masons as might be found eligible . It was then and there resolved to institute the Grand Master ' s Lodge at the London Coffee House as above , on the 16 th December , and accordingly the first meeting was held as arranged on that day , under the Presidency of Bro . Perry J . G . W . A series of
resolutions were accepted for the government of the Lodge , sundry of which aro mentioned by Bro . Powell . One provided that the Lodge should dine together at least four times a year , when a Masonic ode set to music was to be performed . By another , a room was to bo built , or procured , for tho particular use of the Lodge , so soon as the State of Its finances permitted , and " fitted upon Masonic
principles . " A third recommended members , at the four quarterly festivals and other public solemnities , to appear in a regular uniform , consisting of coat of plain blue cloth and buff kersimere waistcoat with emblematic button . This distinguishing badge , Bro . Powell points out , was the Whig party costume , and , though inconsistent with the avowed principles of Freemasonry , may easily , he thinks ,
bo accounted for by the fact of the Duke of Athol being tho immediate P . G . M ., and Scotch influence being strong with the Ministry . There is , however , an objection to this explanation of Bro . Powell . It was the Tory Ministry of the younger Pitt which then held the reins of Government . If Scotch influence were great with this Ministry , it must have been the influence of Scotch Toryism , not
Scotch Whiggism . At all events , such influence prevailing , and tho Duke of Athol , the I . P . G . M . of the "Ancients , " being a Scotchman , the Grand Master ' s Lodgo of Athol Masons is hardly likely to have adopted the blue coat and buff waistcoat as being the Whig party costume . Wo think it far more likely , and certainly far more
Masonic , to ascribe the adoption , or rather recommendation , of this uniform , to the fact of blue and yellow being the principal Masonic colours , just as formerly a Master Mason ' s dress was described as a yellow jacket and blue breeches , in allusion to the brass , or yellow body , of the compass , the working tool of a M . M ., and its steel or blue legs , But to proceed with Brd Powell's history . After several
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gentlemen had been ballotted for , the first Lodge was closed in harmony ; The first dinner was held on Saturday , the 19 th April 1788 , ab 2 p . m . On this occasion , Bro . James Perry D . G . M . stated a doubt had arisen as to " the propriety of installing Deputed Acting Officers , and the installation was postponed till the sense of Grand Lodge had been taken on that important pointthe several Deputy
, Officers continuing in office meanwhile . The first nomination of officers took place at the same time , Bro . George Gordon , of St . Johns , being nominated W . M . On 20 th June of the same year , Sir Watkin Lewis , Knt ., Alderman and M . P . of City of London , Jamea Forsyth , subsequently Colonel of the City Militia , and Thomas Beth , barrister-at-law , were initiated , passed , and raised , at one and the
same meeting , a like occurrence happening on 23 rd July , in the presence of Lord Elcho , G . M . of Scotland , when James Knowles , a wool-stapler , received all three degrees . On 24 th June , the members attended divine service at Camberwell Church in honour of St . John the Baptist and "took their places with the Officers of Grand Lodge . " At this Lodge the Right Hon . Lord William Russell and Sir James
Erskvne were accepted as members . The 1 st April 1789 is an important day in the history of tho Lodge , Grand Lodge having voted that Grand Master's Lodge should choose and appoint officers to represent it in Grand Lodge . Bro . George Gordon was appointed W . M . for the next six months , and duly installed on the 11 th May . Thus the Masters and Officers of the Lodge ceased to
be merely the Deputies of the Grand Lodge as hitherto they had been , and became Masters aad Officers in their own right . About this period the Sunday meetings were abandoned , and after oscillating between Saturdays , Mondays , and other days , appear to have been generally held on Wednesdays . On 16 th March—the year is not stated $ we presume , therefore , it occurred in 1789—the Lodge
removed to the Crown and Anchor , in the Strand , and Lord John Russell , M . P ., was accepted a member . On 9 th May 1792 , the meetings were held at 4 p . m . instead of in the evening , the members dining together , and adjourning usually at 7 p . m . On 27 th December in the same year , the Duke of Athol G . M . being in the chair , it was proposed and unanimously agreed to that the Lodge should meet
every second Tuesday at 7 p . m ., and Bro . William Dickey was elected W . M . On 29 th January following , the latter presented the jewels and furniture of Lodge No . 14 ( of which he was the sole remaining member ) , and requested their acceptance as a mark of his esteem . When this distinguished brother died , in July 1800 , the Lodge went into mourning for him till the September following . For ten years
the minutes were unfortunately and unaccountably lost , and though a committee was appointed to supply , as far as possible , an account of the transactions , there ia nothing to show the results of their labours . At the Union in 1813 the three distinguished brethren chosen by G . M . H . R . H . the Duke of Kent to aid him , on behalf of the " Ancients , " in preparing the articles of Union , were Thomas
Harper D . G . M . and James Perry and James Agar , both P . D . G . M . ' s , all three having filled the chair of this Lodge . Under this Union , Grand Master ' s Lodge being No . 1 Ancients , and having the good fortune to draw the lot assigning it the first place , became No . 1 on the Roll of the United Grand Lodge of England . Since then it has gone on prospering . In March 1816 , tho Duke of Sussex G . M ., and
the P . G . Masters of Hants and Rutland were among its visitors , while on its roll of members may be seen the names of Viscount Torrington , Sir John Soane , the great architect , Sir David Pollock , late a Chief Justice in India , the late Aldermen Thomas Farncombo and Thomas Cnbitt , Lord Mayors of London , and the latter also one of its M . P . ' s , Sir John Milbanke , Sir Sidney Smith ( hero of Acre ) ,
Rev . Sir William Dnnbar , and many others . Bro . Robert Edwards , also , will be handed down through all generations as the donor of the two large china bowls and the elaborately carved lorioiseshell snuffbox which grace the Lodge banquets . These were manufactured in China specially for the Lodge , and presented in his name by Bro . Edwards Harper . In December 1817 , the Lodge moved its quarters
to the Freemasons' Tavern . On 29 th May 1841 , the Duke of Sussex and the Earl of Zetland visited the Lodge , in company with many of tho Grand Officers . On the 20 th Juno 1859 , the centenary of the Lodge was celebrated by a grand banquet . The R . W . Bro . Richard Hervc Giraud , " the oldest initiated member of the Lodge , " its Master , as he had been thirty years before , and
Treas ., presided , and among the members present were Bros . John March Case S . W ., D . H . Stone ( the present Alderman Stone P . J . G . W . ) J . W ., Alex . Dobie P . M . and P . G . M . Surrey , Rev . J . W . Gleadall P . M . and Chaplain and P . G . C , Fras . Crew P . M . and Secretary , G . W . K . Potter P . M . ' and D . C , P . G . D ., E . J . Powell , the author of this history , F . Wyatfc Truscott , W . Campbell Sleigh , and others . Among the
visitors were the Earl of Zetland G . M ., the P . G . M . ' s for Hants , Bristol , Durham , Herefordshire , Kent , Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire , Lord de Tabley S . G . W ., S . Tomkins G . Treasurer , Fras . Roxburgh G . Registrar , W . Grey Clarke G . Secretary , Wm . Farnfield Grand Assistant Secretary , and several other Grand Officers , Bro . John Havers , President of tho Board of General Purposes , a numberlof
P . G . officers , Provincial and Past Provincial Grand officers as well as W . M . ' s and P . M . ' s of numerous other Lodges . Covers wore laid for over one hundred on this auspicious occasion , and we may be sure in such a gathering due honour was paid to our noble Craft . Appended to the History is the Code of By-Laws as agreed to in
open Lodge ou the 19 th November 1832 , and a list of members at the time of writing the History . Happily , among these will be found the names of several who still live to render valuable service to Freemasonry . May tho Lodge continue to flourish in the future as it has done in the past !
A Brief Sketch of the Royal Athelstan Lodge of Ancient Free and , Accepted Masons . By Bro . WITHAM M . BYVYATEK , P . M . and Hon Sec . Centenary Day , 27 th February 1869 . London . We pass at once over the earlier remarks of Bro . Bywater , not from any lack of appreciation of their merit , or of the labour involved
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Lodges Of Instruction.
one , at the top of the list , named George Samuel Cox , who has made six applications without success . The child is an orphan , and hia widowed mother has three other children dependent on her for support . This orphan has only hitherto had 191 votes polled in his favour . Why the Province of Devon has not taken up this deserving
case , I know not ; except it be that the widowed mother has removed from Devonshire to Glebe Cottage , Stanstead , Sudbury , Suffolk , to earn her livelihood , and eke out some sustenance for her orphans . I plead in behalf of this orphan lad and the distressed widow .
I knew the father of the orphan , some years ago , in Devonshire , and then I little thought that for any of his family ho would require my humble assistance . A moro upright man , a moro sterling character , a more worthy Mason I never knew . As Master of Devonport Workhouse , the name of Cox was a household word for economy
and efficiency . Will not the Craft save this poor orphan from being rejected from the Masonic School through want of support ? I trust that every Mason whose votes for the Boys' School at the next election are not pledged will run to the rescue , save the orphan
who seems to havo but few friends , bind up the heart of tho bleeding widow , and reward tho virtues of a deceased worthy Mason and inestimable man , whose connection with our Fraternity was honourable , and of ten years' standing ,
I am , Sir , yours faithfully , DANIEL ACE D . D . Laughton Vicarage , near Gainsborough * 3 rd October 1876 .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
All Books intended for Beview should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 67 Barbican , E . C . An Address Delivered at the Centenary Meeting of the Grand Master's Lodge , No . I . By Bro . EDWARD JOSEPH POWELL , of Gray ' s . inn , Barrister . at-Law . London : Printed by Truscott , Son , and Simmons , Suffolk * lane , City .
WE have so often given utterance to the very great satisfaction we feel when anything in the shape of a Lodge History is brought under our notice , that we trust Bro . Powell will not deem it a mark of disrespect on our part if we follow an old rule with which he is certain to be familiar , and plunge forthwith in medias res ; in other words , if we momentarily overlook his very interesting introduction , and
enter ab once on the history of the Lodge of which he is so distinguished a member . The Lodge was instituted on the 13 th August 1759 , under a Warrant issued by the Right Honourable the Earl of Blessington , G . M . of the so-called " Ancients , " and authorising the Grand Officers to hold a Lodge bearing the name and title of the " Grand Master ' s
Lodge , " to admit , enter , and make Freemasons , and empowering the Brethren named therein to nominate , choose , and instal their successors . On Sunday , the 7 th December 1787 , at a meeting of Master Masons , held at the London Coffee House , Ludgate-hill , at which Bros . James Perry J . G . W ., John Teakins G . Treasurer , John MacCormick G . Secretary , W . James Agar , and W . Felix Mac Carthy ,
both P . M . ' s of No . 81 , George Gordon of St . John s , James Turner No . 81 , and George Games No . 81 , were present , the Lodge was revived under its original Warrant by order of the Right Honourable the Earl of Antrim G . M . Bro . Perry read the old Wan-ant , which had been delivered to him by Bro . Lawrence Dermott D . G . M ., the 6 th September preceding , in open Grand Lodge , with the Grand
Master ' s direction to assemble a Lodge of Grand Officers , associating with them such Master Masons as might be found eligible . It was then and there resolved to institute the Grand Master ' s Lodge at the London Coffee House as above , on the 16 th December , and accordingly the first meeting was held as arranged on that day , under the Presidency of Bro . Perry J . G . W . A series of
resolutions were accepted for the government of the Lodge , sundry of which aro mentioned by Bro . Powell . One provided that the Lodge should dine together at least four times a year , when a Masonic ode set to music was to be performed . By another , a room was to bo built , or procured , for tho particular use of the Lodge , so soon as the State of Its finances permitted , and " fitted upon Masonic
principles . " A third recommended members , at the four quarterly festivals and other public solemnities , to appear in a regular uniform , consisting of coat of plain blue cloth and buff kersimere waistcoat with emblematic button . This distinguishing badge , Bro . Powell points out , was the Whig party costume , and , though inconsistent with the avowed principles of Freemasonry , may easily , he thinks ,
bo accounted for by the fact of the Duke of Athol being tho immediate P . G . M ., and Scotch influence being strong with the Ministry . There is , however , an objection to this explanation of Bro . Powell . It was the Tory Ministry of the younger Pitt which then held the reins of Government . If Scotch influence were great with this Ministry , it must have been the influence of Scotch Toryism , not
Scotch Whiggism . At all events , such influence prevailing , and tho Duke of Athol , the I . P . G . M . of the "Ancients , " being a Scotchman , the Grand Master ' s Lodgo of Athol Masons is hardly likely to have adopted the blue coat and buff waistcoat as being the Whig party costume . Wo think it far more likely , and certainly far more
Masonic , to ascribe the adoption , or rather recommendation , of this uniform , to the fact of blue and yellow being the principal Masonic colours , just as formerly a Master Mason ' s dress was described as a yellow jacket and blue breeches , in allusion to the brass , or yellow body , of the compass , the working tool of a M . M ., and its steel or blue legs , But to proceed with Brd Powell's history . After several
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gentlemen had been ballotted for , the first Lodge was closed in harmony ; The first dinner was held on Saturday , the 19 th April 1788 , ab 2 p . m . On this occasion , Bro . James Perry D . G . M . stated a doubt had arisen as to " the propriety of installing Deputed Acting Officers , and the installation was postponed till the sense of Grand Lodge had been taken on that important pointthe several Deputy
, Officers continuing in office meanwhile . The first nomination of officers took place at the same time , Bro . George Gordon , of St . Johns , being nominated W . M . On 20 th June of the same year , Sir Watkin Lewis , Knt ., Alderman and M . P . of City of London , Jamea Forsyth , subsequently Colonel of the City Militia , and Thomas Beth , barrister-at-law , were initiated , passed , and raised , at one and the
same meeting , a like occurrence happening on 23 rd July , in the presence of Lord Elcho , G . M . of Scotland , when James Knowles , a wool-stapler , received all three degrees . On 24 th June , the members attended divine service at Camberwell Church in honour of St . John the Baptist and "took their places with the Officers of Grand Lodge . " At this Lodge the Right Hon . Lord William Russell and Sir James
Erskvne were accepted as members . The 1 st April 1789 is an important day in the history of tho Lodge , Grand Lodge having voted that Grand Master's Lodge should choose and appoint officers to represent it in Grand Lodge . Bro . George Gordon was appointed W . M . for the next six months , and duly installed on the 11 th May . Thus the Masters and Officers of the Lodge ceased to
be merely the Deputies of the Grand Lodge as hitherto they had been , and became Masters aad Officers in their own right . About this period the Sunday meetings were abandoned , and after oscillating between Saturdays , Mondays , and other days , appear to have been generally held on Wednesdays . On 16 th March—the year is not stated $ we presume , therefore , it occurred in 1789—the Lodge
removed to the Crown and Anchor , in the Strand , and Lord John Russell , M . P ., was accepted a member . On 9 th May 1792 , the meetings were held at 4 p . m . instead of in the evening , the members dining together , and adjourning usually at 7 p . m . On 27 th December in the same year , the Duke of Athol G . M . being in the chair , it was proposed and unanimously agreed to that the Lodge should meet
every second Tuesday at 7 p . m ., and Bro . William Dickey was elected W . M . On 29 th January following , the latter presented the jewels and furniture of Lodge No . 14 ( of which he was the sole remaining member ) , and requested their acceptance as a mark of his esteem . When this distinguished brother died , in July 1800 , the Lodge went into mourning for him till the September following . For ten years
the minutes were unfortunately and unaccountably lost , and though a committee was appointed to supply , as far as possible , an account of the transactions , there ia nothing to show the results of their labours . At the Union in 1813 the three distinguished brethren chosen by G . M . H . R . H . the Duke of Kent to aid him , on behalf of the " Ancients , " in preparing the articles of Union , were Thomas
Harper D . G . M . and James Perry and James Agar , both P . D . G . M . ' s , all three having filled the chair of this Lodge . Under this Union , Grand Master ' s Lodge being No . 1 Ancients , and having the good fortune to draw the lot assigning it the first place , became No . 1 on the Roll of the United Grand Lodge of England . Since then it has gone on prospering . In March 1816 , tho Duke of Sussex G . M ., and
the P . G . Masters of Hants and Rutland were among its visitors , while on its roll of members may be seen the names of Viscount Torrington , Sir John Soane , the great architect , Sir David Pollock , late a Chief Justice in India , the late Aldermen Thomas Farncombo and Thomas Cnbitt , Lord Mayors of London , and the latter also one of its M . P . ' s , Sir John Milbanke , Sir Sidney Smith ( hero of Acre ) ,
Rev . Sir William Dnnbar , and many others . Bro . Robert Edwards , also , will be handed down through all generations as the donor of the two large china bowls and the elaborately carved lorioiseshell snuffbox which grace the Lodge banquets . These were manufactured in China specially for the Lodge , and presented in his name by Bro . Edwards Harper . In December 1817 , the Lodge moved its quarters
to the Freemasons' Tavern . On 29 th May 1841 , the Duke of Sussex and the Earl of Zetland visited the Lodge , in company with many of tho Grand Officers . On the 20 th Juno 1859 , the centenary of the Lodge was celebrated by a grand banquet . The R . W . Bro . Richard Hervc Giraud , " the oldest initiated member of the Lodge , " its Master , as he had been thirty years before , and
Treas ., presided , and among the members present were Bros . John March Case S . W ., D . H . Stone ( the present Alderman Stone P . J . G . W . ) J . W ., Alex . Dobie P . M . and P . G . M . Surrey , Rev . J . W . Gleadall P . M . and Chaplain and P . G . C , Fras . Crew P . M . and Secretary , G . W . K . Potter P . M . ' and D . C , P . G . D ., E . J . Powell , the author of this history , F . Wyatfc Truscott , W . Campbell Sleigh , and others . Among the
visitors were the Earl of Zetland G . M ., the P . G . M . ' s for Hants , Bristol , Durham , Herefordshire , Kent , Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire , Lord de Tabley S . G . W ., S . Tomkins G . Treasurer , Fras . Roxburgh G . Registrar , W . Grey Clarke G . Secretary , Wm . Farnfield Grand Assistant Secretary , and several other Grand Officers , Bro . John Havers , President of tho Board of General Purposes , a numberlof
P . G . officers , Provincial and Past Provincial Grand officers as well as W . M . ' s and P . M . ' s of numerous other Lodges . Covers wore laid for over one hundred on this auspicious occasion , and we may be sure in such a gathering due honour was paid to our noble Craft . Appended to the History is the Code of By-Laws as agreed to in
open Lodge ou the 19 th November 1832 , and a list of members at the time of writing the History . Happily , among these will be found the names of several who still live to render valuable service to Freemasonry . May tho Lodge continue to flourish in the future as it has done in the past !
A Brief Sketch of the Royal Athelstan Lodge of Ancient Free and , Accepted Masons . By Bro . WITHAM M . BYVYATEK , P . M . and Hon Sec . Centenary Day , 27 th February 1869 . London . We pass at once over the earlier remarks of Bro . Bywater , not from any lack of appreciation of their merit , or of the labour involved