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$amilllkiscnritInstitutionfor|tons, n ' * WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . Office : —6 Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , London , W . C . Patron : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . President : His R OYAL H IGHNESS TUB PRINCE OF WALES K . G . & C ., M . W . G . M . A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the Governors and Subscribeis will be held in tho Largo Hall , Freemason * ' Tavern , Great Queen Street , Lincoln's-inn-fields , London , on Monday , the 1 HU day of April 1881 , for the transaction of the ordinary business of the Institution ; To elect a Treasurer for the year ensiling ; To elect Twelve Life or Annual Subscribers as Members of the General Committee for the year ensuing . To consider tho following Notices of Motion : 1 . By Bro . THOMAS EKTWISLE , V . President , per Bro . C . F . MATIER : To alter Law 55 , hy inserting after the word " livelihood " ( at the end of Law ) the words " in any of which cases except that of sudden death , the Father must have been a Subscribing Member to a Lodgo for three years . " 2 . By Bro . A . J . DUFF-FILES , V . Patron : — In Law 72 ( authorising a grant of money by the General Committee to a Boy having left the Institution ) to eraso the words " Twenty Pounds , " in line 2—and in lion thereof , to insert tho words " Forty Pounds . " 3 . By resolution of the General Committee , on tho recommendation of the Houso and Building Committee : — That the House and Building Committee be authorised to expend a sum not exceeding £ 700 in the enlargement of the Gymnasium , & c , rendered necessary by the increase in the number of Boys from 100 to 215 . To elect Twenty Boys from an approved list of Seventy-six , now reduced to Seventy-three * Candidates . The Chair will be taken at Twelve o ' clock at noon precisely . The ^ Ballot for Election of Boys will commence at Ono o ' clock ( or as soon as the general business of the Court shall have terminated ) and will ulnae at Thrco o ' clock precisely . * CANDIDATES WITHDRAWN FROM LIST . No . 52 . —Lewis , Oswald Edward . No . 61 . —Gosden , Walter Harry . No . 70 . —Legge , Vernon Guest . N . B . —There are two Candidates named " Lucas , " Nos . 15 and 62 . By Order , FREDERICK BINCKES ( P . G . Std ., V . Patron ) , „ , . ¦ , •, „„ .. Secretary . 2 nd April 28 S 1 .
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THE EIGHTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be held on Wednesday , 29 th June 1881 , THE MOST HON . MARQUESS OP LONDONDERRY , K . P . R . W . Provincial Grand Master of Durham , in the Chair . The services of Brethren as Representative Stewards of Provinces or Lodges aro respectfully and earnestly solicited .
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BWrWrWAWW g | MAWWAWA ^[ a^^^^pl^^^ 23 GREAT QUEEN STREET , W . O .
Lodge Histories.
LODGE HISTORIES .
— : o : — JOPPA LODGE , No . 188 .
IT is greatl y to be regretted that , with but few exceptions , the records of those Lodges it has been onr privilege to compile should nave been so imperfect as to render it in any circumstances difficult , and in some instances impossible , to give a perfect history from the date of their constitution to the present time . The Lodge whose career on the of
^ point considering , comes under the category ° t those with which it is impossible to deal completely . It was conwituted by the Grand Lodge of the Ancient or Atholl Masons early 'nthe year 1789 , bnt the earliest minute in its possession is under
"ace the 29 th March 1841 . There is consequently a period of as earl y as possible fifty-two years , in respect of which it is out of the question that we can acquire any knowledge of its proceedings , until , au events , some one shall be so fortunate as to discover the missing bat ' t The Ii 8 t ° f H , ° W-M- ' s and Wardens of the Lodge , extending OK to the year 1822 , inclusive , is fortunately in existence , and more
fromTi , 'lere is aiso preserved a complete list of the members 21 st A . Very f 1 ato of the constitution of the Lodge , that is , from the Br Si ! ' * ' ^» tne nrst names in the order we anuouuee them being os . Ebenezer Sibley W . M ., . Tames Allibone S . W ., and William
of th r g principal Officers designate in the Warrant FRZ \ " ? ' transcr 'P t of which appeared in Vol . IV . page 327 , of tho the T , . CHRONICLE . For the preservation of this list , it seems , Seer t 1 S Indebted to the kindness of Bro . S . Lazarus , who was its or in !* * the time he Presented it , namely , on 2 nd November 18 10 , Presnm months before the minutes begin . The title page , as we "me we must call it , runs thus : — " Members of the Lodge ,
Lodge Histories.
No . 253 , at the Globe in Hatton-streefc , Holborn "— " the sign of the Globe , Hattou Garden ( or elsewhere ) in London . " is mentioned in the Warrant as the place of meeting— " Constituted 21 st April 1789 . At the Union in 1813 , number altorod to 315 "—query 319— " since which period it was again altered to 223 . This book was prosonted to tho Lodge of Joppa , No . 223 . Containing tho dates of all iuitia .
tioiis , passings , and raisings and joinings for upwards of 51 years , — by Bro . S . Lazarus , Secty . —2 nd November 1880 . " As regards tho brethren who became members during the years anterior to 1801 , no particulars are given by which it is possible to distinguish between those who wore initiated and those who joined . For the few years that follow there are cases in which the dates of initiation and
joining are mentioned , and later still we have the dates when the several degrees wore conferred . As we advance , we find tho Register becomes still more complete , and in the column loft vacant for " Observations , " & c . we find entries as to honorary members , resignations , deaths , & o . This list is continued till towards the close of the first half of 1814 , tho last entries bearing date the 3 rd June of that year .
The list of names contains none that are likely to commend themselves to the especial notioe of brethren , excopt perhaps those of William S . Beetham . who in the column for Observations is described as " Now Sir Wm ., Knight , Ulster King at Arms , " and Jacob Norton , with whom we so often engage in friendly controversy , and who , ifc seems , was initiated into Freemasonry on the 3 rd June 1839 , passed
to F . C . 1 st July , and raised 5 th August . The second Record contains not only the list of names continued to the present time , but likewise that of which we have already spoken , namely , the List of W . Masters and Wardens of tho Lodgo since 1822 . Of the other archives two may be dismissed briefly . One is the " Rules , Orders , and Bye-Laws of tho Most Ancient and Honourable
Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England according to the Old Constitutions . His Grace the Duke of Atholl , Grand Master . To which are added the Laws and Regulations of the Holy Royal Arch . Published by Order of the Grand Lodge . " This , which was printed by Bro . Thomas Harper jun . in 1813 , is in a oomplete state of preservation ; bat as we noticed a similar code in connection with
the St . Michael ' s Lodgo , No . 211 , we need not enter into any further description . The other has on its title-page the following inscription , namely : — " Constitutions of the Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accented Masons . Part the Second . Containing the Charges , Regulations , & c , & o . Published , by the Authority of the United Grand Lodge , by William Williams , Esq ., Provincial Grand Master for the
County of Dorset . " It bears date 1815 , and is nearly , if not entirely , complete . Bro . Williams's Preface states that " the First Part , containing the History of Masonry , from the earliest period to the end of the year 1815 , with Preface and Copious Index to the whole Work , will be printed with as little delay as possible . " Thus , the Second Part , which is unquestionably of greater importance than the History
of Freemasonry , even from the remotest period , enjoyed priority of publication . But two years had elapsed since the Union had taken place , and in the interim the Laws for the due governance of the Society had been compiled . Rightly enough did Bro . Williams , under such cirenmstances , hasten to set before the Craft the new Rnles and Regulations . It was far better the brethren of those
days should be made acquainted with the rules than with even the mosfc elaborate history of the Society which the greatest possible ingenuity of even the most learned slave to Imagination conld find the heart to compile . Before going fnrther we may repeat the statement that the Joppa Lodge was constituted 21 st April 1789 , as is stated in the Warrant
we have already referred to . When the union between the Ancients and Moderns took placo in 1813 , it became , in consequence of the numbering of the Lodsres which followed , No . 319 . On the closing up of the Lodges in 1832 it became No . 223 , and when again in 1863 there was a further change in numbers , it took the rank it has ever since retained , namely , that of Lodge No . 188 . Having now to the
best of our ability cleared the way for the more important duty that devolves upon us , we shall proceed to give a sketch of the Lodge , based on the minutes still preserved . The minntes , as we have said , date from the 29 th March 1841 , when the Lodge was numbered 223 and met at the George and Yultnre , Cornhill . The opening record , which describes the
proceedings in question , is , unfortunately , not of a most satisfactory character . It relates to a meeting which was specially summoned , and the business transacted was confined to an investigation into certain charges preferred against a certain brother by the W . Master and another member . The result of the investigation was , that the incriminated brother , who did not , however , favour the Lodge with
his presence , was suspended ; but in the course of the evening a letter was received , in which he tendered his resignation , and the resignation , in spite of the sentence of suspension just before passed , was accepted , with a very proper proviso , however , " that his Private Lodge Certificate ( when he applies for it ) , must state fully the particulars under which his resignation was accepted . " At the meeting
on the 3 rd May , after the initiation of two candidates and the transaction of other business , a letter from Grand Secretary White , containing certain resolutions passed by Grand Lodge at the March Quarterly Communication , was read and ordered to be placed on the minutes . These resolutions—as will be seen on reference to our history of the St . Michael ' s Lodge , No . 211 , FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE ,
Vol . XII . p 132—were directed against the unauthorised publication of the proceedings of Masons' Lodges , and in them the M . W . Grand Master appeals to the loyalty of the Craft generally , and especially of the Masters of Lodges , to assist him in pntting down a practice which , in his opinion and that of Grand Lodge , cannot be otherwise thau injurious to the well-being of Freemasonry . One other entry in
the minntes of this meeting would seem to call forth some remarks . It reads thus : — " Bro . D . Crawcou , having complied with the resolution of the Lodge of thn 20 th December 1838 , was afterwards admitted and took his ? c ; it as a Past Master of the Lodge . " In the absence of tho minntes referring to 1838 , we are , of course , unable to offer any explanation as to the nature of tho resolution referred to ,
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$amilllkiscnritInstitutionfor|tons, n ' * WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . Office : —6 Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , London , W . C . Patron : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . President : His R OYAL H IGHNESS TUB PRINCE OF WALES K . G . & C ., M . W . G . M . A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the Governors and Subscribeis will be held in tho Largo Hall , Freemason * ' Tavern , Great Queen Street , Lincoln's-inn-fields , London , on Monday , the 1 HU day of April 1881 , for the transaction of the ordinary business of the Institution ; To elect a Treasurer for the year ensiling ; To elect Twelve Life or Annual Subscribers as Members of the General Committee for the year ensuing . To consider tho following Notices of Motion : 1 . By Bro . THOMAS EKTWISLE , V . President , per Bro . C . F . MATIER : To alter Law 55 , hy inserting after the word " livelihood " ( at the end of Law ) the words " in any of which cases except that of sudden death , the Father must have been a Subscribing Member to a Lodgo for three years . " 2 . By Bro . A . J . DUFF-FILES , V . Patron : — In Law 72 ( authorising a grant of money by the General Committee to a Boy having left the Institution ) to eraso the words " Twenty Pounds , " in line 2—and in lion thereof , to insert tho words " Forty Pounds . " 3 . By resolution of the General Committee , on tho recommendation of the Houso and Building Committee : — That the House and Building Committee be authorised to expend a sum not exceeding £ 700 in the enlargement of the Gymnasium , & c , rendered necessary by the increase in the number of Boys from 100 to 215 . To elect Twenty Boys from an approved list of Seventy-six , now reduced to Seventy-three * Candidates . The Chair will be taken at Twelve o ' clock at noon precisely . The ^ Ballot for Election of Boys will commence at Ono o ' clock ( or as soon as the general business of the Court shall have terminated ) and will ulnae at Thrco o ' clock precisely . * CANDIDATES WITHDRAWN FROM LIST . No . 52 . —Lewis , Oswald Edward . No . 61 . —Gosden , Walter Harry . No . 70 . —Legge , Vernon Guest . N . B . —There are two Candidates named " Lucas , " Nos . 15 and 62 . By Order , FREDERICK BINCKES ( P . G . Std ., V . Patron ) , „ , . ¦ , •, „„ .. Secretary . 2 nd April 28 S 1 .
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THE EIGHTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be held on Wednesday , 29 th June 1881 , THE MOST HON . MARQUESS OP LONDONDERRY , K . P . R . W . Provincial Grand Master of Durham , in the Chair . The services of Brethren as Representative Stewards of Provinces or Lodges aro respectfully and earnestly solicited .
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BWrWrWAWW g | MAWWAWA ^[ a^^^^pl^^^ 23 GREAT QUEEN STREET , W . O .
Lodge Histories.
LODGE HISTORIES .
— : o : — JOPPA LODGE , No . 188 .
IT is greatl y to be regretted that , with but few exceptions , the records of those Lodges it has been onr privilege to compile should nave been so imperfect as to render it in any circumstances difficult , and in some instances impossible , to give a perfect history from the date of their constitution to the present time . The Lodge whose career on the of
^ point considering , comes under the category ° t those with which it is impossible to deal completely . It was conwituted by the Grand Lodge of the Ancient or Atholl Masons early 'nthe year 1789 , bnt the earliest minute in its possession is under
"ace the 29 th March 1841 . There is consequently a period of as earl y as possible fifty-two years , in respect of which it is out of the question that we can acquire any knowledge of its proceedings , until , au events , some one shall be so fortunate as to discover the missing bat ' t The Ii 8 t ° f H , ° W-M- ' s and Wardens of the Lodge , extending OK to the year 1822 , inclusive , is fortunately in existence , and more
fromTi , 'lere is aiso preserved a complete list of the members 21 st A . Very f 1 ato of the constitution of the Lodge , that is , from the Br Si ! ' * ' ^» tne nrst names in the order we anuouuee them being os . Ebenezer Sibley W . M ., . Tames Allibone S . W ., and William
of th r g principal Officers designate in the Warrant FRZ \ " ? ' transcr 'P t of which appeared in Vol . IV . page 327 , of tho the T , . CHRONICLE . For the preservation of this list , it seems , Seer t 1 S Indebted to the kindness of Bro . S . Lazarus , who was its or in !* * the time he Presented it , namely , on 2 nd November 18 10 , Presnm months before the minutes begin . The title page , as we "me we must call it , runs thus : — " Members of the Lodge ,
Lodge Histories.
No . 253 , at the Globe in Hatton-streefc , Holborn "— " the sign of the Globe , Hattou Garden ( or elsewhere ) in London . " is mentioned in the Warrant as the place of meeting— " Constituted 21 st April 1789 . At the Union in 1813 , number altorod to 315 "—query 319— " since which period it was again altered to 223 . This book was prosonted to tho Lodge of Joppa , No . 223 . Containing tho dates of all iuitia .
tioiis , passings , and raisings and joinings for upwards of 51 years , — by Bro . S . Lazarus , Secty . —2 nd November 1880 . " As regards tho brethren who became members during the years anterior to 1801 , no particulars are given by which it is possible to distinguish between those who wore initiated and those who joined . For the few years that follow there are cases in which the dates of initiation and
joining are mentioned , and later still we have the dates when the several degrees wore conferred . As we advance , we find tho Register becomes still more complete , and in the column loft vacant for " Observations , " & c . we find entries as to honorary members , resignations , deaths , & o . This list is continued till towards the close of the first half of 1814 , tho last entries bearing date the 3 rd June of that year .
The list of names contains none that are likely to commend themselves to the especial notioe of brethren , excopt perhaps those of William S . Beetham . who in the column for Observations is described as " Now Sir Wm ., Knight , Ulster King at Arms , " and Jacob Norton , with whom we so often engage in friendly controversy , and who , ifc seems , was initiated into Freemasonry on the 3 rd June 1839 , passed
to F . C . 1 st July , and raised 5 th August . The second Record contains not only the list of names continued to the present time , but likewise that of which we have already spoken , namely , the List of W . Masters and Wardens of tho Lodgo since 1822 . Of the other archives two may be dismissed briefly . One is the " Rules , Orders , and Bye-Laws of tho Most Ancient and Honourable
Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England according to the Old Constitutions . His Grace the Duke of Atholl , Grand Master . To which are added the Laws and Regulations of the Holy Royal Arch . Published by Order of the Grand Lodge . " This , which was printed by Bro . Thomas Harper jun . in 1813 , is in a oomplete state of preservation ; bat as we noticed a similar code in connection with
the St . Michael ' s Lodgo , No . 211 , we need not enter into any further description . The other has on its title-page the following inscription , namely : — " Constitutions of the Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accented Masons . Part the Second . Containing the Charges , Regulations , & c , & o . Published , by the Authority of the United Grand Lodge , by William Williams , Esq ., Provincial Grand Master for the
County of Dorset . " It bears date 1815 , and is nearly , if not entirely , complete . Bro . Williams's Preface states that " the First Part , containing the History of Masonry , from the earliest period to the end of the year 1815 , with Preface and Copious Index to the whole Work , will be printed with as little delay as possible . " Thus , the Second Part , which is unquestionably of greater importance than the History
of Freemasonry , even from the remotest period , enjoyed priority of publication . But two years had elapsed since the Union had taken place , and in the interim the Laws for the due governance of the Society had been compiled . Rightly enough did Bro . Williams , under such cirenmstances , hasten to set before the Craft the new Rnles and Regulations . It was far better the brethren of those
days should be made acquainted with the rules than with even the mosfc elaborate history of the Society which the greatest possible ingenuity of even the most learned slave to Imagination conld find the heart to compile . Before going fnrther we may repeat the statement that the Joppa Lodge was constituted 21 st April 1789 , as is stated in the Warrant
we have already referred to . When the union between the Ancients and Moderns took placo in 1813 , it became , in consequence of the numbering of the Lodsres which followed , No . 319 . On the closing up of the Lodges in 1832 it became No . 223 , and when again in 1863 there was a further change in numbers , it took the rank it has ever since retained , namely , that of Lodge No . 188 . Having now to the
best of our ability cleared the way for the more important duty that devolves upon us , we shall proceed to give a sketch of the Lodge , based on the minutes still preserved . The minntes , as we have said , date from the 29 th March 1841 , when the Lodge was numbered 223 and met at the George and Yultnre , Cornhill . The opening record , which describes the
proceedings in question , is , unfortunately , not of a most satisfactory character . It relates to a meeting which was specially summoned , and the business transacted was confined to an investigation into certain charges preferred against a certain brother by the W . Master and another member . The result of the investigation was , that the incriminated brother , who did not , however , favour the Lodge with
his presence , was suspended ; but in the course of the evening a letter was received , in which he tendered his resignation , and the resignation , in spite of the sentence of suspension just before passed , was accepted , with a very proper proviso , however , " that his Private Lodge Certificate ( when he applies for it ) , must state fully the particulars under which his resignation was accepted . " At the meeting
on the 3 rd May , after the initiation of two candidates and the transaction of other business , a letter from Grand Secretary White , containing certain resolutions passed by Grand Lodge at the March Quarterly Communication , was read and ordered to be placed on the minutes . These resolutions—as will be seen on reference to our history of the St . Michael ' s Lodge , No . 211 , FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE ,
Vol . XII . p 132—were directed against the unauthorised publication of the proceedings of Masons' Lodges , and in them the M . W . Grand Master appeals to the loyalty of the Craft generally , and especially of the Masters of Lodges , to assist him in pntting down a practice which , in his opinion and that of Grand Lodge , cannot be otherwise thau injurious to the well-being of Freemasonry . One other entry in
the minntes of this meeting would seem to call forth some remarks . It reads thus : — " Bro . D . Crawcou , having complied with the resolution of the Lodge of thn 20 th December 1838 , was afterwards admitted and took his ? c ; it as a Past Master of the Lodge . " In the absence of tho minntes referring to 1838 , we are , of course , unable to offer any explanation as to the nature of tho resolution referred to ,