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THE following amounts havo already been received . Further con . tribntions will be duly acknowledged : — PROVINCES .

West Yorkshire 210 0 0 Gloucestershire 33 0 0 Esses 10 10 0 Monmouth 22 10 0

Nottinghamshire DOO East Lancashire ( Ut instal . ) 52 10 0 Warwickshire 5 5 0

LODGES .

The Grand Stewards 2 10 0 1 Grand Masters 2 10 0 1 R . Somerset House & Iuv . 2 10 0 7 R . York of Perseverance 3 10 0 8 The British 2 10 0 11 Enoch 2 10 0

925 Bedford 2 10 0 951 Prince of Wales 2 10 0 973 Royal Somerset ( Promo ) 2 10 0 979 Fonr Cardinal Virtnes 2 10 0 985 Alexandra 1 10 0 991 Tyne 5 0 0

It Tuscan 2 10 0 ¦ > . } Globe 3 10 0 •>ri Castle of Harmony 2 10 0 32 Harmony 2 10 0 31 Mount Moriah 5 0 0 il Anchor and Hope 2 10 0 33 Union 2 10 0

1000 Priory 2 10 0 1003 Prince of Wales 3 10 o 1017 Montefiore 2 10 o 1036 Bowyer 2 10 0 1016 St . Andrew ' s 2 10 0 1056 Victoria 2 10 0 1060 Marmion 2 10 0

40 Dorwont 2 10 0 45 Strong Man 2 10 0 52 Union 2 10 0 58 Felicity , „ 2 10 0 60 Peace and Harmony 5 o 0 63 St . Mary 2 10 0 70 St . John ( Plymouth ) 2 10 0

10 W Borough 2 10 0 1126 Oakwood 2 10 0 1135 Concord ' 2 10 0 1111 Mid-Sussex 2 11 0 1113 Royal Denbigh 2 10 0 1 U 0 Dorking 2 10 0 1150 Buckingham & Chandos 2 10 0

98 St . Martin 2 10 0 99 Shakespeare 2 10 0 103 Beaufort 2 10 0 101 St . John 2 10 0 105 Fortitude 2 10 0 113 Unanimity a 10 0 132 Unity 2 10 0

1155 Excelsior 2 10 0 1169 Marquis of Dalhousie 2 10 o 1196 Urban 2 10 0 1201 Eclectic 2 10 0 1209 Lewis 2 10 0 1232 Hereward ( first instalt . ) 0 10 0 1281 Brent 2 10 0

137 Amity 2 10 0 143 Middlesex 2 10 0 165 Honour and Generosity 2 10 0 189 Temperance 2 10 0 173 Phcenix 2 10 0 177 Domatic 6 0 0 178 Antiquity ( Wigan ) 2 10 0

1291 St . Alban 2 10 0 1303 Pelham 2 1 > 0 1328 Tho Granite 2 10 0 1329 Sphinx 2 10 0 1335 Lindsay 2 10 0 1336 Square and Coinpas ? 2 10 0 1358 Torbay 2 10 o

194 St . Paul 2 10 0 198 Percy 2 10 0 205 Israel 2 10 0 211 St . Michael 2 10 0 231 St . Andrew 5 0 0 238 Pilgrim 2 10 0 245 Mechanics 0 5 0

1363 Tyndall 1 5 0 1367 Manor 2 10 0 1381 Kennington 5 0 0 1383 Friends in Council 2 10 o 1402 Jordan 2 10 0 1166 Hova Ecclesia 2 10 0 1471 Islington 2 10 0

218 True Love and Unity 2 10 0 251 Loyal 2 10 0 253 Tyrian 2 10 0 257 Phcenix 2 10 0 259 Prince of Wales 2 10 o 289 Fidelity 2 10 0 277 Friendship 8 10 0

1477 Sir Watkin 2 10 0 1479 Halsey 2 10 0 1519 Albert Edward 2 10 0 1520 Shrewsbury 2 10 0 1537 Sir Peter Westminster 2 10 0 1582 Llanidloes 2 10 0 1581 Loyalty and Charity 2 10 0

284 Shakespeare 2 10 0 297 Witham a 10 0 303 Benevolent 2 10 0 311 South Saxon 2 10 0 315 Royal York a 10 0 310 Alfred 2 10 0 357 Apollo ( Oxford ) 5 0 0

1593 Royal Naval College 2 10 0 1021 Eccleston 2 10 0 1635 Canterbury 2 10 0 1674 Caradoc 2 10 0 1679 Henry Muggoridge 110 1087 Tho Rothesay 2 10 0 1703 WindrusU a 10 0

360 Pomfret 2 10 0 362 Doric 2 10 0 379 Honour 2 10 0 103 Hertford 2 10 0 111 Union 2 10 0 418 Meuturia 2 10 0 429 Koyal Navy 2 10 0

1714 Albert Ed ward 2 10 0 1768 Progress 2 10 0 179 J Arnold 2 10 0 1820 St . Thomas White 2 10 0 1821 Atlingworth 2 10 0 1839 Duko of Coruwall 2 10 0 1 S 12 St . Leonard 2 10 o

430 Fidelity 2 10 0 450 Cornubian 2 10 0 161 East Surrey of Concord 2 10 0 478 Churchill 2 10 0 4 rJl Faith 2 10 0 491 Virtue and Honour 2 10 0 503 Belvidere 2 10 0

1838 Tudor of Rillo Volunteers 2 10 0 1855 Sr . Maurice 2 10 0 1863 Unity 2 \ o 0 1 SS 7 St . HiMa 2 10 0 1896 Audtoy 2 10 0 1899 Wclleiley 2 10 0 1 U 0 J Montague Guest 2 10 0

» 39 St . Matthew 2 10 0 ¦> H Sutherland 2 10 0 516 Etruscan 2 10 0 518 Wellington , 2 10 0 558 Temple 2 10 0 561 Zetland 2 10 0 60 S Combermere 2 10 0

1902 St . Culhberc 2 10 0 1910 Sbadivell Gierke 2 10 0 1920 Eurydice 2 10 0 1917 Stanford 2 10 0 1974 St . Mary Abbotts 2 10 0 2012 Chiswick 6 5 0 2060 La Franco 2 10 0

624 Abbey 2 10 0 659 Blagdon 2 10 0 665 Montagu 2 10 0 728 Staffordshire Knot 2 10 0 811 Yarborough 2 10 0 822 Victoria Rifles 2 10 0

2090 Hammersmith 2 10 0 20 ) 2 Highbury 2 lo 0 2095 Caterham 2 lo 0 2103 Empire 2 10 0 2127 Drury Lano 2 10 0 2149 Gordon 2 10 0

861 Finsbury 2 10 0 871 Royal Oak . 2 10 0 877 Royal Alfred 2 10 0 8 " 8 Southwark 2 10 0 890 Hornsev 2 10 0 » 01 City of London 2 TO 0

2201 Earl of Sussex 2 10 0 2228 Dene 2 10 0 2256 Warner 2 10 0 2205 Highbury 2 10 0 2318 Lombardinn 2 10 0

CHAPTERS .

142 St . Thomas 2 10 0 414 Union 2 10 0

I 1171 Islington 3 10 0 2108 Empire 2 10 0

PRIVATE DONORS .

fetanloy J . Attouborough 10 10 0 Rrackstono Baker 110 Col . Ycatman Biggs 1 1 0 f'ordon Brown , No . 1 110 Richard Eve 5 5 0 < ; oI . Gadsden , No . 1 110 Edward Hobbs 110

Jabez Hogg , F . L . S ., M . R . C . S . 2 10 0 Richard Jerman 2 10 0 W . Levy , No . 1 110 Supreme Council 33 ° 5 0 0 Richard S . Warrington 2 10 0 T . B . White 2 2 0

Tho following additional sums havo been received since our last issue - . — LODGES .

28 Old King's Anrs 2 10 0 47 Ncwstead 2 2 0 74 Athol 2 10 0 155 Perseverance 2 10 0

1575 Clivo 2 10 0 ' 1615 Bayard 2 10 0 1039 Watting Strent 2 10 0 1679 Henry Muggoridgo 3 3 0

n > 7 Jerusalem 2 10 0 •»l Hope 2 10 0 1 ; 51 Semper Fidelis 2 10 0 W Metropolitan 2 10 0 ,

PRIVATE DONORS . '¦ v i' ! iam Henry White 2 10 0

1701 Anchor 2 10 0 1961 Clerkenwell 2 10 0 22 'W Old Westrniistcr 2 10 0 2323 Bushcy Hall 2 10 0

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SATURDAY , 10 TH MAY 1890 .

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum.

ARS QUATUOR CORONATORUM .

Br BRO . R . F . GOULD .

UNDER the above title , as most readers of the CHRONICLE are aware , the Transactions of the Quatuor Corouati Lodge are from time to timo published , by the Editor and Secretary . Two volumes have already appeared , and it is the firat part or number of a third one to which tbe present article will be mainly devoted .

An excellent portrait of Lieut-Col . S . C . Pratt , the W . M . of the Lodge , ia given as a frontispiece , and others are promised of Bros . Walter Besant aud Gr . W . Speth , the Treasurer and Secretary respectively , in the two remaining parts or numbers of the " Magazine of tho Craft , " that will be issued during the current year .

The contents of Part I comprise , in the first instance , the annnal report of the Permanent and Audit Committee , which shows that during the twelve months ending , 20 th December 1889 the Lodge not only succeeded in paying its way , but had placed a substantial balance to tho General Fund .

Tho papers road at meetings were two in number . Ono , " On the antiquity of Masonic Symbolism , " by myself—and the other , " The Masonio Character of the Roman Villa

at Morton , I . W . " by Colonel J . F . Crease , C . B . On my own paper I am not going to pass judgment , but shall be permitted to state the two propositions of which , on the occasion of reading it , I maintained the affirmative : —

1 . That tho Symbolism of Masonry , or at all events a material part of it , is of very great antiquity , and that in substance the system of Masonry we now possess—including the three degrees of the Drafthaa oome down to us , in all its essentials , from times not only remote to our own , but also to those of tho founders of the earliest of Grand Lodgo . " .

2 . That tho Symbolism of Masonry is older than the year 1717 . Tho paper read by Colonol Croaso was an attempt to show that the Roman villa , at Brading , I . W ., had a Masouic origin , bufc in fcho discussion which followed it , the claim advanced by tho Lecturer failed to meet with any support .

The gallant brother was , however , very cordially thanked by the Lodge for contributing so interesting a paper to its proceedings . The Notes and Queries aro well up to tho normal

Standard , that is to say , of merit , for in point of length they fall slightly below it . Of tho miscellaneous articles , ono of tho best is entitled " the Evidence of Sfcoinmotz Esoterics , " by Bro . F . F , Schnitger .

In another column will be found a report of the last meeting of No . 2076 , from which it will appear that the " Correspondence Circle , or Literary Society , " attached to tho Lodge , or ia other words the subscribers to Ars

Quatuor Goronatorum , aro still rapidly increasing , and without doubt will pass from a total of three to four figures long before the third or current volume of Transactions has run its course .

For tho completion of this two parts or numbers aro still required . The next ono will contain , as already related , a portrait of Bro . Walter Besant , together with the paper on Masons' Marks recently read by Professor Hayter Lewis J . W ., in which thafc comparatively nnoxplorod

branch of our antiquities has been dealt with , for the first lime , in a manner thafc renders it of any real interest to tho Freemasons . In tho so , mo number will also appear tho lecture or paper , to bo delivered on fcho 24 fch Jane , by Bro . Simpson I . P . M .

The third and final instalment of Volume III . of oui

Transactions will bo published after the Anniversary meeting on thc 8 th of November , bufc of its contents I can do no more than prophecy that they will come fully up to fcho reasonable expectations of the over-widening circle to which they aro addressed .