Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.

LONDON—continued . £ s d Chap . 1348 Bro . Peter Parsons . 44 2 0 Lod . 1364 „ E . A . Wright . 75 12 0 1365 „ Geo . It . Soper . 38 6 6 1383 „ Major S . H . Clerke 282 9 0 ( B . H . Swallow . 52 10 0

1563 „ < Jas . A . Hammond ( Eev . P . M . Holden 31 15 0 1585 „ Joseph Wright - 1599 „ John Bingemann 64 10 0 1601 & 169 „ C . W . Thomson . 47 5 0 1602 „ Edwd . Geo . Sim - 58 16 0 1615 „ Col . H . S . Barney 130 4 0 1622 .. James Garner - 159 12 0

1629 „ T . W . Poley - 26 5 0 1632 „ C . Stuart-Barker 19 1 0 1635 „ Eev . John Bobbins 35 14 0 1662 „ James Pinder . 46 4 0 1671 „ Nelson Keed - 64 1 0

THE PROVINCES . Berks and Bucks . 209 „ C . D . Hume . 24 3 0 574 „ W . T . Toms - 32 11 0

1410 „ T . Taylor - - 21 0 0 1501 „ J . W . S . Cantrill 36 15 0 Cheshire . 321 „ Capt . H . Bennett" ) 537 „ W . Milner . [ 10 10 0 1565 „ E . Simpson - )

Devonshire . 164 „ E . T . Thornton . ¦) 444 „ Dr . W . E . Wood- [ 52 10 0 man - - j

Dorsetshire . The Province—J . M . P . Montagu Dep . P . G . M . . 180 12 0 Durham .

The Province—Babington Boulton ( 111 ) - 286 2 6 Essex . 1000 „ J . A . Wardell - 28 0 0 1457 „ J . Tanner - -990

Gloucestershire . 82 John Walker - 135 9 0 Hants and Isle of Wight .

130 „ J . E . LeFeuvre - 169 1 0 342 „ E . Newland - 53 11 0 Hertfordshire .

404 „ J . E . Dawson . 110 15 6 449 „ J . Shilcock -110 403 „ H . Campkin - 26 5 0 1497 „ John Purrott - 5 15 0

PROVINCES—continued . £ B d Kent . I 503 Bro . J . Clever I 829 „ T . Hastings - 16 16 0 1096 „ A . H . Des Barres 66 19 0 1206 „ E . J . Emmerson 10 10 0

1223 „ J . Webb - - 10 10 0 1314 „ W . Seaman . 70 9 6 1 Lancashire ( East Division . ) W . Harrison . 10 10 0 37 „ G . P . Brockbank 52 10 0 204 „ Eev . P . Haines - 15 15 0 221 „ J . M . Taylor

369 „ J . E . Anderton . 10 10 0 Lancashire ( West Division . ) 155 „ J . E . Goep « l - 268 0 0 1021 „ J . Huartson . 34 8 0 1086 ,. J . C . Lunt . 880

Lincolnshire . 1294 „ John Sutcliffa . 1232 „ Eev . Dr . Ace „ Jack Sutclifle . 42 0 0 792 „ R . M . Shien . 10 10 0 Middlesex . The Province — R . Wentworth

Little D . P . G . M . 285 10 0 1460 „ W . T . Howe . 77 11 0 „ G . Kenning - 10 10 0 „ Lt . Col . J . Peters 10 10 0 1494 „ F . Summer Knyvett 55 13 0 778 „ E . B . Webb . 40 8 0 1237 „ Cap . C . Thompson 21 10 0

Ch . 1293 „ Thos . Massa . 45 3 0 Lod . 1423 „ John Mason - 57 15 0 1512 „ J . W . Ockenden . 30 0 0 1567 „ Frank Green . 47 5 0 1597 „ R . L . Sindall . 36 15 0 1656 „ John Bond . ' 25 14 6

Norfolk . The Province—H . G . Barwell . 141 15 0 93 „ G . W . F . Loftus . 5 5 0 107 „ G . J . Woodwark - 36 15 0 52 „ W . A . F . Amhnrst 21 0 0 „ Col . J . Duff M . P . 5 5 0

Northampton and Hunts . - The Province—John Marson . 105 0 0 Nottinghamshire . 1435 „ Julius Marx . 43 1 0

North Wales and Shropshire . 1143 „ R . J . Sisson . 16 16 0 605 „ R . C . Mellor 755 „ Henry Piatt jj ^ } Algernon Potts - 10 10 0

Oxfordshire . 478 „ H . O . VVakeman . 24 3 0 340 „ John Juggins 340 „ Alderman Randall 21 0 0 „ F . W . Ansell . 17 6 0

PROVINCES—continued . £ s d Staffordshire .

460 Bro . W . Cartwright . 63 0 0 419 „ John Walker •22 1 0 539 „ T . M . Humphries 76 2 O Suffolk .

1224 „ S . H . Greenwood 30 0 0 1008 „ W . H . Lucia . 61 19 0 Surrey . 370 „ F . W . Mitchell Dep . P . G . M . - 30 9 0 „ Eev . C . W . Arnold 10 10 O

Sussex . 40 „ D . T . Trollope . 130 19 6 732 „ C . G . Reed- . 43 2 0 1466 „ Smith - . 59 6 0

Warwickshire . „ PaulM . Vaughton 30 9 0 1246 „ H . G . Quilter . 23 2 0 1551 „ Thomas Hands .

Wiltshire . 355 „ Chandler •- 122 14 0 West Yorkshire .

Total subscribed from the Province 840 0 0 The following were the Stewards : — T . W . Tew , D . P . G . M G . Blackburn Dr . M . M . Bartolome C . H . Bingham W . H . Brittain J . Ellis J . Cravon T . B . Edwards

J . P . Day T . W . Tasker Rev . A . W . Hamilton C . T . Rhodes R . J . Critchley T . Whitaker T . Peel G . Clapham E . Sewell J . Hartley

W . Jervis W . H . Saville G . W . Hawksley C . Crabtree G . E . Webster J . Beanland J . Bromley D . Hopkins J . Binney C . H . Perrott R . Bradley E . Lord

J . H . Burrows A . Ash M . Fentou Dr . W . R . Thomas S . Hayes R . Roberts J . E . Reaney J . Robertshaw C . Thornhill Z . Hnnchlifte

J . H . Waterfall J . Bustard J . Harrop T . W . Holmes J . H . Cad man W . Saville

CHINA . Bro . C . P . Chater - 52 10 0

Miscellaneous . „ John Boyd •" ) „ S . Rosenthal •f 01 * n „ Rev . Dr . Brettol JL ' „ Griffiths Smith )

Review Of An Old Pamphlet.

REVIEW OF AN OLD PAMPHLET .

BT BRO . JACOB NORTON . Freemasonry ; a Word to the Wtse . Being a vindication of the science as patronized by the Grand Lodge of England , and the devices of the crafty on the Fraternity disclosed . Under tho following heads —Elects of Nine—of Perignan—of Fifteen—Noachites—Architects —Grand Architects—Scot Masters—Excellents—Super Excellents —Super Intendants—Knights of the Sword and of the East—Eosycrucians—Knight Templars , etc ., etc . London : Printed for W . Thiston , Goodge-street , Tottenham-court-road . 5796 .

THE above is all crowded into the title page of a pamphlet of eighty pages . The writer , a 3 the above implies , was an enthusiastic adherent of the Grand Lodge of England . He believed that Craft Masonry began with Solomon , and the Eoyal Arch with the creation of tho world ; but all the degrees above the E . A . he held in thorough detestation and contempt , ho is particularly severe against"

Rosycrucians , and even more so against the Knight Templars , and here are his own words verbatim , etc . " Prior to descending to notice the unwarrantable practices in view , it will be essential to premise that the Grand Lodge of England did acknowlede any Masonic intietiug beyond their own jurisdiction to have the least connection with Froemasonry except the Sublime

Degree of Eoyal Arch Masonry , a particular Chapter of which waa noticed so far as to announce the usual time of its being convened to the Masonic world in their Freemasons' Calender from 1777 to 1792 , which was published expressly under the sanction of the Grand Lodge , and which notice , during the time it contiuued , considerably promoted the success and increase of Eoyal Arch Masonry j and upon this con-SideratioD , that at the time of congregating the Lodges to form a

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head [ 1717 ] that not the least trace of the mushroom appellations [ of the high degree ] were to bo met with , heard of , or produced . " After quoting at length the report of them in Anderson's Constitution of 1723 , with all the names of the committee , from Philip Duke of Wharton , down to Charles Garey and Edward Morphey , tho writer goes on to inform U 3 , —

" From this document it is evident that the superstitious interpolations in the system of Masonry ( now complained of ) are calculated to place on EMINENCE a I ' at the EXPENCE of the REST , " & C Our author next pitches into the York Grand Lodge , not only for assuming independence , but also for setting up " superiority by graft , ing on the good old stock sprigs of folly and falsehood . In other words ,

their successors at least pretend to the knowledge of seven degrees , and without the iuitiation of their disciples into the highest , they are con . sidered as aliens , and are not permitted to partake of the repast prepared , only for the ioell informed in the SANCTUM SANCTORUM . " And that is not the worst . " And as a further insult to the Grand Lodge of England , a Deputy Grand Lodge of York Masons is held in

London . " There were also in London some Lodges chartered by the Grand Lodge of York itself . Brit here comes the most curious part . It seems that the adherents of the York Grand Lodge claimed the sole right of conferring the high degrees , and used this as a means of fleecing the would be Sir Somethings of 7 s 6 d each for registering the party in their records , and when once so registered , he virtually gave

1 np his allegiance and ceased to belong to the Grand Lodgo of England , I as the following regulation indicates , viz .: — ! " That every person who was not previously registered in the books ! of thoir [ York ] Grand Lodge shall pay seven siiiilings and sixpence , I as a fee at the time of beinir proponed for the hgh degrees . " I In 1874 , we had a friendly tilt with Bro . Hugbau about the precise year when the Grand Lodge of York first fell into a dormant state , Oar