Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Annual Assembly Of The Grand Imperial Conclave Of The Red Cross.
ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GRAND IMPERIAL CONCLAVE OF THE RED CROSS .
HHEE nnnnal assembly of tho Grand Imperial Conclave was held al - » Mark Masons' Hall , Great Queen Street , on Monday , 2 nd ins !\ , when Col . Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., the M . III . Grand Sovereign presided , aud wa < : supported by Sir Knights Baron deFerrit-resM . E . G . Viceroy ; Lord Eneton G . Senior General ; Capt T . C . Walls , Dep . Intendant-General Middx ., G . Junior General ; Dr . W . R . Woodman
P . G . V ., G . Treasurer ; C . F . Hogard G . Recorder ; G . Mickley G . Chamberhiin ; C . II . Driver G . Architect ; W . G . Lemon G . Marshal ; W . II . L « wthwaite G . High Almoner ; G . Powell P . G . S . General ; J . G . Marsh P . G . S . General ; H . H . Shirley G . Orator ; T . Cubitt P . G . S . General ; C . F . Matier Intendant-General Lance . ; H . C . Heard P . S . G . Inspector of Regalia ; A . H . Bateman G . Vice
Chancellor ; Belgrave Ninnis Intendant-General Jamaica ; G . R . Cobham P . S . G . Organist ; R . Berridgo G . Sub . Prelate ; C . E . Keyser G . Prefeot ; S . Brioe 147 D . G . V . E . Kent ; W . M . Bywater 15 ; F . W . Driver 15 ; G . Robinson 1 ; C . Chauflburior , Nelson . Prower , W . A . Sourrah ; W . T . Nadie ; J . A . Gartley , G . Precentor ; and W . W . Lee .
The Most Illustrious Grand Sovereign having entered Grand Conolave , attended by the Grand Officers , Grand Conclave was opened . The minutes of the meeting held 3 rd of March 1890 were read and unanimously confirmed . The annual report of the Executive Committee was read , a good balance being shown in the hands of the
Treasurer . The Committee recommonded that 10 guineas should be given to tho Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in view of the forthcoming Jubilee of that Institution , and also that the best thanks of tho Grand Conclave should he tendered to Sir Knight Hogard for his invaluable services as Grand Recorder during the past six years , he having intimated his intention of withdrawing from that office .
On tho motion of Sir Knight WOODMAN Boconded by Sir Knight LEMON , tho report was unanimously adopted . On the suggestion of Sir Knight WALLS , supported by Sir KnMifc NINNIS , the 10 guineas voted to tho Royal Masonio Benevolent Institution was ordered to be placed in the name of Sir Knight
Hogard . Sir Knight Dr . WOODMAN then said ho felt proud to nominate their present M . I . Grand Sovereign for re-eleotion . Colonel Sir Francis Bnrdett had become almost an institution among them in the Order . Tho nomination was seconded by Sir Knight MICKLEV , and carried nem con .
The M . I . Grand Sovereign having been proclaimed , returned thanks for his re-eleotion . The longer he was with them tho greater was his wish to be present . His great objeot daring the timo he had been connected with the Order—now some 20 years—had been to see it flourish in a manner creditable not only to themselves but also to hold a high position in the Masonio world , no hoped it would be
strengthened in the future , and had no doubt but that it would prosper . He trusted to bo with them for somo years to come—ho could not say many years—but as long as he held his own he would do what ho could for the benefit of tbe Order , and as long as he filled his presont position he should be pleased to see them , and to be reoeived in tho kind manner in which thoy had always weloomed
him . Sir Knight Baron do FERRIERES said the next business was the election of Grand Viceroy , and he rose to anticipate any Sir Knight who might feel disposed to nominate him for re-olection . The Executive Committee had had some conversation on tho position of the Order , and it was felt that the acting officers should be men who
could give more time to their duties . He folfc that the Grand Viceroy should be one who was constantly in London , and who conld give his time and attention to the welfare of the Order . He therefore felt compelled to decline re-election , and begged to propose Lord Euston as a fit and proper person to be elected as Grand Vicoroy . Nothing he could say could recommend Lord Euston to thorn , and he
unhesitatingly stated that he knew of no Mason holding a high position who so entirely threw himself into Masonry , and gave ao much time to promote the Order to which he belonged . Sir Knight W . G . LEMON seconded the nomination , which was carried unanimously , and Lord Euston was formally consecrated as the Grand Viceroy for the ensuing year , and proclaimed b y the Grand Herald .
Sir Knight W . R . WOOD 31 AN expressed bia desire not to be re-elected as Grand Treaanrer , and proposed Sir Kni ght Hogard for eleotion to that office . Sir Knight Baron de FEKRIERES seconded the proposition , whioh was carried unanimously .
On the motion of Sir Knight BATEMAN , supported by Sir Knight HOGARD , hearty and cordial thanks were tendered to Sir Knight Woodman , and ordered to be recorded on the minutes , for his energetic and valuable services to the Order , more especially as the Grand Treasurer for so many years . The Most III . Grand Sovereign appointed the following members
of Grand Council : W . H . Lewthwaite ... ... Senr . General . Dr . Mickley ... ... ... Junr . General . Rev . S . Maude ... ... ... ) „ . , _ Rev . A . W . Oxford ... ... j HlSh PreIa tes . C . H . Driver ... ... ... nigh Chancellor . C . F . Hogard ( elected ) ... ... Treasurer .
C . F . Matier ... ... ... Recorder . W . G . Lemon ... ... ... High Almoner . H . H . Shirloy ... ... ... Chamberlain . n . J . Lardner ... ... ... Architect . H . Venn ... ... ... Marshal . C . E . Keyser ... ... ... Orator . R . Berridgo ... ... ... Historiographer .
Annual Assembly Of The Grand Imperial Conclave Of The Red Cross.
GRAND SENATE . Viscount Dnngarvan ... ... Preceptor . A . H . Bateman ... ... ... Examiner . G . Reading ... ... ... Prefect . F . Graves ., ... ... Sub-Prelate . II . C . Heard ... ... ... Vice-Chancellor . G . R . Cobham ... ... ... Assist . Recorder .
The following were elected as Grand Senators , and wero appointed to office , namely : J . A . Gartley ... ... ... Sub-Almoner . W . O . Robinson ... ... ... Ina . of Regalia . T . LeSeelleur ... ... ... ) Q 4 . „ W . Lake ... ... ... j Stand . Bearers .
J . H . Thompson ... ... ... G . S . B . H . Roberta ... ... ... Organist . J . D . Murray ... ... ... Precentor . W . M . Bywater ... ... . . V . Chamberlain . S . J . Brice ... ... ... Aaaiat . Marshal . G . Dalrymple ... ... ... } -. ,.
Valentine Brown ... ... ... j C . V . Cotterell ... ... ... G . D . ofO . The Illustrious Grand Sovereign appointed the Earl of Euston aa president , and Sir Knight J . L . Thomas as membor , and Sir Knights Woodman , Mason , Walla , Lemon and Powell were elected to the Executive Committee , and Sir Knights Woodman , Shirley , and Venn
to the Grand High Almoner ' s Committee . A notice of motion by Sir Knight Baron de FERRIERES— " That Intendants-General while actually in charge of a Division shall rank in the Grand Counoil immediately after Grand Viceroy , and that the statutes be altered accordingly" —was next considered and agreed to .
A Grand Sovereign ' s Council was appointed to consider the position of the Order , and report thereon to a special meeting of the Grand Conolave to be convened for that purpose . The Grand Conclave was closed , and the Sir Knights subsequently dined together at Freamasons' Tavern , under the presidency of the Most 111 . Grand Sovereign .
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
Wo do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents . All Letters must bear the name and address of tho Writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith . Wo cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
WHAT WILL BRO . SPETH SAT NOW ? To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —A few months ago I took issue with my esteemed friend Bro . Speth about the age of the Matthew Cooko MS . In his commentary on the said MS . Bro . Speth dated its origin to tho firBt half of the fifteenth century , and I maintained
that it was not written before tho latter part of Honry VIII . ' s reign , or dnring the reign of his successor , Edwnrd VI . One of my reasons for that belief was , that whereas in the Regius poem , in tho Strasburg and iu the Torgau Constitutions , as well as one or two English Guild codes of laws—I quoted from , I believe , Herbert' . !
History of the Twelve London Companies—mention is invariable in the prayers of the Virgin Mary or Borne other saints , but iu tho Matthew Cooke MS . the prayer is minus of allusions to saints , and oven Christ is not appealed to therein ; hence I concluded that the said MS . was written by a Protestant , for the use of a Protestant
Masonio Lodge . Now , Toulmih Smith's " English Guilds " contain the old laws of " more than one hundred " English Gnilds of the Roman Catholic period , or of tho period before tho Protestant Reformation . Tho first part of the said book contains the laws of forty-eight guilds ,
and in every prayer or invocation preceding the said laws , the Virgin Mary , or some other saint or saints , figure aB mediators . To most of the remaining cedes in the latter part of the book , there are no introductory invocations given , but there is ample evidence in said codes that they were written by Roman Catholics for Roman
Catholic Associations . And , as there is not a particle of evidence in the Matthew Cooke MS ., that either the author thereof was a Catholio , or tho guild for whose use it was written were Catholics , I think , therefore , that an impartial jury would render a verdict in accordance with my long entertained belief , that the Cooke MS . waa not written before about the middle of tbe sixteenth century .
Fraternally and respectfully yours , JACOB NORTON . P . S . —Since the above was writton , I found in Mr . Smith ' s book
on page 186 , that a guild of Smitha existed , in Chesterfield , iu the 14 th century , withont having had any patron saint at all . In a foot note , after statiDg that the condition of the document from whioh he quoted was " very bad and torn , " it goes on , aa follows : —
"Thia guild seems to have had no patron saint . Among the records of at lnast six hundred English guilds that have come under my careful roview , I have very rarely found this absence , save in some of the Guilds Merchants . Even the existing London City Companies
have such patron sainta . Perhaps some local circumstances made the priests unpopnlar in Chesterfield . Certain it ia that , while the ordinances of the Chesterfield Guild last given treat priestly services with a slig htness and coldness very unusual , the present
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Annual Assembly Of The Grand Imperial Conclave Of The Red Cross.
ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GRAND IMPERIAL CONCLAVE OF THE RED CROSS .
HHEE nnnnal assembly of tho Grand Imperial Conclave was held al - » Mark Masons' Hall , Great Queen Street , on Monday , 2 nd ins !\ , when Col . Sir Francis Burdett , Bart ., the M . III . Grand Sovereign presided , aud wa < : supported by Sir Knights Baron deFerrit-resM . E . G . Viceroy ; Lord Eneton G . Senior General ; Capt T . C . Walls , Dep . Intendant-General Middx ., G . Junior General ; Dr . W . R . Woodman
P . G . V ., G . Treasurer ; C . F . Hogard G . Recorder ; G . Mickley G . Chamberhiin ; C . II . Driver G . Architect ; W . G . Lemon G . Marshal ; W . II . L « wthwaite G . High Almoner ; G . Powell P . G . S . General ; J . G . Marsh P . G . S . General ; H . H . Shirley G . Orator ; T . Cubitt P . G . S . General ; C . F . Matier Intendant-General Lance . ; H . C . Heard P . S . G . Inspector of Regalia ; A . H . Bateman G . Vice
Chancellor ; Belgrave Ninnis Intendant-General Jamaica ; G . R . Cobham P . S . G . Organist ; R . Berridgo G . Sub . Prelate ; C . E . Keyser G . Prefeot ; S . Brioe 147 D . G . V . E . Kent ; W . M . Bywater 15 ; F . W . Driver 15 ; G . Robinson 1 ; C . Chauflburior , Nelson . Prower , W . A . Sourrah ; W . T . Nadie ; J . A . Gartley , G . Precentor ; and W . W . Lee .
The Most Illustrious Grand Sovereign having entered Grand Conolave , attended by the Grand Officers , Grand Conclave was opened . The minutes of the meeting held 3 rd of March 1890 were read and unanimously confirmed . The annual report of the Executive Committee was read , a good balance being shown in the hands of the
Treasurer . The Committee recommonded that 10 guineas should be given to tho Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in view of the forthcoming Jubilee of that Institution , and also that the best thanks of tho Grand Conclave should he tendered to Sir Knight Hogard for his invaluable services as Grand Recorder during the past six years , he having intimated his intention of withdrawing from that office .
On tho motion of Sir Knight WOODMAN Boconded by Sir Knight LEMON , tho report was unanimously adopted . On the suggestion of Sir Knight WALLS , supported by Sir KnMifc NINNIS , the 10 guineas voted to tho Royal Masonio Benevolent Institution was ordered to be placed in the name of Sir Knight
Hogard . Sir Knight Dr . WOODMAN then said ho felt proud to nominate their present M . I . Grand Sovereign for re-eleotion . Colonel Sir Francis Bnrdett had become almost an institution among them in the Order . Tho nomination was seconded by Sir Knight MICKLEV , and carried nem con .
The M . I . Grand Sovereign having been proclaimed , returned thanks for his re-eleotion . The longer he was with them tho greater was his wish to be present . His great objeot daring the timo he had been connected with the Order—now some 20 years—had been to see it flourish in a manner creditable not only to themselves but also to hold a high position in the Masonio world , no hoped it would be
strengthened in the future , and had no doubt but that it would prosper . He trusted to bo with them for somo years to come—ho could not say many years—but as long as he held his own he would do what ho could for the benefit of tbe Order , and as long as he filled his presont position he should be pleased to see them , and to be reoeived in tho kind manner in which thoy had always weloomed
him . Sir Knight Baron do FERRIERES said the next business was the election of Grand Viceroy , and he rose to anticipate any Sir Knight who might feel disposed to nominate him for re-olection . The Executive Committee had had some conversation on tho position of the Order , and it was felt that the acting officers should be men who
could give more time to their duties . He folfc that the Grand Viceroy should be one who was constantly in London , and who conld give his time and attention to the welfare of the Order . He therefore felt compelled to decline re-election , and begged to propose Lord Euston as a fit and proper person to be elected as Grand Vicoroy . Nothing he could say could recommend Lord Euston to thorn , and he
unhesitatingly stated that he knew of no Mason holding a high position who so entirely threw himself into Masonry , and gave ao much time to promote the Order to which he belonged . Sir Knight W . G . LEMON seconded the nomination , which was carried unanimously , and Lord Euston was formally consecrated as the Grand Viceroy for the ensuing year , and proclaimed b y the Grand Herald .
Sir Knight W . R . WOOD 31 AN expressed bia desire not to be re-elected as Grand Treaanrer , and proposed Sir Kni ght Hogard for eleotion to that office . Sir Knight Baron de FEKRIERES seconded the proposition , whioh was carried unanimously .
On the motion of Sir Knight BATEMAN , supported by Sir Knight HOGARD , hearty and cordial thanks were tendered to Sir Knight Woodman , and ordered to be recorded on the minutes , for his energetic and valuable services to the Order , more especially as the Grand Treasurer for so many years . The Most III . Grand Sovereign appointed the following members
of Grand Council : W . H . Lewthwaite ... ... Senr . General . Dr . Mickley ... ... ... Junr . General . Rev . S . Maude ... ... ... ) „ . , _ Rev . A . W . Oxford ... ... j HlSh PreIa tes . C . H . Driver ... ... ... nigh Chancellor . C . F . Hogard ( elected ) ... ... Treasurer .
C . F . Matier ... ... ... Recorder . W . G . Lemon ... ... ... High Almoner . H . H . Shirloy ... ... ... Chamberlain . n . J . Lardner ... ... ... Architect . H . Venn ... ... ... Marshal . C . E . Keyser ... ... ... Orator . R . Berridgo ... ... ... Historiographer .
Annual Assembly Of The Grand Imperial Conclave Of The Red Cross.
GRAND SENATE . Viscount Dnngarvan ... ... Preceptor . A . H . Bateman ... ... ... Examiner . G . Reading ... ... ... Prefect . F . Graves ., ... ... Sub-Prelate . II . C . Heard ... ... ... Vice-Chancellor . G . R . Cobham ... ... ... Assist . Recorder .
The following were elected as Grand Senators , and wero appointed to office , namely : J . A . Gartley ... ... ... Sub-Almoner . W . O . Robinson ... ... ... Ina . of Regalia . T . LeSeelleur ... ... ... ) Q 4 . „ W . Lake ... ... ... j Stand . Bearers .
J . H . Thompson ... ... ... G . S . B . H . Roberta ... ... ... Organist . J . D . Murray ... ... ... Precentor . W . M . Bywater ... ... . . V . Chamberlain . S . J . Brice ... ... ... Aaaiat . Marshal . G . Dalrymple ... ... ... } -. ,.
Valentine Brown ... ... ... j C . V . Cotterell ... ... ... G . D . ofO . The Illustrious Grand Sovereign appointed the Earl of Euston aa president , and Sir Knight J . L . Thomas as membor , and Sir Knights Woodman , Mason , Walla , Lemon and Powell were elected to the Executive Committee , and Sir Knights Woodman , Shirley , and Venn
to the Grand High Almoner ' s Committee . A notice of motion by Sir Knight Baron de FERRIERES— " That Intendants-General while actually in charge of a Division shall rank in the Grand Counoil immediately after Grand Viceroy , and that the statutes be altered accordingly" —was next considered and agreed to .
A Grand Sovereign ' s Council was appointed to consider the position of the Order , and report thereon to a special meeting of the Grand Conolave to be convened for that purpose . The Grand Conclave was closed , and the Sir Knights subsequently dined together at Freamasons' Tavern , under the presidency of the Most 111 . Grand Sovereign .
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
Wo do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents . All Letters must bear the name and address of tho Writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith . Wo cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
WHAT WILL BRO . SPETH SAT NOW ? To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —A few months ago I took issue with my esteemed friend Bro . Speth about the age of the Matthew Cooko MS . In his commentary on the said MS . Bro . Speth dated its origin to tho firBt half of the fifteenth century , and I maintained
that it was not written before tho latter part of Honry VIII . ' s reign , or dnring the reign of his successor , Edwnrd VI . One of my reasons for that belief was , that whereas in the Regius poem , in tho Strasburg and iu the Torgau Constitutions , as well as one or two English Guild codes of laws—I quoted from , I believe , Herbert' . !
History of the Twelve London Companies—mention is invariable in the prayers of the Virgin Mary or Borne other saints , but iu tho Matthew Cooke MS . the prayer is minus of allusions to saints , and oven Christ is not appealed to therein ; hence I concluded that the said MS . was written by a Protestant , for the use of a Protestant
Masonio Lodge . Now , Toulmih Smith's " English Guilds " contain the old laws of " more than one hundred " English Gnilds of the Roman Catholic period , or of tho period before tho Protestant Reformation . Tho first part of the said book contains the laws of forty-eight guilds ,
and in every prayer or invocation preceding the said laws , the Virgin Mary , or some other saint or saints , figure aB mediators . To most of the remaining cedes in the latter part of the book , there are no introductory invocations given , but there is ample evidence in said codes that they were written by Roman Catholics for Roman
Catholic Associations . And , as there is not a particle of evidence in the Matthew Cooke MS ., that either the author thereof was a Catholio , or tho guild for whose use it was written were Catholics , I think , therefore , that an impartial jury would render a verdict in accordance with my long entertained belief , that the Cooke MS . waa not written before about the middle of tbe sixteenth century .
Fraternally and respectfully yours , JACOB NORTON . P . S . —Since the above was writton , I found in Mr . Smith ' s book
on page 186 , that a guild of Smitha existed , in Chesterfield , iu the 14 th century , withont having had any patron saint at all . In a foot note , after statiDg that the condition of the document from whioh he quoted was " very bad and torn , " it goes on , aa follows : —
"Thia guild seems to have had no patron saint . Among the records of at lnast six hundred English guilds that have come under my careful roview , I have very rarely found this absence , save in some of the Guilds Merchants . Even the existing London City Companies
have such patron sainta . Perhaps some local circumstances made the priests unpopnlar in Chesterfield . Certain it ia that , while the ordinances of the Chesterfield Guild last given treat priestly services with a slig htness and coldness very unusual , the present