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The Analysis Of The Subscription List.
THE ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST .
BEFORE entering on our nsual task of noting in detail the result of the Festival of the Girls' School , we will first offer to all interested in the welfare of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls—and tho " all " in this case includes the Avhole Craft throughout England—our hearty
congratulations on what , under existing circumstances , must be considered a most satisfactory result . True , the amount subscribed last year Avas exceptionally great , and amounted to , in round figures , £ 9 , 757 , Avith twenty-threo lists still outstanding , Avliilo this year it is only £ 8 , 392 2 s 9 d , Avith
sixteen lists yet to come in ; but the political and commercial anxieties of the moment have had in this , as in other cases , the most depressing effeet , and , as Ave dare say a total of close on £ 9 , 000 will be reached , Ave consider so excellent a result is in the highest degree creditable . And so pass
we to our analysis , -which , as is customary , Ave consider under the three heads of Metropolitan , Provincial , and Miscellaneous . In the first of these there Avere ninety-four SteAvards , representing eighty-eight Lodges and three Chapters . The amounts handed in by these up to the present
time represent a sum of £ 4 , 266 2 s . The 110 Provincial SteAvards have raised amongst them thus far a total of £ 3 , 996 17 s 9 d ; Avhile the balance is due to the exertions of seven Stewards , Avho are entered on tho list under the head of Miscellaneous . Tho highest individual list in the metropolis
is that of Bro . W . Stephens , of the Earl of Carnarvon Lodge , No . 1642 , Notting Hill , Avho collected the very handsome total of £ 276 5 s . FolloAving this , Ave find another young Lodge , the Kilburn , No . 1608 , contributing , by the hands of Bro . George Everett , the sum of £ 176 8 s , and
besides these there are two other three-figure amounts , that of the Hon . R . W . H . Giddy , as the representative of tho Friends in Council , No . 1383 , Avhose amount reached the sum of one hundred and ten guineas , and that of Bro . Mclntyve , Grand Registrar , Avho , as SteAvard for the Royal
Somerset House and Inverness Lodge , No . 4 , handed in the sum of one hundred guineas . Last year , our Avorthy Friends in Council gave , by the hands of Lieut .-Colonel Shadwell Clerke , over £ 282 , and as recently as the Festival this year of the Benevolent , Ave find it contributed throu « h the same
representative £ 202 . Thus the honour of heading the Metropolitan Lodges lies wholly west on this occasion , either directly west , or north-western or west central . Among the Lodges contributing to this Festival Nos . 2 , 5 , 8 , 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 33 , 256 , and 657 have figured in the last
eleven lists , while others , like Nos . 10 aud 179 , have done their duty admirably on ten occasions , and others on nine , eight , seven , & c . It is Avorthy of note that of the Lodges Avho sent representatives , no less than eight have been Avarranted since the commencement of 1877 , and one of these does not even figure in the Calendar for the current year .
Turning to the Provinces Ave find that twenty-nine out of the forty-four Provinces or districts in Avhich there is no Provincial Grand Lodge AA-ere represented , the fifteen absent being Bedfordshire , Bristol , Cornwall , Cumberland and Westmoreland , Durham , Lincolnshire , Norfolk ,
Northamptonshire and Hunts , Northumberland , Notts , Staffordshire , Worcestershire , the Channel Islands , Jersey , and the Isle of Man . Out of these Beds ( five Lodges ) , Woi'cestershire ( ten Lodges ) , and Isle of Man ( three Lodges ) have been unrepresented at the eleven Festivals
we have been privileged to record . As regards the others , all have figured more or less frequently sinco Ave entered on our career as a journal . The majority indeed , have done their duty liberally—Lincolnshire , Northumberland , & c . being cases in point , but one—Cambridgeshire
( four Lodges)—appears now for the first time in the past four years , and though the amount is only small , still Ave trust it may be taken as indicating a revived interest in our glorious Institutions . Dismissing thus briefly the absentee Lodges , we now turn to those
who have been represented in the present instance . First in Order comes Berks and Bucks . It boasts sixteen Lodges , six of Avhich Avere represented , the aggregate of their contributions amounting to £ 217 5 s . The contributing Lodges hailed from Reading , Newbury ,
Windsor , Wolverton , Abingdon , and Stony Stratford . This Province gave over £ 157 to the Benevolent in February , to all three Festivals in 1877 , to the Schools in 1876 , and to all three Institutions in 1875 . Cambridgeshire , as we have said , figures for the first time since January 1875 in the list
The Analysis Of The Subscription List.
of SteAvards , and though the amount is small , AVC tako it as an omen of good for the future . Cheshire , Avhich our readers know full well has an Educational Institution of its own , is nevertheless represented by six of its thirty-nine Lodges , one CreAve , ono Chester , one Birkenhead ( Avith two
Stewards ) , and the Sale , tho Lymm , and theParkgate Lodges . The total contributed is £ 134 8 s . In February it gavo over £ J 72 , and has only been absent once out of tho last eleven Festivals . Derbyshire ( eighteen Lodges ) has one representative , in the case of one of the Derby
Lodges . The list is small , but at the Benevolent Festival inFebruary it was represented by the Marquis of Hartington , its Provincial Grand Master , and one other brother , Avho together contributed a sum of £ 170 , Avhile in 1875 , 1876 , and 1877 it Avas duly represented at , at least , one of the
threeFestivals . Devonshire , with its forty-six Lodges , AVUS represented by the St . George ' s , No . 112 , tho amount being a little under £ 30 . It figured in tho Benevolent List , in February , for £ 110 , and in 1877 it gave very little short of £ 600 to the same Institution ; and , indeed , has only
been absent once since January 18 / 5 . Dorsetshire is comparatively a small Province , with only thirteen Lodges , but its energy in connection Avith tho Charities is in the highest degree creditable . On this occasion its Provincial Grand Superintendent , Bro . J . M . P . Montagu , acting as Steward
for the Royal Arch Masons—so , at least , Ave feel justified in inferring from the statement in tho list—has placed £ 116 lis to the credit of the Girls . In February , as Steward for the Benevolent , he took up £ 150 . He Avill represent his Province again at the Boys' School . In 1877 the Province contributed over £ 560 to the three
Institutions together , and its liberality Avas as conspicuous the t . Avo previous years . The Southend Lodge No . 1000—the Priory—does duty for Essex ( sixteen Lodges ) , and subscribed to the extent of over £ 40 . The same Avas one of the three Lodges represented at the last Benevolent
Festival , and has been in nine out of the last eleven Festivals . Gloucester ( fourteen Lodges ) sends Stewards from three , Avho together figure for £ 229 16 s 6 d , the three being No . 82 of Cheltenham , No . 855 of Wotton-on-Edge , and No . 1067 of Newnham-on-Sevorn . It ^ ave £ 118 to
tho Benevolent this year , and over £ 500 to the three Institutions last year , Avhile it supported the Boys' in 1875 and 1876 . Four of the thirty Lodges in Hants and the Isle of Wight sent Stewards , Avho , among them , totalled up £ 117 12 s . In February last , its contribution of
£ 70 helped to SAvell Bro . Terry ' s total , and last summer , when its Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Beach , M . P ., presided at the Festival of the Boys' School , it supported him to the extent of over £ 220 . Indeed , it has been
represented at ten out of the last eleven gatherings . Hertfordshire , a small Province Avith only ten Lodges , is represented by two of them , the Cecil , No . 149 of Hitchin , and the ever ready Gladsmuir , No . 1385 of Barnet , Avhich together gave £ 68 5 s . This is to its credit
as in February its contribution of £ 645 and odd shillings placed it at the head of the contributing Provinces . The honour of Herefordshire ( four Lodges ) is sustained by tho Palladian , No . 120 , of Hereford . This Province has not been represented in any list since the Benevolent Festival of
187 G , Avhen the same Lodge sent up alist of over £ 05 . Kent ( forty-three Lodges ) sent three StoAA'ards , each representing a Lodge—the Sandwich , the Sovenoaks , and the Ohisle-Imrst , but the return for tho last only has been made , and represents a total of £ 77 7 s . Its total contributions at
the last ten FestiA als is upwards of £ 3 , 431 , so ( hat its average sinco January 1875 is considerably over £ 300 per Festival . East Lancashire ( eighty-six Lodges ) , like Cheshire , has an educational Institution of its own , and at the present time its trade is lamentablv depressed , so that if it had been
Avholly absent , Ave could not have been surprised . Yet tho three Stewards of the Humphrey Cheatham , No . 645 , of Manchester , and Bro . Brockbank , aro together down for over seA'enty guineas . West Lancashire ( seventy-seven Lodges ) is in the same predicament as its neighbour , the Eastern
Division , in respect of trade , but four Lodges contribute among them £ 90 13 s 6 d . In February the aggregate of its lists to the Benevolent was over £ 330 , while in 1877 and 1876 its contributions to the three Institutions greatly exceeded £ 2000 . Leicester and Rutland ,
with its ten Lodges , has handed in the very handsome total of £ 233 16 s . It Avas absent last February , but its contributions in 1877 exceeded £ 400 . Middlesex ( tAventy-seveu Lodges ) has always been strongly represented at this particular Festival . This is not to be won-
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The Analysis Of The Subscription List.
THE ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST .
BEFORE entering on our nsual task of noting in detail the result of the Festival of the Girls' School , we will first offer to all interested in the welfare of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls—and tho " all " in this case includes the Avhole Craft throughout England—our hearty
congratulations on what , under existing circumstances , must be considered a most satisfactory result . True , the amount subscribed last year Avas exceptionally great , and amounted to , in round figures , £ 9 , 757 , Avith twenty-threo lists still outstanding , Avliilo this year it is only £ 8 , 392 2 s 9 d , Avith
sixteen lists yet to come in ; but the political and commercial anxieties of the moment have had in this , as in other cases , the most depressing effeet , and , as Ave dare say a total of close on £ 9 , 000 will be reached , Ave consider so excellent a result is in the highest degree creditable . And so pass
we to our analysis , -which , as is customary , Ave consider under the three heads of Metropolitan , Provincial , and Miscellaneous . In the first of these there Avere ninety-four SteAvards , representing eighty-eight Lodges and three Chapters . The amounts handed in by these up to the present
time represent a sum of £ 4 , 266 2 s . The 110 Provincial SteAvards have raised amongst them thus far a total of £ 3 , 996 17 s 9 d ; Avhile the balance is due to the exertions of seven Stewards , Avho are entered on tho list under the head of Miscellaneous . Tho highest individual list in the metropolis
is that of Bro . W . Stephens , of the Earl of Carnarvon Lodge , No . 1642 , Notting Hill , Avho collected the very handsome total of £ 276 5 s . FolloAving this , Ave find another young Lodge , the Kilburn , No . 1608 , contributing , by the hands of Bro . George Everett , the sum of £ 176 8 s , and
besides these there are two other three-figure amounts , that of the Hon . R . W . H . Giddy , as the representative of tho Friends in Council , No . 1383 , Avhose amount reached the sum of one hundred and ten guineas , and that of Bro . Mclntyve , Grand Registrar , Avho , as SteAvard for the Royal
Somerset House and Inverness Lodge , No . 4 , handed in the sum of one hundred guineas . Last year , our Avorthy Friends in Council gave , by the hands of Lieut .-Colonel Shadwell Clerke , over £ 282 , and as recently as the Festival this year of the Benevolent , Ave find it contributed throu « h the same
representative £ 202 . Thus the honour of heading the Metropolitan Lodges lies wholly west on this occasion , either directly west , or north-western or west central . Among the Lodges contributing to this Festival Nos . 2 , 5 , 8 , 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 33 , 256 , and 657 have figured in the last
eleven lists , while others , like Nos . 10 aud 179 , have done their duty admirably on ten occasions , and others on nine , eight , seven , & c . It is Avorthy of note that of the Lodges Avho sent representatives , no less than eight have been Avarranted since the commencement of 1877 , and one of these does not even figure in the Calendar for the current year .
Turning to the Provinces Ave find that twenty-nine out of the forty-four Provinces or districts in Avhich there is no Provincial Grand Lodge AA-ere represented , the fifteen absent being Bedfordshire , Bristol , Cornwall , Cumberland and Westmoreland , Durham , Lincolnshire , Norfolk ,
Northamptonshire and Hunts , Northumberland , Notts , Staffordshire , Worcestershire , the Channel Islands , Jersey , and the Isle of Man . Out of these Beds ( five Lodges ) , Woi'cestershire ( ten Lodges ) , and Isle of Man ( three Lodges ) have been unrepresented at the eleven Festivals
we have been privileged to record . As regards the others , all have figured more or less frequently sinco Ave entered on our career as a journal . The majority indeed , have done their duty liberally—Lincolnshire , Northumberland , & c . being cases in point , but one—Cambridgeshire
( four Lodges)—appears now for the first time in the past four years , and though the amount is only small , still Ave trust it may be taken as indicating a revived interest in our glorious Institutions . Dismissing thus briefly the absentee Lodges , we now turn to those
who have been represented in the present instance . First in Order comes Berks and Bucks . It boasts sixteen Lodges , six of Avhich Avere represented , the aggregate of their contributions amounting to £ 217 5 s . The contributing Lodges hailed from Reading , Newbury ,
Windsor , Wolverton , Abingdon , and Stony Stratford . This Province gave over £ 157 to the Benevolent in February , to all three Festivals in 1877 , to the Schools in 1876 , and to all three Institutions in 1875 . Cambridgeshire , as we have said , figures for the first time since January 1875 in the list
The Analysis Of The Subscription List.
of SteAvards , and though the amount is small , AVC tako it as an omen of good for the future . Cheshire , Avhich our readers know full well has an Educational Institution of its own , is nevertheless represented by six of its thirty-nine Lodges , one CreAve , ono Chester , one Birkenhead ( Avith two
Stewards ) , and the Sale , tho Lymm , and theParkgate Lodges . The total contributed is £ 134 8 s . In February it gavo over £ J 72 , and has only been absent once out of tho last eleven Festivals . Derbyshire ( eighteen Lodges ) has one representative , in the case of one of the Derby
Lodges . The list is small , but at the Benevolent Festival inFebruary it was represented by the Marquis of Hartington , its Provincial Grand Master , and one other brother , Avho together contributed a sum of £ 170 , Avhile in 1875 , 1876 , and 1877 it Avas duly represented at , at least , one of the
threeFestivals . Devonshire , with its forty-six Lodges , AVUS represented by the St . George ' s , No . 112 , tho amount being a little under £ 30 . It figured in tho Benevolent List , in February , for £ 110 , and in 1877 it gave very little short of £ 600 to the same Institution ; and , indeed , has only
been absent once since January 18 / 5 . Dorsetshire is comparatively a small Province , with only thirteen Lodges , but its energy in connection Avith tho Charities is in the highest degree creditable . On this occasion its Provincial Grand Superintendent , Bro . J . M . P . Montagu , acting as Steward
for the Royal Arch Masons—so , at least , Ave feel justified in inferring from the statement in tho list—has placed £ 116 lis to the credit of the Girls . In February , as Steward for the Benevolent , he took up £ 150 . He Avill represent his Province again at the Boys' School . In 1877 the Province contributed over £ 560 to the three
Institutions together , and its liberality Avas as conspicuous the t . Avo previous years . The Southend Lodge No . 1000—the Priory—does duty for Essex ( sixteen Lodges ) , and subscribed to the extent of over £ 40 . The same Avas one of the three Lodges represented at the last Benevolent
Festival , and has been in nine out of the last eleven Festivals . Gloucester ( fourteen Lodges ) sends Stewards from three , Avho together figure for £ 229 16 s 6 d , the three being No . 82 of Cheltenham , No . 855 of Wotton-on-Edge , and No . 1067 of Newnham-on-Sevorn . It ^ ave £ 118 to
tho Benevolent this year , and over £ 500 to the three Institutions last year , Avhile it supported the Boys' in 1875 and 1876 . Four of the thirty Lodges in Hants and the Isle of Wight sent Stewards , Avho , among them , totalled up £ 117 12 s . In February last , its contribution of
£ 70 helped to SAvell Bro . Terry ' s total , and last summer , when its Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Beach , M . P ., presided at the Festival of the Boys' School , it supported him to the extent of over £ 220 . Indeed , it has been
represented at ten out of the last eleven gatherings . Hertfordshire , a small Province Avith only ten Lodges , is represented by two of them , the Cecil , No . 149 of Hitchin , and the ever ready Gladsmuir , No . 1385 of Barnet , Avhich together gave £ 68 5 s . This is to its credit
as in February its contribution of £ 645 and odd shillings placed it at the head of the contributing Provinces . The honour of Herefordshire ( four Lodges ) is sustained by tho Palladian , No . 120 , of Hereford . This Province has not been represented in any list since the Benevolent Festival of
187 G , Avhen the same Lodge sent up alist of over £ 05 . Kent ( forty-three Lodges ) sent three StoAA'ards , each representing a Lodge—the Sandwich , the Sovenoaks , and the Ohisle-Imrst , but the return for tho last only has been made , and represents a total of £ 77 7 s . Its total contributions at
the last ten FestiA als is upwards of £ 3 , 431 , so ( hat its average sinco January 1875 is considerably over £ 300 per Festival . East Lancashire ( eighty-six Lodges ) , like Cheshire , has an educational Institution of its own , and at the present time its trade is lamentablv depressed , so that if it had been
Avholly absent , Ave could not have been surprised . Yet tho three Stewards of the Humphrey Cheatham , No . 645 , of Manchester , and Bro . Brockbank , aro together down for over seA'enty guineas . West Lancashire ( seventy-seven Lodges ) is in the same predicament as its neighbour , the Eastern
Division , in respect of trade , but four Lodges contribute among them £ 90 13 s 6 d . In February the aggregate of its lists to the Benevolent was over £ 330 , while in 1877 and 1876 its contributions to the three Institutions greatly exceeded £ 2000 . Leicester and Rutland ,
with its ten Lodges , has handed in the very handsome total of £ 233 16 s . It Avas absent last February , but its contributions in 1877 exceeded £ 400 . Middlesex ( tAventy-seveu Lodges ) has always been strongly represented at this particular Festival . This is not to be won-