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The Surrey Masonic Hall
THE SURREY MASONIC HALL
WE publish in another column a letter from our well known correspondent " P . M ., P . Z ., " in which he offers a few pertinent wellintentioned remarks on tho fate which awaits this Hall . Wo trust with him that it is not too lato to take some sufficient steps to prevent this builtiing from passing to other than Masonio uses . It is little moro than threo years sinco tho foundation-stone was laid . Two
years and a fortnight ago , to the very day , the Hall wa 3 solemnly consecrated to tho purposes of Freemasonry , by no les 3 a personage than Lord Skclmersdalo , Deputy Grand Master of England . According to the Official Calendar , there are ten Lodges and two Chapters which meet there , and doubtless other Masonio bodies make it their
headquarters . That Masonry is very popular in tho immediate vicinity JS evidenced by the ono fact that seven of tho ten Lodges we have mentioned havo been constituted within the last four years , while others no doubt have been established which meet at other places . Thus , with tho building inaugurated by one of our highest dignitaries ,
with a number of bodies meeting in it , whoso payments for rent must together mako a respectable income , and tho Masonic element very strongly represented in tho neighbourhood , we should naturally imagine that everything would go on prosperously , and that however matters might faro in other directions , here
at least there would be no financial difficulties to contend with . Alas ! that all theso reasonable anticipations of good fortune should be so vain and illusory . On Tuesday next , this building will be publicly sold by auction , and it may well happen that what is now a comfortable and respectable home for the South
London Freemasons to meet at , will , in a short time , pass into non-Mason hands , and be used for non-Masonic purposes . Wo trust the suggestion of "P . M ., P . Z . " will bo acted upon . Albeit ho has no particnlar plan to offer , he proposes that tho brethren who live in tho vicinity of tho Hall , should drop in and have a quiet
confabulation over the matter . Some scheme , ho thinks , might suggest itself , even at the eleventh hour , and prevent the impending misfortune from actually befalling the South London Craft . " P . M ., P . Z . " expresses his belief that if each individual Craftsman in that particular district had contributed one of our smallest gold coins , tho sum thus raised
would have sufficed to prevent the disgrace which must fall upon Masonry by tho public sale of one of its Temples . It is not the promoters of tho scheme who aro to blame , for having proposed tho erection of a building whero Craftsmen could find a moro suitable home than in tho nearest hotel or tavern . It is not tho directors of the
limited company , who set to work and built in the , as it happens , deluded belief that tho needfnl amount of shares would bo taken as promised ; or the Masonic bodies "who uso the Hall , and contribute their annual rentals towards its support—it is not these who are to blarno for tho impending calamity . It is the
South London Masonic brethren , who thoughtlessly made promises , and havo not kept them ; it is tho Masonic public , in tho same district , who can find money for banquets and jewels , but have not the heart to raise amongst them a modest sum ; ib is these whom we have to condemn for allowing so much odium to fall on Freemasonry .
It is almost certain there are six hundred Masons m the south of London , who , any day in the year , would think nothing of expending £ 5 , if by so doing they could wear additional tinsel j yet the purchase of a £ 5 share in a Masonic Hall Company , started for the express purpose of providing Freemasonry with a respectable homo
is not to be thought of—it is beyond their means . It is bad enough to havo tho announcement of the sale of the Hall posted all over London : and the least wo think that our South London brethren should do is to buy the building , and so preserve it for the purposes to which it baa been devoted , and to satisfy which it was erected .
Order Of The Temple
ORDER OF THE TEMPLE
Y \ 7 " have pleasure to record the revival in the Order of tho Temple " ' of one of the most ancient 1 'receptories in England , bearing the nam of tho " Bosbury , " or as it was formerly written " Bosem . purie . " "Bosberio , " according to Leland ' s Itinerary , " 13 ten miles northcast from Hereford at the head of tho Leadon riveret , and thereby is
a placo belonging to St . John's of London , called " Upleadon . " The remains of tho old " Temple Court , " aro still to he seen , about half a mile distant from this curious old place , and in tho old Norman church aro several long tombstones , marked with Tomplar crosses and emblems .
Tho Consecration of the Bosbury Preceptory took placo on Saturday , the 21 st inst ., at tho Masonic Hall , 33 Golden-square , at thrDC o ' clock . Tho following Knights being present . —V . II . and E . Sir Knight Major , Shadwoll H . Clerko acting Great Prior for England and Wales , V . E . Sir Knight General Clerk P . Prov . Prior for
Kent , V . E . Sir Knight Capt , N . G . Philips Prov . Prior for Suffolk and Cambridge , E . Sir Knight Hydo Pullen Past Grand Superintendent of Works , E . Sir Knight Capt . Portlock Dadson Past Sub-Prior for Kent , ; E . Sir Knight Colonel Adair P . Preceptor of the Bladud , E , gir . Knight the HOT , F . K , Harford P , Preceptor of tho Holy Sanc-
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tuary , Sir Knight tho Eight Hon . Lord de Clifford , Sir Knight the Hon . and Eev . F . E . C . Ryng , Sir Knight Major Chastens Wearyss . Tho Warrant of formation having been read , the new Preceptory was consecrated , according to due and ancient form , by the acting Great Prior , assisted by tho other Knights . Tho E . P . Nominate Sir Knight the Rev . F . K . Harford was then
inducted into the Preceptor's seat , and tho following candidates wero subsequently admitted and installed as members of tho Order—Comps . Colonel Nassau Lees , Major Woodall , Charles Drummond , and Chapman Grigg M . D . After a vote of thanks , accorded by acclamation to tho acting Great Prior for his services on thi 3 occasion , the E . P . mentioned the names
of some illustrious Royal Arch Companions who looked forward to joining the Preceptory , and of some of the founding members , E . Sir Knight the Rov . John Bobbins D . D ., Sir Knight the Hon . Major Le Poer Trench , & c , who wero unable to be present at the consecration . Tho following officers were then appointed : —Sir Knight Colonel
Adair Constable , Sir Knight Lord de Clifford Marshal , Sir Knight the Hon . and Eev . F . E : C . Byng Chaplain , V . E . Sir Knight the Eight Hon . Sir Seymour Fitzgerald G . C . S . I . Sub-Marshal , Sir Knight Colonel Nassau Lees Captain of tho Guard , V . E . Sir Knight Captain Portlock Dadson Eegistrar , Sir Knight Major Charteris Womyss and Sir Knight Major Woodall Standard . Bearers , and Sir Knight Dr .
Chapman Grigg Herald . Sir Knight Sir W . Wyllie G . C . B . was proposed , and unanimously elected an honorary member , it being further suggested that he should bo invited to hold office as Honorary Steward . Sir Knight Charles Drummond was elected to bo Treasurer for tho year , and the following distinguished Knights were elected honorary
members : —Sir Knight Major Shadwell Clerko Asst . Grand Prior , Sir Knight General Clerk , Sir Knight Captain Philips , Sir Knight Sir Michael Costa , and Sir Knight General J . Studholme Brownrigg . After a few words from the E . P ., who remarked that the present small number of tho Preceptory was hardly to be regretted , consi . dering how ofton great things sprang out of small beginnings , alms wero collected , and tho Preceptory duly closed .
Reviews
REVIEWS
All Books intended for Review should jbe addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 67 Barbican , E . C . Meetings and Greetings . —Tho Salutations , Obeisances , and Courtesies of Nations ; with Notes on Titles , Dignities , Ac . Collected and Arranged by William Tegg , F . R . H . S ., Editor of " The Knot Tied , " " The Last Act , " " Hone ' s Trials , " " Wills of their Own , " & o . London : William Tegg and Co ., Pancras-lane , Cheapside . 1877 .
MR . WILLIAM TEGG is most indefatigable in his compilation of interesting books . It is only a few weeks since we noticed " The Knot Tied , " and another ; and now wo have before us a third , which , in parts , is most entertaining , while one excerpt from the diary of an . old Master of Ceremonies , who flourished at the British Court over two
centuries ago , is very curious , and Bhows how much importance was attached iu thoso days to Court ceremonial . We aro a little less formal now-a-days—we will not say this change is accompanied by any improvement iu English manners and customs—but at our , and all other , Courts it is absolutely necessary that forms of some kind should
be observed , and observed most rigidly . These pages include accounts of all snch forms and ceremonies , or , at all events , of so many of them as will servo to convey to the reader ah adequate idea of their character . In addition , are accounts of public ceremonials and receptions on certain important occasions , so that the
reader will fiud brought together accounts of various of them which he has witnessed , or in which he may chance to have taken part . But it will , perhaps , be as well if we follow the author himself , and treat of those we consider worthy of being singled out for notice , in the order in which they occur .
Mr . Tegg introduces his subject ceremoniously , in a short preface , in which he tells us that his object has been " to describe and illustrate the SALUTATIONS , OBEISANCES , and COURTESIES of nations , conntries , and people , including CEREMONIES , which latter may be divided into four classes , i . e ., EELIGIOUS , STATE , SOCIAL , and INTERNATIONAL . "
Tho work itself is divided into live parts , in tho first of which aro given the various modes of salutation , those mentioned in Scripture , Eastern , and other . In Part II . will be found descriptions of various religious rites and ceremonies , and a very full account of that most magnificent of modern State ceremonies , the Coronation of George IV .,
with full particulars as to tho mode of presentation at the Court of St . James's , and other similar matters . It is in this part that Mr . Tegg very properly introduces the excerpt above alluded to , from tho Diary of an Old Master of tho Ceremonies , which is itself included in an account written by the late Isaac D'Israeli . When the latter has
discussed the origin of Court etiquette , and suggests thatit may come from those grave " aud courtly Italians , who , in their petty pompous courts , made the whole business of these eft ' eininato days consist iu punctilios , " ho goes on , in the first place , to mention how , when the British Ambassadors went over to France in 1624 , for the purpose of
arranging for _ the marriage of Charles with tho Princess Henrietta Maria , they very cleverly contrived to seo Cardinal Richelieu , so that there was no danger of his offending the ambassadors of the Emperor aud tho King of Spain on the point of punctilio . He then mentions that the office of
Master of tho Ceremonies was created by our Jame 31 ., tho first who held it being Sir Lewis Lewknor , with Sir John Finetfc , who succeeded under Charles I . It is from Sir John ' s Diary the excerpt—or rather read of the petty difficulties and jealousies which it was his duty to excerpts , for there aro several—is made , and it is most amusing to smooth , OYOV in ';< wrangiugfov the interviews of rival ambassadors with
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Surrey Masonic Hall
THE SURREY MASONIC HALL
WE publish in another column a letter from our well known correspondent " P . M ., P . Z ., " in which he offers a few pertinent wellintentioned remarks on tho fate which awaits this Hall . Wo trust with him that it is not too lato to take some sufficient steps to prevent this builtiing from passing to other than Masonio uses . It is little moro than threo years sinco tho foundation-stone was laid . Two
years and a fortnight ago , to the very day , the Hall wa 3 solemnly consecrated to tho purposes of Freemasonry , by no les 3 a personage than Lord Skclmersdalo , Deputy Grand Master of England . According to the Official Calendar , there are ten Lodges and two Chapters which meet there , and doubtless other Masonio bodies make it their
headquarters . That Masonry is very popular in tho immediate vicinity JS evidenced by the ono fact that seven of tho ten Lodges we have mentioned havo been constituted within the last four years , while others no doubt have been established which meet at other places . Thus , with tho building inaugurated by one of our highest dignitaries ,
with a number of bodies meeting in it , whoso payments for rent must together mako a respectable income , and tho Masonic element very strongly represented in tho neighbourhood , we should naturally imagine that everything would go on prosperously , and that however matters might faro in other directions , here
at least there would be no financial difficulties to contend with . Alas ! that all theso reasonable anticipations of good fortune should be so vain and illusory . On Tuesday next , this building will be publicly sold by auction , and it may well happen that what is now a comfortable and respectable home for the South
London Freemasons to meet at , will , in a short time , pass into non-Mason hands , and be used for non-Masonic purposes . Wo trust the suggestion of "P . M ., P . Z . " will bo acted upon . Albeit ho has no particnlar plan to offer , he proposes that tho brethren who live in tho vicinity of tho Hall , should drop in and have a quiet
confabulation over the matter . Some scheme , ho thinks , might suggest itself , even at the eleventh hour , and prevent the impending misfortune from actually befalling the South London Craft . " P . M ., P . Z . " expresses his belief that if each individual Craftsman in that particular district had contributed one of our smallest gold coins , tho sum thus raised
would have sufficed to prevent the disgrace which must fall upon Masonry by tho public sale of one of its Temples . It is not the promoters of tho scheme who aro to blame , for having proposed tho erection of a building whero Craftsmen could find a moro suitable home than in tho nearest hotel or tavern . It is not tho directors of the
limited company , who set to work and built in the , as it happens , deluded belief that tho needfnl amount of shares would bo taken as promised ; or the Masonic bodies "who uso the Hall , and contribute their annual rentals towards its support—it is not these who are to blarno for tho impending calamity . It is the
South London Masonic brethren , who thoughtlessly made promises , and havo not kept them ; it is tho Masonic public , in tho same district , who can find money for banquets and jewels , but have not the heart to raise amongst them a modest sum ; ib is these whom we have to condemn for allowing so much odium to fall on Freemasonry .
It is almost certain there are six hundred Masons m the south of London , who , any day in the year , would think nothing of expending £ 5 , if by so doing they could wear additional tinsel j yet the purchase of a £ 5 share in a Masonic Hall Company , started for the express purpose of providing Freemasonry with a respectable homo
is not to be thought of—it is beyond their means . It is bad enough to havo tho announcement of the sale of the Hall posted all over London : and the least wo think that our South London brethren should do is to buy the building , and so preserve it for the purposes to which it baa been devoted , and to satisfy which it was erected .
Order Of The Temple
ORDER OF THE TEMPLE
Y \ 7 " have pleasure to record the revival in the Order of tho Temple " ' of one of the most ancient 1 'receptories in England , bearing the nam of tho " Bosbury , " or as it was formerly written " Bosem . purie . " "Bosberio , " according to Leland ' s Itinerary , " 13 ten miles northcast from Hereford at the head of tho Leadon riveret , and thereby is
a placo belonging to St . John's of London , called " Upleadon . " The remains of tho old " Temple Court , " aro still to he seen , about half a mile distant from this curious old place , and in tho old Norman church aro several long tombstones , marked with Tomplar crosses and emblems .
Tho Consecration of the Bosbury Preceptory took placo on Saturday , the 21 st inst ., at tho Masonic Hall , 33 Golden-square , at thrDC o ' clock . Tho following Knights being present . —V . II . and E . Sir Knight Major , Shadwoll H . Clerko acting Great Prior for England and Wales , V . E . Sir Knight General Clerk P . Prov . Prior for
Kent , V . E . Sir Knight Capt , N . G . Philips Prov . Prior for Suffolk and Cambridge , E . Sir Knight Hydo Pullen Past Grand Superintendent of Works , E . Sir Knight Capt . Portlock Dadson Past Sub-Prior for Kent , ; E . Sir Knight Colonel Adair P . Preceptor of the Bladud , E , gir . Knight the HOT , F . K , Harford P , Preceptor of tho Holy Sanc-
Order Of The Temple
tuary , Sir Knight tho Eight Hon . Lord de Clifford , Sir Knight the Hon . and Eev . F . E . C . Ryng , Sir Knight Major Chastens Wearyss . Tho Warrant of formation having been read , the new Preceptory was consecrated , according to due and ancient form , by the acting Great Prior , assisted by tho other Knights . Tho E . P . Nominate Sir Knight the Rev . F . K . Harford was then
inducted into the Preceptor's seat , and tho following candidates wero subsequently admitted and installed as members of tho Order—Comps . Colonel Nassau Lees , Major Woodall , Charles Drummond , and Chapman Grigg M . D . After a vote of thanks , accorded by acclamation to tho acting Great Prior for his services on thi 3 occasion , the E . P . mentioned the names
of some illustrious Royal Arch Companions who looked forward to joining the Preceptory , and of some of the founding members , E . Sir Knight the Rov . John Bobbins D . D ., Sir Knight the Hon . Major Le Poer Trench , & c , who wero unable to be present at the consecration . Tho following officers were then appointed : —Sir Knight Colonel
Adair Constable , Sir Knight Lord de Clifford Marshal , Sir Knight the Hon . and Eev . F . E : C . Byng Chaplain , V . E . Sir Knight the Eight Hon . Sir Seymour Fitzgerald G . C . S . I . Sub-Marshal , Sir Knight Colonel Nassau Lees Captain of tho Guard , V . E . Sir Knight Captain Portlock Dadson Eegistrar , Sir Knight Major Charteris Womyss and Sir Knight Major Woodall Standard . Bearers , and Sir Knight Dr .
Chapman Grigg Herald . Sir Knight Sir W . Wyllie G . C . B . was proposed , and unanimously elected an honorary member , it being further suggested that he should bo invited to hold office as Honorary Steward . Sir Knight Charles Drummond was elected to bo Treasurer for tho year , and the following distinguished Knights were elected honorary
members : —Sir Knight Major Shadwell Clerko Asst . Grand Prior , Sir Knight General Clerk , Sir Knight Captain Philips , Sir Knight Sir Michael Costa , and Sir Knight General J . Studholme Brownrigg . After a few words from the E . P ., who remarked that the present small number of tho Preceptory was hardly to be regretted , consi . dering how ofton great things sprang out of small beginnings , alms wero collected , and tho Preceptory duly closed .
Reviews
REVIEWS
All Books intended for Review should jbe addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 67 Barbican , E . C . Meetings and Greetings . —Tho Salutations , Obeisances , and Courtesies of Nations ; with Notes on Titles , Dignities , Ac . Collected and Arranged by William Tegg , F . R . H . S ., Editor of " The Knot Tied , " " The Last Act , " " Hone ' s Trials , " " Wills of their Own , " & o . London : William Tegg and Co ., Pancras-lane , Cheapside . 1877 .
MR . WILLIAM TEGG is most indefatigable in his compilation of interesting books . It is only a few weeks since we noticed " The Knot Tied , " and another ; and now wo have before us a third , which , in parts , is most entertaining , while one excerpt from the diary of an . old Master of Ceremonies , who flourished at the British Court over two
centuries ago , is very curious , and Bhows how much importance was attached iu thoso days to Court ceremonial . We aro a little less formal now-a-days—we will not say this change is accompanied by any improvement iu English manners and customs—but at our , and all other , Courts it is absolutely necessary that forms of some kind should
be observed , and observed most rigidly . These pages include accounts of all snch forms and ceremonies , or , at all events , of so many of them as will servo to convey to the reader ah adequate idea of their character . In addition , are accounts of public ceremonials and receptions on certain important occasions , so that the
reader will fiud brought together accounts of various of them which he has witnessed , or in which he may chance to have taken part . But it will , perhaps , be as well if we follow the author himself , and treat of those we consider worthy of being singled out for notice , in the order in which they occur .
Mr . Tegg introduces his subject ceremoniously , in a short preface , in which he tells us that his object has been " to describe and illustrate the SALUTATIONS , OBEISANCES , and COURTESIES of nations , conntries , and people , including CEREMONIES , which latter may be divided into four classes , i . e ., EELIGIOUS , STATE , SOCIAL , and INTERNATIONAL . "
Tho work itself is divided into live parts , in tho first of which aro given the various modes of salutation , those mentioned in Scripture , Eastern , and other . In Part II . will be found descriptions of various religious rites and ceremonies , and a very full account of that most magnificent of modern State ceremonies , the Coronation of George IV .,
with full particulars as to tho mode of presentation at the Court of St . James's , and other similar matters . It is in this part that Mr . Tegg very properly introduces the excerpt above alluded to , from tho Diary of an Old Master of tho Ceremonies , which is itself included in an account written by the late Isaac D'Israeli . When the latter has
discussed the origin of Court etiquette , and suggests thatit may come from those grave " aud courtly Italians , who , in their petty pompous courts , made the whole business of these eft ' eininato days consist iu punctilios , " ho goes on , in the first place , to mention how , when the British Ambassadors went over to France in 1624 , for the purpose of
arranging for _ the marriage of Charles with tho Princess Henrietta Maria , they very cleverly contrived to seo Cardinal Richelieu , so that there was no danger of his offending the ambassadors of the Emperor aud tho King of Spain on the point of punctilio . He then mentions that the office of
Master of tho Ceremonies was created by our Jame 31 ., tho first who held it being Sir Lewis Lewknor , with Sir John Finetfc , who succeeded under Charles I . It is from Sir John ' s Diary the excerpt—or rather read of the petty difficulties and jealousies which it was his duty to excerpts , for there aro several—is made , and it is most amusing to smooth , OYOV in ';< wrangiugfov the interviews of rival ambassadors with