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An Account Of The Royal Cumberland Freemasons' School.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL CUMBERLAND FREEMASONS' SCHOOL .
Instituted March 25 , 1788 , for MAINTAINING and E DUCATING the F EMALE CHILDREN A N D ORPHA N S OF INDIGENT BRETHREN OF THE ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF F R E E AND A CC EPTED MASON S :
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUTCHESS OF CUMBERLAND .
TO bur Masonic Readers we need offer no apology for introducing the present subject to public attention . An Institution so noble in itself , and so honourable to the Fraternity , can never be too well understood , or too strongly recommended . It opens a field in which the generous feelings of humanity may exert their utmost energy , and points at once to temporal enjoyment and
eternal bliss . The Spirit of Benevolence was never more universally nor more efficaciously exerted than at present : provision for the aged , the poor , ' and the" infirm , being abundantly found in this hospitable country . FREE-MASONRY , which has reason to boast of every excellence
that antiquity and the practice of moral virtue can give , had not before this Institution extended it ' s beneficence to Female Objects , however urgent their necessities . The purpose of the Institution was , therefore , to preserve the FEMALE OFFSPRING of INDI & ENT FREEM ASONSfromthe dangers and misfortunes to which a distressed situation might expose thejn ~
To extend the hand of compassion , to give assistance where it was most wanted , and to render the design extensively beneficial , a Plan was , with the utmost deference , submitted to Her Royal-Highness the DUTCHESS of CUMBERLAND , by the Chevalier BARTHOLOMEW RUSPINI . Her Royal Highness , having considered the same ; humanely
condescended to take it under her protection , and deigned to accept the title of PATRONESS . His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND , then Grand Master ,. and their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES , the Dukes of .YORK and GLOUCESTER , expressed their approbation , and adisposi- ; $ ipn to support it by their patronage
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Account Of The Royal Cumberland Freemasons' School.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL CUMBERLAND FREEMASONS' SCHOOL .
Instituted March 25 , 1788 , for MAINTAINING and E DUCATING the F EMALE CHILDREN A N D ORPHA N S OF INDIGENT BRETHREN OF THE ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF F R E E AND A CC EPTED MASON S :
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUTCHESS OF CUMBERLAND .
TO bur Masonic Readers we need offer no apology for introducing the present subject to public attention . An Institution so noble in itself , and so honourable to the Fraternity , can never be too well understood , or too strongly recommended . It opens a field in which the generous feelings of humanity may exert their utmost energy , and points at once to temporal enjoyment and
eternal bliss . The Spirit of Benevolence was never more universally nor more efficaciously exerted than at present : provision for the aged , the poor , ' and the" infirm , being abundantly found in this hospitable country . FREE-MASONRY , which has reason to boast of every excellence
that antiquity and the practice of moral virtue can give , had not before this Institution extended it ' s beneficence to Female Objects , however urgent their necessities . The purpose of the Institution was , therefore , to preserve the FEMALE OFFSPRING of INDI & ENT FREEM ASONSfromthe dangers and misfortunes to which a distressed situation might expose thejn ~
To extend the hand of compassion , to give assistance where it was most wanted , and to render the design extensively beneficial , a Plan was , with the utmost deference , submitted to Her Royal-Highness the DUTCHESS of CUMBERLAND , by the Chevalier BARTHOLOMEW RUSPINI . Her Royal Highness , having considered the same ; humanely
condescended to take it under her protection , and deigned to accept the title of PATRONESS . His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND , then Grand Master ,. and their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES , the Dukes of .YORK and GLOUCESTER , expressed their approbation , and adisposi- ; $ ipn to support it by their patronage