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Masonic Intelligence.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .
THE Governors of the Cumberland Freemasons' School have , under date of the zSth ult . publicly , returned their Thanks in the newspapers to the Worshipful Master , Officers , and Brethren of the SHAKSPEARE LODGE , NO . 131 , held at the Shakspeare Tavern , Covent-Garden , for a donation of twenty iron bedsteads ( value 50 guineas ) for the use of the New School-House , now nearly finished , in St . George ' s-fields ; it being the third benefaction to the same amount from the said Lodge , to this infant charity . The Lodge of Rural Friendship , No . 350 , following the same laudable example ,
have liberally given twenty pair of good wholesome blankets as attendant furniture . The funds of the Charity not being sufficient to provide furniture for this noble structure , it is hoped that other Lodges will step forward to render complete so excellent an asylum for the tenderest : regards of man — HELPLESS FEMALES . Mr . GODEOLD , proprietor of the Vegetable Syrup , was lately initiated into the Mysteries of our Order ; and , to evince that he deserved the appellation of BROTHER , tendered the GRATIS supply of his valuable medicine to any distressed Mason . having occasion to use it , ' upon a proper recommendation from any of the Fraternity .
Election Of The Grand Lodge Of Scotland.
ELECTION OF THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND .
EDINBURGH , DECEMBER I , A . L . 5794 . ST . ANDREW ' S DAY falling on Sunday this year , to-day the Grand Lodge met in the church aisle , Parliament-square , when , after the performance of the usual , mysteries , the election took place ; and the following are the new office-bearers for the ensuing year : The Right Honourable and Most Worshipful WILLIAM EARL OF ANCRAM , Colonel of the Mid-Lothian Regiment of Fencible Light Cavalry , Grand Master .
FRANCIS LORD VISCOUNT DOWN , Deputy Grand Master . * THOMAS HAY , Esq . Deacon-convener , ancl Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons , Substitute Grand Master . SIR JAMES FOULIS OE COLLINGTON , Bart . Captain in the Mid-Lothian Fencible Cavalr )' , Senior Grand Warden . ANDREW HOUSTON , . Esq . of Jordanhill , and Captain of a Company of the Edinburgh Volunteers , Junior Grand Warden . * JOHN HAY , Esq . banker in EdinburghGrand Treasurer .
, * JOHN TOUCH , D . D . Minister in the Chapel of Ease , in the parish of St . Cuthbert's , Grand Chaplain . * WILLIAM MASON , Esq . writer , Grand Secretary . * ROBERT MEIKLE , Esq . Grand Clerk ; and * WILLIAM REID , Grand Tyler . , Those marked thus * are re-elected . , , . The thanks of the Lodge were then given to Br . T . HayEsq . S . G . M . for the
, many services . be had done to the Craft . The Mysteries being performed , the Brethren dispersed ; tho greatest part of whom spent the evening in a manner which we hope will ever continue to be one of the characteristic marks of the Free and Accepted . VOL . III . 3 I
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Masonic Intelligence.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .
THE Governors of the Cumberland Freemasons' School have , under date of the zSth ult . publicly , returned their Thanks in the newspapers to the Worshipful Master , Officers , and Brethren of the SHAKSPEARE LODGE , NO . 131 , held at the Shakspeare Tavern , Covent-Garden , for a donation of twenty iron bedsteads ( value 50 guineas ) for the use of the New School-House , now nearly finished , in St . George ' s-fields ; it being the third benefaction to the same amount from the said Lodge , to this infant charity . The Lodge of Rural Friendship , No . 350 , following the same laudable example ,
have liberally given twenty pair of good wholesome blankets as attendant furniture . The funds of the Charity not being sufficient to provide furniture for this noble structure , it is hoped that other Lodges will step forward to render complete so excellent an asylum for the tenderest : regards of man — HELPLESS FEMALES . Mr . GODEOLD , proprietor of the Vegetable Syrup , was lately initiated into the Mysteries of our Order ; and , to evince that he deserved the appellation of BROTHER , tendered the GRATIS supply of his valuable medicine to any distressed Mason . having occasion to use it , ' upon a proper recommendation from any of the Fraternity .
Election Of The Grand Lodge Of Scotland.
ELECTION OF THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND .
EDINBURGH , DECEMBER I , A . L . 5794 . ST . ANDREW ' S DAY falling on Sunday this year , to-day the Grand Lodge met in the church aisle , Parliament-square , when , after the performance of the usual , mysteries , the election took place ; and the following are the new office-bearers for the ensuing year : The Right Honourable and Most Worshipful WILLIAM EARL OF ANCRAM , Colonel of the Mid-Lothian Regiment of Fencible Light Cavalry , Grand Master .
FRANCIS LORD VISCOUNT DOWN , Deputy Grand Master . * THOMAS HAY , Esq . Deacon-convener , ancl Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons , Substitute Grand Master . SIR JAMES FOULIS OE COLLINGTON , Bart . Captain in the Mid-Lothian Fencible Cavalr )' , Senior Grand Warden . ANDREW HOUSTON , . Esq . of Jordanhill , and Captain of a Company of the Edinburgh Volunteers , Junior Grand Warden . * JOHN HAY , Esq . banker in EdinburghGrand Treasurer .
, * JOHN TOUCH , D . D . Minister in the Chapel of Ease , in the parish of St . Cuthbert's , Grand Chaplain . * WILLIAM MASON , Esq . writer , Grand Secretary . * ROBERT MEIKLE , Esq . Grand Clerk ; and * WILLIAM REID , Grand Tyler . , Those marked thus * are re-elected . , , . The thanks of the Lodge were then given to Br . T . HayEsq . S . G . M . for the
, many services . be had done to the Craft . The Mysteries being performed , the Brethren dispersed ; tho greatest part of whom spent the evening in a manner which we hope will ever continue to be one of the characteristic marks of the Free and Accepted . VOL . III . 3 I