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ducted into tlie Grand Lodge Room , and , having taken his place on the throne , the Brethren saluted his Royal Highness as Grand Master . The R . W . Prov . Grand Master took his place as Deputy Grand Master , and his Royal Highness was pleased to direct the several other Prov . Grand Officers to retain their respective situations as his Grand Officers for the day . The Grand Lodge was then opened in ample form and with solemn prayer .
The Provincial Grand Master begged permission to present to lus Royal Highness an address which had been unanimously adopted by the Prov . Grand Lodge , and which he read as follows : — " Most Worshipful and Royal Sir , —We , the Prov . Grand Master , Deputy Prov . Grand Master , Prov . Grand Wardens , and Brethren of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted
Masons of the County of Nottingham , in Grand Lodge assembled , this 12 th day of September , 1833 , gladly embrace the opportunity thus afforded us of approaching your Royal Highness" with our expressions of profound respect , attachment , and gratitude , and of testifying to Your Royal Highness our most dutiful acknowledgments of the kind patronage you are now conferring upon us as members of the Provincial
Grand Lodge of Nottinghamshire , and to assure your Royal Highness that we are feelingly sensible of the benefits the Brethren of this province ivill derive from the proof of your Royal Highness ' s fraternal regard and attachment to the principles of that noble Institution under which we
are embodied , —principles so closely identified with the maintenance of social order and universal charity . " May the Great Architect of the Universe , under whose providence we are here assembled , long continue to us the fostering protection of so kind and vigilant a Grand Master , and crown the endeavours of your Royal Highness to promote the prosperity of our Institution , so entirely
devoted to the purposes of good brotherhood , and of mutual and diffusive benevolence . " Under such auspices , the grand cause of Masonry can never fail to enjoy happiness and security , and we should especially feel deficient in that debt of obligation which we owe to your Royal Highness if we did not avail ourselves of so favourable an occasion to express to your
Royal Highness how deeply we appreciate that fraternal countenance and support , wliich , as members of the Craft , we have ever received from your Royal Highness . AVe are fully confident that , under the benefits of such influence and example , tlie mystic , ancient , and universally-extended Order in which we are enrolled , will , not only in this
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Provincial.
ducted into tlie Grand Lodge Room , and , having taken his place on the throne , the Brethren saluted his Royal Highness as Grand Master . The R . W . Prov . Grand Master took his place as Deputy Grand Master , and his Royal Highness was pleased to direct the several other Prov . Grand Officers to retain their respective situations as his Grand Officers for the day . The Grand Lodge was then opened in ample form and with solemn prayer .
The Provincial Grand Master begged permission to present to lus Royal Highness an address which had been unanimously adopted by the Prov . Grand Lodge , and which he read as follows : — " Most Worshipful and Royal Sir , —We , the Prov . Grand Master , Deputy Prov . Grand Master , Prov . Grand Wardens , and Brethren of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted
Masons of the County of Nottingham , in Grand Lodge assembled , this 12 th day of September , 1833 , gladly embrace the opportunity thus afforded us of approaching your Royal Highness" with our expressions of profound respect , attachment , and gratitude , and of testifying to Your Royal Highness our most dutiful acknowledgments of the kind patronage you are now conferring upon us as members of the Provincial
Grand Lodge of Nottinghamshire , and to assure your Royal Highness that we are feelingly sensible of the benefits the Brethren of this province ivill derive from the proof of your Royal Highness ' s fraternal regard and attachment to the principles of that noble Institution under which we
are embodied , —principles so closely identified with the maintenance of social order and universal charity . " May the Great Architect of the Universe , under whose providence we are here assembled , long continue to us the fostering protection of so kind and vigilant a Grand Master , and crown the endeavours of your Royal Highness to promote the prosperity of our Institution , so entirely
devoted to the purposes of good brotherhood , and of mutual and diffusive benevolence . " Under such auspices , the grand cause of Masonry can never fail to enjoy happiness and security , and we should especially feel deficient in that debt of obligation which we owe to your Royal Highness if we did not avail ourselves of so favourable an occasion to express to your
Royal Highness how deeply we appreciate that fraternal countenance and support , wliich , as members of the Craft , we have ever received from your Royal Highness . AVe are fully confident that , under the benefits of such influence and example , tlie mystic , ancient , and universally-extended Order in which we are enrolled , will , not only in this