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his court became fellows of the Craft . " I shall add to this letter , as a proof of its author ' s being exactly rig ht as to Mr . Ashmole , a small note from his diary , which shews his attention to this society , long after his admission , when he had time to weigh , examine , and know the value of the Mason's secret . " 1682 , March 10 . About 5 Hor . post . Merid . I received a summons to appear at alodge to be held the next clay at Mason ' s Hall , in London ; llth , accordingly I went , and
about noon , were admitted into tbe fellowship of Freemasons , hy Sir William Wilson , Knig ht : Captain Richard Borthwick , Mr . William Woodman , Mr . William Grey , Mr . Samuel Taylour , and Mr . William Wise ; I was the senior fellow among them ( it being thirty-five years since I was admitted ) . There were present besides myself , the fellows after-named ; Mr . Thomas Wise , Master of the Masons' Company this present year ; Mr . Thomas Shorthose , & c . We all dined at the Half-Moon Tavern , in Cheapside , at a noble dinner prepared at the charge of the new accepted Masons . "—Freemasons Magazine , vol . ii , pp . 26-7 . A . D . 1794 .
A HINT TO THE FREEMASON'S OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND .
AT the dinner of the Colston Society , in Bristol * the week before last , Mr . W . Proctor , with reference to tbe restoration of St . Mary RedcliffeChurch , urged by Mr . W . Done Bushel ] , then present , who hacl headed the Freemasons on the day the first stone of the new works was laid , —said he hacl heard there was a disposition on the part of the Craft , to connect themselves wilh the restoration ; and he suggested they should set on foot a subscriptiona , and undertake some special portion of the fabric . This would , indeed , be a return on the part of the Craft to the good ways of their mediaeval predecessors . —Builder , Bee . 1 , 1849 , p . 574 .
RUSSIAN DISCIPLES OF ST . MARTIN . .
The following extract from a most interesting volume , recently published , entitled " Lectures on the Relig ious History of the Sclavonic Nations ; " by Count Valerian Krasinski , relative to the Russian Discip les of St . Martin , cannot fail to be interesting to those of the Fraternity , who have advanced to the hig her Degrees . A full detail of this interesting volume will be found in the Athenceum for March 9 . p . 258 , ivhich is well worth the attention of the brethren : — is not much known he deservesIt ivould
" The Chevalier St . Martin so as . , however , exceed the limits of these lectures to give here a biography of tliis remarkable man , who , at a time when the infidel school of philosophy exercised a complete authority over the public opinion of France , was steadily labouring to spread the doctrines of pure Christianity , although tinged with a considerable admixture of mysticism . He endeavoured to establish his doctrines by means of the Masonic lodges , and to give them a religious and practical tendency . He did not succeed in accomplishing this object in his own country , although he had obtained some success amongst the lodges of Lyons ancl Montpellier ; but his doctrines were imported into Eussia by Count Grabianko , a Pole , and Admiral Pleshcheyeff , a Russian , and intro-
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his court became fellows of the Craft . " I shall add to this letter , as a proof of its author ' s being exactly rig ht as to Mr . Ashmole , a small note from his diary , which shews his attention to this society , long after his admission , when he had time to weigh , examine , and know the value of the Mason's secret . " 1682 , March 10 . About 5 Hor . post . Merid . I received a summons to appear at alodge to be held the next clay at Mason ' s Hall , in London ; llth , accordingly I went , and
about noon , were admitted into tbe fellowship of Freemasons , hy Sir William Wilson , Knig ht : Captain Richard Borthwick , Mr . William Woodman , Mr . William Grey , Mr . Samuel Taylour , and Mr . William Wise ; I was the senior fellow among them ( it being thirty-five years since I was admitted ) . There were present besides myself , the fellows after-named ; Mr . Thomas Wise , Master of the Masons' Company this present year ; Mr . Thomas Shorthose , & c . We all dined at the Half-Moon Tavern , in Cheapside , at a noble dinner prepared at the charge of the new accepted Masons . "—Freemasons Magazine , vol . ii , pp . 26-7 . A . D . 1794 .
A HINT TO THE FREEMASON'S OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND .
AT the dinner of the Colston Society , in Bristol * the week before last , Mr . W . Proctor , with reference to tbe restoration of St . Mary RedcliffeChurch , urged by Mr . W . Done Bushel ] , then present , who hacl headed the Freemasons on the day the first stone of the new works was laid , —said he hacl heard there was a disposition on the part of the Craft , to connect themselves wilh the restoration ; and he suggested they should set on foot a subscriptiona , and undertake some special portion of the fabric . This would , indeed , be a return on the part of the Craft to the good ways of their mediaeval predecessors . —Builder , Bee . 1 , 1849 , p . 574 .
RUSSIAN DISCIPLES OF ST . MARTIN . .
The following extract from a most interesting volume , recently published , entitled " Lectures on the Relig ious History of the Sclavonic Nations ; " by Count Valerian Krasinski , relative to the Russian Discip les of St . Martin , cannot fail to be interesting to those of the Fraternity , who have advanced to the hig her Degrees . A full detail of this interesting volume will be found in the Athenceum for March 9 . p . 258 , ivhich is well worth the attention of the brethren : — is not much known he deservesIt ivould
" The Chevalier St . Martin so as . , however , exceed the limits of these lectures to give here a biography of tliis remarkable man , who , at a time when the infidel school of philosophy exercised a complete authority over the public opinion of France , was steadily labouring to spread the doctrines of pure Christianity , although tinged with a considerable admixture of mysticism . He endeavoured to establish his doctrines by means of the Masonic lodges , and to give them a religious and practical tendency . He did not succeed in accomplishing this object in his own country , although he had obtained some success amongst the lodges of Lyons ancl Montpellier ; but his doctrines were imported into Eussia by Count Grabianko , a Pole , and Admiral Pleshcheyeff , a Russian , and intro-