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Persecution
GENTLEMEN AND BRETHREN , —With this brief statements of facts , I must leave the case in your hands . I have endeavoured to the best of my abilities to do my duty , and it now remains for you , as gentlemen and brethren , in a most distinct and emphatic manner , to make known your sentiments , showing that the High Masonic Character of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , is duly appreciated by you—that the services H . R . H . has rendered the Craft , receive your most grateful approbation—and that most especially are your thanks due to H . R . H . for the anxious care he has exhibited in
behalf of Worthy , Aged , and Decayed Freemasons . In a word , His Royal Highness must be supported . I have the honour to remain , Gentlemen and Brethren , No . 14 , Bucklersbury , Your humble faithful Servant and Brother , November 26 , 1839 . WILLIAM JACKSON , Caveac . No . 205 . "
The attention of the Pro-Grand Master was drawn to the subject of the distribution of this Circular , but with that sense of propriety and decorum for which he is so highly distinguished , he successfully prevented a public cmcufe . He ruled that the Grand Lodge did not exist until opened , and that however wrong the conduct of the individual was , he could not then notice it . Alas ! for Freemasonry , that the lamented illness of this highly esteemed Mason , and upright man , prevented his judgment and advice from being brought to bear upon the consequences of this atrocious violation of
Masonic principle ! That proceedings should have been taken against the slanderer would not have struck any one as unlikely , but that some of the principal objects of his scurrility and abuse should have been singled out for further persecution , will for ever sully the fair fame of ALL those who have lent themselves to this unholy work—ron UNHOLY IT is . The demon of darkness has from first to last influenced the proceedings ; which the HOLY ONE bas permitted for His own wise purposes . Come we now to the next steps in the persecution , the Memorial and Summons .
" To the Board of General Purposes ofthe United Grand Lodge of England , " The Memorial and Complaint of the undersigned Freemasons , Members of Lodges . " SHEWETH , " That a printed paper , bearing the signature of Brother William Jackson , of tbe Caveac Lodge , No . 205 , and dated from No . 14 , Bucklersbury , the 26 th of November last , has been very generally circulated through the Craft ,
professing to give an account of the proceedings which took place at a meeting of the subscribers to the proposed Aged Masons' Asylum , held at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge Street , on the ISth of the same month , at which meeting Brother R . T . Crucefix presided as chairman ; that meeting was convened for the purpose of considering the subject matter of a communication from Plis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , as Most Worshipful Grand Master . " The paper of Brother Jackson states and asserts , that various
calumniatory expressions were at that meeting publicly uttered by Brother Thomas Wood , Alderman , and Brother John Lee Stevens , against our M . W . and Illustrious Grand Master ; and that Brother Crucefix , Past Grand Deacon , the chairman of the meeting , did not , as in duty hound , check or call the speakers to order , but on the contrary , gave them his sanction and countenance . " We have every reason to believe that the printed paper of Bro . Jackson gives , in substance , a correct account as far as it goes of the language and expressions used by Bros . Thomas Wood and J . Lee Stevens , to slander the Most Worshipful Grand Master , and which we are prepared to prove by
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Persecution
GENTLEMEN AND BRETHREN , —With this brief statements of facts , I must leave the case in your hands . I have endeavoured to the best of my abilities to do my duty , and it now remains for you , as gentlemen and brethren , in a most distinct and emphatic manner , to make known your sentiments , showing that the High Masonic Character of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , is duly appreciated by you—that the services H . R . H . has rendered the Craft , receive your most grateful approbation—and that most especially are your thanks due to H . R . H . for the anxious care he has exhibited in
behalf of Worthy , Aged , and Decayed Freemasons . In a word , His Royal Highness must be supported . I have the honour to remain , Gentlemen and Brethren , No . 14 , Bucklersbury , Your humble faithful Servant and Brother , November 26 , 1839 . WILLIAM JACKSON , Caveac . No . 205 . "
The attention of the Pro-Grand Master was drawn to the subject of the distribution of this Circular , but with that sense of propriety and decorum for which he is so highly distinguished , he successfully prevented a public cmcufe . He ruled that the Grand Lodge did not exist until opened , and that however wrong the conduct of the individual was , he could not then notice it . Alas ! for Freemasonry , that the lamented illness of this highly esteemed Mason , and upright man , prevented his judgment and advice from being brought to bear upon the consequences of this atrocious violation of
Masonic principle ! That proceedings should have been taken against the slanderer would not have struck any one as unlikely , but that some of the principal objects of his scurrility and abuse should have been singled out for further persecution , will for ever sully the fair fame of ALL those who have lent themselves to this unholy work—ron UNHOLY IT is . The demon of darkness has from first to last influenced the proceedings ; which the HOLY ONE bas permitted for His own wise purposes . Come we now to the next steps in the persecution , the Memorial and Summons .
" To the Board of General Purposes ofthe United Grand Lodge of England , " The Memorial and Complaint of the undersigned Freemasons , Members of Lodges . " SHEWETH , " That a printed paper , bearing the signature of Brother William Jackson , of tbe Caveac Lodge , No . 205 , and dated from No . 14 , Bucklersbury , the 26 th of November last , has been very generally circulated through the Craft ,
professing to give an account of the proceedings which took place at a meeting of the subscribers to the proposed Aged Masons' Asylum , held at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge Street , on the ISth of the same month , at which meeting Brother R . T . Crucefix presided as chairman ; that meeting was convened for the purpose of considering the subject matter of a communication from Plis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , as Most Worshipful Grand Master . " The paper of Brother Jackson states and asserts , that various
calumniatory expressions were at that meeting publicly uttered by Brother Thomas Wood , Alderman , and Brother John Lee Stevens , against our M . W . and Illustrious Grand Master ; and that Brother Crucefix , Past Grand Deacon , the chairman of the meeting , did not , as in duty hound , check or call the speakers to order , but on the contrary , gave them his sanction and countenance . " We have every reason to believe that the printed paper of Bro . Jackson gives , in substance , a correct account as far as it goes of the language and expressions used by Bros . Thomas Wood and J . Lee Stevens , to slander the Most Worshipful Grand Master , and which we are prepared to prove by