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your having presided nt the dinner given to Dr . Crucefix . I have not seen the Duke of Sussex , and have avoided waiting upon him , because I think when I do so , I may have to deal with the subject , but I cannot postpone my visit beyond a few days . ' I know , from private sources , that H . R . H . has expressed a very strong opinion in regard to your presiding on the occasion I have referred to ; and , if you were now to be seen on a great public occasion officiating as my deputyhe miht
, g consider me a party . I came up to town above a year ago , when the case of Dr . Crucefix was before the G . L ., in order to be present at the hearing , and took a prominent part myself in the course of it . Under these circumstances , it may be better to postpone any reply to the Witham Lodge , until it can be seen whether I can attend . I am , My dear sir , yours truly , Rev . Dr . Oliver . C . T . D'EYNCOURT . '
" In compliance with the above directions , I gave no answer to the . Brethren of the Witham Lodge ; in consequence of which I subsequently received two letters , one from the AV . M ., and the other from the-Secretary , requesting a specific reply to their former question . I forwarded these letters to the P . G . M ., and this was his answer .
• Bayons Manor , Market Rasen , 28 t / s April , 1842 . 'DEAR SIR AND BROTHER . —You are aware of the circumstances ; which have influenced my judgment when I feel myself called upon now to declare vacant the office . of Deputy P . G . Master for Lincolnshire ,, held by you . In communicating this , my determination to you , I beg ; to express my best acknowledgments for the service you have rendered the Masonic body within my jurisdiction during the time you have held
the office , and my great regret that the interests of Masonry should require me to deprive myself of your valuable assistance . The separar lion gives me , personally , as much pain as the cause of it ; and not theless because my decision is one which-1 have thought it right to make on my own responsibility , without reference to , or suggestion from any other party . I am , Dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,, CHARLES TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT , Rev . G . Oliver , D . D . P . G . M . Lincolnshire . '
" In my humble opinion , the P . G . M . has committed , in these letters ; four errors in judgment ; and , for the sake of Masonry , I sincerely regret that he should have placed himself in such an equivocal position before the Craft . First—he has dismissed me from my office at a moment ' s notice , after a faithful service of ten years ' , duration . I am' not ignorant that the Constitutions of Masonry give a sanction to this ex- * traordinary course . But as a matter of courtesy to one who has relieved ' him from all the toilsand burdensand anxietiesnecessarily attending
, , , the details of his office , for the above period , it ought to have been accomplished by a process less repugnant to my feelings —( loud cheers ) ; and particularly as ( being in doubt whether my acceptance of the office of chairman to Dr . Crucefix ' s dinner might be agreeable to him ) , I tendered my resignation after it was publicly known in the province that I had consented to preside on this occasion . The P . G . M . openly announced at the P . G . Meeting , at Boston , that 1 had thus tendered my it
resignation ; and as openly declared that he had refused to accept ; and urgently requested the continuance of my services in that capacity . 1 had a right to consider—and I did consider—this concurrence as a VOL . ix . r > D
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your having presided nt the dinner given to Dr . Crucefix . I have not seen the Duke of Sussex , and have avoided waiting upon him , because I think when I do so , I may have to deal with the subject , but I cannot postpone my visit beyond a few days . ' I know , from private sources , that H . R . H . has expressed a very strong opinion in regard to your presiding on the occasion I have referred to ; and , if you were now to be seen on a great public occasion officiating as my deputyhe miht
, g consider me a party . I came up to town above a year ago , when the case of Dr . Crucefix was before the G . L ., in order to be present at the hearing , and took a prominent part myself in the course of it . Under these circumstances , it may be better to postpone any reply to the Witham Lodge , until it can be seen whether I can attend . I am , My dear sir , yours truly , Rev . Dr . Oliver . C . T . D'EYNCOURT . '
" In compliance with the above directions , I gave no answer to the . Brethren of the Witham Lodge ; in consequence of which I subsequently received two letters , one from the AV . M ., and the other from the-Secretary , requesting a specific reply to their former question . I forwarded these letters to the P . G . M ., and this was his answer .
• Bayons Manor , Market Rasen , 28 t / s April , 1842 . 'DEAR SIR AND BROTHER . —You are aware of the circumstances ; which have influenced my judgment when I feel myself called upon now to declare vacant the office . of Deputy P . G . Master for Lincolnshire ,, held by you . In communicating this , my determination to you , I beg ; to express my best acknowledgments for the service you have rendered the Masonic body within my jurisdiction during the time you have held
the office , and my great regret that the interests of Masonry should require me to deprive myself of your valuable assistance . The separar lion gives me , personally , as much pain as the cause of it ; and not theless because my decision is one which-1 have thought it right to make on my own responsibility , without reference to , or suggestion from any other party . I am , Dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,, CHARLES TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT , Rev . G . Oliver , D . D . P . G . M . Lincolnshire . '
" In my humble opinion , the P . G . M . has committed , in these letters ; four errors in judgment ; and , for the sake of Masonry , I sincerely regret that he should have placed himself in such an equivocal position before the Craft . First—he has dismissed me from my office at a moment ' s notice , after a faithful service of ten years ' , duration . I am' not ignorant that the Constitutions of Masonry give a sanction to this ex- * traordinary course . But as a matter of courtesy to one who has relieved ' him from all the toilsand burdensand anxietiesnecessarily attending
, , , the details of his office , for the above period , it ought to have been accomplished by a process less repugnant to my feelings —( loud cheers ) ; and particularly as ( being in doubt whether my acceptance of the office of chairman to Dr . Crucefix ' s dinner might be agreeable to him ) , I tendered my resignation after it was publicly known in the province that I had consented to preside on this occasion . The P . G . M . openly announced at the P . G . Meeting , at Boston , that 1 had thus tendered my it
resignation ; and as openly declared that he had refused to accept ; and urgently requested the continuance of my services in that capacity . 1 had a right to consider—and I did consider—this concurrence as a VOL . ix . r > D