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Provincial.
numerous your correspondents are , the better you will be able to select matter for insertion in the Freemason ' s Quarterly Review-, I have ventured to take up my pen , in order to give you what little information I may be able to collect concerning the Craft in this neighbourhood . There are only two Lodges , but , I am sorry to say , some lukewarmness has lately existed ; but , from the circulation of your laudable
exertions , there is a degree of improvement , hy the prospect of a united Lodge of Instruction being formed , to he held , for the convenience of the Brethren , alternately at the Chest Arms , Chatham , ancl Queen ' s Head , Brompton , both of which houses being kept by Brethren of the Craft , they are considered the most proper to select for that purpose : to meet on the second AVednesday of all the winter months , including
spring and autumn , leaving the summer for recreation . " It has been the usual custom with the Brethren of the Royal Kent Lodge of Antiquity , No . 20 , for many years , to celebrate the festivals
of St . John ; the last happening upon a Saturday , being an inconvenient clay , the Lodge assembled on the Monday following , viz . 29 th Dec , and being opened in due form , Brother Henry James was declared duly re-elected W . M . for the ensuing year , and a visiting Brother ( from the Grand Master ' s Lodge , No . 1 , who was initiated in No . 20 , ) was raised to the sublime degree ; after which , the Lodge being closed with
the usual ceremonies ( to meet on the third AVednesday in February ) the Brethren , amounting to about twenty , sat clown to a most sumptuous dinner ; on the cloth being removed , many appropriate toasts were drank , and the conviviality of the evening was much increased by the vocal efforts of several Brethren , who , in their best style , kindly amused the Brethren with many excellent songs , glees , & c . & c .
" I will endeavour occasionally to let you know how Masonic matters prosper in this neighbourhood ; in the mean time , permit me to subscribe myself , with every wish for the prosperity of your exertions , " Yours fraternally , " AN ARK MASON .
Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH .
[ Our Edinburgh friends must for the present be content with the general apology made in our loader for not reporting a general list of subscribers ; we cannot , however , take a more favourable opportunity to acknowledge a letter from a correspondent , than by stating the great pleasure we feel in knowing that among our new adherents we can number the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge . —Sir John Hay , bart ., substitute G . M ., and James Bartram , esq . ]
Letter from the Ettrick Shepherd to one of the Committee ofthe Canongate Kilwinning Lodge . Altrive Lake , Jan . 2 . 1 , 1035 . " Dear Forbes—I am sixty-five years of age this night . I am not a Mason , and never have been , having uniformly resisted the entreaties
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Provincial.
numerous your correspondents are , the better you will be able to select matter for insertion in the Freemason ' s Quarterly Review-, I have ventured to take up my pen , in order to give you what little information I may be able to collect concerning the Craft in this neighbourhood . There are only two Lodges , but , I am sorry to say , some lukewarmness has lately existed ; but , from the circulation of your laudable
exertions , there is a degree of improvement , hy the prospect of a united Lodge of Instruction being formed , to he held , for the convenience of the Brethren , alternately at the Chest Arms , Chatham , ancl Queen ' s Head , Brompton , both of which houses being kept by Brethren of the Craft , they are considered the most proper to select for that purpose : to meet on the second AVednesday of all the winter months , including
spring and autumn , leaving the summer for recreation . " It has been the usual custom with the Brethren of the Royal Kent Lodge of Antiquity , No . 20 , for many years , to celebrate the festivals
of St . John ; the last happening upon a Saturday , being an inconvenient clay , the Lodge assembled on the Monday following , viz . 29 th Dec , and being opened in due form , Brother Henry James was declared duly re-elected W . M . for the ensuing year , and a visiting Brother ( from the Grand Master ' s Lodge , No . 1 , who was initiated in No . 20 , ) was raised to the sublime degree ; after which , the Lodge being closed with
the usual ceremonies ( to meet on the third AVednesday in February ) the Brethren , amounting to about twenty , sat clown to a most sumptuous dinner ; on the cloth being removed , many appropriate toasts were drank , and the conviviality of the evening was much increased by the vocal efforts of several Brethren , who , in their best style , kindly amused the Brethren with many excellent songs , glees , & c . & c .
" I will endeavour occasionally to let you know how Masonic matters prosper in this neighbourhood ; in the mean time , permit me to subscribe myself , with every wish for the prosperity of your exertions , " Yours fraternally , " AN ARK MASON .
Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH .
[ Our Edinburgh friends must for the present be content with the general apology made in our loader for not reporting a general list of subscribers ; we cannot , however , take a more favourable opportunity to acknowledge a letter from a correspondent , than by stating the great pleasure we feel in knowing that among our new adherents we can number the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge . —Sir John Hay , bart ., substitute G . M ., and James Bartram , esq . ]
Letter from the Ettrick Shepherd to one of the Committee ofthe Canongate Kilwinning Lodge . Altrive Lake , Jan . 2 . 1 , 1035 . " Dear Forbes—I am sixty-five years of age this night . I am not a Mason , and never have been , having uniformly resisted the entreaties