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Article THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS. ← Page 3 of 3 Article KNIGHT TEMPLARS. Page 1 of 3 →
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The Knights Hospitallers.
metropolis ; and it is sad to think that the immense strides we have made in civilization—the enormous wealth we have acquired —the power , the dominion , the glory which we have attained , unexampled in the annals of any other nation in the world , should have done so little toward the extermination of human misery , ancl the establishment of universal happiness . " In the eleventh centuryhospitals began to be erected especially for
, the sick , aged , and infirm ; and Tanner informs us that they partook of the conventual character , the head being a Prior-Warden , or Master , with whom was associated a Confrater , or one or more priests or confessors . "—From a paper '' On Hospitals , " read by W . D . Cookson , M . S ., before the Lincoln Topographical Society .
Knight Templars.
KNIGHT TEMPLARS .
To the Editor ofthe Freemasons' Quarterly Review . SIR , —In the prefatory remarks to the last number of the Review , it is stated that the all-engrossing subject in Scotland is at present the Mastership of the Temple , antl it is insinuated that the Scotch desire to have the sole right of electing that functionary . Now , it must be either the Mastership of the Masonic Knight Templarsor the
Master-, ship of the Cliivalric Knight Templars that is meant . If the former , I beg to say that the Scotch do not and never did claim any such privilege . When or how the body of Masonic Templars took its rise , I will not here discuss ; but no one pretends that it was formed by or received the sanction of the Grand Master of the Cliivalric Order . Each encampment was independent of any other , and so far from there being but one Grand Master of the Masonic Templarsthere ought to
, be no such officer whatever , an encampment not acknowledging the Duke of Leinster in Ireland , or the late Duke of Sussex in England , being quite as legal as those that do . It is true , that respectability ancl policy requires union ; and that if several encampments unite , they ought to have a common commander : to this there can be no objection , and . they may resolve that all encampments not in the union shall not be recognized by it ; still that ipse dixit does not make the others
illegal or irregular . Again , if the chief officer of the Masonic encampments is styled " Commander , " the proper designation of the head of the united body is " Grand Commander , " not Grand Master , which , strictly speaking , belongs only to the chivalric body . That the Masonic Templars in every country are entitled to choose a Grand Commander no person can doubt . But if the chivalric body of the Temple be meant , then it must be
acknowledged by all that the Knight Templars , from their commencement in 1118 , had but one Grand Master ; no matter where they had priories , or preceptories , or commanderies , all were under one Grand Master , and one Conclave or Grand Council . This is a vital principle of the chivalric Order . Only three countries , so far as I know , claim to have preserved the order . —1 st . Portugal : the Order there had its whole constitution changed ; its name was also changed to that of the Knights of Christ , the Grand Mastership of which was made here-
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The Knights Hospitallers.
metropolis ; and it is sad to think that the immense strides we have made in civilization—the enormous wealth we have acquired —the power , the dominion , the glory which we have attained , unexampled in the annals of any other nation in the world , should have done so little toward the extermination of human misery , ancl the establishment of universal happiness . " In the eleventh centuryhospitals began to be erected especially for
, the sick , aged , and infirm ; and Tanner informs us that they partook of the conventual character , the head being a Prior-Warden , or Master , with whom was associated a Confrater , or one or more priests or confessors . "—From a paper '' On Hospitals , " read by W . D . Cookson , M . S ., before the Lincoln Topographical Society .
Knight Templars.
KNIGHT TEMPLARS .
To the Editor ofthe Freemasons' Quarterly Review . SIR , —In the prefatory remarks to the last number of the Review , it is stated that the all-engrossing subject in Scotland is at present the Mastership of the Temple , antl it is insinuated that the Scotch desire to have the sole right of electing that functionary . Now , it must be either the Mastership of the Masonic Knight Templarsor the
Master-, ship of the Cliivalric Knight Templars that is meant . If the former , I beg to say that the Scotch do not and never did claim any such privilege . When or how the body of Masonic Templars took its rise , I will not here discuss ; but no one pretends that it was formed by or received the sanction of the Grand Master of the Cliivalric Order . Each encampment was independent of any other , and so far from there being but one Grand Master of the Masonic Templarsthere ought to
, be no such officer whatever , an encampment not acknowledging the Duke of Leinster in Ireland , or the late Duke of Sussex in England , being quite as legal as those that do . It is true , that respectability ancl policy requires union ; and that if several encampments unite , they ought to have a common commander : to this there can be no objection , and . they may resolve that all encampments not in the union shall not be recognized by it ; still that ipse dixit does not make the others
illegal or irregular . Again , if the chief officer of the Masonic encampments is styled " Commander , " the proper designation of the head of the united body is " Grand Commander , " not Grand Master , which , strictly speaking , belongs only to the chivalric body . That the Masonic Templars in every country are entitled to choose a Grand Commander no person can doubt . But if the chivalric body of the Temple be meant , then it must be
acknowledged by all that the Knight Templars , from their commencement in 1118 , had but one Grand Master ; no matter where they had priories , or preceptories , or commanderies , all were under one Grand Master , and one Conclave or Grand Council . This is a vital principle of the chivalric Order . Only three countries , so far as I know , claim to have preserved the order . —1 st . Portugal : the Order there had its whole constitution changed ; its name was also changed to that of the Knights of Christ , the Grand Mastership of which was made here-