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Metropolitan.
"Accept , Sir , my warmest thanks , for the kind encomiums with which you have been pleased to eulogize me , and for the handsome jewel which , in the name ofthe Chapter , you have placed upon my breast . "I assure you . Companions , that the kindness of this evening will be deeply impressed upon my memory . I look back with no small gratification to my connexion with this Chapter from the dawn of its existence . My year of office , as M . E . Z ., appeared to pass very quickly , from ivhich thatto at leastit
I augur , me , was a pleasant , ancl I trust , an useful period . For more than thirty years , by a tacit understanding , no new warrant of Constitution hacl been granted by tbe Supreme Grand Chapter , for any Chapter within the Metropolitan district ; and thus a barrier had been effectually raised against the introduction of a new Chapter in London and its neighbourhood ; the members of the Robert Burns Loclge , therefore , did good service to the cause of Royal Arch Masonry when , with the assistance of friends , they were the first to remove that barrier . Since that period several new warrants have been granted to highly respectable Lodges , with great advantage to the Order of Freemasonry .
* It therefore well became the Companions of the Chapter to petition the M . E . First Grand Principal for permission to present to such of their Past Principals as might be deemed worth y to receive it . a special and distinctive jewel , with express limitation to Chapter No . 25 ; and it was also a graceful act on the part of the Earl of Zetland , to grant that permission , ancl to order it to be engraved upon our AVarrant . That you should have considered me worthof being decorated with this elegant
y present , is to be attributed to your partiality far more than to any merits of mine , for 1 am deeply sensible of the kind support which you rendered me during my year of office as your First Principal , and also of the indulgence extended to deficiencies , of which I hope I am not altogether insensible . I shall wear this jewel in all Masonic assemblies , as a memento of your esteem , and with the consciousness that you have been pleased to deem me deserving of it .
" Collectively , allow me to bid prosperity to the Chapter . Individually , I sincerely wish you every happiness ; ancl , when you shall be cal ed to occupy the chair , may similar indul gence be granted to you and may you receive the same reward which has been so kindly accorded ' to me . J
Comp . AVatson , in very feeling terms addressed Comp . C . Fox to whom he had the happiness of presenting a similar token of the kind and fraternal feelings of the Chapter . Comp . Fox was the first candidate exalted in the Chapter , and had served one apprenticeship : ancl so well had he discharged his duties , that he had not only passed through the several offices with credit to himself , but had also earned the esteem and good will of all the Companions , who in return took that opportunity of expressing their feelings , by presenting him with the testimonial which lie with great pleasure would now place on his breast , wishing him health ancl happiness , and that many years would be eranfpd m hi ™
to wear the honourable token with ivhich he then invested him Comp . Fox returned thanks in a very neat speech , and assured the Comps . that he should always place the Robert Burns jewel nearest to His heart ; he appeared much affected at the kindness evinced , and was warml y greeted b y the whole of the members present . Ihe remainder of the business being concluded , the Chapter was closed in due form .
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Metropolitan.
"Accept , Sir , my warmest thanks , for the kind encomiums with which you have been pleased to eulogize me , and for the handsome jewel which , in the name ofthe Chapter , you have placed upon my breast . "I assure you . Companions , that the kindness of this evening will be deeply impressed upon my memory . I look back with no small gratification to my connexion with this Chapter from the dawn of its existence . My year of office , as M . E . Z ., appeared to pass very quickly , from ivhich thatto at leastit
I augur , me , was a pleasant , ancl I trust , an useful period . For more than thirty years , by a tacit understanding , no new warrant of Constitution hacl been granted by tbe Supreme Grand Chapter , for any Chapter within the Metropolitan district ; and thus a barrier had been effectually raised against the introduction of a new Chapter in London and its neighbourhood ; the members of the Robert Burns Loclge , therefore , did good service to the cause of Royal Arch Masonry when , with the assistance of friends , they were the first to remove that barrier . Since that period several new warrants have been granted to highly respectable Lodges , with great advantage to the Order of Freemasonry .
* It therefore well became the Companions of the Chapter to petition the M . E . First Grand Principal for permission to present to such of their Past Principals as might be deemed worth y to receive it . a special and distinctive jewel , with express limitation to Chapter No . 25 ; and it was also a graceful act on the part of the Earl of Zetland , to grant that permission , ancl to order it to be engraved upon our AVarrant . That you should have considered me worthof being decorated with this elegant
y present , is to be attributed to your partiality far more than to any merits of mine , for 1 am deeply sensible of the kind support which you rendered me during my year of office as your First Principal , and also of the indulgence extended to deficiencies , of which I hope I am not altogether insensible . I shall wear this jewel in all Masonic assemblies , as a memento of your esteem , and with the consciousness that you have been pleased to deem me deserving of it .
" Collectively , allow me to bid prosperity to the Chapter . Individually , I sincerely wish you every happiness ; ancl , when you shall be cal ed to occupy the chair , may similar indul gence be granted to you and may you receive the same reward which has been so kindly accorded ' to me . J
Comp . AVatson , in very feeling terms addressed Comp . C . Fox to whom he had the happiness of presenting a similar token of the kind and fraternal feelings of the Chapter . Comp . Fox was the first candidate exalted in the Chapter , and had served one apprenticeship : ancl so well had he discharged his duties , that he had not only passed through the several offices with credit to himself , but had also earned the esteem and good will of all the Companions , who in return took that opportunity of expressing their feelings , by presenting him with the testimonial which lie with great pleasure would now place on his breast , wishing him health ancl happiness , and that many years would be eranfpd m hi ™
to wear the honourable token with ivhich he then invested him Comp . Fox returned thanks in a very neat speech , and assured the Comps . that he should always place the Robert Burns jewel nearest to His heart ; he appeared much affected at the kindness evinced , and was warml y greeted b y the whole of the members present . Ihe remainder of the business being concluded , the Chapter was closed in due form .