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To The Editor.
have already made mention , have confirmed the high opinion with which I had been previously impressed of the excellent working of Freemasonry in these populous and rapidly improving towns . In No . 24 there are several zealous young Masons , who in their present attention and attainments give promise of future excellence . In my previous letters I took notice of the Phoenix Lodge , No . Ill , in a that I thought would not fail of exciting the attention of its
way Members , and with a hope that a new stimulus would be thereby given to them . Nor have I been mistaken in either respect ; for I am happy to say that after the first feeling of annoyance had subsided , a determination was evinced by them to work good out of evil , and to replace that Lodge in the high position which it maintained for many years among the Masonic Fraternity of the North , with so much credit to all : and here I must repair an unintentional injustice which the Phoenix
Lodge has received at my hands . The income stated to me at 40 / ., does not , I am now assured , exceed 16 / . per annum ; and the VV . M ., ( who was absent when I visited , which was also the case with some other practical Members ) , has had difficulties to contend with , in extending the numbers and improving the working of the Lodge , that should induce every well-wisher of the Craft to sympathize ivith him , and with others of the bodand whenever feasible to assist . These
y , difficulties will now be surmounted , and no one will rejoice more sincerely at the gratifying result than Yours , Mr . Editor , respectfully and fraternally , S . Sunderland , Nov . 11 , 1837 .
Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 5.
NOTITI ? TEMPLARI ? , No . 5 .
PRECEPTORIES OF THE ORDER IN ENGLAND . THE first residence or preceptory of tbe Knights Templars in this country was at Holborn , in the suburbs of London . This establishment was probably erected soon after the visit of the founder of the Order , Hugh de Payens , in the time of Henry the First . Part of the chapel attached to it was discovered above a century ago in removing
some old buildings . The masonry appeared to be of Caen stone , and the form circular , similar to the now existent Temple Church . The Southampton Buildings cover the site of the original preceptory , from which place the Templars removed to new premises in Fleet Street about 1185 . None of the forensic buildings still termed the Temple are coeval with the religious and military Order . The church alone is to be identified with the Knights . It was dedicated by the Patriarch of
Jerusalem , as an inscription bears . The circular part of this beautiful and interesting edifice is thought to be the oldest , and to have been built after the model of the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem . The whole was nigh being burnt in the great fire of 1666 , but the solidity of the masonry resisted the conflagration . About thirty years afterwards , however , it suffered from another fire , which destroyed much of the conventual buildings . The two sepulchral enclosures , containing the effigies of nine Knights , will attract the notice of the Masonic Templar , and may remind him of the like number of originators of the
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To The Editor.
have already made mention , have confirmed the high opinion with which I had been previously impressed of the excellent working of Freemasonry in these populous and rapidly improving towns . In No . 24 there are several zealous young Masons , who in their present attention and attainments give promise of future excellence . In my previous letters I took notice of the Phoenix Lodge , No . Ill , in a that I thought would not fail of exciting the attention of its
way Members , and with a hope that a new stimulus would be thereby given to them . Nor have I been mistaken in either respect ; for I am happy to say that after the first feeling of annoyance had subsided , a determination was evinced by them to work good out of evil , and to replace that Lodge in the high position which it maintained for many years among the Masonic Fraternity of the North , with so much credit to all : and here I must repair an unintentional injustice which the Phoenix
Lodge has received at my hands . The income stated to me at 40 / ., does not , I am now assured , exceed 16 / . per annum ; and the VV . M ., ( who was absent when I visited , which was also the case with some other practical Members ) , has had difficulties to contend with , in extending the numbers and improving the working of the Lodge , that should induce every well-wisher of the Craft to sympathize ivith him , and with others of the bodand whenever feasible to assist . These
y , difficulties will now be surmounted , and no one will rejoice more sincerely at the gratifying result than Yours , Mr . Editor , respectfully and fraternally , S . Sunderland , Nov . 11 , 1837 .
Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 5.
NOTITI ? TEMPLARI ? , No . 5 .
PRECEPTORIES OF THE ORDER IN ENGLAND . THE first residence or preceptory of tbe Knights Templars in this country was at Holborn , in the suburbs of London . This establishment was probably erected soon after the visit of the founder of the Order , Hugh de Payens , in the time of Henry the First . Part of the chapel attached to it was discovered above a century ago in removing
some old buildings . The masonry appeared to be of Caen stone , and the form circular , similar to the now existent Temple Church . The Southampton Buildings cover the site of the original preceptory , from which place the Templars removed to new premises in Fleet Street about 1185 . None of the forensic buildings still termed the Temple are coeval with the religious and military Order . The church alone is to be identified with the Knights . It was dedicated by the Patriarch of
Jerusalem , as an inscription bears . The circular part of this beautiful and interesting edifice is thought to be the oldest , and to have been built after the model of the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem . The whole was nigh being burnt in the great fire of 1666 , but the solidity of the masonry resisted the conflagration . About thirty years afterwards , however , it suffered from another fire , which destroyed much of the conventual buildings . The two sepulchral enclosures , containing the effigies of nine Knights , will attract the notice of the Masonic Templar , and may remind him of the like number of originators of the