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Article NOTITIÆ TEMPLARIÆ, No. 5. ← Page 3 of 3 Article INTERESTING MASONIC NARRATIVE. Page 1 of 3 →
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Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 5.
At York a principal preceptory was established . The island of Lundie belonged to them , and many other possessions , which it would be endless to enumerate , with all the various appurtenances of chapels , houses , farmsteads , mills , and granaries . For these a reference may be made to the works of Dugdale and Tanner . PILGRIM .
Interesting Masonic Narrative.
INTERESTING MASONIC NARRATIVE .
( By a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons , Edinburgh , and a Master Mason , of Tynan Lodge , Ao . 601 , Armagh , SJC . J In the yen- IS 15 , when I was study ing medicine in the University of Edinburgh , I was invited by a gentleman of that city to spend an evening at a Masonic meeting , of which he was the Master . Me added , " that he expected we would have the pleasure of Mr . O'C ' . ' s company , "
an Irish gentleman , to whom he appeared to be particularly attached . Mr . O'C arrived , and was received by the brethren with every manifestation of joy . The night was spent with all the happiness , festivity , and fraternal affection , which so peculiarly characterize our ancient , honourable , and loyal body . No party feelings or petty animosities were there , but mutual and reciprocal love beaming on every countenance , and ennobling every sentiment and expression .
Mr . O'C , an amiable minded , facetious man , about forty-nine years of age , ivas justly beloved and admired ; he paid peculiar and marked attention to me , and before we parted , requested , and received my promise , to dine the next day with him , at his lodgings , Princes Street . I went accordingly , and passed with him one of the happiest , evenings of my life . He was quite an enthusiast in his love for Masonry ; and in an ecstacy of delight , related to me the following history of his life .
" I was born in the south of Ireland , and was from my earliest remembrance fond of Masonry , and consequently was initiated , at the prescribed age , into the sublime mysteries of the most exalted Orders of the Craft . I then prepared to emigrate to America , and received from my Lodge the documents and certificates necessary for my departure . About this time the Irish rebellion was spreading its baneful poison over the island , and I , with thousands of my countrymen , was swept
into the vortex of phrenzied enthusiasm which then prevailed , and stimulated to madness its unfortunate and deluded votaries . I was a few nights with a senseless multitude , who , like myself , knew nothing whatever of the cause , end , meaning , or nature of such meeting . Some papers were read , ivhich I am certain the few who heard them did not understand . All was confusion , without order or regularity . " Not many weeks elapsed , when , in the dead of night , my father ' s
house was surrounded by a troop of dragoons . I was made a prisoner , and conducted to tbe gaol of . In eight days I was tried . It was sufficient I was a United-Man , and had attended their meetings . This was proved ; and hence it was inferred 1 had been aiding and abetting some burnings and outrages that had been recently committed in the neighbourhood . I did not deny I was present at their meetings , but of the latter charges was innocent . I was sentenced to death , and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 5.
At York a principal preceptory was established . The island of Lundie belonged to them , and many other possessions , which it would be endless to enumerate , with all the various appurtenances of chapels , houses , farmsteads , mills , and granaries . For these a reference may be made to the works of Dugdale and Tanner . PILGRIM .
Interesting Masonic Narrative.
INTERESTING MASONIC NARRATIVE .
( By a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons , Edinburgh , and a Master Mason , of Tynan Lodge , Ao . 601 , Armagh , SJC . J In the yen- IS 15 , when I was study ing medicine in the University of Edinburgh , I was invited by a gentleman of that city to spend an evening at a Masonic meeting , of which he was the Master . Me added , " that he expected we would have the pleasure of Mr . O'C ' . ' s company , "
an Irish gentleman , to whom he appeared to be particularly attached . Mr . O'C arrived , and was received by the brethren with every manifestation of joy . The night was spent with all the happiness , festivity , and fraternal affection , which so peculiarly characterize our ancient , honourable , and loyal body . No party feelings or petty animosities were there , but mutual and reciprocal love beaming on every countenance , and ennobling every sentiment and expression .
Mr . O'C , an amiable minded , facetious man , about forty-nine years of age , ivas justly beloved and admired ; he paid peculiar and marked attention to me , and before we parted , requested , and received my promise , to dine the next day with him , at his lodgings , Princes Street . I went accordingly , and passed with him one of the happiest , evenings of my life . He was quite an enthusiast in his love for Masonry ; and in an ecstacy of delight , related to me the following history of his life .
" I was born in the south of Ireland , and was from my earliest remembrance fond of Masonry , and consequently was initiated , at the prescribed age , into the sublime mysteries of the most exalted Orders of the Craft . I then prepared to emigrate to America , and received from my Lodge the documents and certificates necessary for my departure . About this time the Irish rebellion was spreading its baneful poison over the island , and I , with thousands of my countrymen , was swept
into the vortex of phrenzied enthusiasm which then prevailed , and stimulated to madness its unfortunate and deluded votaries . I was a few nights with a senseless multitude , who , like myself , knew nothing whatever of the cause , end , meaning , or nature of such meeting . Some papers were read , ivhich I am certain the few who heard them did not understand . All was confusion , without order or regularity . " Not many weeks elapsed , when , in the dead of night , my father ' s
house was surrounded by a troop of dragoons . I was made a prisoner , and conducted to tbe gaol of . In eight days I was tried . It was sufficient I was a United-Man , and had attended their meetings . This was proved ; and hence it was inferred 1 had been aiding and abetting some burnings and outrages that had been recently committed in the neighbourhood . I did not deny I was present at their meetings , but of the latter charges was innocent . I was sentenced to death , and