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Masonic Chit Chat.
ANTIQUITY . —Brother II . A . Hoare has presented a very chaste and handsome organ to this Lodge . J t is also to be used in the St . James ' s Chapter , ivhich is attached . The old organ has been repaired , and placed in the upper chamber , which has been beautifully re-decorated .
HINTS TO PARTIES LAYING FOUNDATION STONES . —How much valuable and useful information of the actual existing state of arts and knowledge at any period might be transmitted to posterity in a distinct , tangible and imperishable form , if , instead of the absurd and useless deposition of a few coins and medals under the foundations of buildings , specimens of ingenious implements , or condensed statements of scientific truths or processes in arts and manufacturesivere substituted ! Will
, books infallibly preserve to a remote posterity all that we may desire should be hereafter known of ourselves and our discoveries , or all that posterity would wish to know ? And may not a useless ceremony be thus transformed into an act of enrolment in a perpetual archive , of what we most prize , and acknowledge to be most valuable }—Herschcl .
THE TEMPLARS . —On the 12 th of October , 1307 , now 532 years ago , an order was issued to arrest all the Knights Templars throughout tiie kingdom , without even excepting the Grand Master . From that moment , the Order of the Temple , which the ambition of its adepts had rendered obnoxious to the prince , and its wealth had rendered an object of cupidity , ceased to exist . The unhappy knights , after remaining a long time confined in the dungeons of the inquisition , and undergoing
all sorts of torture , were at last burnt alive , as having been convicted of immorality , sorcery , and signing a compact with the powers of hell . This order , nevertheless , is not yet extinct . Since 1830 it has been revived ; and , a short time ago , M . de Montalivet , who , it is said , has succeeded the pedicure Palaprat in the post of Grand Master , presided at the reception of a number of kni ghts , in a richly-ornamented apartment , situate No . 16 , Rue Notre Dame des Victoires . Every year the adepts celebrate the anniversary of the death of Jacques Mole . — Capitolc .
PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO C . J . K . TYNTE , ESQ ., P . G . M . FOR MONMOUTH . —On October 29 th , upwards of three hundred gentlemen sat down to a dinner at the Assembly Room , in Taunton , for the purpose of presenting a piece of plate to C . J . K . Tynte , Esq ., one of the late respected representatives in parliament for the Western Division of Somerset . At three o ' clock , Sir T . B . Lethbridge , Bart ., took the chair , and on the removal of the cloth , proposed various loyal and
constitutional toasts , with appropriate introductory remarks , which were warmly responded to by the company . Several gentlemen addressed the guests in eloquent and patriotic terms , after which the handsome service of plate was presented to Mr . Tynte , in the name of the subscribers , by the president , with an eulogy on the public meritoriousness of conduct which had led to so popular a manifestation of respect and ' gratitude . The plaudits attendant on this address having subsidedMr . C . J . Tynte
, acknowledged the liberality of the subscribers in a manly and eloquent speech of considerable length , which at its conclusion received the most enthusiastic and long-continued cheers of the assembled guests . Tbe plate consisted of a massive pair of wine-coolers and salver , ou which was an appropriate inscription .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Chit Chat.
ANTIQUITY . —Brother II . A . Hoare has presented a very chaste and handsome organ to this Lodge . J t is also to be used in the St . James ' s Chapter , ivhich is attached . The old organ has been repaired , and placed in the upper chamber , which has been beautifully re-decorated .
HINTS TO PARTIES LAYING FOUNDATION STONES . —How much valuable and useful information of the actual existing state of arts and knowledge at any period might be transmitted to posterity in a distinct , tangible and imperishable form , if , instead of the absurd and useless deposition of a few coins and medals under the foundations of buildings , specimens of ingenious implements , or condensed statements of scientific truths or processes in arts and manufacturesivere substituted ! Will
, books infallibly preserve to a remote posterity all that we may desire should be hereafter known of ourselves and our discoveries , or all that posterity would wish to know ? And may not a useless ceremony be thus transformed into an act of enrolment in a perpetual archive , of what we most prize , and acknowledge to be most valuable }—Herschcl .
THE TEMPLARS . —On the 12 th of October , 1307 , now 532 years ago , an order was issued to arrest all the Knights Templars throughout tiie kingdom , without even excepting the Grand Master . From that moment , the Order of the Temple , which the ambition of its adepts had rendered obnoxious to the prince , and its wealth had rendered an object of cupidity , ceased to exist . The unhappy knights , after remaining a long time confined in the dungeons of the inquisition , and undergoing
all sorts of torture , were at last burnt alive , as having been convicted of immorality , sorcery , and signing a compact with the powers of hell . This order , nevertheless , is not yet extinct . Since 1830 it has been revived ; and , a short time ago , M . de Montalivet , who , it is said , has succeeded the pedicure Palaprat in the post of Grand Master , presided at the reception of a number of kni ghts , in a richly-ornamented apartment , situate No . 16 , Rue Notre Dame des Victoires . Every year the adepts celebrate the anniversary of the death of Jacques Mole . — Capitolc .
PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO C . J . K . TYNTE , ESQ ., P . G . M . FOR MONMOUTH . —On October 29 th , upwards of three hundred gentlemen sat down to a dinner at the Assembly Room , in Taunton , for the purpose of presenting a piece of plate to C . J . K . Tynte , Esq ., one of the late respected representatives in parliament for the Western Division of Somerset . At three o ' clock , Sir T . B . Lethbridge , Bart ., took the chair , and on the removal of the cloth , proposed various loyal and
constitutional toasts , with appropriate introductory remarks , which were warmly responded to by the company . Several gentlemen addressed the guests in eloquent and patriotic terms , after which the handsome service of plate was presented to Mr . Tynte , in the name of the subscribers , by the president , with an eulogy on the public meritoriousness of conduct which had led to so popular a manifestation of respect and ' gratitude . The plaudits attendant on this address having subsidedMr . C . J . Tynte
, acknowledged the liberality of the subscribers in a manly and eloquent speech of considerable length , which at its conclusion received the most enthusiastic and long-continued cheers of the assembled guests . Tbe plate consisted of a massive pair of wine-coolers and salver , ou which was an appropriate inscription .