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Masonic Chit Chat.
making the square depth 24 feet 6 inches . The Ark was twice as long as the Queen . DISCOVERY or A SKELETON . — Roman Antiquities . — On Monday last , while some workmen were employed excavating the carriage way of Bow-lane , Cheapside , for a sewer , they discovered , at a depth of about twelve feet from the surface , and near the corner of Little St .
Thomas Apostle ' s , a human skeleton embedded in a kind of coffin , formed of Roman pavement . The skeleton was found to be complete , and in extraordinary preservation . It is that of a male who , when living , stood between six and seven feet high . The bones are extremely muscular . Between the teeth , which are of a beautiful white colour , was found a coin , but whether gold or silver , such was the corroded state in which it was , that it was impossible to tell . The Roman
pavement that composes the coffin is of a bright red hue . It is in several pieces , and has neither bottom nor lid to it . Mr . Wilson has caused a strict search to be made about the spot where the remains were dug out , but no further discovery has yet been made . —December 22 , 1839 . BIRTHS . — Oct . — , at Taunton , the lady of Brother Capt . Pinchard , No . 327 , of a son .
Same day , the lady of Brother Hancock , No . 327 , of a son . Nov . 7 . —The lady ' of Brother Frederick May , No . 327 , of a daughter . Nov . 3 . —The lady of Brother John Whitmore , No . 318 , Piccadilly , of a daughter . Dec . 2 . —The lady of Brother Robert Field ( Secretary to the Aged Masons' Asylum ) , of a son . Lately , at Blackheath , of a posthumous daughter , Mrs . M'Gillivray ,
relict of the late Brother Simon M'Gillivray , Esq . Dee . 21 . —The lady of W . H . Reed , Esq ., Surgeon , Tiverton , W . M . No . 280 , of a son . MARRIED , August 11 . —Brother Henry Pike , 47 , Milbank-street , to Miss Ann Mucklow , of Peckham . Oct . 18 . —At St . Saviour ' s church , Bath , by the Rev . Dr . Stamer , Brother Edward Driver , of Richmond Terrace , London , to Miss Mead , of Beaufort West , Bath , only surviving child of the late Clement Mead , Esq ., of Keppell-street , London .
Obituary.
Obituary .
June 2 . — At Macao , Lord HENRY JOHN SPENCER CHURCHILL , P . D . M ., son of the late and brother to the present Duke of Marlborough , aetat 45 . The late Deputy Grand Master was a strict disciplinarian , in a certain sense ; and his manner partook somewhat of the quarter-deck , a fault arising from his nautical habits , but unsuitable to the temper and disposition ofthe Grand Lodgemore especially so , at the time the
, Noble Brother was in the habit of presiding . That period was when the epoch of a stirring change in the order , to do for themselves that which had for many years been done for them—their own business . Lord J . Churchill , bred in a school where thc slightest opposition to authority amounted to a breach of the articles of war , could not comprehend that the governed could be in the right ; the consequence was
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Chit Chat.
making the square depth 24 feet 6 inches . The Ark was twice as long as the Queen . DISCOVERY or A SKELETON . — Roman Antiquities . — On Monday last , while some workmen were employed excavating the carriage way of Bow-lane , Cheapside , for a sewer , they discovered , at a depth of about twelve feet from the surface , and near the corner of Little St .
Thomas Apostle ' s , a human skeleton embedded in a kind of coffin , formed of Roman pavement . The skeleton was found to be complete , and in extraordinary preservation . It is that of a male who , when living , stood between six and seven feet high . The bones are extremely muscular . Between the teeth , which are of a beautiful white colour , was found a coin , but whether gold or silver , such was the corroded state in which it was , that it was impossible to tell . The Roman
pavement that composes the coffin is of a bright red hue . It is in several pieces , and has neither bottom nor lid to it . Mr . Wilson has caused a strict search to be made about the spot where the remains were dug out , but no further discovery has yet been made . —December 22 , 1839 . BIRTHS . — Oct . — , at Taunton , the lady of Brother Capt . Pinchard , No . 327 , of a son .
Same day , the lady of Brother Hancock , No . 327 , of a son . Nov . 7 . —The lady ' of Brother Frederick May , No . 327 , of a daughter . Nov . 3 . —The lady of Brother John Whitmore , No . 318 , Piccadilly , of a daughter . Dec . 2 . —The lady of Brother Robert Field ( Secretary to the Aged Masons' Asylum ) , of a son . Lately , at Blackheath , of a posthumous daughter , Mrs . M'Gillivray ,
relict of the late Brother Simon M'Gillivray , Esq . Dee . 21 . —The lady of W . H . Reed , Esq ., Surgeon , Tiverton , W . M . No . 280 , of a son . MARRIED , August 11 . —Brother Henry Pike , 47 , Milbank-street , to Miss Ann Mucklow , of Peckham . Oct . 18 . —At St . Saviour ' s church , Bath , by the Rev . Dr . Stamer , Brother Edward Driver , of Richmond Terrace , London , to Miss Mead , of Beaufort West , Bath , only surviving child of the late Clement Mead , Esq ., of Keppell-street , London .
Obituary.
Obituary .
June 2 . — At Macao , Lord HENRY JOHN SPENCER CHURCHILL , P . D . M ., son of the late and brother to the present Duke of Marlborough , aetat 45 . The late Deputy Grand Master was a strict disciplinarian , in a certain sense ; and his manner partook somewhat of the quarter-deck , a fault arising from his nautical habits , but unsuitable to the temper and disposition ofthe Grand Lodgemore especially so , at the time the
, Noble Brother was in the habit of presiding . That period was when the epoch of a stirring change in the order , to do for themselves that which had for many years been done for them—their own business . Lord J . Churchill , bred in a school where thc slightest opposition to authority amounted to a breach of the articles of war , could not comprehend that the governed could be in the right ; the consequence was