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Masonic Intelligence.
" servation of my dear children's lives ; and I am most grateful for their tribute " of respect to the memory of my husband , whose transeendant virtues they so " justly appreciate . " Ingestrie House , Srd July , 1840 , " VICTORIA . "
The following report from the Board of General Purposes was read : * At a Board of General Purposes of the United Grand Lodge of England , holden at Freemasons' Hall on Saturday the 25 th day of July 1840 , the V . W . Brother WILLIAM HARRISON , President ^ in the Chair , the following Report was unanimously agreed to :
" At a Special Meeting of the Board of General Purposes , holden on the 10 th day of July , 1840 , the President in the Chair stated that he had , by virtue of the authority vested in him as President , assembled the Board to lay before the Members a letter which he bad received from the Grand Secretary , enclosing an original letter received by the M . W . Grand Master from the W . Brother R . T . Crueefix , transmitted under seal by H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , to him as President , in the letter of the Grand Secretary , together with a copy of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " The letter of the Grand Secretary was then read .
" To the V . W . Brother WILLIAM HARRISON , G . R . " V . W . BROTHER , —I am commanded by the M . W . Grand Master , His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , to transmit to you , as President of the Board of General Purposes , a letter which he has received from the W . Brother R . T . Crueefix , P . J . G . D ., dated the llth June , 1840 . " The M . W . Grand Master directs me further to state , thatheforbore taking any immediate step in the matter , with a vieve of ascertaining what publicity Brother Crueefix meant to give to that letter . Having now been apprised that he has
printed a copy of it in the periodical work ofthe 30 th June last , which he edits quarterly , and which contains many matters connected with proceedings of the Grand Lodge which ought not to be communicated , except to the Craft , the Grand Master thinks it his duty to lay the original letter before the Board of General Purposes , as well as the publication , leaving to their discretion the proceedings necessary to be adopted for the preservation of order in the Craft , and for the maintenance of that subordination which is so essential to be observed in all regular communities which are governed by laws , and by no one more particularly than by the great body of Masons . " With Fraternal regard , I have the honour to be , " Your obedient servant and Brother , " Freemasons' Hall , 6 th July , 1840 . " W . H . WHITE , G . S . "
' The Grand Secretary also produced and read a letter from Brother Crueefix . f " The original letter from Brother Crueefix to the M . W . Grand Alaster was then read . _ ,. " The Board immediately proceeded to the consideration of the several special matters sent to it by the M . W . G . M . in the letter of the Grand
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Masonic Intelligence.
" servation of my dear children's lives ; and I am most grateful for their tribute " of respect to the memory of my husband , whose transeendant virtues they so " justly appreciate . " Ingestrie House , Srd July , 1840 , " VICTORIA . "
The following report from the Board of General Purposes was read : * At a Board of General Purposes of the United Grand Lodge of England , holden at Freemasons' Hall on Saturday the 25 th day of July 1840 , the V . W . Brother WILLIAM HARRISON , President ^ in the Chair , the following Report was unanimously agreed to :
" At a Special Meeting of the Board of General Purposes , holden on the 10 th day of July , 1840 , the President in the Chair stated that he had , by virtue of the authority vested in him as President , assembled the Board to lay before the Members a letter which he bad received from the Grand Secretary , enclosing an original letter received by the M . W . Grand Master from the W . Brother R . T . Crueefix , transmitted under seal by H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , to him as President , in the letter of the Grand Secretary , together with a copy of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " The letter of the Grand Secretary was then read .
" To the V . W . Brother WILLIAM HARRISON , G . R . " V . W . BROTHER , —I am commanded by the M . W . Grand Master , His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , to transmit to you , as President of the Board of General Purposes , a letter which he has received from the W . Brother R . T . Crueefix , P . J . G . D ., dated the llth June , 1840 . " The M . W . Grand Master directs me further to state , thatheforbore taking any immediate step in the matter , with a vieve of ascertaining what publicity Brother Crueefix meant to give to that letter . Having now been apprised that he has
printed a copy of it in the periodical work ofthe 30 th June last , which he edits quarterly , and which contains many matters connected with proceedings of the Grand Lodge which ought not to be communicated , except to the Craft , the Grand Master thinks it his duty to lay the original letter before the Board of General Purposes , as well as the publication , leaving to their discretion the proceedings necessary to be adopted for the preservation of order in the Craft , and for the maintenance of that subordination which is so essential to be observed in all regular communities which are governed by laws , and by no one more particularly than by the great body of Masons . " With Fraternal regard , I have the honour to be , " Your obedient servant and Brother , " Freemasons' Hall , 6 th July , 1840 . " W . H . WHITE , G . S . "
' The Grand Secretary also produced and read a letter from Brother Crueefix . f " The original letter from Brother Crueefix to the M . W . Grand Alaster was then read . _ ,. " The Board immediately proceeded to the consideration of the several special matters sent to it by the M . W . G . M . in the letter of the Grand