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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —I shall be obliged if you will do me the favour to insert the following correspondence in the forthcoming number of the Review , Believe me to be , Seopwick Vicarage , Your faithful Brother , Dec . 7 , 1843 . GEO . OLIVER , D . D .
To Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead , Bart ., Past P . G . S . W . for Lincolnshire . MY DEAR SIR , —As you did me the honour to accept the office of Provincial Grand Senior Warden at my hand , when I held the Deputy Grand Mastership of the Province , and to unite with me in promoting the welfare of Freemasonry within its limits , I take the liberty of submitting to you , now my authority in the province is at an end , a design
which is intended to be useful to the fraternity at large . If I may be allowed to place any reliance on the testimony of the public press , or on the declarations of private correspondents in every quarter of the globe where Freemasonry flourishes , ( and where does it not ?) I trust it will not he an unpardonable vanity in me to conclude that my labours in the cause of Masonry have been productive of some benefit to the Institution . Success has been a stimulus to further exertions , and more extensive researches into the origin and true design of
the Order . In announcing that I am about to take my leave of the fraternity as a public Masonic writer , it is not to be understood that I consider the subject exhausted ; on the contrary , I conceive that I have merely opened the mine , leaving its richest treasures to be gathered by other hands . But it is time to close my Masonic labours—my sun is sinking in the west ; and it will be matter of high gratification to my mind , if some other Brother shall resume the task , and prosecute it with
superior advantages to the Craft ; although I am certain that none can possess greater zeal or sincerity of intention . I propose , however , before I bid my Brethren a final adieu , to furnish them with a series of PRACTICAL LECTURES ON THE HISTORICAL LANDMARKS , and other evidences of Freemasonry , under the arrangement which has been enjoined by the GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND , as settled by the Lodge of Reconciliation at the Union of the two great divisions of the Craft in
1813 . "It is declared and pronounced that pure Ancient Masonry consists of three degrees and no more ; viz ., those of the Entered Apprentice , the Fel & w Craft , and the Master Mason , including the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch . But this article is not intended to prevent any Lodge or Chapter from holding a meeting in any of the degrees of the Orders of Chivalry , according to the Constitutions of the said Orders . "
In the prosecution of this design I have adopted an arrangement corresponding with the order in which our degrees are conferred . — After an Introduction containing an inquiry into the legality and usefulness of Masonic publications ; and two Preliminary Lectures , giving a general view cf the landmarks intended to be illustrated , I shall enter upon a series of disquisitions illustrative of the First Tracing Board ; in which the Form , Situation , Extent , Ground , ( including the first and
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —I shall be obliged if you will do me the favour to insert the following correspondence in the forthcoming number of the Review , Believe me to be , Seopwick Vicarage , Your faithful Brother , Dec . 7 , 1843 . GEO . OLIVER , D . D .
To Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead , Bart ., Past P . G . S . W . for Lincolnshire . MY DEAR SIR , —As you did me the honour to accept the office of Provincial Grand Senior Warden at my hand , when I held the Deputy Grand Mastership of the Province , and to unite with me in promoting the welfare of Freemasonry within its limits , I take the liberty of submitting to you , now my authority in the province is at an end , a design
which is intended to be useful to the fraternity at large . If I may be allowed to place any reliance on the testimony of the public press , or on the declarations of private correspondents in every quarter of the globe where Freemasonry flourishes , ( and where does it not ?) I trust it will not he an unpardonable vanity in me to conclude that my labours in the cause of Masonry have been productive of some benefit to the Institution . Success has been a stimulus to further exertions , and more extensive researches into the origin and true design of
the Order . In announcing that I am about to take my leave of the fraternity as a public Masonic writer , it is not to be understood that I consider the subject exhausted ; on the contrary , I conceive that I have merely opened the mine , leaving its richest treasures to be gathered by other hands . But it is time to close my Masonic labours—my sun is sinking in the west ; and it will be matter of high gratification to my mind , if some other Brother shall resume the task , and prosecute it with
superior advantages to the Craft ; although I am certain that none can possess greater zeal or sincerity of intention . I propose , however , before I bid my Brethren a final adieu , to furnish them with a series of PRACTICAL LECTURES ON THE HISTORICAL LANDMARKS , and other evidences of Freemasonry , under the arrangement which has been enjoined by the GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND , as settled by the Lodge of Reconciliation at the Union of the two great divisions of the Craft in
1813 . "It is declared and pronounced that pure Ancient Masonry consists of three degrees and no more ; viz ., those of the Entered Apprentice , the Fel & w Craft , and the Master Mason , including the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch . But this article is not intended to prevent any Lodge or Chapter from holding a meeting in any of the degrees of the Orders of Chivalry , according to the Constitutions of the said Orders . "
In the prosecution of this design I have adopted an arrangement corresponding with the order in which our degrees are conferred . — After an Introduction containing an inquiry into the legality and usefulness of Masonic publications ; and two Preliminary Lectures , giving a general view cf the landmarks intended to be illustrated , I shall enter upon a series of disquisitions illustrative of the First Tracing Board ; in which the Form , Situation , Extent , Ground , ( including the first and