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Freemasonry In Antigua.
Summis Gubernatoribus ; Nee Non J OHANNE BOTT , Armigero , Sunimo Architecto P / enoque coram Fratrurn concordu E . C . elo descendit Esto Perpetual
TYPIS RODERTI MEARSS nuper summi Secretarii ; Societati Latomorum Antiguensi Typographic .
TRANSLATION . In the 25 th year cf the Reign of George III . Of the Redemption of Man 1785 , of Light 57 85 April 20 . This First Corner Stone of the Antigua Masonic Hall was laid By the most illustrious WILLIAM J ARVIS Esqre
Provincial Grand Master Assisted by the most illustrious DOCTOR THO : LYNCH Deputy Grand Master EDMUND M . MASCALL and
BOYCE LEDWELL Grand Wardens Together with
J BOTT Esqre Grand Architect In the presence of a full meeting of the Brethren . From Heaven it came , May it for ever remain !
Written by ROBERT MEARNS Deputy Grand Secretary , Recorder of the Order of Freemasons at Antigua . We also append the 1851 scroll which was placed together with the old parchment in the original corner-stone as stated :
ST . JOHN'S LODGE , No . 723 . UNDER RESOLUTION the Lodge repaired to the Freemasons' Land on St . John ' s Day 27 th December 1849 ; and for the purpose of identifying the old Buildings , extracted from the CORNER STONE , the Phial and Scroll vf Inscription deposited therein by the Lodge of 1785 ; and which this Lodge re-inserts on this 2 jth day of November , in the iS 51 si year of man's redemption , and the 3851 st of the world , preparatory to raising a superstructure upon this foundation .
AT WHICH TIME , JOSEPH SHERVINGTON was Master GEORGE C . WALTER „ Past Master JOHN SHERVINTON „ Senior Warden ROBERT McDONALD „ Junior Warden CHARLES H . CURTIS „ Treasurer FREDERICK S . JEWETT „ Secretary
SAMUEL G . NIXON „ Senior Deacon PAUL HORSFORD „ Junior Deacon MARK CONNOLLY .. Inner Guard MARK CONNOLLY Inner Guard
„ JOHN McGILVARY „ Tyler and RICHARD DOWSE „ Master Elect ROBERT KNOX „ Treasurer Elect
We have experienced all the greater pleasure in furnishing the foregoing excerpts from the pages of our worthy contemporary , as it is not often the good fortune of a lodge , which has succeeded , after a long interval of time , to other and extinct lodges , to be possessed of such valuable evidence of the proceedings of a former generation of brethren and their zeal for the Craft .
Freemasonry In Middleton.
FREEMASONRY IN MIDDLETON .
MASONIC SERVICE IN THE PARISH CHURCH . On Saturday afternoon , the 14 th ult ., a Masonic service in connection with Imperial George Lodge , No . 78 , Middleton , in the Province of East Lancashire , was held in the Middleton Parish Church . There was a good attendance of brethren , headed by the W . M ., Bro . Sam Hall . Thepreach . r was the Rev . Bro . R . W . Perry-Circuitt , M . A ., P . P . G . Chap ., and rector of St . Luke ' s , Heywood , The weather was wet , and this evidently interfered with the attendance of the general public .
The PREACHER took for his text 1 Peter , ii ., 15 : "That with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance and foolishness of men . " In the course of his remarks he said a great deal was often said about Masonry , and they knew that they had one of the very highest authorities of the Catholic Church who had denounced the Craft because it was a secret society . In that he showed , as he ( ihe preacher ) had so well said in his own church on a Masonic festival not many years ago , that if the claim of infallibility was made by him it was certainly shattered by his
attack upon their own . And yet they all knew upon what foundations rested their law , they all knew what was the grand principles which they proposed , and they all were equally aware that in those slights which were oftentimes put upon them b y those who did not know the inside world , they were sometimes spoken of as being merely a social and convivial society , a society which might prove to be a good investment in the case of sickness , or distress , or death . It was true that they had their times of convi viality , it was true that they were a society which .
Freemasonry In Middleton.
in the times of distress and sickness , or in the event of a brother ' s death , help might be given to those who needed it ; but those were only the secondary parts of their Order , and it was only those that the outside and the ignorant regarded . How , then , they asked , were they to prove to them without disguising to them those secrets about which they talked , and which they and he knew and respected so much , which were only natural to their Order as a means whereby they , as
brother Masons , might know a brother at any time , and which they were quite right in upholding , and keeping secret , aud revering ? But how could they prove that Masonry was something more than that which they asserted ? Just as Christians , they were told that by acting up to their faith and the principles upon which that faith was built , they could prove to the outside world the true and the deep meaning of their Society . Faith , love , and true Christian Charity , were these
not the true principles upon which true Masonry was founded ? It was not that they should see what was basest or vile , weak or infirm in a brother man , but they ought to see on everyone the stamp of the Great Architect ' s mirk , one Who had His formation , one Who was created by Him , and so deserved all their honour . They were bound to honour all men with the love of a brother . Love was another of their foundations . They should'always be ready to see in a brother
that which they could honour and love— -love with an affection which knitted heart to heart , and which so made them by that union members of one great family . They were all material ; they had their evil tempers as well as their good natures , and sometimes they were tempted to lose sight of the fact that they found fault with a brother , when he in his turn might rightly find fault with them . Brotherly love in its truest and highest sense levelled these little hillocks of human nature
Let them remember that there was between them a love as one brother to another , not only as the children of one common Father , but also as bound together as brethren in the Grand Masonic cause . Fear God ! Not with that slavish fear which hath torments , but with a reverence and holy fear born of honour and of love which in that measure the child feels for its maternal parent . It was well for the outside to know that a lodge was never opened or closed without a prayer
to God , and the youngest member was taught that in all his actions outside and inside the eye of the Almighty God rested upon him . Wherever they mi ght be they were bound as faithful members of God to give true obedience to those who were set over them . He thought that by well doing they might hope to silence the ignorance of those who sometimes spoke if not in an evil spirit , at least in a slighting manner of their Order .
During the service the anthem , ' Behold , how good and joyful a thing it is " ( Clarke-Whitfeld ) , was sung , the bass solo being taken by Bro . Harlow , and the duet by Masters Astley and Matthews . Mr . J . Holt sang "The Holy Shrine , " and the anthtm , " I have surely built Thee an house" ( Boyce ) , was given by the choir , the verse parts by Messrs . Moss and Holt , and Bro . Fitton .
After the service the anthem , * ' Rejoice in the Lord ahvay" ( Puree !!) , was rendered , Messrs Holt , Steeple , and Fitton giving the verse parts . Bro . J . F . Slater was the organist , and Bro . lames Steeple the conductor .
The Masonic Charities.
THE MASONIC CHARITIES .
Mr . F . W . Purcell annually gives the proceeds of one perfor . nmce to the Masonic Charities , and his generosity in this respect is not confined to Bury , but is shared by other towns in which he has theatres . This year his efforts were , with a characteristic generosity , supported by the renowned troupe of amateur minstrels known by the name of Minnehaha , who have contributed , by means of their performances , no less a sum than £ 1 r , o 62 16 s . iod . to Lancashire Charities , and the laudable object , together with the admirable bill of fare , was a guarantee of a
large house on Tuesday evening , the 17 th ultimo , when this Ethopian troupe occupied the boards of the Bury Theatre . The gathering wis not only a large one , but brilliant , dispensation having been granted for the brethren to appear in Craft and Royal Arch clothing . The performance was under the pitronage of Bros . Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov . G . M . East Lanes , Past G . W . Eng . ; G . Mellor , Dep . Prov . G . M . East Lanes ; Lord Stanley , Prov . S . G . W . ; H . Whitehead , Prov . J . G . W . ; and the rest of the Prov . Grand O . Ti : ers , and Masters , and brethren of the Bury and district lodges .
Among those present were Bro . J . Kenyon , M . P ., P . M . 1253 , and Mrs . Kenyon and family ; Bros . Henry Whitehead , Prov . J . G . W . ; A . Hopkinson , P . P . G . S . of Wks . ; Peter Allen , W . M ., T . Rigby , P . G . S . B . East Lines , S . Cjx , P . M ., H . Sleigh , P . M ., H . Pollard , P . M ., V . Brown , J . W ., T . Carter , Org ., O . Wild , Chap ,, R . Gregson , and j . Booth , J . D ., all of 42 ; Mitchell , S . W ., H . Edwards , J . W ., Bibby , P . M ., C . W . Wood , P . M ., J . Nuttall , P . M ., F . Wc od , Sec , F . Bradley ,
I . G ., and B . Turton , all of 12 S ; J . Frost , W . M ., J . Hoyle , S . W ., Holt , J . W ., J . Cross , S . D ., W . Dickson , Stwd ., W . B . Bell , Org ., F . W . Purcell , P . M ., P . P . A . G . D . C . East Lanes , J . Brown , F . Rhodes , J . Rostron , J . H . Slee , R . Blackburne , J . Bullivant , P . M ., O . C . Crompton , P . M ., S . F . Butcher , P . M ., J . W . Kenyon , P . M ., W . Alcock , P . M ., W . H . S . Gendall , P . M ., W . Barritt , P . M ., P . G . D . Kast Lanes , W . Balmer , P . M ., H . Sutton , I . G ., and R . Wood , all of 191 ; J . T . Newbold , P . M . and Sec , Dr . Mitchell , W . M ., F . Murgatroyd , R . K . Roberts , S . W .
W . Packman , P . M ., and F . Howarth , P . M ., all of 1035 ; T . J . Hutchinson , S . W . 2560 , W . M ., R . Pilkington , P . M ., G . W . Yapp , P . M ., G . Tinlme , P . M ., F . T . Rothwell , S . W ., J . Howarth , J . W ., and B . Hardman , J . D ., all of 1392 ; T . Cornall , 344 ; Dr . Mellor , W . M ., J . R . Bailey , J . W ., A . Bridge , and T . D . Ballard , all of 2560 ; and John Sykes , 1392 . There were also present Messrs . J . S . Walker , J . P . ; G . Horridge , J . P . ; H . Heys , J . Heys , J . P . ; J . Shaw , J . Pilling , B . G . Smith , H . Roberts , T . K . Hill , and T . B . Smith .
The performance was unfortunately delayed in starting , owing to a mishap on the railway , which delayed the troupe in their arrival , and the audience were kept waiting three-quarters of an hour longer than the time announced before the proceedings commenced . Bros . V . Brown and F . W . Purcell asked the indulgence of the audience , and it was readily granted , ' But the programme , which was a lengthy one , had necessarily to be curtailed , and the peiformance seemed to be
somewhat hurriedly gone through . Notwithstanding this , however , there was ample evidence ot the ability ot the troupe , ability of which the audience were not slow to show their appreciation , but encores were out of the q lestion . The numerical strength of the troupe is about Ho , with Mr . Oliver Gaggs as conductor . The choruses were well balanced , and the members rendered their various items in a capable manner ; indeed , all the choruses were efforts of a well-trained and able
choir of more than the usual number of voices . The corner men are a capable lot , and were Messrs . J . Allen , H . Hines , J . Allen , jun ., and J . E . Taylor , bjnes ; and Messrs . G . R . Waid , C . F . Smith , and Naylor , tambourines . lheir efforts were much appreciated , especially those of Mr . J . Allen , jun ., Mr . J . Aller , C . F . Smith , and Mr . Harry Hines , who is not unknown to a Bury audience as a clever humourist . Mr . J . \ i . Taylor's whistle solo was capital , but one of the best efforts
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Freemasonry In Antigua.
Summis Gubernatoribus ; Nee Non J OHANNE BOTT , Armigero , Sunimo Architecto P / enoque coram Fratrurn concordu E . C . elo descendit Esto Perpetual
TYPIS RODERTI MEARSS nuper summi Secretarii ; Societati Latomorum Antiguensi Typographic .
TRANSLATION . In the 25 th year cf the Reign of George III . Of the Redemption of Man 1785 , of Light 57 85 April 20 . This First Corner Stone of the Antigua Masonic Hall was laid By the most illustrious WILLIAM J ARVIS Esqre
Provincial Grand Master Assisted by the most illustrious DOCTOR THO : LYNCH Deputy Grand Master EDMUND M . MASCALL and
BOYCE LEDWELL Grand Wardens Together with
J BOTT Esqre Grand Architect In the presence of a full meeting of the Brethren . From Heaven it came , May it for ever remain !
Written by ROBERT MEARNS Deputy Grand Secretary , Recorder of the Order of Freemasons at Antigua . We also append the 1851 scroll which was placed together with the old parchment in the original corner-stone as stated :
ST . JOHN'S LODGE , No . 723 . UNDER RESOLUTION the Lodge repaired to the Freemasons' Land on St . John ' s Day 27 th December 1849 ; and for the purpose of identifying the old Buildings , extracted from the CORNER STONE , the Phial and Scroll vf Inscription deposited therein by the Lodge of 1785 ; and which this Lodge re-inserts on this 2 jth day of November , in the iS 51 si year of man's redemption , and the 3851 st of the world , preparatory to raising a superstructure upon this foundation .
AT WHICH TIME , JOSEPH SHERVINGTON was Master GEORGE C . WALTER „ Past Master JOHN SHERVINTON „ Senior Warden ROBERT McDONALD „ Junior Warden CHARLES H . CURTIS „ Treasurer FREDERICK S . JEWETT „ Secretary
SAMUEL G . NIXON „ Senior Deacon PAUL HORSFORD „ Junior Deacon MARK CONNOLLY .. Inner Guard MARK CONNOLLY Inner Guard
„ JOHN McGILVARY „ Tyler and RICHARD DOWSE „ Master Elect ROBERT KNOX „ Treasurer Elect
We have experienced all the greater pleasure in furnishing the foregoing excerpts from the pages of our worthy contemporary , as it is not often the good fortune of a lodge , which has succeeded , after a long interval of time , to other and extinct lodges , to be possessed of such valuable evidence of the proceedings of a former generation of brethren and their zeal for the Craft .
Freemasonry In Middleton.
FREEMASONRY IN MIDDLETON .
MASONIC SERVICE IN THE PARISH CHURCH . On Saturday afternoon , the 14 th ult ., a Masonic service in connection with Imperial George Lodge , No . 78 , Middleton , in the Province of East Lancashire , was held in the Middleton Parish Church . There was a good attendance of brethren , headed by the W . M ., Bro . Sam Hall . Thepreach . r was the Rev . Bro . R . W . Perry-Circuitt , M . A ., P . P . G . Chap ., and rector of St . Luke ' s , Heywood , The weather was wet , and this evidently interfered with the attendance of the general public .
The PREACHER took for his text 1 Peter , ii ., 15 : "That with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance and foolishness of men . " In the course of his remarks he said a great deal was often said about Masonry , and they knew that they had one of the very highest authorities of the Catholic Church who had denounced the Craft because it was a secret society . In that he showed , as he ( ihe preacher ) had so well said in his own church on a Masonic festival not many years ago , that if the claim of infallibility was made by him it was certainly shattered by his
attack upon their own . And yet they all knew upon what foundations rested their law , they all knew what was the grand principles which they proposed , and they all were equally aware that in those slights which were oftentimes put upon them b y those who did not know the inside world , they were sometimes spoken of as being merely a social and convivial society , a society which might prove to be a good investment in the case of sickness , or distress , or death . It was true that they had their times of convi viality , it was true that they were a society which .
Freemasonry In Middleton.
in the times of distress and sickness , or in the event of a brother ' s death , help might be given to those who needed it ; but those were only the secondary parts of their Order , and it was only those that the outside and the ignorant regarded . How , then , they asked , were they to prove to them without disguising to them those secrets about which they talked , and which they and he knew and respected so much , which were only natural to their Order as a means whereby they , as
brother Masons , might know a brother at any time , and which they were quite right in upholding , and keeping secret , aud revering ? But how could they prove that Masonry was something more than that which they asserted ? Just as Christians , they were told that by acting up to their faith and the principles upon which that faith was built , they could prove to the outside world the true and the deep meaning of their Society . Faith , love , and true Christian Charity , were these
not the true principles upon which true Masonry was founded ? It was not that they should see what was basest or vile , weak or infirm in a brother man , but they ought to see on everyone the stamp of the Great Architect ' s mirk , one Who had His formation , one Who was created by Him , and so deserved all their honour . They were bound to honour all men with the love of a brother . Love was another of their foundations . They should'always be ready to see in a brother
that which they could honour and love— -love with an affection which knitted heart to heart , and which so made them by that union members of one great family . They were all material ; they had their evil tempers as well as their good natures , and sometimes they were tempted to lose sight of the fact that they found fault with a brother , when he in his turn might rightly find fault with them . Brotherly love in its truest and highest sense levelled these little hillocks of human nature
Let them remember that there was between them a love as one brother to another , not only as the children of one common Father , but also as bound together as brethren in the Grand Masonic cause . Fear God ! Not with that slavish fear which hath torments , but with a reverence and holy fear born of honour and of love which in that measure the child feels for its maternal parent . It was well for the outside to know that a lodge was never opened or closed without a prayer
to God , and the youngest member was taught that in all his actions outside and inside the eye of the Almighty God rested upon him . Wherever they mi ght be they were bound as faithful members of God to give true obedience to those who were set over them . He thought that by well doing they might hope to silence the ignorance of those who sometimes spoke if not in an evil spirit , at least in a slighting manner of their Order .
During the service the anthem , ' Behold , how good and joyful a thing it is " ( Clarke-Whitfeld ) , was sung , the bass solo being taken by Bro . Harlow , and the duet by Masters Astley and Matthews . Mr . J . Holt sang "The Holy Shrine , " and the anthtm , " I have surely built Thee an house" ( Boyce ) , was given by the choir , the verse parts by Messrs . Moss and Holt , and Bro . Fitton .
After the service the anthem , * ' Rejoice in the Lord ahvay" ( Puree !!) , was rendered , Messrs Holt , Steeple , and Fitton giving the verse parts . Bro . J . F . Slater was the organist , and Bro . lames Steeple the conductor .
The Masonic Charities.
THE MASONIC CHARITIES .
Mr . F . W . Purcell annually gives the proceeds of one perfor . nmce to the Masonic Charities , and his generosity in this respect is not confined to Bury , but is shared by other towns in which he has theatres . This year his efforts were , with a characteristic generosity , supported by the renowned troupe of amateur minstrels known by the name of Minnehaha , who have contributed , by means of their performances , no less a sum than £ 1 r , o 62 16 s . iod . to Lancashire Charities , and the laudable object , together with the admirable bill of fare , was a guarantee of a
large house on Tuesday evening , the 17 th ultimo , when this Ethopian troupe occupied the boards of the Bury Theatre . The gathering wis not only a large one , but brilliant , dispensation having been granted for the brethren to appear in Craft and Royal Arch clothing . The performance was under the pitronage of Bros . Col . Le Gendre N . Starkie , Prov . G . M . East Lanes , Past G . W . Eng . ; G . Mellor , Dep . Prov . G . M . East Lanes ; Lord Stanley , Prov . S . G . W . ; H . Whitehead , Prov . J . G . W . ; and the rest of the Prov . Grand O . Ti : ers , and Masters , and brethren of the Bury and district lodges .
Among those present were Bro . J . Kenyon , M . P ., P . M . 1253 , and Mrs . Kenyon and family ; Bros . Henry Whitehead , Prov . J . G . W . ; A . Hopkinson , P . P . G . S . of Wks . ; Peter Allen , W . M ., T . Rigby , P . G . S . B . East Lines , S . Cjx , P . M ., H . Sleigh , P . M ., H . Pollard , P . M ., V . Brown , J . W ., T . Carter , Org ., O . Wild , Chap ,, R . Gregson , and j . Booth , J . D ., all of 42 ; Mitchell , S . W ., H . Edwards , J . W ., Bibby , P . M ., C . W . Wood , P . M ., J . Nuttall , P . M ., F . Wc od , Sec , F . Bradley ,
I . G ., and B . Turton , all of 12 S ; J . Frost , W . M ., J . Hoyle , S . W ., Holt , J . W ., J . Cross , S . D ., W . Dickson , Stwd ., W . B . Bell , Org ., F . W . Purcell , P . M ., P . P . A . G . D . C . East Lanes , J . Brown , F . Rhodes , J . Rostron , J . H . Slee , R . Blackburne , J . Bullivant , P . M ., O . C . Crompton , P . M ., S . F . Butcher , P . M ., J . W . Kenyon , P . M ., W . Alcock , P . M ., W . H . S . Gendall , P . M ., W . Barritt , P . M ., P . G . D . Kast Lanes , W . Balmer , P . M ., H . Sutton , I . G ., and R . Wood , all of 191 ; J . T . Newbold , P . M . and Sec , Dr . Mitchell , W . M ., F . Murgatroyd , R . K . Roberts , S . W .
W . Packman , P . M ., and F . Howarth , P . M ., all of 1035 ; T . J . Hutchinson , S . W . 2560 , W . M ., R . Pilkington , P . M ., G . W . Yapp , P . M ., G . Tinlme , P . M ., F . T . Rothwell , S . W ., J . Howarth , J . W ., and B . Hardman , J . D ., all of 1392 ; T . Cornall , 344 ; Dr . Mellor , W . M ., J . R . Bailey , J . W ., A . Bridge , and T . D . Ballard , all of 2560 ; and John Sykes , 1392 . There were also present Messrs . J . S . Walker , J . P . ; G . Horridge , J . P . ; H . Heys , J . Heys , J . P . ; J . Shaw , J . Pilling , B . G . Smith , H . Roberts , T . K . Hill , and T . B . Smith .
The performance was unfortunately delayed in starting , owing to a mishap on the railway , which delayed the troupe in their arrival , and the audience were kept waiting three-quarters of an hour longer than the time announced before the proceedings commenced . Bros . V . Brown and F . W . Purcell asked the indulgence of the audience , and it was readily granted , ' But the programme , which was a lengthy one , had necessarily to be curtailed , and the peiformance seemed to be
somewhat hurriedly gone through . Notwithstanding this , however , there was ample evidence ot the ability ot the troupe , ability of which the audience were not slow to show their appreciation , but encores were out of the q lestion . The numerical strength of the troupe is about Ho , with Mr . Oliver Gaggs as conductor . The choruses were well balanced , and the members rendered their various items in a capable manner ; indeed , all the choruses were efforts of a well-trained and able
choir of more than the usual number of voices . The corner men are a capable lot , and were Messrs . J . Allen , H . Hines , J . Allen , jun ., and J . E . Taylor , bjnes ; and Messrs . G . R . Waid , C . F . Smith , and Naylor , tambourines . lheir efforts were much appreciated , especially those of Mr . J . Allen , jun ., Mr . J . Aller , C . F . Smith , and Mr . Harry Hines , who is not unknown to a Bury audience as a clever humourist . Mr . J . \ i . Taylor's whistle solo was capital , but one of the best efforts