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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

W . B . —You have not complied with the usual requirements of correspondents , and we are unable therefore to discuss the question you state .

The following communications stand over—CRAFT LODGES -. —Nos . 521 , 1 5 12 , 1675 , 1793 , 19 S 9 . R . A . CHAPTERS : —NOS . 94 , 236 , 243 , 1461 , 1530 . ALLIED MASONIC DEGREES : —Metropolitan Council , 1 . NOTES AND QUERIES : —The Monograde Theory . Prov . G . Mark Lodge of the Mediterranean . Temperance Freemasonry in the West .

BOOKS , & c ., RECEIVED . " Die Banliiitte , " " Sunday Times" ( New York ) , " Western Morning News , " " Jewish Chronicle , " "The Builder , " "Sunday Times " ( London ) , ••Broad Arrow , " "Citizen , " " Effective Advertiser , " "Court Circular , " "Hull Packet , " "Cadiz Masonico , " " Little One ' s Own Paper , " " The Lancet , " " Trade Circular , " " Voice of Masonry , " "Daily Telegraph" ( Melbourne ) , " The > ictorian Freemason , " and " Keystone . "

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wreSas^S SATURDAY , MAY 9 , 1885 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

the - - ° notnol < 1 ourselves responsible for , or even approving ot of t ° ?"" onsex Pr <' ssl' < ll > y ourcorrespondents . but we wish in asplrit ir play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free iiscussion , ] — .

NORTHERN COUNTIES LODGE . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " uear Sir and Brother , bretr , ™ ! h ? ve had several Ietters about the above from sav th 7 . xlous t 0 promote the movement . Permit me to abletn ^ n y ° . valuable paper , that I hope shortly to be •n the ™ A . ? , ' £ > and tru 5 t as many as take an interest j 'ne matter will favour me by attending . lodge " r ? x ^ everal s r ugRest , ' ? ns as tothe name ° f the u ffe . The Counties Lodge , " " The Yorkshire Lodge , "

Original Correspondence.

" The Provinces Lodge , "The Yorkshire and Lancashire Lodge , " and "The Northern Counties Lodge " have been suggested . Any brother seeing this , and wishing to assist , will oblige by sending me his name , address , & c , and any suggestions he may have to make .

My time is rather pressing just now ; but 1 hope to say more about the matter in your issueof the iGth inst . Thanking you in advance—I am , yours fraternally , J . S . CUMBERLAND , P . M ., P . P . G . W . N . and E . Yorks .

AN ENOUIRY . To the Editor of me "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother ,-In the Freemason of the iSth ult . appeared a letter headed as above and signed " Hibernian . " Having had occasion some few months ago to study the question mooted , I think I am in a position to answer the queries

put . In Ireland , when not convenient for a candidate to receive all his Craft Degrees in the same lodge , the custom is , the initiating lodge requests another lodge to confer , as a favour , the Second and Third Degrees ( as the case may be ) , which is invariably done , and , as far as I know , without any extra fees . The same custom prevails in England ,

but some lodges do charge extra fees for each Degree so conferred . An English lodge , however , has not the power of conferring Degrees on a brother initiated under a foreign Constitution without first making him a member of the lodge ; having done this , all would now appear to be plain sailing , as we have the Rules bearing on the point , viz ., iSo ,

igo , and 2 i 3 , ( E . C . ) Still there is a hitch . Rule iSgrequires the production of a Grand Lodge Certificate . Now the Grand Lodge of Ireland does not issue certificates under the rank of R . M . ( the Grand Lodge of England does , Rule 200 ) . Being a subscribing member of lodges in both countries , and being interested in a case exactly as described by

" Hibernian , " I got into correspondence with the Secretaries of both the Grand Lodges on the subject , when I elicited the information as to the rule marked in italics referring to foreign Constitutions , and also that the Grand Secretary of Ireland would record the name when officially returned to him as having been initiated , & c ., and give a letter to that effect which would answer all the purposes of a certificate .

If all the Degrees were taken in Ireland , the initiating lodge obtains the R . M . certificate -, if in England , Rule 200 answers the query ; if part in Ireland and part in England , I should say that either or both could obtain certificates . From the absence of any rule in the Constitutions of either country bearing on the case , it would appear that all

lodges by virtue of their warrants have the power of conferring Degrees , subject , of course , to the rules of their respective Grand Lodges , but it would be better if there were a distinct rule on the question for our guidance , as , to my own knowledge , the English rule with respect to foreign Constitutions is not generally known . —Yours fraternally , Clonmel , 4 + ( I . C . ) CHAS . FFENNELL .

ANSWER TO THE CONTINUAL MASONIC ENQUIRIES . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Being associated with our Grand Secretary , Bro . Murray Lyon , in preparing an inventory of the library bequeathed to the Grand Lodge ot Scotland by the late Dr . Morison , of Greenfield , I am daily coming across the most

remarkable documents on Freemasonry , as well in print as in manuscript . As I frequently see in your valuable paper remarks , correspondence , and controversy respecting Constitutions and old lodges in this country and France and Germany , Sic , I would advise all these correspondents to postpone their enquiries and answers till the catalogue of our library shall appear , which , containing over 3000 works ,

1 can firmly state is the richest and the rarest in the world . Dr . Morison , who resided a long time in France , always purchased either by private treaty ( which his writing and signature on the works testify ) or at public sales the rarest works . I have before me Dr . Kloss ' s bibliography and several catalogues of Masonic works , and I find that we possess all these works in ancient as well as modern languages , with the exception of some German works , which

have no connection with our Masonry , or are only translations of the former ones ; besides , Dr . Kloss ignores , or did not know , the existence of many others which are in the possession of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . —I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , JOHN THOMAS LOTH , Dr . Ph ., 33 " , P . M . 4 S , the last Representive of the Grand Orient of France , Member of College of Rites , & c . May 4 th .

PRINTING AND PUBLISHING . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Will you kindly give your valuable opinion on the following , as Rule 205 , Book of Constitutions , is silent thereon : Whether , as W . M . of a Craft lodge , I am entitled to place a brother ' s name on the lodge summons

after notice of motion has been given for his exclusion , and whether it would be considered un-Masonic and a libel , after receiving a notice from the said brother protesting against such action , and whether you would not consider it wiser to be done in the usual course as when members are excluded or erased for non-payment of arrears ? Of course such summons must inevitably fall into the hands of those

who are strangers to our art , from the compositor and printer downwards . I enclose my card , and remain , yours fraternally , a W . M . [ It appears to be held by Masonic authority that it is proper to give the name of the brother proposed to be excluded , and that it constitutes no libel to do so . Such also appears to have been the opinion of Bro . Mr , Justice Field in a well-known case . —ED . F . M . ]

At the meeting- of the Court of Common Council on Thursday , the 30 th ult ., Bro . Alderman De Keyser moved a congratulatory address to the King of the Bel g ians on the great work his Majesty had done for civilisation , throwing open to the trade and commerce of the world the resources of the new Free State of the Conco .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

592 ] THE MYSTERIES . In looking over to-day certain works , I think it right to point out that we find a word for a scribe " Grammatia , " and that there is a Latin word " Graminateus " from the identical Greek word . " Laois Aphesis " is the Greek

termination for the ceremonies often in the temples , according to Apuleius , when the crowd is dismissed ; and we also hear of the " Konx Ompax " of the mysteries , mysterious words which would seem to answer to certain similarly sounding Sanscrit words . Lobeck , however , denies the correctness of the allegation of their use . MASONIC STUDENT .

593 ] STATUTES OF 1743 AND 1755 . Bro . " A . F . A . W . " is indeed hard to please . A French lodge at Versailles copies into its minute book a code of Grand Lodge laws . This lodge was a daughter of Grande Loge Anglaise de France . This identical minute booknot a copy of it—is still in evidence , and Bio . " A . F . A . VV . " doubts whether the code represents the Constitutions of Grand Lodge . Will he state what else they could

possibly be ? In the other case , a French lodge established in Frankfort in 1761 has for its Master an artist of repute , named Mund . Mund procures from another French lodge a code of laws , professing to be those of the Grand Lodge of France , dated 1 755 , and copies these on to parchment for the use of his own lodge . Later on , Mund sells this and other MSS . to Frankfort Masons , who nrescnt them to

Klosz , and this identical MS . of 1761 is still to the fore . Now , a copy of a 1755 document , made in 17 G 1 , and signed by a well-known Mason ( the interval is only six years ) , and which has since never been lost sight of , is good evidence as far as it goes . The transcriber was not nameless , but thoroughly well known ; the two French lodges at Frankfort are matters of history ; the transmitter , Kloszis no myth

, , but also well known , and the identical document is now at the Hague . I possess an attested copy of the same—that is , of the manuscript elaborated by Mund , and , although Bro . " A . F . A . VV . " looks coldly upon this copy of a copy , the Grand Lodge at Frankfort thinks so differently in

the matter , that , at their request , I have furnished them with a copy of my copy , to be placed in their archives . There is nothing to ascertain . The original Mund MS ., from which Kiosz quoted , is now at the Hague , as I thought I had already made plain , and an accurate attested copy is at the editor ' s service whenever he likes to print it . G . VV . SPETH .

594 } . FRANKFORT MS . Ihe MS . in form of an apron now at ; Frankfort , dated 1761 , turns out not to be a second copy of the above code of 1755 . hut a certificate granted to the same Bro . Mund , as hlu Ecossais Anglais . It is curiously illuminated and fashioned , and a rough facsimile in colours , attested as

correct , has been forwarded to me by Grand Lodge of Frankfort , and is now in my possession . It contains the names of many of the French lodges working in Frankfort at that date , owing to the presence of a French army of occupation . G . W . SPETH . 595 ] THE RIT ECOSSAIS . We ought all to be obliged to Bro . Speth for the interesting " precis " he has given us of the learned and lamented Schiffmann ' s views on this vexed question . I , tor one , have never been able to master the point of the Rit Ecossais , or how it took its rise in France . It has always seemed more than doubtful to me whether Ramsay had anything to

do with the movement at all , and though it is just possible that the Jacobites , finding Freemasonry ready to their hands , used it for theirown party purposes , I have always hesitated to accept the full German view on the Jacobite origin of the High Grades . The alleged charters from the Chevalier St . George are all very doubtful . The only possible connection with Scotland , as it seems to me , would be through the Order

"Royal , " and it has often occurred tome whether we have not in that Order and Legend the foundation of the Rit Ecossais , so-called , in France . It may be a little farfetched perhaps to derive " Ecossais " from " Acassois ; " but Schiffmann was a most learned and even-minded man , an honest seeker after truth , and his words and theories deserve from all students respectful study and consideration . A . F . A . VV .

59 G ] THE INVERNESS CHARTER . I quite agree with " VV . O . " that the arguments in favour both of the credibility and accuracy of the petitioners in 173 G-7 are many and marked . As " W . O . " truly puts it , there was no use in such apocryphal statements , and in reality they could do no possible good . The fact that the statement that the lodge has admitted , passed , and raised since 1 O 7 S was not made by the petitioners , but was a

gratuitous allegation by the Grand Lodge Scribe , is a point of very great importance . As " W . O . " says , there probably were other allegations sent to Grand Lodge . In the petition itself we are struck both by the clearness and minuteness of the statement . Before 176 S , the minutes were kept " man iregular manner , " on "baffles of paper , " a mode in which many lodges , both north and south of

Berwick imitated them , but on the 27 th December , 167 S , a book was given in by the Hon . W . Mcintosh , Bro . German to the then Laird of Mcintosh , who was then chosen Master of the lodge . They then proceed to give a record of regular meetings and elections . At that date , Bros . Mackintosh was chosen Master , A . Nicolsoji , Senior , Andrew Ross , Junior Wardens , and D . D . Ross , Boxmaster . The same officers are said to have continued in

office until 15 th November , 16 S 1 , when W . Hendrie was chosen Boxmaster or Treasurer , and the above members continued until 1 st December , 1 CS 4 , when John McBean was chosen Junior Warden , and Andrew Ross , Treasurer and " ye rest" continued until 27 th December , 1 G 92 , when James Barbour was chosen Master , John Reed , Senior , and John Heburn , Junior Wardens , and Andrew Ross continued until 27 th December , 16 99 , when J . Heburn was chosen Master , John Reed , Senior , and Robert