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y E " — d bg tn solemn prayer . The companions afterwards partook he supper , and a very pleasant evening was spent . W . ' ¦•'' ire - * . J- So * * - - W . M . of the parent lodge , was to have le en exalted , but weighty reasons prevented his being asfesent at this meeting , to his regret . 'Iee | Hi . f

ndfGOSPORT . —Gosport Chapter ( No . 903 ) . —A helecial meeting was held on Tuesday , the 6 th inst ., for the ir tfirpose of installing thc Principalsfor thc eniuing year . The anlllowing companions were installed and invested : Con p \ iust . S . Main , PZ . 342 . as Z . ; C . B . Whitcomh , H . ;

1 afalentine Brown , f . ; F . Powell , Scribe E . ; li . IV . Mitchell , ititlciibe N . ; R . VV . Downing , P . S . ; Count Des' Geneys , ai | . S . ; A . L . Emanuel , A . S . ; J . W . Stroud , Treas . ; L . 5 Janvin , Janitor- A f ' er the business of the chapter had tieSem transacted the First Principal presented E . Comp . uagcorge Felton Lancaster , I . P . Z ., with a P . Z . ' s jewtl , Suitably engraved , as a mark of the high esteem in which etc is held by the chapter . ir ' l

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

Cu AN EXTINCT LODGE . m * Bro . Hughan in his " Sketches and Reprints" alludes mito the lodge formerly held at thc Punch Bowl Inn , iu

, jgtonegate , York , and numbered 239 , observing that ' its mjpareer was very short , yet noteworthy . " Perhaps an exietamination of the minute book of this extinct body , which itijxists in thc collection of the York Lodge , No . 236 , may Itffcpay the trouble . This book is a small quarto , containicjjng about sixty leaves , and on the parchment cover is initScribed "J . Granger , Secretary , 1761 . " On the first page

Gils ' The manner of drawing out certificates , wnicri was jftas follows : — Jf " Monday , thc 176 , ( " We , the underwritten Master , Wardens , and brethren tjjof the lodge held at the Punch Bowl in Stone Gate , York , ijldo certify that Mr . was this day by us made rfaiid initiated a Free and Accepted Mason , having received

him into thc 2 first Degrees of the Craft . And bjr these do recommend him to all brethren to accept the said brother as being duly such , as witness our hands on the above mention'd day and date . Master .

I Wardens . I Past Master . I Treasurer . if Secretary . " ¦ The first minute is that of the opening night , 2 nd Febrularv , 1761 , when Bros . Frodsham was in the chair ; Oram , £ ir i £ ¦

» .. , . . , , r r . . I r «* u — J * ~ S . VV . ; Lcng , J . W . ; Granger , Secretary-, and four other ^ brethren , presumably thc founders . There were also eight jjvisitors , one of whom was elected a member then and Jtherc . 'The lodge was held fortnightly on Mondays , and ' ' jseems at first to have been well attended , and have hatl a | fgood supply of candidates , the fcis ( or thc two first

Depgrccs being about a guinea-ar . d-a-half . On the luih I March a candidate was made in consideration - > f his fur-J nishing the lodge wilh three candlesticks . On the 20 th jt April a brother , who had received the two first Degrees on I the 16 th February , " was raised a Master , " and paid | -1 is . 6 d . for thc privilege-, and at the same meeting the I S . W . was fined 6 d . for nol attending at the hour appointed .

£ fines were not unfrcquent , and at the very next meeting a '; , brother was fined Oil . " for sitting down in the lodge t not properly cloathed . " The two first Degrees were given t in one night , but the third always occupied a night to i itself . On the 12 th May the following entry occurs ,

"This night it was unanimously agreed that the Deputys in the Old Officers' Room should be as follows "—and then come the names of five brethren as W . M ., S . W ., J . W ., P . M ., and Secretary . 'I his set of officers , I gather from succeeding minutes , was merely it . tended to act in case of the absence of ihe regular ones , for nn the 7 th December

of the same year Bro . Beckwith , who was the Deputy W . M ., is entered as having occupied the chair , and has D . R . W . alter his name . The Treasurer ' s current account appears in the minutes , and there srems never to have been very much in hand , the tavern bill ( which , howrver , it must be noted to Mrs . Chaddock's , the landlady ' s , credit ,

was always vcry reasonable ) swallowing a good share . On the 15 th June , I ; 6 I , I find an entry of 9 s . 41 I . expended on lodge candlis sent to Hull ; and from similar cntiiis through thc book 1 gather that Hull was not in those c ' aj s ftnious for its chandlery . On the 17 th August two brethren , who had been fined 61 ) . each for

non-attendance , n . ade " proper excufes and were pardoned their fires . " The next minute cf consequence was passed on the 23 rd August , 1761 , thus : " At this lodge , consisting only of Masters , after a debate whether these officers who shall come after the time mentioned in the summonses shall forfeit sixpence and lose the chair for that night , it

was and is hereby ordered by the majority present that any officer who shall come after the lime above shall take his proper jewel from the brother then in possession of it , and assume his own seat and pay sixpence for his neglect of duty . And this for the future to be a standing rule of this lodge ; " and further , " At this lodge it is further ordered

that no brother shall be raised to the Third Degree , if 3 w rr . o'e aie against him . " ' 1 lie fust election of Matter and officers took place on the 21 st December , 17 ( 11 , when the Deputy , Bro . M . Beckwith , was chiscn ; the Wardens , Past Maslt-i , Treasurer , and Secretary also being elected hy the members . On the 4 th January , 17 62 , an Entered

Apprentice petitioned to be made a Fellow Craft , and was accepted and made . A dinner was held also on that day "in commemoration of St . John ' s Day . " At this lodge it was also arranged lhat the Secretary should be excused the Payment of quarterages in view of his services , and that

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an annual balance-sheet and list of members be made out and sent to " the Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , or Grand Secretary , as shall be thought most requisite . " The installation of Bro . Beckwith took place on January 18 th , and is thus recor . ler ' .: " At this lodge , after a learned and earnest exhortation to the new elected Master and other officers from the late Worshipful Master ,

Bro . Frodsham , to support the dignity and maintain the harmony of the lodge ; Bro . Malby B-ckwilh as Master ; Bro . Moone as Senior Warden ; antl Bro . Barker as Junior Warden , wer <* , by our said late Worshipful Master , sworn and installed accordingly . After which hc , our said late Right Worshipful Master , condescended to become the Pass-Master of this worshipful lodge for the year ensuing ,

pursuant to thc resolutions and votes of the lodge held the 2 ist of December last , and took the seat and jewel of our late worthy Pass-Master , Bro . Crisp , accordingly . At this lodge , after the late Master Frodsham had delivered his before-mentioned charge , it was unanimously requested that he would be pleased to permit the s erne to be published , which he agreed to . " This charee was published ,

and went through more than one edition . I possess the late Dr . Oliver's copy of an edition , published at Newcastle , in 1772 , with a tail-piece by Bewick , and which is entitled " A Charge delivered to the most antient and honorable society of Free and Accepted Masons in a lodge held at the Punch-Boll , in Stonegate , York , upon Friday , the 18 th day of January , 1762 , by Bro . Frodsham , at his

dismission of the chair . " Bro . Oram , who was the first Senior Warden , but who docs not appear to have ever passed the chair , was connected wilh thc York Theatre , and in the collection of thc Eboracum Lodge , No . 1611 , is an old play-bill of that theatre , announcing that on the 5 th February , 1791 ( just about the date when thc Grand Lodge of All England was at its last gasp ) , woultl be performed

( " by desire of the ancient and honourable society of Free and Accepted Masons , for thc benefit of Mr . Oram " ) the "Merchant of Venice , " thc " Irish Widow , " and " A Trip to Scarborough . " About this time I notice several French names amongst thc lists of visitors , as Villcfort , L'Aine ' , La Viliaine , Du Frcsnc , Lc Pcllicr , Tcmeau , De-Ia-Rut-, and others . On the ist February it is recorded : "At this

lodge , it being judged proper to have Stewards to take care that the brethren be well served , the motion was made , and Bros . John Palmes and Dalton were nominated to act as Stewards , who werc accordingly approved of , and , in accepting the office , were thanked by the lotlge , and drank

to in due order . " At a meeting in March it was agreed that every brother shoultl provide his own apron , and that every new member shoultl pay a shilling for one * . The lodge appears to have hatl a Masonic library , for , on the 15 th March , it is recorded that " Bro . J . Palmes borrowed the Duodecimo Book of Architecture . " Fines for

non-attendance now became vcry frequent , and the meetings began to get smaller ; very few candidates seem tn have come forward , and the funds in hand were so small that visitois were charged their share of the reckoning . In December Bro . Seth Agar was elected VV . M ., and on the 3 rd January , 17 63 , was installed in the chair . After this matters were a little more brisk and attendances better .

In May the lodge sent a guinea to the Grand Treasurer "for the benefit of the General Charity . " There was irregular Masonry at work in these days , for on September 26 th , 1763 , " a Fellow Craft ' s lodge being opened , Bro . John Bodens , having been made an E . P . and M . M . at Scarborough in an irregular manmer , petitioned to be made a F . C , who , being

proposed and balloted for , was unanimously approved of and matle accordingly . " At the next met ting this brother was raised , anil in consideration of his having previously paid for two Degrees was let off with 11 s . Od . At the November meeting Bro . Agar , R . W . M ., " generously offered to stand and execute the office of M . for the year ensuing , " but whether the lodge continued to exist

during the whole of that year is doubtful , for the book closes with the minute of the January meeting in 17 G 4 . Other minutes may , of course , have been kept in another book , or on loose papers , as in the case of the Grand Lotlge at York , but as Bro , Seth Agar , the W . M ., soon afterwards became G . M . of All England , it seems probable that the superior assumption of the Grand Lodge

had eclipsed the humbler Punch Bowl Lodge , vnd thai the latter was deserted by its members . In my copy ot "Caleott ' s Candid Disquisition , " published in 1769 , I find several of these York brethren in the list of subscribers . Agar is mentioned , also J . Tasker , the Deputy Grand Master of the lotlge , and a member of the Punch

Bowl Lotlge , who would appear to have been a tailor , as in the Punch Bowl minutes he is paid so much for " a pair of drawers for the candidates . " "The lodge at York" is also booked for ten copies , and Bto . George Palmes , R . W . M . of that year , appears on the list . Like most old minutes these are miserably meagre , and consist of very little more than names and cash accounts . T . B . WHYTEHEAD .

York . By a printer's error " John Mark Goldsworthy " should be " John Heath Goldsworthy , " ( and I call Bro . Gould's attention to the fact ) , who was initiated in Lodge No . 194 , (• Vr . tients ) , on February Oth , 1806 . How the little error arose I know not . Lodge 194 met at the Cooper ' s Arms , Smithfield . I shall lie very happj' , I repeat , to hand over to the lodge which now represents 194 the minute b-jok marked No . 3 . A . F . A . W .

A MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM . 1 quite agree with Bro . Gould on the point that a Masonic library and museum should one day be established . I have often expressed the hope before , and if now such a library is established I have many Masonic works and MSS . which 1 shall gladly hand over to that library . MASONIC STUDENT .

Reviews.

Reviews .

BREVKFASTS AND LUNCHEONS AT HOME . By Short . Kerby and Endean , 190 , Oxford-street . We have looked over this little useful publication with much interest , For what is more important than agoorj breakfast ? and for the ladies ( nav , the men too , for that , our young men especially ) , a befitting luncheon ? One's mouth waters still , even in one ' s old age , at this mention of

" light trifles " and " savoury pkits , " and vie remember with a sigh how greatly the crutle attempts at customary English cookery have imprinted deeply on our retentive minds , as well as stomachs , the sense of passing indigestion . Mr . Perker warned Mr . Pickwick , in thc ever famous case of " Bardell versus Pickwick , " how important a good breakfast is to a juryman on such vital occasions of domestic

embroilment , and we can only say that we have known the most important results fro u a good or a bad breakfast , and vice vers , *! . We think then that the thanks of all are due to those who seek to render such necessary meal ; light , wholesome , and appetizing , as there can be no greater mistake than to go on day by day , and year by year , indulging in food whose normal consequences are indigestion ,

biliousness , or sending for that cheerful and amiable ami de famille , the medical attendant , to indulge in blue pill , or ' the more modern " Euonymine . " So we welcome " Short ' s" little book as coming from an " Amicus Curice" in every sense , and we trust that its easy and sensible pages may be carefully read by many , and especially impressed on that most important

section of the community—our cooks . We will not say that we might not , we think , suggest one or two little improvements iu the " Recipes , " but on the whole we have never read a clearer , more sensible , or more seasonable little work . Above all it is most admirably printed . We commend it earnestly to all those good housewives who wish to preserve health and to make their home and their husbands comfoitablc .

THE TRUE AND ROMANTIC HISTORY OF WILLIAM PIGG , EsQ ., M . P . FOR HAMPSHIRE . By the Hon . CIIAIU . OTTE ELLIS . Kerby anel Endean , 190 , Oxford-street . This amusing " Jeu tl'Esprit" comes from Messrs' . Kciby and Endean , very favourably known as effective puhli-ihcrs . illustrated by the skilful pencil of the Hon .

Charlotte Ellis , the poetical accompaniment being by the Rev . H . A . Martin , M . A . It is one of thc best printed works of the season , so prolific in Christmas books and New Year reminiscences , and we have laughed heartily at it , both in its pen and pencil perfoimances , and can safely recommend it to the notice of many who arc looking out

for a book for the young or for the drawing room table . There is much originality in thc idea , and it is most skilfully developed and concluded , ui . til you put down the book with a sense of reality mingled with pleased appreciation , which many mere serious writings fail to excite . We have no doubt that it will tiavel far and wide , and be appreciated by young and old .

Consecration Of The New Masonic Hall, Southampton.

CONSECRATION OF THE NEW MASONIC HALL , SOUTHAMPTON .

The suite of buildings which has been erected in Albion-place , Southampton , by the Southampton Masonic Hall Company , for the accommodation of thc Freemasons of Southampton and thc neighbourhood , was formally openetl on Monday , the 29 th ult ., by the Right Worshipful

Bro . VV . W . B . Beach , M . P ., P . G . M . of Hampshire anil the Isle of Wight , in the presence of a large attendance . A special meeting of the Provinciil Grantl Lodge hail been convened for thc consecration , and the attendance , if we except the centennial celebration of the Royal Gloucester Lodge some seven years ago , when the Grand Master of England antl his officers came to the town , was probably

as large as has ever been seen at any Masonic ceremony in Southampton . The principal elevation of the hall , the corner stone of which was laid by the P . G . M . on the 24 th of March last , is in the Italian style of architecture , freely treated , faces Albion-terrace , antl is fifty feet in length ; the side elevations , facing the Forest-view roadway , extending about 73 ft . The passage , five feet wide ,

is approached by an arched porch , paved with encaustic tiles , with a passage antl a corridor or lobby , nine feet long , leading to a cloak room , with bay windows overlooking the Western Shore . There is an ante-room or chapter-room , 20 ft . 4 ' m . by 18 ft . 9111 ., with a height of eleven feet , its bay windows also overlooking the Western Shore , the apartment being a very pleasant one . Thc

lodge room , 45 ft . long by 30 ft . wide , and iSfc . high , is lighted by two lanterns from the roof , and " sunlight " and gas pendants . There is a banqueting room , facing Albion-terrace , 3 8 ft . Oin . by 25 ft ., and i 81 t . high , together with a kitchen , wash-house , pantry , and serving passage , and back entrance from Forest-view . On the one pair floor , over the ante-room , are four rooms and other

accommodation for the resident Tyler . The material is of white blick in all the exposed parts , with dressings putly in moulded brick , and of stone to the architraves and pediments . The roofs are slated and tik-capped . The plan a / together is adapted to a very irregular frontage in Forest-view . The architect was Bro . J . G . Poole , of Portlandstreet , and the builder , Bro . S . Stevens , who have both carried out the work in a manner that has commanded the

highest approval of the shareholders and the brethren generally , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master ( Bro . W . Hickman , P . M . ) being the Chairman of the Company , with Bro . J . R . Weston , P . M ., Vice-Chairman ; Bro . R . Sharpe , Secretary ; and several other brethren selected by tbe shareholders as co-directors . The P . G . M . arrived shortly after two o ' clock , and was received by thc D . P . G . M . and P . G . Lodge Officeis . The