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CONTENTS . LEADERS— PAGE Crementaria Hibernica ... ... ... ¦•• ••• 1 S 5 The New Zealand Question ... ... ... ••• 'S 6 Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire ... ... .. 18 7

Consecration of the Albany Lodge No . 2652 ... ... ... 1 S 7 Ladies * Night of the Papyrus Lodge , No . 2562 ... ... .-. iSS Annual Supper of the Whittington Lodge of Instruction , No . S 62 ... ... iSS Jubilee of St . Matthew ' s Lodge , No . 539 ... ... ... ... 1 S 8 Presentation to Comp . Sam Gamman , of the Mount Lebanon Chapter ,

No . 435 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... i 3 S The Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund for London ... ... ... 1 S 9 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... •¦• 1 S 9 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... i 9 ° Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ' 9 Knights Templar ... ... ... ... ... ... ' 91 Red Cross of Rome and Constantine ... ... ... 1 9 1 Ladies' Night of the Faith Lodge , No . 141 ... ... ... ' 9

MASONIC NOTESGrand Lodge Honours ... ... ... ... ... 193 Quarterly General Court Girls'School ... ... ... ... 193 Grand Chapter of Scotland ... ... ... ... ... 193 Consecration of the Liscard Lodge , No . 26 57 ... ... ... 193 Consecration of the Newhouse Chapter , No . 2433 ... ... ... 193

Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... 194 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls ( Quarterly General Court ) ... ... 194 Lodge and Chapter of Instruction ... ... ... ... ... 194 Obituary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 195 Easter Railway Facilities ... ... ... ... ... 195 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 19 6

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NOTICE . In consequence of Friday next being Good Friday , the "Freemason" will be published on the evening of Thursday , April 15 th , instead of Friday , as usual .

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C ? MENTARIA HIBERNICA . *

Towards the close of our article in last week ' s issue on Bro CRAWLEY ' S work , we suggested that the mention of certain works—comprising ANDERSON'S Constitutions , 173 S ; DASSIGNY ' S work of 1 744 ; SPRATT ' S Constitutions ( Ireland ) . 1751

and the "Antient" "Ahiman Rezon " of I 756 , 1764 , and 177 S —in a letter of LAURENCE DERMOTT , as entered in the Atholl minutes of 27 th December , 178 4 , must be regarded as strong

evidence in support of the theory as to " the Early Homogeneity of the Craft , " as propounded in the section of this Fasciculus devoted to Bro . W . SMITH and his manuals . But

there is a still earlier corroboration of tins theory whicli is to be found in the " Antient" Grand Committee Minutes of thc Gth December , 1752 , wherein it is stated that " They ( thc " Antients " ) found the freemasons from Ireland and Scotland

had been initiated in the very same manner as themselves , which confirm'd their system and practice as right and just , without which none could be deem'd legal though possessed of all the books and papers on Earth . " This corroborative

evidence , which for the moment we had lost sight of , is important because Scotland is mentioned , thereby enlarging Bro . CRAWLEY ' area of homogeneity and enhancing the value of his theory .

As regards Bro . SMITH ' S "Pocket Companions , " Bro . CRAWLEY enters very minutely into the points of agreement and divergence between the two editions , which are to be accounted for in the majority of cases by the fact of one having been

published in London and the other in Dublin , and which are very minutel y and very carefully noted by him . In reference to flic "Collection of the Songs of Masons , both Old and New , " which

ls included in the " Companion , " Bro . CRAWLEV confines his attention to noting that the sixth verse of the " Enter'd Prentice ' s Song , " by MATTHEW BlRK / lEAD , as now known to

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us , was no part originally of Bro . BlRKHEAD ' s effusion , hut was written by " SPRINGET PEN , " the ( irst Deputy Grand Master of Minister , and interpolated between the fifth and sixth verses of the original . This discovery is thus explained . "In 1728 the

Grand Lodge of Munster ordained that a copy of ANDERSON ' Constitutions should be procured by each of its subordinate lodges . We have no reason to doubt that the volume preserved in the Archives of the First Lodge of Ireland is the identical

copy procured in accordance with this regulation . Its wide margins have supplied space to some worthy brother of that clay to insert the verse in its earliest manuscript form and to record the name of the author , Springett Penn , the first Deputy Grand

Master of Munster . We annex a facsimile of thc page . " The theory seems reasonable , nor do we think any serious objection can be raised to its acceptance . He has also discovered that " The Master Mason ' s Ballad" was written " by an Irish

brother , the Rev . JAMES STERLING , " and is reproduced from a collection of that brother ' s Poetical works , published in Dublin in 1734 . We may also mention that the lists ol lodges published in both Editions of the "Companion " claims a

considerable share of attention , nor is the war that has raged over the lodge at "The Hoop in Water-street in Philadelphia 1 st Monday , " which ranks as No . 79 among the English lodges , overlooked , while attention is called to "thc numerical sequence "

attributed b y Bro . SMITH to the 37 Irish lodges being "inconsistent with the warrants preserved . " It is pointed out —( l ) that " there is no Grand Lodge Book of this period surviving" by which SMITH ' statement that his list of lodges was reproduced

" as they are Register'd in the GRAND LODGE Book" can lie verified—and ( 2 ) that " comparison with those appended to the Constitutions of 1741 "—which are contained in the Fasciculus" will lead to the opinion that Bro . WILLIAM SMITH ' list was a

sort of haphazard arrangement , chronologically irreconcilable either with tlie foundation of the Lodge or with thc issue of the Warrants . He seems to have taken all the lodges he knew of , and to have placed them in a numerical order , of which the motive was to admit of amalgamation with thc English list . "

The third of Bro . SMITH ' S manuals , " entitled " The BOOK M , or Masonry Triumphant , " was published at Ncwcaslle-on-Tync in 173 ( 5 , and is dedicated to members of lodges in the Northern Counties of England . It is in two Parts , one of which

contains the History , Charges , and Regulations of Freemasons , and the other the Songs , Prologues , Epilogues , and an account of all the places where regular lodges were held . Part I ., we are told , is divided into seven lectures , while Part II .

contains a few songs of local origin , a poem b y Bro . "UlCIlARD BOLKLEY Coll . Exon ., A . B ., " and one narrating the adventures of a King and a Mason , which is set to the tune of the E . A . P . Song . The contents of the Book are fully described , while thc various

suggestions as to what " M ' stands for are noted , Bro . CRAWLEY ' S , that it stands for " Masonic , " though , as he says , it has " the demerit of simplicity , " being about as reasonable as any . The Introduction closes with such information as the

author has been able to discover as to the personality of Bro SMITH , while the Frontispiece , Title-page , Dedication , Preface , History , and List of Lodges of the Dublin Edition of the "Pocket Companion " are reproduced in facsimile , and will be read with

great interest by the many to whom the Companion is a strano-er . We now come to that portion of Fasciculus II . which is devoted to Dr . DASSIGNY and his " Serious and Impartial

Enquiry , " published in Dublin in 1744 , and here , again , we find ourselves indebted to Bro . CRAWLEY for much information previousl y unknown . Since the issue in 1 S 74 of Bro . UuciiAN ' S reprint