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Special Grand Lodge At Peterborough.
the noble Earl who presided over the Body of Free and Accepted Masons . The noble Earl was free to come to Peterborough as often as he pleased , and he was a most accepted and acceptable guest . The noble Earl presided over a body which was worldwide in its extension , and truly boasted to have been from its inception until now—a brotherhood . In the old days when that brotherhood existed , and when men fought fiercely and savagely
with weapons for carnal strife , it was a great matter to have in the world a unitin"" and cementing brotherhood , and thus however violently men might strive elsewhere there was a common platform on which they could meet . He did not believe that such an institution was less valuable now , when men , at least in this country , had ceased to fight with material weapons , but when he feared they had not ceased lo fight with that envenomed weapon the
tongue . Whatever tended to draw men together was a real good and blessing where it existed . He could not help thinking that in our political life we mig ht be better for a little taste of Masonic brotherhood . ( Cheers . ) What an advantage it might be to the nation and to those who governed us , if instead of some of the different customs of Parliamentary procedure in our day , wc could substitute the rules and customs of a Masonic lodge .
( Laughter . ) He would not venture to say one word as to any possible improvement in that House of which the noble earl was an ornament , and of which he himself was an unworthy member . They all understood that in the House of Lords everything was perfect , courteous and brotherly , for the assembly was one in which every man was every other man ' s second cousin . ( Great laughter . ) It was not so as regarded the other House of Parliament .
( Laughter . ) He fancied how advantageous and peaceful it would be if when a man rose instead of saying " Mr . Speaker , " he would say " Most Worshipful Grand Master , " and yield him the obedience that the members did willingly give to their masters ; if instead of the Government bench they had it senior and junior warden , and the Opposition were represented by the seniorandiuniordeacons , and the fourth party by the tyler . ( Loudlaughterand
cheers . ) It would be a political service if a speaker when he rose , for instance , to reply to some cheerful and gracious speech on the part of the existing Home Secrctary , instead of addressinghim as the HomeSecretary calledhim"Brother Grand Secretary . " How charming we should all get on with no vacation oratory , for it was not the duty of Masons to go about the country speaking . ( Laughter ) . Be that as it might it was his duty to propose to them one
of the leaders of that lime-honoured , and ancient institution , the Earl of Carnarvon —( cheers)—who had strong personal claims upon their acceptance and welcome . The noble carl had special claims upon men of all politics , and all classes in the country , and he had in him what he feared was becoming increasingly rare among English public men—the courage of his convictions . ( Cheers . ) However sincerely attached he might be to the
fiarty which he belonged to , lie had shown on one momorable occasion at east that there was something a public man loved more than the success of his party , or the approval of his party , and that is the approval of his own conscience . ( Cheers . ) Those instances were so increasingly scarce that their rarity made them fear that the English statesman mi ght some day or other degenerate into the English politician . Between the two there was a wide and deep gap , and he was thankful to Lord Carnarvon
for having shown us that it was quite possible to take an active and keen part , in politics , and not forget the responsibility to conscience , and the duties of an English statesman and an English nobleman . ( Loud cheers . ) The Earl of CARNARVON , on rising to reply , was enthusiasticall y received . He said that hcfell greatly the honour and cordial welcome that they had been pleased to give him , and if he might say so , he felt it was a
delight that those words of welcome should have been made to him by one whom he honoured and prized so highly as the right rev . prelate who presided over that diocese . When he listened to him , he felt , at least , the satisfaction that the illness from which he had been so mercifully raised up had taken nothing from him of his old eloquence , of his old wit , and of his personal kindness . His first duty that day in the few remarks he had to
offer was to discharge the commands of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , and to express for him his deep regret that in consequence of that great family bereavement to which allusion had been made , lie could not be present there that day . He had deputed him to attend , and so far as the shadow could do duty for the substance he had endeavoured to fulfil the task which the Grand Master himself should have
executed . He would have attended them both in his capacity of Prince of Wales and also as the Grand Master of the Freemasons . The Bishop of Petcroorough had given so minute a history and so accurate a description of all that concerned Freemasons , and of all that went on within the secret lodge , that he had deprived him of one-half of Ihe speech which he had otherwise intended to have made to them . ( Laughter . ) The Bishon
had done , he humbly thought , only justice to the Craft ; but there was also another point of view to which the Bishop did not advert . There was a connection , and the closest connection , between the work which the Freemasons had done that day and their craft . Freemasonry was no new art or profession . Those cathedrals to which the Bishop had alluded had in b y gone ages owed much to the chisel , mallet , compass , and square of the
Freemason . During the Middle Ages all through Europe , from end to end of the great Continent , they might trace the footsteps of Freemasonry . They could read their eloquent and artistic record in the face of the great cathedrals , and in the foliage of the windows , in the delicate carving of the buildings , in the capitals of the columns they might have alike their history and their work . They numbered amongst their
ranks in former times many Royal personages , and if the Prince of Wales had been present that day he would have simply discharged a duty which in former times many of his Royal predecessors might have executed . It was impossible for anyone like himself to take part in that ceremony and not to recall as he gazed upwards upon the architecture of that cathedral some of its early history . It was impossible not to think how , in the earliest days
the Peterborough Minster rose on the edge of the fens ; how subsequentl y it grew through all the dull period of the Saxon times till he believed il acquired the name of the " Golden Borough . " It was impossible not to think that it went on growing steadily through those rugged but noble times , which made England as wc know it now . And now there came the restoration of that building . Times were very much changed . Our Saxon and Norman ancestors built that cathedral , but still the same instincts were there
, and the character of the country and the people was still the same . He thought , as he had looked upon the architecture of that building , that in the consolidation and combination of all the different styles the early Norman , the early English , and the perpendicular , each fusing with a certain harmony in each other , there was , as it were , a type of our English history and society . Those times had gone by , and the days in which we lived were very different , Some woulci tell them , indeed , that we were travelling
Special Grand Lodge At Peterborough.
on towards the ignoble gulf in which all that past was to he lost and forgotten . Others would tell them , and he thought more truly , that they were passing through an important phase , such ' as we had passed through before , in which as he firmly trusted , the true instincts of the English people would prevail , and would remember the great past of England , and that possibly a still greater future was at hand . That was
the true spirit in which , he believed , they were called upon to face the period in which we lived , and in that spirit he could not doubt of a successful issue . He had had placed in his hands a toast to which he knew they would do honour . He passed from things material to persons , and from those venerable walls to those whose duty it was to watch over , preserve , and restore them . He then proposed * ' The Health of the Dean and Chap- ter and the Restoration Committee . "
Dean PEROWNE having replied , Earl FITZWILLIAM proposed "The Mayor and Corporation , " and the Mayor of PETERBOROUGH briefly responded . The proceedings closed with the band playing the National Anthem .
Supreme Grand Chapter.
SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER .
The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England was held on Wednesday evening , at Freemasons' Hall , Comps . John Havers presided as Z . ; Dr . Wcndt , as H . ; and J . A . Rucker , as J . The were also present Comps . Col . Creaton , P . P . G . S . ; Edgar Bowyer , G . Std . Br . ; George Lambert , D . C ; Wm . Ganz , Org . ; H . Maudsley , P . G . S . B . ; John Sampson Peirce , P . G . A . S . ; Rev . Thos . Robinson . P . G . A . S .: I . M . Case . FV . G . D . C .: C . Greenwood . P . C . At . n . II .
T . Dumas , P . G . S . B . ; J . Glashier , P . G . A . S . ; J . Lewis-Thomas , P . G . S . B . ; Capt . N . ] . Philips , P . G . S . N . ; VV . F . Nettlcship , P . G . S . B . ; Frank Richardson , P . G . A . S . ; Chas . A . Murton , P . G . A . S . ; Peter de Landc-Long , P . G . S . ; R . Turtle Pigott , D . C . L . ; Geo . Drysdale . 'Z . 7 ; J . Scott Mutch , Z . 13 ; E . M . Lott , P . H . 507 ; Henry Garrod , P . M . 507 ; W . H . Perryman , P . Z . 134 s ,- It . H . Hodges , P . Z . 771 ; II . Massey , P . Z . fuo : S . Brooks . H . 075 : E . Child . II . « S : N . M . Ruff . Z . nc ; F . AHI . irrl P . v
Henry Lovegrove , Z . 72 , 1549 ; S . P . Cotterson , P . Z . 79 , Z . 54 S ; VV . Ansell , Z . 147 ; f . H . Benthan , P . Z . 4 S 1 ; G . A . Allan , Z . 991 ; K . D . Anderton , P . Z . 3-11 , P . G . S . E . Cornwall ; Lord Onslow , Z . ( United ); Joseph Clear , P . Z . 12 ; E . G . Bruton . P . Z . 340 ; J . T . West , H . 548 ; Neville Green , P . 7 .. 15 : 4 ; C . II . Kohler , H . 1381 ; E . Locock , P . Z . 712 ; VV . Dodd , P . Z . 1140 ; A . F . Godson , Z . 2 S 0 ; Griffiths Smith , P . Z . 21 ; Baron de Fcrriercs , J . 28 ; J . II . Matthews , II . 8 ; A . Richards Eastes
, P . Z . 46 ; James S . , P . Z . 503 , 709 ; Lord Cremorne , J . G ; E . Letchworth , P . Z . 2 ; I . Davison , P . Z . 10 ; and VV . Lake , Z . 15 S 9 ( Freemason ) . Comp . HAVERS announced that his Royal Hi ghness the Prince of Wales was M . E . Z . of Grand Chapter , and that he had made the following appointments : Comp . The Earl of Carnarvon ... ... ... Pro G . 7 .. „ The Earl of Lathom ... ... ... G . H . ( The vacancy caused in the third chair by the death of the Duke of Albany ,
was left vacant . ) Comp . Col . Shadwell II . Clerke ... G . S . E . „ The Earl of Onslow ... ... ... G . S . N . „ Lord Cremorne ... ... ... ... G . P . S „ Baron de Fcrriercs , M . P , ... ... ... G . istA . S . „ Frederic Davison ... ... ... ... G . 2 nd A . S .
„ Horace Brooks Marshall ... ... ... G . Treas . „ F . A . Philbrick , Q . C . ... ... ... G . Reg . „ I . S . Eastes ... ... G . Swd . Br . „ E . Letchworth ... ... ... ... G . 1 st Std . Br . „ A . Richards ... ... ... ... G . . MuLStd . Br . ,, Griffiths Smith ... ... ... ... G . ^ > rd Std . Br .
„ Major E . Locock ... ... ... ... G . . | th Std . Br . „ J . H . Matthews ... ... ... ... G . D . of C . „ E . M . Lott ... ... ... ... (' ,. Org . „ II . G . Buss ... ... ... ... G . Assi . S . E . „ Henry Sadler ... ... ... ... G . Janitor . All the above officers were dul y invested .
On the motion of Col . CREATOK , the report of the Committee of General Purposes was taken as read and received , and ordered to be printed on the minutes .
The Committee reported that they had examined the accounts from the 16 th January lothc 15 th April , 18 S 4 , both inclusive , which they found to be as follows : To Balance , Grand Chapter ... £ 1246 7 7 By Disbursements during the „ „ Unappropriated Quarter £ 221 s 4 Account 209 74 „ Balance 145 S S 9 „ Subsequent Receipts ... 429 56 „ Unappropriated Account 205 3 4
£ 'SS 5 o 5 £ iSSj o 5 Which balances are in the Bank of England , Western Branch . The Committee likewise reported that they had received the following petitions : 1 st . From Comps . Thomas Samuel Curtcis , as '/ .. ; William Henry Cronk , as II . ; Adam Young , as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Knole Lodge , No . 1414 , Sevenoaks , to be called the Knole Chapter , and to meet at the Old Assembly
Rooms , London-road , Sevenoaks , in the county of Kent . 2 nd . From Comps . Thomas Forrester , as Z . ; Robert Irving , as II . ; Joseph Malcolm Kerr , as J . ; and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Ellesmere Lodge , No . 730 , Chorley , to be called the Earl of lathom Chapter , and to meet at the Masonic Rooms , Town Hall , Chorley , Lancashire ( Western Division ) . 3 rd . From Comps . Joseph Clever , as Z . ; Louis Hirsch , as IL ; Robert Benidgr , as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Amity Lodge , No . 171 ,
Greenwich , to be called the Amity Chapter , and to meet at the City Terminus Hotel , Cannon-street , in the City of London . 4 th . From Comps . Robert Ncndick Banks , as Z . ; Win , Masters , as II . ; Thomas Emmott Skidmorc , as J . ; and eight others for a chapter to be attached to the Sincerity Lodge , No . 42 S , Northwich , to be called the Sincerity Chapter , and to meet at the Angel Hotel , Northwich , in the county of Chester . 5 th . From Comps . Benjamin Lamb Wells , as Z . ; Thos . Wells , as 11 . ; George Lawrence Shackles , as J . ; and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Alexandra
Lodge , No . 1511 , Hornsea , to be called the Alexandra Chapter , and to meet at the Masonic Hall , in the East Riding of the county of York . Cth , From Comps . John James Meakin , as Z . ; James Sudren , as H . ; Win . Dumville , as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Lodge of Harmony , No . 935 , Salford , to be called the Starkie Chapter , and to meet at the Masonic Hall , Adelphi-strcet , Salford , Lancashire ( Eastern Division . ) 7 th . From Comps . John Henwood Thomas , asZ . ; Henry Massey , as H . ; Thomas Minstrell ^ as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Gallery Lodge , No . 192 S , Brixton , to be called the Gallery Chapter , and to meet at the Brixton Hall , Acre-lane , Brixton .
Sth . From Comps . Stephen Barton Wilson , as / . ; Chas . Belton , as IL ; Frederick Binckes , as J ., and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Royal Naval Lodge , No . 59 , London , to be called the Royal Naval Chapter , and to meet at Freemasons' I lall , London .
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Special Grand Lodge At Peterborough.
the noble Earl who presided over the Body of Free and Accepted Masons . The noble Earl was free to come to Peterborough as often as he pleased , and he was a most accepted and acceptable guest . The noble Earl presided over a body which was worldwide in its extension , and truly boasted to have been from its inception until now—a brotherhood . In the old days when that brotherhood existed , and when men fought fiercely and savagely
with weapons for carnal strife , it was a great matter to have in the world a unitin"" and cementing brotherhood , and thus however violently men might strive elsewhere there was a common platform on which they could meet . He did not believe that such an institution was less valuable now , when men , at least in this country , had ceased to fight with material weapons , but when he feared they had not ceased lo fight with that envenomed weapon the
tongue . Whatever tended to draw men together was a real good and blessing where it existed . He could not help thinking that in our political life we mig ht be better for a little taste of Masonic brotherhood . ( Cheers . ) What an advantage it might be to the nation and to those who governed us , if instead of some of the different customs of Parliamentary procedure in our day , wc could substitute the rules and customs of a Masonic lodge .
( Laughter . ) He would not venture to say one word as to any possible improvement in that House of which the noble earl was an ornament , and of which he himself was an unworthy member . They all understood that in the House of Lords everything was perfect , courteous and brotherly , for the assembly was one in which every man was every other man ' s second cousin . ( Great laughter . ) It was not so as regarded the other House of Parliament .
( Laughter . ) He fancied how advantageous and peaceful it would be if when a man rose instead of saying " Mr . Speaker , " he would say " Most Worshipful Grand Master , " and yield him the obedience that the members did willingly give to their masters ; if instead of the Government bench they had it senior and junior warden , and the Opposition were represented by the seniorandiuniordeacons , and the fourth party by the tyler . ( Loudlaughterand
cheers . ) It would be a political service if a speaker when he rose , for instance , to reply to some cheerful and gracious speech on the part of the existing Home Secrctary , instead of addressinghim as the HomeSecretary calledhim"Brother Grand Secretary . " How charming we should all get on with no vacation oratory , for it was not the duty of Masons to go about the country speaking . ( Laughter ) . Be that as it might it was his duty to propose to them one
of the leaders of that lime-honoured , and ancient institution , the Earl of Carnarvon —( cheers)—who had strong personal claims upon their acceptance and welcome . The noble carl had special claims upon men of all politics , and all classes in the country , and he had in him what he feared was becoming increasingly rare among English public men—the courage of his convictions . ( Cheers . ) However sincerely attached he might be to the
fiarty which he belonged to , lie had shown on one momorable occasion at east that there was something a public man loved more than the success of his party , or the approval of his party , and that is the approval of his own conscience . ( Cheers . ) Those instances were so increasingly scarce that their rarity made them fear that the English statesman mi ght some day or other degenerate into the English politician . Between the two there was a wide and deep gap , and he was thankful to Lord Carnarvon
for having shown us that it was quite possible to take an active and keen part , in politics , and not forget the responsibility to conscience , and the duties of an English statesman and an English nobleman . ( Loud cheers . ) The Earl of CARNARVON , on rising to reply , was enthusiasticall y received . He said that hcfell greatly the honour and cordial welcome that they had been pleased to give him , and if he might say so , he felt it was a
delight that those words of welcome should have been made to him by one whom he honoured and prized so highly as the right rev . prelate who presided over that diocese . When he listened to him , he felt , at least , the satisfaction that the illness from which he had been so mercifully raised up had taken nothing from him of his old eloquence , of his old wit , and of his personal kindness . His first duty that day in the few remarks he had to
offer was to discharge the commands of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , and to express for him his deep regret that in consequence of that great family bereavement to which allusion had been made , lie could not be present there that day . He had deputed him to attend , and so far as the shadow could do duty for the substance he had endeavoured to fulfil the task which the Grand Master himself should have
executed . He would have attended them both in his capacity of Prince of Wales and also as the Grand Master of the Freemasons . The Bishop of Petcroorough had given so minute a history and so accurate a description of all that concerned Freemasons , and of all that went on within the secret lodge , that he had deprived him of one-half of Ihe speech which he had otherwise intended to have made to them . ( Laughter . ) The Bishon
had done , he humbly thought , only justice to the Craft ; but there was also another point of view to which the Bishop did not advert . There was a connection , and the closest connection , between the work which the Freemasons had done that day and their craft . Freemasonry was no new art or profession . Those cathedrals to which the Bishop had alluded had in b y gone ages owed much to the chisel , mallet , compass , and square of the
Freemason . During the Middle Ages all through Europe , from end to end of the great Continent , they might trace the footsteps of Freemasonry . They could read their eloquent and artistic record in the face of the great cathedrals , and in the foliage of the windows , in the delicate carving of the buildings , in the capitals of the columns they might have alike their history and their work . They numbered amongst their
ranks in former times many Royal personages , and if the Prince of Wales had been present that day he would have simply discharged a duty which in former times many of his Royal predecessors might have executed . It was impossible for anyone like himself to take part in that ceremony and not to recall as he gazed upwards upon the architecture of that cathedral some of its early history . It was impossible not to think how , in the earliest days
the Peterborough Minster rose on the edge of the fens ; how subsequentl y it grew through all the dull period of the Saxon times till he believed il acquired the name of the " Golden Borough . " It was impossible not to think that it went on growing steadily through those rugged but noble times , which made England as wc know it now . And now there came the restoration of that building . Times were very much changed . Our Saxon and Norman ancestors built that cathedral , but still the same instincts were there
, and the character of the country and the people was still the same . He thought , as he had looked upon the architecture of that building , that in the consolidation and combination of all the different styles the early Norman , the early English , and the perpendicular , each fusing with a certain harmony in each other , there was , as it were , a type of our English history and society . Those times had gone by , and the days in which we lived were very different , Some woulci tell them , indeed , that we were travelling
Special Grand Lodge At Peterborough.
on towards the ignoble gulf in which all that past was to he lost and forgotten . Others would tell them , and he thought more truly , that they were passing through an important phase , such ' as we had passed through before , in which as he firmly trusted , the true instincts of the English people would prevail , and would remember the great past of England , and that possibly a still greater future was at hand . That was
the true spirit in which , he believed , they were called upon to face the period in which we lived , and in that spirit he could not doubt of a successful issue . He had had placed in his hands a toast to which he knew they would do honour . He passed from things material to persons , and from those venerable walls to those whose duty it was to watch over , preserve , and restore them . He then proposed * ' The Health of the Dean and Chap- ter and the Restoration Committee . "
Dean PEROWNE having replied , Earl FITZWILLIAM proposed "The Mayor and Corporation , " and the Mayor of PETERBOROUGH briefly responded . The proceedings closed with the band playing the National Anthem .
Supreme Grand Chapter.
SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER .
The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England was held on Wednesday evening , at Freemasons' Hall , Comps . John Havers presided as Z . ; Dr . Wcndt , as H . ; and J . A . Rucker , as J . The were also present Comps . Col . Creaton , P . P . G . S . ; Edgar Bowyer , G . Std . Br . ; George Lambert , D . C ; Wm . Ganz , Org . ; H . Maudsley , P . G . S . B . ; John Sampson Peirce , P . G . A . S . ; Rev . Thos . Robinson . P . G . A . S .: I . M . Case . FV . G . D . C .: C . Greenwood . P . C . At . n . II .
T . Dumas , P . G . S . B . ; J . Glashier , P . G . A . S . ; J . Lewis-Thomas , P . G . S . B . ; Capt . N . ] . Philips , P . G . S . N . ; VV . F . Nettlcship , P . G . S . B . ; Frank Richardson , P . G . A . S . ; Chas . A . Murton , P . G . A . S . ; Peter de Landc-Long , P . G . S . ; R . Turtle Pigott , D . C . L . ; Geo . Drysdale . 'Z . 7 ; J . Scott Mutch , Z . 13 ; E . M . Lott , P . H . 507 ; Henry Garrod , P . M . 507 ; W . H . Perryman , P . Z . 134 s ,- It . H . Hodges , P . Z . 771 ; II . Massey , P . Z . fuo : S . Brooks . H . 075 : E . Child . II . « S : N . M . Ruff . Z . nc ; F . AHI . irrl P . v
Henry Lovegrove , Z . 72 , 1549 ; S . P . Cotterson , P . Z . 79 , Z . 54 S ; VV . Ansell , Z . 147 ; f . H . Benthan , P . Z . 4 S 1 ; G . A . Allan , Z . 991 ; K . D . Anderton , P . Z . 3-11 , P . G . S . E . Cornwall ; Lord Onslow , Z . ( United ); Joseph Clear , P . Z . 12 ; E . G . Bruton . P . Z . 340 ; J . T . West , H . 548 ; Neville Green , P . 7 .. 15 : 4 ; C . II . Kohler , H . 1381 ; E . Locock , P . Z . 712 ; VV . Dodd , P . Z . 1140 ; A . F . Godson , Z . 2 S 0 ; Griffiths Smith , P . Z . 21 ; Baron de Fcrriercs , J . 28 ; J . II . Matthews , II . 8 ; A . Richards Eastes
, P . Z . 46 ; James S . , P . Z . 503 , 709 ; Lord Cremorne , J . G ; E . Letchworth , P . Z . 2 ; I . Davison , P . Z . 10 ; and VV . Lake , Z . 15 S 9 ( Freemason ) . Comp . HAVERS announced that his Royal Hi ghness the Prince of Wales was M . E . Z . of Grand Chapter , and that he had made the following appointments : Comp . The Earl of Carnarvon ... ... ... Pro G . 7 .. „ The Earl of Lathom ... ... ... G . H . ( The vacancy caused in the third chair by the death of the Duke of Albany ,
was left vacant . ) Comp . Col . Shadwell II . Clerke ... G . S . E . „ The Earl of Onslow ... ... ... G . S . N . „ Lord Cremorne ... ... ... ... G . P . S „ Baron de Fcrriercs , M . P , ... ... ... G . istA . S . „ Frederic Davison ... ... ... ... G . 2 nd A . S .
„ Horace Brooks Marshall ... ... ... G . Treas . „ F . A . Philbrick , Q . C . ... ... ... G . Reg . „ I . S . Eastes ... ... G . Swd . Br . „ E . Letchworth ... ... ... ... G . 1 st Std . Br . „ A . Richards ... ... ... ... G . . MuLStd . Br . ,, Griffiths Smith ... ... ... ... G . ^ > rd Std . Br .
„ Major E . Locock ... ... ... ... G . . | th Std . Br . „ J . H . Matthews ... ... ... ... G . D . of C . „ E . M . Lott ... ... ... ... (' ,. Org . „ II . G . Buss ... ... ... ... G . Assi . S . E . „ Henry Sadler ... ... ... ... G . Janitor . All the above officers were dul y invested .
On the motion of Col . CREATOK , the report of the Committee of General Purposes was taken as read and received , and ordered to be printed on the minutes .
The Committee reported that they had examined the accounts from the 16 th January lothc 15 th April , 18 S 4 , both inclusive , which they found to be as follows : To Balance , Grand Chapter ... £ 1246 7 7 By Disbursements during the „ „ Unappropriated Quarter £ 221 s 4 Account 209 74 „ Balance 145 S S 9 „ Subsequent Receipts ... 429 56 „ Unappropriated Account 205 3 4
£ 'SS 5 o 5 £ iSSj o 5 Which balances are in the Bank of England , Western Branch . The Committee likewise reported that they had received the following petitions : 1 st . From Comps . Thomas Samuel Curtcis , as '/ .. ; William Henry Cronk , as II . ; Adam Young , as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Knole Lodge , No . 1414 , Sevenoaks , to be called the Knole Chapter , and to meet at the Old Assembly
Rooms , London-road , Sevenoaks , in the county of Kent . 2 nd . From Comps . Thomas Forrester , as Z . ; Robert Irving , as II . ; Joseph Malcolm Kerr , as J . ; and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Ellesmere Lodge , No . 730 , Chorley , to be called the Earl of lathom Chapter , and to meet at the Masonic Rooms , Town Hall , Chorley , Lancashire ( Western Division ) . 3 rd . From Comps . Joseph Clever , as Z . ; Louis Hirsch , as IL ; Robert Benidgr , as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Amity Lodge , No . 171 ,
Greenwich , to be called the Amity Chapter , and to meet at the City Terminus Hotel , Cannon-street , in the City of London . 4 th . From Comps . Robert Ncndick Banks , as Z . ; Win , Masters , as II . ; Thomas Emmott Skidmorc , as J . ; and eight others for a chapter to be attached to the Sincerity Lodge , No . 42 S , Northwich , to be called the Sincerity Chapter , and to meet at the Angel Hotel , Northwich , in the county of Chester . 5 th . From Comps . Benjamin Lamb Wells , as Z . ; Thos . Wells , as 11 . ; George Lawrence Shackles , as J . ; and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Alexandra
Lodge , No . 1511 , Hornsea , to be called the Alexandra Chapter , and to meet at the Masonic Hall , in the East Riding of the county of York . Cth , From Comps . John James Meakin , as Z . ; James Sudren , as H . ; Win . Dumville , as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Lodge of Harmony , No . 935 , Salford , to be called the Starkie Chapter , and to meet at the Masonic Hall , Adelphi-strcet , Salford , Lancashire ( Eastern Division . ) 7 th . From Comps . John Henwood Thomas , asZ . ; Henry Massey , as H . ; Thomas Minstrell ^ as J . ; and six others for a chapter to be attached to the Gallery Lodge , No . 192 S , Brixton , to be called the Gallery Chapter , and to meet at the Brixton Hall , Acre-lane , Brixton .
Sth . From Comps . Stephen Barton Wilson , as / . ; Chas . Belton , as IL ; Frederick Binckes , as J ., and seven others for a chapter to be attached to the Royal Naval Lodge , No . 59 , London , to be called the Royal Naval Chapter , and to meet at Freemasons' I lall , London .