Masonic Notes And Queries.

LUX ET LUX FUIT . I have been told the jugs are of Staffordshire ware . The colour is a li g ht violet on a white ground . The larger one has , unfortunately , a small hole in the bottom . Should any of your correspondents be able to give me any information , through your columns , as to the history , date , or class of ware , I should be obliged .

GEO . L . SHACKLES , Member Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle . 897 ] FREEMASONRY IN CHESHIRE , & c .

Bro . Hughan ' s valuable contribution of extracts from old newspapers in the Freemason of April 19 th will , I am afraid , prove somewhat misleading on account of the incorrectness of the dates assigned to the papers from which those extracts are made . I fear Bro . Hughan ' s informant has got them " mixed up " a

little . No . 1 , relating to the lodge at Holywell , appeared in the Chester Courant of 2 nd June , 1761 ( not 8 th August , l m ) - The lodge , consequently , was constituted on 26 th May , 1761 , but it did not appear in the Engraved List until 1765 , where its date is given as 13 th

January , 1761 . It was , however , noted in The Free-Masons' Pocket Companion ( Auld and Smellie , Edinburgh , 1765 ) as constituted on 20 th ( not 26 th ) May , 1761 . It is curious to note that the ceremony was performed by the P . G . M . of Lancashire , instead of by the P . G . M . of Cheshire , who generally did matters

of that kind for North Wales . No . 2 is taken from the Chester Courant of 24 th January , 176 9 ( not 2 nd June , 1761 ) . That paper was published on Tuesdays , and consequently the lodge was constituted on Tuesday , 17 th January , 1769 . There are one or two curious points in this note . ( 1 ) That

the lodge was constituted in a different town ( Chester ) to that in which it was intended to meet ( Neston ) . ( 2 ) That the paragraph respecting " abuses lately practised for want of a regular constituted and well-governed lodge " was evidently intended as a slight upon the lodge meeting under the "Ancients , " at the Ship in Launch

Parkgate , near Neston , which was then in existence ( "Masonic Records , " p . 41 ) . Parkgate and Neston are very close together—not a mile apart—but I am informed that in 1769 Parkgate was the more important town of the two , being much used by passengers and traders to Ireland . Now , however , the chief

importance is with Neston . No . 10 , dated 20 th June , 1773 , should be 30 th December , 1785 , in which year Sir Robert Stapleton Cotton is noted in the present Grand Lodge Calendars as P . G . M . of Cheshire . The lodge referred to in the

extract is not the " Rising Sun Lodge" of 1773 , but is correctl y described as "The Lodge of Independence , " which is dated " 17 86 " only in the Grand Lodge warrant book , then No . 481 ( " Masonic Records , " p . 151 ) , but appears to have been constituted at the end of the preceding year , namely , on 27 th December , 1785 .

JNO . LANE . 898 ] PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND .

In this month ' s quarterly statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund appears an article on the "Cave of Saris , " in which- the writer , Mr . J . E . Hanauer , announces the discovery of a figure on the east wall " which is very curious , the face having instead of eyes , nose , mouth , & c , an ornament very much resembling

a double dagger-shaped leaf . The posture of the figure is erect , with both arms elevated , and it would seem from the writer ' s account that " the Jerusalem Freemasons seem to have been quite excited by the accounts of the attitude of the figures ( two ) , and about two months ago a large party of them , headed by the

Master and some other officers of their Society , actually made an expedition in search of it , and cleared the earth , broken pottery , and bones in the pit or square trough in the south-eastern corner . " The writer made inquiries as to their investigation , but " the tongue that never reveals " did not satisfy his curiosity . From the sketches given in October , 1889 , and April , 1890 ,

quarterly statements of the figures , the description of the cave , the tomb-like trough , the characters on the walls and roof , there are many curious incidents corresponding with the Hiramic legend . I would suggest our worthy savant Bro . Speth opening up correspondence with the lodge at Jerusalem , and obtaining squeezes and tracings that would certainly prove most interesting to the Masonic student .

LIVERPOOL MASONIC LITERARY SOCIETY . A meeting of this society was held at the Adel phi Hotel , on Tuesday evening , the 29 th ult ., under the presidency of Bro . Joseph Hawkins , P . M . 216 . The lecture of the evening was given by Bro . J YARKER , and the subject was "The Historical Value of the Ancient Documents of the Craft . " The lecturer

said there was an ancient assembly , sanctioned b y King Athelstan , which was then alleged to have been derived from an organisation of Euclid at Alexandria . He then passed to the nature of the ceremonies , and illustrated them by comparison with the rites of the French

compagnonage . The third part of the lecture consisted of quotations from ancient Greek and Latin sources , showing the rites and claims of Arcane schools of antiquity , and the resemblance that exists , after this lapse of time , between them and Craft Masonry of the present .

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METROPOLITAN MEETINGS .

Trinity College Lodge ( No . 1765 ) . —A regular meeting of this lodge took place on Thursday , the ist inst ., at 13 , Mandeville-place , W ., under the presidency of Bro . Barrett Lane , W . M . The lodge being opened , and the minutes read and confirmed , Bro . J . W . Tacon , P . M . 1196 , was proposed as a joining member , and the ballot proving unanimous in his favour , he was declared elected . The

W . M . then proposed a presentation by the lodge to the funds of the Peterborough Cathedral stalls , Bro . Aubrey Howard , P . M ., seconding . The vote was carried . An important motion was then proposed by the W . M ., and seconded by Bro . Sinclair Dunn , to the effect that the first sentence of the third by-law be altered to read as follows : " The initiation fee shall be five guineas up to 40 members ,

after which the initiation fee shall be eight guineas . " This was also carried . It was urged that on the grounds that many young musical professionals , especially students of Trinity College , for which this lodge was mainly established , would be induced to join at this reduced fee , the guarantee of their fitness existing in the general character of the lodge and its members . Mr . T . Huttley was

proposed as an initiate . The lodge being closed , the brethren adjourned to refreshment , and the rest of the evening was spent in harmony . The following brethren were among those present : Bros . J . Sarjeant , J . W . ; J . A . Hammond , P . M ., Treas . ; J .

Mills , Sec ; S . J . Wilford , J . D . ; J . T . Hutchinson , I . G . j W . T . Hutchinson , Stwd . ; Aubrey Howard , P . M ., D . C ; Bradbury Turner , P . M . j Plant Martin , l . P . M . j L . Vander Heyden , H . Robertson , Sinclair , Dunn , Pettitt , Org . ; G . C . Burry , P . M . 1347 ; and C . W . Brander , W . M . 1563 .

Gallery Lodge ( No . 1928 ) . —The usual meeting of this lodge was held last Saturday for the first time at Anderton's Hotel , the lodge having removed from Brixton Hall , at which place it was consecrated in 1 SS 1 . The brethren appeared in Masonic mourning in consequence of the recent deaths of Bros . C . F . Pardon , P . M ., and Sherring . There were present Bros . Herbert Wright ,

VV . M . j Vv . 1 . Perkins , b . YV . j K . J . Albery , J . W . ; H . Massey , P . M ., Treas . j T . Minstrell , P . M ., Sec . j H . F . Bussey , P . M . j Basil Cooke , S . D . ; E . E . Peacock , J . D . j Percy Husk , Org . j F . W . Pattison , C . Lock , J . C . Manning , and H . J . Sanderson , Stewards ; F . W . Brodie , J . Moore , G . H . Ribbons , H . L . Bell , B . Striem , H . J . Fisher , T . G . Scott , G . Farran , G . E . Saunders , W . S .

Seabrook , John Allan , Peter Bruce , J . Walker , VV . T . Massey j and the following visitors : Bros . H . Cox , 1790 j W . C . Saunders , 1642 ; J oseph Sadler , 51 ; H . W . Massey , I 6 OJ J . VV . Burgess , P . M . 1325 , P . P . G . P . West Lanes , j John J . Shelvey , IOIJ and H- Sythson , 1670 . The lodge having been duly opened , Bro . A . K . Morrison was passed to the Second Degree , Bro . W . Thos . Massey

was elected a joining member , and Mr . J . D . Irvine was elected and initiated . The W . M . said he deeply regretted that on the first occasion of their meeting in their new home it should be his sorrowful duty to ask the lodge to express , as adequately as words could do it , its deep sense of the great loss it had sustained , and of its sympathy with the sorrowing relatives in the deaths of Bro . H . W . Sherring

and Bro . C . h . Pardon , P . M . lhose brethren were of widely different types of character and of divergent tastes , but both were equally dear to them . Referring first to the death of Bro . Sherring , the W . M . said that brother was initiated in the lodge in 1 SS 3 , and though he had not been so regular an attendant , owing to the state of his health , as some of them could wish , yet he had been with them enough

to show how large was his heart and how broad were his sympathies with every beneficent project of his brethren . His naturally retiring disposition had caused him to be somewhat in the background , but those who enjoyed his personal friendship , as well as those who knew him only as a brother in the lodge , would recognise that in him they had lost one who was in all respects " a just and uprisfht

man and Mason . " Bro . W . S . Seabrook seconded the motion , remarking on the lifelong friendship he had enjoyed with their deceased brother , and reciprocating what he said were the kindly words of the VV . M . as to his character as a man and a Mason . The resolution was put and agreed to . The W . M . again rose and said : Brethren , 1 have now to ask you to agree to a similar vote in the case of our Bro .

Charles Pardon , P . M . We who have been so much touched by the death of our Bro . Sherring will feel our grief all the more poignant in the fact that to nearly everyone of us here present we have not only lost a respected brother , but also a dear personal friend . Our deceased brother had many distinguishing qualities , any of which would have brought him to the front in any assembly with which he was

connected ,- but the most striking part of his character was his large hearted benevolence and his cheery good humour . No one could be in his presence for even a few minutes without catching up that spirit and feeling its influence . Nor was this confined to those who intimately knew him . I have been much struck since his death by a remark of one who , though he is not a brother ,

mourns with us the decease so sudden and unexpected of our friend and brother , wherein he stated that years ago when he was a junior reporter in a county tiwn , and Bro . Pardon came down to it to report a cricket match , he was most kindly received and assisted by our brother , an attention not at all universally bestowed by men who come down casually from London , and who are perhaps sometimes apt to regard their provincial brethren , especially the juniors , with

not too much consideration . I mention this incident because it is so typical of the character of our deceased brother . Every one , even the humblest , was always not only at ease in his presence , but felt that in him there was all the metal of true friendship . As a Mason our brother has left behind him a record which all may well strive to imitate . He was imbued with the true spirit of Masonry and had the highest ideal , which he never lost the opportunity of seeking

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to impress upon others , of its objects and aims . To him our ceremonial and our glorious ritual was no empty form . He entered into it heart and soul , and was vexed and hurt when slovenly or imperfect working tended to mar or obscure its beauty and its harmony . Brethren , we shall see that genial face no more with us on earth , but we may all be inspired to a higher and a nobler ideal of our Craft by the

contemplation of his memory . When in our good time we shall receive , as we all inevitably must , the Great Master ' s summons to leave this sublunary abode and to ascend to the Grand Lodge above , may it be said of us , as it is truly said of him that we are deeply and sincerely mourning , that we have left behind us so bright an example for others to follow . Bro . Albery , J . W ., seconded the vote of

condolence , and , as an old personal friend and Masonic colleague of the late Bro . Pardon , joined heartily in the sentiments so well expressed by the W . M . The lodge being closed , the brethren sat down to an excellent dinner , served in the good style for which Anderton ' s is well known . In responding for " The Grand Officers , Present and Past , " Bro . Burgess spoke in feeling terms of the valuable

services rendered to colonial Masonry by Lord Carnarvon in Australia . In the course of other post prandial speeches , the W . M . congratulated the lodge on its removal from Brixton to the very centre of Metropolitan journalism , and hoped that the lodge would continue to make even more rapid strides towards a prominent position than it had done heretofore . The Tyler ' s toast brought a most enjoyable and successful meeting to a close .

Southgate Lodge ( No . 1950 ) . —A meeting of the above lodge was held at the Railway Hotel , New Southgate , on Thursday , the ist inst ., under the presidency of the newly-installed W . M ., Bro . Samuel Stretch , jun ., supported b y Past Masters and a gfoodly array of brethren . After preliminaries , a ballot was taken for Mr . John Wilson Appleton , which resulted in his favour , and he was duly

initiated into the Order . Bro . Davies was also passed to the Second Degree . The work throughout was admirably rendered by the W . M . The brethren afterwards adjourned to a repast , wellserved by the worthy host , Bro . Wooder . The usual toasts were honoured , and the brethren separated after having spent a most pleasant and enjoyable evening-.

Quatuor Coronati Lodge ( No . 2076 ) . — This lodge met at Freemasons' Hall on Friday , the 2 nd inst ., when there were present Bros . W . Simpson , W . M . j VV . M . Bywater , P . G . S . B . ; Professor T . Hayter Lewis , G . W . Speth , Dr . VV . Wynn Westcott , R . F . Gould , P . G . D . ; VV . H . Rylands , P . G . S . ; S . T . Klein , J . Finlay Finlayson , C . Purdon-Clarke , CLE . j E . J . Castle , Q . C . j and C . Kupferschmidtj also the following members of the

Correspondence Circle : Bros . F . Budden , Professor F . W . Driver , F . A . Powell , R . A . B . Preston , F . Wood , H . M . Hobbs , F . Weiss , H . Chintamon , F . VV . Levander , Col . Sir Norman Pringle , F . H . Miller , G . W . Taylor , R . Roy , J . S . Cumberland , H . Elliot , R . A . Gowan , E . T . Edwards , VV . F . Sheppard , and G . Gregsonj and the following visitors : Bros . H . J . Poole , P . M . 1772 j D . R . Clark , No . 0 ( S . C . ); J . L . Wilkinson , P . M . 92 ; and H . H . Riach , P . M .

1523-The following eight lodges and 4 S brethren were admitted to the membershi p of the Correspondence Circle , raising the total number of intrants to 90 S : The Provincial Grand Chapter of Staffordshire ; Pelham Pillar Lodge , 792 ; St . Albans Lodge ,, 1294 j Isle of Axholme Lodge , 14 S 2 j Parrett and Axe Lodge , S 14 j Umzimkulu Lodge , 211- \;

Excelsior Lodge , 617 j and Chough Lodge , 226 4 j also the following brethren : Bros . W . H . Smyth , P . G . M . Lincolnshire ; J . Powell , P . M . 142 j P . T . Chirgwin , 121 j J ; M . Cornish , 121 j J . M . Blarney , 967 ; Zillwood Milledge , P . P . G . D . C . Dorset ; Capt . D . Grant , 1416 ; W . C . Langley , 1674 ; J . F . Jackson , J . P ., W . B . Puckle , 162 ; S . Parsons , P . M . 1237 ; E . J . Barron , F . S . A ., P . G . D .

C . H . Cox , 163 ; W . T . Warner , 1297 ; T . Piper , 1597 ; E . Jervis , 357 ; J . Glass , P . P . G . S . of W . Essex ; J . L . Mather , P . A . G . D . C ; VV . J . NichoIIs , P . P . G . D . of C . Middx . ; H . J . Lardner , P . P . A . G . D . of C . Surrey ; Rev . W . Stainton-Moses , P . P . G . C . Middx . ; J . Fraser , 2 S ( S . C ); J . H . Clendinning , 134 ( LC ) ; J . V . Carew , W . M . of Minerva z . d . 3 , Palmen , Leipsic ; R . T . Miller

157 , Corrington , Kentucky ; C . F . Buck , Grand Master Louisiana ; VV . H . Seamon , 60 , Rolla , Missouri ; J . H . Codding , D . D . G . H . P . Pennsylvania ; F . J . Collins , of Bradford , Pennsylvania ; Rev . C . M . Stock , G . C Pennsylvania ; J . M . Maxwell , of Leadville , G . W . of Colorado ; T . J . Shryock , G . M . Maryland , - E . Baker , G . Secretary of Rhode Island j E . L . Burnett , No . 4 , Providence , Rhode

Island ; H . Morgan , 617 , L . B . Perkins , 617 , A . Amselene , 617 , and F . R . Hancock , D . G . Treas . Argentine Republic , all of Buenos Ayres ; VV . Burnet , P . G . Stwd . of N . S . W ., Adelaide ; T . J . Ball , of Port Elizabeth , Cape , P . D . G . W . Griqualand West ; J . E . Mackenzie , 1409 , Kimberley ; N . T . C . Harper , W . M . 1937 , Durban , Natal ; T . L . Pryce , S 2 S , Johannesburg , Transvaal ; G . Mickley , P . P .

S . G . W . Herts ; H . C . Heard , P . P . G . D . Herts ; J . Charles , P . M . 19 , Brondesbury , N . W . ; J . Seymour , 19 ; and A . D . Green , 19 . The Secretary was instructed to convey the congratulations of the brethren to Bro , T . B . Whytehead , of York , on his appointment to the office of Grand Sword Bearer . Bro . Professor T . Hayter Lewis read a paper on " Masonry and

Masons' Marks . " His conclusions , which tended strongly to revive the old theory of a connection between the return froiyi the Crusader and the introduction of Speculative Masonry to these shores were discussed by Bros . W . Simpson , Purdon-Clarke , Sheppard , Gould , Rylands , Cumberland , and Finlayson . A vote of thanks having been warmly carried , Bro . Lewis replied on the discussion , and the brethren adjourned to refreshment .

Regent ' s Park Lodge ( No . 2202 ) . —The election meeting of this lodge was held on Saturday , the 3 rd inst ., at the York and Albany , Gloucester-gate , Regent ' s Park , N . W ., when there were present Bros . Dr . N . J . Goodchild , VV . M . ; J . K . R . Cama , l . P . M . ; Dr . J .

Powdrell , S . W . ; W . H . Hosegood , J . W . ; Dr . N . Goodchild , P . M ., Treas . ; C . Sheppard , P . M ., Sec . j E . C Mulvey , P . M ., P . P . G . Stwd . Surrey , acting S . D . ; Lane , I . G . j Whiting , Tyler j J . Pointer , H . Bangs , J . Bangs , C . Rex , G . Clampitt , F . Goodhall , W . Holden , F . Holden , A . J . Ward , and J . Podger . Visitors : Bros . Maddam , S . W . 10 CG , and J . H . Kew , S . W . 179 .