Freemasonry & Israelitism.

children of Israel from among the heathen , whither they be gone , and will gather them on every side , and bring them into their own land and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel ; and one king shall be king to them all : and they shall be

no more two nations , neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols , nor with their detestable things , nor with any of their transgressions : but I will save them out of all their dwelling places wherein they have sinned , and will cleanse them : they

shall be my people , and I will be their God . And David , my servant , shall be king over them : and they all shall have one shepherd : they shall also walk in my judgments , and observe my statutes and do them And my servant David shall be their prince for ever . Moreover , I will make a covenant of peace with them , it shall be an everlasting covenant . .

. . my tabernacle also shall be with them ; yea , I will be their God , and they shall be my people . And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel , when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore " ( Ezekiel xxxvii . 19-28 ) .

Aberdeen Records. —No Ii.

ABERDEEN RECORDS . —No II .

BY BRO . AV . P . BUCHAN , Hon . Cor . Mem . German Masonic Union . ( Continued from page 443 . J Being anxious that the following ei ght "Lawes and . Statutes , " which were ordained by the

Aberdeen Lodge in 1670 , and which were shortly after recorded in their old book , should appear in THE FREEMASON as correctly as possible , I have managed to get , in addition to the copy referred to at page 442 , the perusal of another

copy taken by a different party—for this latter I am indebted to the kind courtesy of Bro . William Carey , the author of " Reflected Rays of Light on Freemasonry , " and I am happy to say that both copies agree : —

[ Copied from the Mark Book of thc Aberdeen Lodge . ] - This Account Book appertaines to us the Maister Mcassones and Entered Printises of thc Honourable Lodge off Aberdcne , AVherein is contained

the wholl Lawcs and Articles ofthe Measson Craft to all succeeding Generationcs in that airtt , Be us who are the authoiresand subscryucrs of this Book . And Lykwaycs all the debtes Resting to us and all

the Ucbtcs wc shall be Resting to others is contained in this Book . As after ffolloweth wreatten be James Anderson , Glassier and Measson and clerk to our Honourable Lodge . 27 th December 1 . 6 . 7 . o

Lawcs . and . Statutes . Ordained . Be . The . Honour able . Lodge , off Abcrdein . 7 . 7 th . December . 1 . 6 . 7 . 0

FIRST STATUTE . Article for thc Maister . AVec Master Masons and Entered Premises all of us under subscryucrs , doe here protest and vowe

us hitherto wpc have clone at our enlrie when we received the benefit of the Mason AVord that wee shall owne this honourable lodge at all occationes except those who can give arc Lawfull excuse , or of sickness , or of being out of Towne .

SECOND STATUTE . Maister continued . And lykewaycs wee protest to own the Maister of the forsaid Lodge as a sufficient jud ge to decide quarrels and all faults that shall be committed in

our Lodge , and to exact all fyncs according to the cryme commuted , and to pardon faults , he always taking the voice of the honourable company , and if any person be coiuimatious and will not pay the fync imposed upon him , lie being found guilty , in

that case the forsaid Maister anil his brethren has full power to cause his officer to poynd his work Loonies ( tools ) especially , or anything else belonging to him , att all occasions , and the officer to have

one or two of our number , given him for assistance for that effect if necessity require , and if thc forsaid massone that is rebellious shall goe to another judge and compleane and will not refer himsclfe to tho will of the honourable company being swonie to

Aberdeen Records. —No Ii.

that Lodge , in that case , the Maister of our Lodge , and his brethren will go to that judge he complaines to and will make him a perjured man , and never any more heirafter to be receaved in our Lodge , nor have any pairt nor portion in charitic , nor mortified means , nor none of his ofspring although they be

needful , nor gate any more employment with any of our number , nor from any other far nor near in so far as we can hinder , excepting alwayes such aotiones of Law as debts sowmes of money , houses , mealies , cloathes , prentise lies , dyets , selling or

buying of houses or ridges ( or rigs ) , or yardes , or workmanship to one another , if the Maister of our Lodge and his brethren cannot decyd it , in that case they have libertie to go before the common judge of the land , or Towne they live intill , and free of this their oath .

THIRD STATUTE . Wardens . And Lykwayes wee all protest by the oath we have made at our entrie to own the AVarden of our Lodge as the next man in power to the Maister , and in thc Maisters absence he is full Maister , he

allwayes choysing a warden to supply his place for that tyme , and he has power to fyne and exact fynes and to pardon faults allwayes with consent of the willes of the company , and the forsaid Warden is to continue in his office and cannot be changed without a great fault , or his owne will to demitt his

charge , or incapacity to go about it , or the willes of the company to take it from him , But the Maister of our Lodge is only to continue a yeire from Saint John ' s day to Saint John's day , but to continue any longer is the willes of the company . But allwayes every ycir a new choysing of a Maister . A Box

Master is to be chosen evene yeir , and to continue no longer as the will of the company thinks fit , and Maisters for thc Box to be chosen only from among the company because the Maister keeps one key and the AVarden another . A clerk is to be chosen everie yeire because wee allow no sallarie to him it

is only a peice of preferment . Our officer is to bo continued till another be entered in our Lodge . AVce ordaine lykwise that no Lodge be holden within a dwelling house where there is people living in it , but in the open fields except it be ill weather , and then let there be a house chosen that no person shall heir nor sic us . AVec ordaine lykwayes that

no measson shall begin to discourse on any affairs belonging to our Lodge or calling in table talk without libertie asked and given . AVce ordaine lykwayes that none of our number shall whisper or round together in company with us without leave asked and given , all under the faylzie of thc Law of the Lodge or will of the company .

FOURTH STATUTE . Laives for the Box for our poor , never practised heirtoforc in Abcrdeinc . Wee under subscrybers doe protest be all the oathes wee received at our entrie to the benefit off the Measson AVord , that wee shall own and

mentain the Measson Box of Abcrdeinc and of this our lodge , according as wee have have begun as the authoiresofitand shall employ any money therein , or shall be put therein , tonootherendbut forthe use and mentenancc of our distressed brethren , cspecialiie those of our own Lodge , if by accident they are

maimed of leg , or anno , or blind , or aged and cannot work , or suffered stress by fire ; in that case those being of our own Lodge wee are ingadged be oath to supply them according to our abilitie and according as this our mortified stock growes greater , we obelidge ourselves , and all our successors , to

enlarge our charitic towards all such personcs as shall be found needful belonging to our own Lodge . But never to break the stock . i 3 ut such personcs as doc lavish their tymc . in drunkenness , and other dcbaushries , and can and will not work , thoughe old age draw on them and they reduced to poverty ,

by rcassonj of thcr dcbatishncs , in this case although they belong to our Lodge yet wee are not obleidged to mentainc them in thcr poverty , but in so far as can honestly burric them . As for ther children belonging to our Lodge , if thirr parents hath lived honestly and virtuously , or

have bcein Maisters of our Lodge in thcr tyme , and if those children be virtuously inclyncd , out of Christianity , and for the respect wee bear to thcr deceased parents , wee are obleidged to sec them educat and put to schoolcs and trades , according to ther inclinationes and to bestow upon them for

that effect such a competent supply as wee are able to give on breaking our stock allwayes reffercd to thc will of tite company . As for the Meassons who arc strangers to us , and are reduced to poverty , or lame , or blind , wee

are obleidged to supply them at the present tyme according as wee are able , and as the willes of the companv think fit , but not to mvntain them allwayes t' . mi 'h they live amon ^ us and not to wrong our own poor .

Aberdeen Records. —No Ii.

But if necessity requyre wee the members of the Honourable Lodge hath power and all our successors , and after comers in the Measson Crafte , to take out ofthe Box as much money as will give a treat to any nobleman or gentleman that is a Meassonor for any other affaires of the Lodge . The

, stock allwayes ' to be kept wholl but only the annual rents to be disposed upon as the will of the company thinks fit , for the wellfarc ofthe Lodge , and if wee have no use for spending money wee are obliedged to make up the stock with it , and all wee can add to it , and give out the stock to ane

sufficient debtor with ane sufficient cautioner . And seeing wee who are the authoires of this so charitable a deed , and have vowed to mentaine the forsaid Meassone Box of Aberdeine , according as wee have begun for such a good end , Wee therfor strickly command all our after comers and

successors in the Meassone Crafte , that they shall never enter any man in our Lodge , but shall be tyed be oath for the wellfair of the Box , as he is tyed for the benefit he receaves at his entrie , and if any man of this our Lodge , or our after comers , and successors in the Meassone Craft shall break any

of this our Statuts , and lawes , or employ any of the aforsaid money wee mortifie for pious uses , for self interest , he is to be accounted a perjured man not keeping covenant , a breaker of all just lawes and the malediction of our poor , to light upon him till he restore twofold , being once sworne and tyed to the aforesaid Box .

All these statutes wee command all our successors in the Measson Craft to observe and keep and to employ the money in the foresaid Box for no other end but forthe uses above mentioned , and so the Lord will bless you and the works of your hands which is the heart wish and desire of us all who are the authoires and subscrybers of this Book . ( To be continued )

Prov. Grand Lodge Of Devon.

PROV . GRAND LODGE of DEVON .

On the 3 rd instant , the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of thc Province of Devon was held at Paignton , when there was a very large gathering of members present , consisting of some 300 brethren , mostly past and present

officers . The little town of Paignton , which is beautifully situated in Torbay , and commands fine views ofthe splendid basin from Torquay to Berry Head , was en fete . There were two or three hundred triumphal arches , and many flags of welcome were hung out from the houses ofthe

inhabitants , who turned out in large numbers to see the procession . Amongst the brethren present were the R . AV . the Rev . John Huyshe , Prov . Grand Master ; L . P . Metham , Deputy Prov . Grand Master ; J . Harris , P . M . 1092 , P . P . G . Reg . ; N . Clarke , AV . M . 164 j

H . G . Beachey , P . M . 1138 ; Capt . J . Keyworth , S . AV . 164 ; J . B . Gover , P . M . 70 , P . P . G . A . D . C . ; S . Jew , P . M . 105 , P . P . G . T . ; J . Hambly , P . M ., P . P . J . D . ; J . Sharland , P . M . 1125 , P . G . T . ; J . Littlcjohn , 372 ; AV . A . Goss , P . M . 128 ; J . T . Smith , S . W . 223 ; E . A . Davies , P . M . 1099 ; I . AVatts ,

P . M ., P . G . T . ; A . Huxtable , AV . M . 1135 ; D . Attwood , S . AV . 1135 ; E . S . Keall , J . . 1135 ; Capt . J . Tanner Davy , P . P . S . G . W . ; C . Langdon , I . G . 1254 ; D . AVatson , S . AV . 528 : Dr . R . Thomas , 112 5 , P . G . S . W . ; B . Barber , S . S . 1254 ; J . AV . Bovey , 328 ; I . C . Radford , P . P . G . D . ; I . L . Chabrol , 105 ;

H . R . Somes , W . M . 1255 ; AV . F . Quick , W . M . 39 i AV . Fabyan AVindeatt , Org . 70 , 1247 ; H . Miller , P . M . 159 ; AV . K . Michell , P . M . 156 , P . G . A . D . C . ; J . Gregory , 112 ; J . K . Price , P . M . 202 , P . G . S . ; A . Bartlett , P . P . G . A . D . C . ; H . S . Smith , P . M . 954 ; J .

M . Lilley , P . M . 223 , P . G . S . ; T . B . Forster , W . M . 189 ; M . A . Coates , S . AV , 1 S 9 ; R . M . Andrews , AV . M . 70 ; S . Keys , P . M . 248 ; S . B . Colston , P . M . 248 ; C . S . AVillshire , P . M . 251 , P . G . D . C ; E . Rosevcare , AV . M . 1099 ; AV . T . Pilditch , J . AV . 156 ; AV . H . Gillman , J . AV . 1099 ; F . Simons , AV . M . 251 ;

G . AV . Phillips , J . A \ . 202 ; E . Tavncll , S . W . 202 ; J . Lynn , W . M . 230 ; C . Watson , J . W . 954 ; J . Daud , S . W . 39 ; J . C . Shepherd , P . M . 159 ; AV . H . Triplet ! . S . W . 1255 ; AV . Howard , P . M . 245 ; J . Hicks , J . W . 125 ; ; M . Paul , AV . M . 954 ; J . Mills , W . M .

1125 ; I . Ripper , J . W . 1212 ; Rev . Dr . AV . L . Pope , P . G . Chap . ; J . Redgatc , S . AV . 1212 ; H . Davey , S . W . 1125 ; J . Johnson , P . M . 248 ; P . Dickes , P . M . 39 , P . P . G . S . B . ; J . Pridham , P . M . 710 j W . Easton , P . M . 39 . and P . G . Supt . of Works ; R . R . Ellis , I . P . M . 156 ; H . F . Hcarlc , S . AV . 156 ;

II . AV . Pcdlcr , S . AV . 248 ; R . Lambwood , AV . M . 248 ; N . AVilliams , S . W . 105 ; S . S . Tremayne , P . M . 1212 ; 1 . Purse , AV . M . 282 ; J . Foot , J . AV . iorjG ; W . Hugo , J . AV . 1254 ; T . Lidstone , W . M . 797 , P . P . G . S . W . ; 1 " . Follett , J . AV . 797 ; J . Lidstone , 797 . A . P . C . ; J . Drown , P . M . v ?? h P . G . Purs . ; T ,