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FREEMASONS' CLUB , PORTSMOUTH . Offers especial advantages to Commercial Gentlemen and Visitors to Southsea . It is pleasantly situated in the Cfcntre of the Borough , close to the Railway Station , and Tram Cars pass it every few minutes to all parts of the Town . Entrance Fee , One Guinea . Annual Subscription for Resident Members , One Guinea . To Visitors , etc ., who are non-resident in the immediate district , the Annual Subscription is Ten Shillings and Sixpence . Three Craft Lodges , a regular Lodge of Instruction , meeting every fortnight ; a Royal Arch Chapter , Mark Lodge , and a Conclave of Rome and Constantine meet in the handsome Hall attached to the Club . For further particulars and forms of nominations apply to the Secretary , 79 , Commercial Road , Landport .
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TO ADVERTISERS . THE FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe-In it the official Reports of the Grand Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland are published with the special sanction of the respective Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic work in this country , our Indian Empire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past few years , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has given the Freemason a position and influence which few journals can lay claim to , and the proprietor can assert with confidence that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a very large and influential body of readers . Advertisements for the current week ' s issue are received up to six o ' clock on Wednesday evening .
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TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — TW ., 1 \ z- wj « r . V ^ fh ^ rn ' nti India ' China » Australia United Kingdom . Canada ^ thc ^ Conti- Ne ' w Zcaj . Jndj & c > 13 s . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , Chief Office , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank .
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STo ftorregpontrmts * W . M . —Albert Edward , Prince of Wales , Lodge . Owing to pressure on our columns the following stand over : — Lodge of Amity , No . 137 . Lodge of Lights , No . 14 S . Confidence Lodge , No . 193 . Whittington Lodge of Instruction , No . S 62 . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "Sundry Times , " "Broad Arrow , " "Citizen , " "The Jewish Chronicle , " "Light , " "Hull Packet , " "Croydon Guardian , " " Official Report of the Proceedings at the last Grand Priory , " "The Spirit of the Nightingale "—A Song and Chorus , by Bro . T . Upwood , Organist 12 SS , "Mystic Tie , " "Bauhutte , ' ; "New York Dispatch , " " Building and Engineering Times , " "British Mercantile Gazette , " "Proceedings of the Chicago Masonic Collector ' s Association , " "The Liberal Freemason , " "Allen's Indian Mail , " " DerLong Islacnder . "
The Freemason.
THE FREEMASON .
SATURDAY , J ANUARY 15 , 1881 .
WE call attention to the recent proceedings at the annual New Year ' s Entertainment to our aged Brethren and Widows at the Asylum at Croydon , mentioned in our last . The report is pleasant to
note and read , and we feel sure that we are expressing the opinions of all our readers when we say , that such little "festivals " are most gratifying incidents in the yearly progress of our great Charitable Institutions .
* * WE have read the proceedings In re COLLINGWOOD , and we think that it would be an act of moral cowardice on our part if we hesitated any longer to express our opinion clearly and fully on
this somewhat delicate and dangerous question . Of course we feel strongly for the poor boy COLLINGWOOD himself , but we equall y feel as strongly , that his case is not one which comes within the scope really and properly of the Royal Masonic
Institution for Boys . The mother has now £ 130 a year , and in two years will have £ 180 ; the boy has £ 1170 of his own , and £ 40 a year is to be allowed for his education . There is another child
with the same amount of absolute property . There is no doubt something in the idea of having a class of pupils , as in most of the great educational establishments , who pay for their education ; but such an idea is entirely contrary to the whole con-
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stitution and history of the Boys' School , which has always professed , and still professes , to give a gratuitous education to those children of our brethren whom death or disability have rendered it necessary for them to appeal by themselves or
survivors to the large-hearted chanty of the subscribers to the Boys' School . Knowing how many distressing cases there are before us , and how many of the applicants are absolutely penniless , we cannot but think that the Quarterly Court will adopt the view of the majority of the General Committee .
* * OUR readers will note Bro . TUDOR TREVOR ' S letter in our last . There is a difficulty in the case which we deem it right to putbef ore him , as he does not seem to realize it . We all of us probably
agree as to the abstract impropriety of the proceedings which led to Bro . TREVOR ' orig inal troubles , but many of us strongly feel , that the whole case is such a scandal to Freemasonry , that it ought to have been " put down " by authority in the first
instance . This fact and this opinion indispose many brethren from subscribing . We are very sorry ourselves personally for Bro . TUDOR TREVOR , but we know that there is a very strong feeling on
the subject in many quarters , and we are somewhat afraid that , as in many other similar cases , litigation outside of Freemasonry , however really justifiable , will fail to enlist the sympathies or move the liberality of our brethren .
* * * WHAT a gratify ing spectacle is that which English Freemasonry , at the opening of 1881 , under the Grand Mastership of H . R . H . the PRINCE OF WALES , presents to the Order and the world . At
peace in itself , active , numerous , and well esteemed , it has , indeed , reached a point in its history which it is well and wise for us to note and realize . No doubt its prevailing prosperity and its numerical increase afford some considerations of anxiety and
caution . But yet , allowing for everything that can be said in this respect , how very striking is its " outcome , " as exhibited in the New Year which has come to this warring and distracted world of ours . English Freemasonry has g iven to its great
Charities alone £ 49 , 762 lis . 5 d ., and if to this you add the amount given by the Board of Benevolence , we find that , as it has voted £ 9223 , we have the very large total of £ 58 , 985 us 5 d . Surely this is a better and truer expression of
Freemasonry than idle discussions and hurtful innovations ; surely this does more to prove the reality of Freemasonry before the world , than loud professions and little practice , much talking and little doing ; the vagaries of some foreign jurisdictions , and that
affectation of Freemasonry which appears to puzzle itself and astound its contemporaries by mixing itself up unseasonably and un-Masonically with the most abstruse social and political questions .
All honour , therefore , we venture to say , to our good old-fashioned English Craft , which never forgets its sacred duty of genuine and beneficent Charit \\
* * THE following extract from the Athenamm , to which our contemporary , the Manchester Guardian , calls attention , deserves the notice and consideration of Masonic Students . It would almost seem
to point to the fact that Christian Masons had entered the Roman Building Guilds : " The Rev . " EDWARD VENABLES writes tolhe Athenamm to " say that the well-known Christian monogram , or " Labarum , which is of extreme rarity in England ,
" has been found cut in one of the stones of Carlisle " Cathedral . The materials of which the nave " and transept are built came from the Roman " wall , which served the Roman builders as a " quarry . Mr . VENABLES considers that among
" legionaries , by whom Luguvallum was manned " a century after the erection of the wall b y SEP" TIMUS SEVERUS , there were Christians who in" scribed upon the stones they were called to defend
" the symbol of the faith which C ONSTANTINE had " adopted as the Imperial ensign of Rome , and " that this stone was , eight centuries afterwards , " unconsciously built into the mother church of now * ' Christian Carlisle . "
The Freemason.
IT is amusing sometimes to the more philosophica student to note the pertinacity and peremptoriness which some writers display in the support or overthrow , as the case may be , of favoured " vanities " or unwelcome theories . Unless all who treat
Masonic subjects agree with their special " fad " or preconceived opinions , they are at once treated as imcompetent critics , unsound historians , and unsafe guides . And yet , " a . priori , " we should have thought that it was the especial duty of Masonic
writers to be fair and considerate , impartial , and unimpassioned . Their object should be " Truth , ' ' and " Truth " alone , and all fellow-seekers and fellow-students should be welcomed heartily , and listened to courteously , whether we agree with
them or not , whether we go with them in the journey a long distance or a short . We always regret to read , for it is , indeed , a pure waste of time , effusions which are only animated apparentl y by a rude spirit of utter destructiveness , and which ,
in no sense whatever , can be said to represent the culture or the carefulness , the modesty or the moderation , of true Masonic students . Partizanship and personality may , indeed , be advanced by
Masonic "hig h falutin , " to use- an American phrase , but Masonic criticism and Masonic literature are kept down , thrown back , and even degraded b y assertions in which nothing is > asserted , and by discoveries in which nothing is discovered .
Answers To Queries.
ANSWERS TO QUERIES .
Can an Irish P . M . act as Installing Master in England ? Yes , we think , on the invitation of the W . M ., if he has been regularly installed as a W . M . of a lodge and served twelve months . The Book of Constitutions , strictly speaking , only deals with members of the English jurisdiction .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We Jo not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving , of the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wi « h in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ]
OUR BOYS' SCHOOL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — During the holidays , when brothers and sisters meet , an opportunity is presented of comparing their respective Schools . Some of " our boys " and " our girls " from the Masonic Schools are | thus brought under the
observation of relatives and sympathising friends j and I regret to say that the comparison is not favourable to our Boys' School . The girls appear well taught , and well mannered : gentle , courteous , and , in the best sense of the word , ladylike . But the boys—their own brothers—are too often vulgar in speech and manner , greatly to the grief of many a widowed mother , who is compelled to see her boys
lose any refinement they once had . What is the reason of this difference ?—are the masters quite of the right stamp ?—is the head a public school and university man ? These are important questions j but the clue to this needless and unfortunate difference may perhaps lie in the question—Is there a lady , in any capacity , over the boys ? If neither
in matron , or master ' s wife , the boys can find a lady _ of good manners and culture , who will be a presiding spirit over them in their out-of-school life , and take a controlling interest in them , no further explanation is needed . _ Will some of our Committee look to it , that our Charity be expended to the best advantage ? I write as an experienced public schoolmaster and a P . W . M .
AN IMPOSTOR . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Having been myself a victim , may I be permitted through your columns to caution the W . M . ' s of lodges particularly , and the brethren generally , against a fraud which , I fear , havingbeenonce successful , may beagain attempted ,
by a brother styling himself Capt . Wm . M ., of Bedford . The way in which , I am sorry to say , I was successfully practised upon was as follows : — A stranger , of military bearing , middle height , short , sandy beard , and with decidedly a good address , called upon me on the 31 st of August last ( as the W . M . of my lodce at that time ) , and , after introducing himself , and , I
may also add ( though with regret ) , satisf y ing me that he was a brother , stated that he had arrived in Cheltenham with his wife and family that morning , with a quantity of luggage , for the purpose of looking for and taking a house , with a view to placing his sons at the College here , they having recentl y left Lancing College ; that he now found upon enquiry that there were no particular advantages to
be gained by taking a house in the town , and that , therefore , he had decided not to do so , but to send his sons to one of the College boarding houses , and this he intended to do ; that he was most anxious to return to Bedford that evening , but , unfortunately , was some two or three pounds short of the required amount to enable him to do so , and did not wish to remain in the town until he could get a
remittance from home . He stated that he was then stopping at the Queen ' s Hotel ( which is one of the leading hotels here ) , and produced tickets for his luggage , some of which was remaining at the station , but said , as he did not know a single individual in the town , he appealed to me as a brother Mason to advance him a pound or two to enable him
to get back that evening , and thus save him very great inconvenience and expense . Such was my friend ' s very plausible statement , andbeing , as I have before said , of very gentlemanly appearance and demeanour , and having been , as I then thought , in the army , I unhesitatingly ( though , I will now admit , very foolishly ) advanced him £ 5 upon his I O U . For this I received most profuse thanks and oft repeated promises to return
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FREEMASONS' CLUB , PORTSMOUTH . Offers especial advantages to Commercial Gentlemen and Visitors to Southsea . It is pleasantly situated in the Cfcntre of the Borough , close to the Railway Station , and Tram Cars pass it every few minutes to all parts of the Town . Entrance Fee , One Guinea . Annual Subscription for Resident Members , One Guinea . To Visitors , etc ., who are non-resident in the immediate district , the Annual Subscription is Ten Shillings and Sixpence . Three Craft Lodges , a regular Lodge of Instruction , meeting every fortnight ; a Royal Arch Chapter , Mark Lodge , and a Conclave of Rome and Constantine meet in the handsome Hall attached to the Club . For further particulars and forms of nominations apply to the Secretary , 79 , Commercial Road , Landport .
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TO ADVERTISERS . THE FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe-In it the official Reports of the Grand Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland are published with the special sanction of the respective Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic work in this country , our Indian Empire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past few years , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has given the Freemason a position and influence which few journals can lay claim to , and the proprietor can assert with confidence that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a very large and influential body of readers . Advertisements for the current week ' s issue are received up to six o ' clock on Wednesday evening .
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TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — TW ., 1 \ z- wj « r . V ^ fh ^ rn ' nti India ' China » Australia United Kingdom . Canada ^ thc ^ Conti- Ne ' w Zcaj . Jndj & c > 13 s . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , Chief Office , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank .
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STo ftorregpontrmts * W . M . —Albert Edward , Prince of Wales , Lodge . Owing to pressure on our columns the following stand over : — Lodge of Amity , No . 137 . Lodge of Lights , No . 14 S . Confidence Lodge , No . 193 . Whittington Lodge of Instruction , No . S 62 . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "Sundry Times , " "Broad Arrow , " "Citizen , " "The Jewish Chronicle , " "Light , " "Hull Packet , " "Croydon Guardian , " " Official Report of the Proceedings at the last Grand Priory , " "The Spirit of the Nightingale "—A Song and Chorus , by Bro . T . Upwood , Organist 12 SS , "Mystic Tie , " "Bauhutte , ' ; "New York Dispatch , " " Building and Engineering Times , " "British Mercantile Gazette , " "Proceedings of the Chicago Masonic Collector ' s Association , " "The Liberal Freemason , " "Allen's Indian Mail , " " DerLong Islacnder . "
The Freemason.
THE FREEMASON .
SATURDAY , J ANUARY 15 , 1881 .
WE call attention to the recent proceedings at the annual New Year ' s Entertainment to our aged Brethren and Widows at the Asylum at Croydon , mentioned in our last . The report is pleasant to
note and read , and we feel sure that we are expressing the opinions of all our readers when we say , that such little "festivals " are most gratifying incidents in the yearly progress of our great Charitable Institutions .
* * WE have read the proceedings In re COLLINGWOOD , and we think that it would be an act of moral cowardice on our part if we hesitated any longer to express our opinion clearly and fully on
this somewhat delicate and dangerous question . Of course we feel strongly for the poor boy COLLINGWOOD himself , but we equall y feel as strongly , that his case is not one which comes within the scope really and properly of the Royal Masonic
Institution for Boys . The mother has now £ 130 a year , and in two years will have £ 180 ; the boy has £ 1170 of his own , and £ 40 a year is to be allowed for his education . There is another child
with the same amount of absolute property . There is no doubt something in the idea of having a class of pupils , as in most of the great educational establishments , who pay for their education ; but such an idea is entirely contrary to the whole con-
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stitution and history of the Boys' School , which has always professed , and still professes , to give a gratuitous education to those children of our brethren whom death or disability have rendered it necessary for them to appeal by themselves or
survivors to the large-hearted chanty of the subscribers to the Boys' School . Knowing how many distressing cases there are before us , and how many of the applicants are absolutely penniless , we cannot but think that the Quarterly Court will adopt the view of the majority of the General Committee .
* * OUR readers will note Bro . TUDOR TREVOR ' S letter in our last . There is a difficulty in the case which we deem it right to putbef ore him , as he does not seem to realize it . We all of us probably
agree as to the abstract impropriety of the proceedings which led to Bro . TREVOR ' orig inal troubles , but many of us strongly feel , that the whole case is such a scandal to Freemasonry , that it ought to have been " put down " by authority in the first
instance . This fact and this opinion indispose many brethren from subscribing . We are very sorry ourselves personally for Bro . TUDOR TREVOR , but we know that there is a very strong feeling on
the subject in many quarters , and we are somewhat afraid that , as in many other similar cases , litigation outside of Freemasonry , however really justifiable , will fail to enlist the sympathies or move the liberality of our brethren .
* * * WHAT a gratify ing spectacle is that which English Freemasonry , at the opening of 1881 , under the Grand Mastership of H . R . H . the PRINCE OF WALES , presents to the Order and the world . At
peace in itself , active , numerous , and well esteemed , it has , indeed , reached a point in its history which it is well and wise for us to note and realize . No doubt its prevailing prosperity and its numerical increase afford some considerations of anxiety and
caution . But yet , allowing for everything that can be said in this respect , how very striking is its " outcome , " as exhibited in the New Year which has come to this warring and distracted world of ours . English Freemasonry has g iven to its great
Charities alone £ 49 , 762 lis . 5 d ., and if to this you add the amount given by the Board of Benevolence , we find that , as it has voted £ 9223 , we have the very large total of £ 58 , 985 us 5 d . Surely this is a better and truer expression of
Freemasonry than idle discussions and hurtful innovations ; surely this does more to prove the reality of Freemasonry before the world , than loud professions and little practice , much talking and little doing ; the vagaries of some foreign jurisdictions , and that
affectation of Freemasonry which appears to puzzle itself and astound its contemporaries by mixing itself up unseasonably and un-Masonically with the most abstruse social and political questions .
All honour , therefore , we venture to say , to our good old-fashioned English Craft , which never forgets its sacred duty of genuine and beneficent Charit \\
* * THE following extract from the Athenamm , to which our contemporary , the Manchester Guardian , calls attention , deserves the notice and consideration of Masonic Students . It would almost seem
to point to the fact that Christian Masons had entered the Roman Building Guilds : " The Rev . " EDWARD VENABLES writes tolhe Athenamm to " say that the well-known Christian monogram , or " Labarum , which is of extreme rarity in England ,
" has been found cut in one of the stones of Carlisle " Cathedral . The materials of which the nave " and transept are built came from the Roman " wall , which served the Roman builders as a " quarry . Mr . VENABLES considers that among
" legionaries , by whom Luguvallum was manned " a century after the erection of the wall b y SEP" TIMUS SEVERUS , there were Christians who in" scribed upon the stones they were called to defend
" the symbol of the faith which C ONSTANTINE had " adopted as the Imperial ensign of Rome , and " that this stone was , eight centuries afterwards , " unconsciously built into the mother church of now * ' Christian Carlisle . "
The Freemason.
IT is amusing sometimes to the more philosophica student to note the pertinacity and peremptoriness which some writers display in the support or overthrow , as the case may be , of favoured " vanities " or unwelcome theories . Unless all who treat
Masonic subjects agree with their special " fad " or preconceived opinions , they are at once treated as imcompetent critics , unsound historians , and unsafe guides . And yet , " a . priori , " we should have thought that it was the especial duty of Masonic
writers to be fair and considerate , impartial , and unimpassioned . Their object should be " Truth , ' ' and " Truth " alone , and all fellow-seekers and fellow-students should be welcomed heartily , and listened to courteously , whether we agree with
them or not , whether we go with them in the journey a long distance or a short . We always regret to read , for it is , indeed , a pure waste of time , effusions which are only animated apparentl y by a rude spirit of utter destructiveness , and which ,
in no sense whatever , can be said to represent the culture or the carefulness , the modesty or the moderation , of true Masonic students . Partizanship and personality may , indeed , be advanced by
Masonic "hig h falutin , " to use- an American phrase , but Masonic criticism and Masonic literature are kept down , thrown back , and even degraded b y assertions in which nothing is > asserted , and by discoveries in which nothing is discovered .
Answers To Queries.
ANSWERS TO QUERIES .
Can an Irish P . M . act as Installing Master in England ? Yes , we think , on the invitation of the W . M ., if he has been regularly installed as a W . M . of a lodge and served twelve months . The Book of Constitutions , strictly speaking , only deals with members of the English jurisdiction .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We Jo not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving , of the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wi « h in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ]
OUR BOYS' SCHOOL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — During the holidays , when brothers and sisters meet , an opportunity is presented of comparing their respective Schools . Some of " our boys " and " our girls " from the Masonic Schools are | thus brought under the
observation of relatives and sympathising friends j and I regret to say that the comparison is not favourable to our Boys' School . The girls appear well taught , and well mannered : gentle , courteous , and , in the best sense of the word , ladylike . But the boys—their own brothers—are too often vulgar in speech and manner , greatly to the grief of many a widowed mother , who is compelled to see her boys
lose any refinement they once had . What is the reason of this difference ?—are the masters quite of the right stamp ?—is the head a public school and university man ? These are important questions j but the clue to this needless and unfortunate difference may perhaps lie in the question—Is there a lady , in any capacity , over the boys ? If neither
in matron , or master ' s wife , the boys can find a lady _ of good manners and culture , who will be a presiding spirit over them in their out-of-school life , and take a controlling interest in them , no further explanation is needed . _ Will some of our Committee look to it , that our Charity be expended to the best advantage ? I write as an experienced public schoolmaster and a P . W . M .
AN IMPOSTOR . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Having been myself a victim , may I be permitted through your columns to caution the W . M . ' s of lodges particularly , and the brethren generally , against a fraud which , I fear , havingbeenonce successful , may beagain attempted ,
by a brother styling himself Capt . Wm . M ., of Bedford . The way in which , I am sorry to say , I was successfully practised upon was as follows : — A stranger , of military bearing , middle height , short , sandy beard , and with decidedly a good address , called upon me on the 31 st of August last ( as the W . M . of my lodce at that time ) , and , after introducing himself , and , I
may also add ( though with regret ) , satisf y ing me that he was a brother , stated that he had arrived in Cheltenham with his wife and family that morning , with a quantity of luggage , for the purpose of looking for and taking a house , with a view to placing his sons at the College here , they having recentl y left Lancing College ; that he now found upon enquiry that there were no particular advantages to
be gained by taking a house in the town , and that , therefore , he had decided not to do so , but to send his sons to one of the College boarding houses , and this he intended to do ; that he was most anxious to return to Bedford that evening , but , unfortunately , was some two or three pounds short of the required amount to enable him to do so , and did not wish to remain in the town until he could get a
remittance from home . He stated that he was then stopping at the Queen ' s Hotel ( which is one of the leading hotels here ) , and produced tickets for his luggage , some of which was remaining at the station , but said , as he did not know a single individual in the town , he appealed to me as a brother Mason to advance him a pound or two to enable him
to get back that evening , and thus save him very great inconvenience and expense . Such was my friend ' s very plausible statement , andbeing , as I have before said , of very gentlemanly appearance and demeanour , and having been , as I then thought , in the army , I unhesitatingly ( though , I will now admit , very foolishly ) advanced him £ 5 upon his I O U . For this I received most profuse thanks and oft repeated promises to return