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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . ST . JOHN'S HILL , BATTERSEA RISE , S . W . HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M ., PRESIDENT . ITER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS 01 * WALES . At a Quarterly General Court of this Institution , held at Freemasons' Tavern , Lincoln's Inn-fields , London , W . C , on Saturday , Octobers , 1 SS 1 , Col . J . CREATON , Treasurer and Trustee , in the chair . After the general business was disposed of , " the Governors and Subscribers proceeded to thc election by [ ballot of fifteen Girls into the Institution , from a list of twenty-four approved candidates , when the following were declared duly Elected : No . on List . Votes . No . on Poll . iS . Hare , Gertrude Alay 2115 ... 1 y . Walters , Nellie Louise ... 1 S 92 ... 2 13 . Byers , Ruth 177 S ... 3 7 . Wyman , Constance Faith ... 1 755 ... 4 . 10 . Orridge , Edith Mary 1 G 79 ... 5 19 . Ainsworth , Dorothy Annie ... 1 G 1 S ... G G . Cleaver , Alice Gertrude ... 157 G ... 7 22 . Taylor , Jane Mildred 1545 ... S 23 . Wotton , Millicent Flora ... 1531 ... 9 t . Brown , Edith 1420 ... 10 20 . Inglis , Hannah Alargarct ... 1409 ... n 17 . Mallett , Eliza Jane 1403 ... 12 11 . Haigh , Louisa Amelia 1351 ... 13 iG . Newman , Florence Parsons 12 S 3 ... 14 5 . Turner , Annie Elizabeth ... 12 G 0 ... 15 The votes recorded for unsuccessful candidates will be carried forward to their credit al thc next election , if eligible . Lists showing the votes [ polled for successful and unsuccessful candidates may be obtained at tbe oflice . F . R . W . HEDGES , Secretary . No . 5 , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS , WOOD GREEN , LONDON , N . Office—G , FREEMASONS' HALL , W . C . PATRON : HER A 1 AJESTY THE QUEEN . PRESIDENT : HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., M . W . G . M . At a Quarterly General Court of thc Governors and Subscribers , held-at Freemasons'Tavern , Great Queenstreet , Lincoln ' s-lnn-fields , London , on Alonday , the 10 th day of October , 1 SS 1 , V . W . Bro . Lieut .-Col . J . CREATON , Vice-Patron and Trustee ( Grand Treasurer ) , in thc chair , a Ballot took place for thc election of Twelve Boys from a list of G 3 Candidates . The following were declared to be successful : No . on List . Votes . No on Poll 48 . Bottomley , A . W . 222 7 ... 1 S . Watson , W . R 2173 ... 2 40 . Alott , P . II 215 S ... 3 53 . Alotion , XV . G 214 G ... 4 27 . Thompson , C W 2089 ... 5 59 . I . cvick , C 2035 ... G 25 . Booth , F 2002 ... 7 37 . Kirkby , A 19 S 4 ... 8 15 . Langdon , J 1976 ... 9 22 . Wortlcy , C 1 97 G ... 10 1 . Fellows , A 1952 ... 11 51 . Wilson , G 194 S ... 12 Lists of candidates , successful and unsuccessful , with full particulars of polling , & c , may be had on application at the office ; and votes of unsuccessful candidates will be carried to the credit of those qualified for election in April next . The number of thc Candidates in the first column is that 011 the voting papers . FREDERICK BINCKES , ( P . G . Steward ) , Vice-Patron , 1 oth October , 1 SS 1 . Secretary .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . —Mrs . CLEAVER desires to thank most kindly the Subscribers and numerous Friends who interested themselves in the Election of her daughter , ALICE GERTRUDE CLEAVER , for the above Institution .

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NOTICE . The "Cosmopolitan Masonic Diary and Pocket Book " for 18 S 2 is preparing- for publication on the ist of November . To ensure accuracy a form for filling up has been sent to every lodge , and those Secretaries who have not yet made their returns will greatly oblige the Publisher by doing so at their earliest possible convenience . Thc Freemason Office , 16 , Great Queen-street ( opposite Freemasons' Hall ) .

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TO ADVERTIS ERS . THE FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of thc Globe . In it the ollicial Reports of the Grand Lodges of Fngland , Ireland , aud Scotland arc published with the special sanction of the respective Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic worn in this country , our Indian Empire , and thc Colonics . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during tlie past few years , and thc increasing interest manifested in its doings , has given thc Freemason a position and influence which few journals can lay claim to , and thc proprietor can assert witb confidence that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a vc-rv 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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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 15 , iSSr .

Reviews.

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MR . WALFORD'S WORK ON GILDS . Wc are requested to state that the work we reviewed last week i . s not a re-issue , but the original reprint from ] the "Insurance Cyclop .-cdia , " published privately some time since , but which wc had not been able previously to notice . We

understand the author continues to receive applications for copies from persons in all parts of thc world . There was only a small edition printed for a specific purpose , and long since exhausted ; but we believe this work will be reprinted ( with additions ) at an early date , cither in the "Sacristy ( "Antiquarian Magazine , " ) or in the"Antiquary's Library . "—En . F . M .

HISTOIRE DES ANCIENNKS CORPORATIONS DICS ARTS & METIERS , & c . Par Ch . OUKN * LACKOIN . Rouen , Lecointe , 1 SS 0 . This i . s a very valuable work , published by M . Lacroix , Doctor of Theology of the University of Rome , and which is very little known by Masonic students , lt contains a valuable account of French industrial gilds and Belgian

fraternities , and gives the rules and laws of many of such associations , most interesting and curious in themselves . One very remarkable feature of such associations in France is the "Compagnonage" with such names as " Enfans de Salomon , " & c . Such bodies seem to have been numerous , and have been very powerful at one time , and to given great trouble and anxiety to the State . What tbey had in common with Freemasonry has yet to be

proved . They possessed , undoubtedly , a secret organization and " formula ;"; they bad " signs , " and " words of recognition" ; and they seem to have had a form of "secret reception . " 'I hey relieved the sick , buried the dead , and governed their members by trade , social , and sumptuary laws . It is a point so far little noticed by Masonic historians , though mentioned in " Kenning ' s Cyclopaedia , " and will , no doubt , lind a place in Bro . Gould ' s forthcoming " History of Freemasonry . "

HISTORY OF ROYAL ARCH MASONRY IN THE PROVINCE OF LINCOLNSHIRE . By Comp . F . 1 ) . MAUSI-KN , Louth . This is a compendious little account of Roya ! Arch Masonry in the Province of Lincoln . It is well put together , though tlie materials are scanty . 1 S 07 scums to be date of Koyal An . ii Masonry in Lincolnshire , which is very laic , and to us seems a very curious fact in itself for many reasons .

PATRIOTS IN ARMS , liy THOMAS PRESTON * . This is a collection of " addresses and sermons" by celebrated preachers ill the last century , in praise of the Volunteer . Movement . They will have some little , interest for

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any who do read sermons , & c , now-a-days . Archdeacon Grantley seems to doubt if " clergymen " are of any use in this generation ; and what is the use , many ask , of " sermons ? " Wc . hope the Editor will find some who will read them .

THE MAGAZINES . " Temple Bar . " " The Freres " and " Kith and Kin " keep up their even tenour— "The Freres" improving . We do not care for any of the other papers , except " The Story of a Railway" and "The Campaign of Moscow . " The article entitled " Fashion and Frivolity " is in " bad form , " and betrays too much of thc "make up" to beeither reliable ,

or even readable . Ihis "ex post facto" disinterring of dead scandals and obsolete slanders is alike , to our mind , unwholesome and ungenial literature , and at this special period very unwise . But what lovers of scandal we all are ! "Scribner ' s" is , as usual , the " king of magazines . " We do not know which we most admire , its artistic illustrations or its admirable letter-press . The following- bit of

" chaff" on fashionable "patois" is alike amusing and true , though one of our contemporaries does not seem to sec the point : " A wandering tribe , called the Siouxs , Wear moccasins , having no shiouxs . They arc made of buckskin ,

With the fleshy side in , Embroidered with beads of bright hyiouxs . " When outlon the war-path , thc Siouxs March single file—never by tiouxs—And by " blazing " the trees Can return at their ease , And their way through the forrcst ne'er liouxs .

" All new-fashioned boats he cschiouxs , And uses the birch-bark caniouxs ; These are handy and light , And , inverted at night ) Give shelter from storms and dyiouxs . "The principal food of ^ the Siouxs Is Indian corn , which they Uriouxs , And hominy make ,

Or mix in a cake . And eat it with pork , as they ' chiouxs . " Now docsn' this spelling look cyiouxrious ? 'Tis enough to make any one fyiouxrious ! So a word to the wise ' . Pray our language revise With orthography not so injiouxrious . " , " All the Year Round " has some interesting reading , but is it our fancy that it has become somewhat "dull" of late ?

"Jack Dyers Daughter" rather wearies us , we confess ; but we much approve of " Aliss Penny ' s Little Mistake , " and " A Traveller ' s Tales in the Sunny Rhineland " is amusing , but " A Question of Cain" we have never professed to like . "The Antiquary" is [ full of ingenious , if unexciting , reading for persons of sedate habits and studious propensities .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

ROSICRUCIANS . It would be interesting to ascertain if we could when the first work was published in which mention is made of a Rosicrucian Fraternity . The earliest work mentioned by Kloss is of date seemingly of 1 G 12 , or rather a work in which it is attached to . Arc there no earlier ones ? M . S .

GILDS . I thank "P . M . 1125 " forhis note . Grose ' s quotation is , as I feared it would turn out . to be , " shecpwalking " again . " Wren ' s Parentalia " is thc parent . The authority of " Wren ' s Parentalia " is nil , it again being founded , as I have often remarked , on " ut dicitur , " and , as far as

wc know , "viva voce , " too , of Sir W . Dugdale . But it is astonishing how this glib statement has been accepted ; is current among Masonic writers , and forms thc basis of many authorities (?) on this particular point . It has probably some amount of truth in it , but wc have yet to know more about the mediaeval Gilds before we can accept it in general or in particular . MASONIC STUDENT .

LATHOMOS . I have searched " Rymcr ' s Fnadera" for thc year 139 G for the passage mentioned by Air . Papworth { Freemason lGth July , 1 SS 1 , p . 327 ) , and again asked for by " M . S . " ( ist October , p . 439 ) , but without success ; but I have found enterics of still earlier date , which may be of interest . March iSth , 1395 , there occurs an indenture

regarding the repair of Westminster Hall : "Do Fabrica Autae Wcstmonasterii reformanda . —Ccstc Endenture . —Faite parentre nostre Seigneur le Roy d ' une part & Richard Washbourn & Julian Swalwe , masons d ' autre part Kt ferro ' ut la dite Table , selonc le purport d ' urie fourmc & modele faitz par conseil de Mestre Henri Zeneley , & deliverez as ditz masons pur

Watkin Waldon son Wardein Et mesmc nostre Seigneur le Roy trovcra Herbcrgage pur les ditz masons & lour compaignons , par tout le temps q'ils serrout ocupiez en tout les ditz Overaignes L'Endenture touchant les masons du Roy . " Again , under date of the 1 st April , 1395 ( iSth Richard II . ) , wc find an indenture between the King and Henri

\ eveleand Stephen Lote , citizens and masons of London , concerning the building of Queen Anne's tomb . In 1386 we find a message directing certain persons to collect masons and carpenters , lt is beaded : " De I . athoinis et Carpentariis . Scialis quod assignavimus vos , coiijunctim et divisim , ad Ouadraginta Carpentarios et Lathomos , ubiciimqiie invenin potenint cligendum et capieiidum , " cVa :.

In 1377 is another , headed " De Carpentariis ct Latoinis , contra Coronationeni Regis , providendis . " And , on 24 th May , 1372 , permission is granted , " Guliclmo de Patryngton , Joanno de Wulsaley , ct Galfrida Mason , " to proceed with three "companions " into Scotland , concerning a tomb for David de Bruys . I think the conjunction of the words mason , master , warden , and companion in the same document is worthy of