Contents.

CONTENTS .

L EADERS— PAGH . Lodges that Helped to Establish the Boys' School ... ... ... 1 S 3 The Cambridgeshire Masonic Charity Association ... ... •••1 S 4 Devon Masonic Educational Fund ... ... ... ... •••1 S 4 Craft Masonry ... ... •••... •••' 5 M ASONIC NOTESGirls' School Election ... ... ... ... »¦ •;•1 S 7 Monthly Meeting of Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic

Benevolent Institution ... ... ... ... ... 1 S 7 Illness of Bro . Earl Euston ... ... ... ... ... iS / Laying the Foundation-stone of new Wing of the Warntford Hospital , Leamington ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 S 7 Sixth Triennial Meeting of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters for the United States ... ... ... ... 1 S 7

Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... iSS Masonic Notes and Queries ... ... ... ... ... iSS Reviews ... ... ... ... ... ¦•••••1 S 8 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 S 8 Royal Arch ... ... ,.. ... ... ... ... 1 S 8 Lodges of Instruction ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 S 9 The Craft Abroad ... ... ... ... ... ... 189 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... IQO

Lodges That Helped To Establish The Boys' School.

LODGES THAT HELPED TO ESTABLISH THE BOYS' SCHOOL .

It will not be out of place if , in view of the near approach of the Centenary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , we mention sundry among the most important of the lodges which rendered assistance more or less material in the

establishment of that Charity . There arc certain facts bearing upon the foundation of lhe School about which , as far as we are aware , there is not even the semblance of a dispute . These are ( 1 ) that the School was originallv started early in the month

of July by Bro . WILLIAM BURWOOD , who was at the time Junior Grand Warden of the " Ancient" Grand Lodge and P . M . and Treasurer of United Mariners Lodge , No . 23 on the roll of that lodge—now No . 30 on the roll of United Grand

Lodge—assisted b y very many of his brother members of No . 23 ; that in 1801 it obtained the patronage of his Grace the Duke of ATHOI . L , Grand Master of the " Ancients ; " and that

four or five years later it was taken officially under the protection of his Grand Lodge ; ( 2 ) that 10 years later—in the year 1808—Bro . F . C . DA . NJEL—afterwards Sir F . C 01 . OMBINE

DANIEL , Knt . —who had helped Bro . Bl'RWOOD in his benevolent work , started a similar institution in connection with the Koyal Naval Lodge of Independence , No . 57 on the roll of the " Modern" Grand Lodge—now No . 59 on that of United Grand

Lod ge ; and ( 3 ) that this latter foundation was in 1817 amalgamated with the original or Burwood Institution to the mutual advantage of both establishments . But as regards the " ancient " Charity for " Cloathing and Educating the Sons of Deceased and

Indi gent Freemasons , " it will be readily understood that other lod ges took part in establishing it , the list furnished by Bro . JOHN COLE , in his "Illustrations of Masonry "—which was published in •ooi , and part of the profits from which were to be handed over

to the Institution—of contributing lodges containing to in addition to the United Mariners Lodge , No . 23 , and of these nine are still on the register of United Grand Lodsic . No . 23—now No . 30—heads ie list with a " voluntary " donation of to guineas and an annual

subscription oi two guineas , the second in order being No . 31—now Mount Moriah , No . 34—with live guineas " voluntary " and pne guinea " per annum . " The next ' is Lodge No . 195 , Holem-the-Wall—now Lodge of Prudent Brethren , No . 145—with 10

guineas " voluntary , " the remainder being entered as " annuals , " namel y . No . 192—now Faith Lodge , No . 141 ; No . 3—now St . gorge ' s and Corner Stone , No . 5 ; and No . 37—no longer existing—each for £ 2 2 s . ; - and No . 10—now Royal Athelstan , ?¦ J 9 i No . 81—now Mount Lebanon , No . 73 ; No . 258—now - ' ° n and Lamb Lodge , No , 192 ; . No . 245—now Lodge of

Lodges That Helped To Establish The Boys' School.

Industry , No . 186 ; and No . 234—now Domatic Lodge , No . 177 ; each of which contributed one guinea per annum . All of the foregoing lodges are included in the "List of . Subscribing Lodges , " to be found in a pamphlet containing the Rules and

Regulations , and a short account of the Institution , & c , & c ., "printed by T . HARPER , jun ., Crane Court , Fleet Street , " and issued in 1812 . In a similar pamphlet issued in 1816 ; that is , after the Union , and declared to be correct to Christmas , 1815 ,

there is also a " List of Contributing Lodges , " which includes all of the above but Nos . 10 and 195 . In the Subscribers' list issued early during the present year , we lind that Nos . 5 and 177 are

Vice-Patrons , Nos . 19 ^ 34 , 73 , 186 , and 192 Vice-Patrons ; and Nos . 30 , 141 , 145 , and 186 Governors . But other " ancient " lodges also assisted in the work , as is shown in the list of " Benefactions and Donations from the Establishment of the

Charity to Christmas , 1815 , which will be found in the pamphlet issued as aforesaid in 1816 . Thus , in 1804 , No . 221—which was erased in 1830—subscribed five guineas . In 1806 , Doyle ' s Lodge of Fellowship , Guernsey , which was warranted originally

as No . 33 6 in this same year , was a donor of £ 3 . In 1808 this . lodge purchased warrant'No . 98 for _ £ 2 i , and figures as such in the 1 S 12 list , and as No . 123 in the 1 S 16 , while at the present time it is No . 84 , and ranks as Governor . In 1807 , Marine Lodge , No . 323

—now No . 232—contributed £ j 10 s . —having , according to the Grand Lodge minutes , given £ 5 2 s . in 1804 . In 1808 , Lodg « No . 259—now Lodge of Confidence , No . 193—subscribed £ 5 5 s ., and "Lodge No . 222 , A . Y . M ., Guernsey "—now

Mariners Lodge , No . 168— £ 3 12 s ., the former being at the present lime a Vice-President and the latter a Governor . In 1809 , Seville Lodge , Jamaica—No . 10 , Provincial—subscribed £ 10 10 s . and No . 222 a further £ 2 14 s . ; while in 1810 , No . 259

is returned as donor of a sum of £ 5 5 s ., and two other Guernsey lodges—both long since extinct—namely , Harmony , No . 334 , and Unity or Amity , No . 337 , gave , the former two guineas and the latter £ 2 14 s ., No . 337 being also

included in the list for 1 S 11 , and again in the following year . In 1 M 4 is entered a " Lodge del Esperance " as donor of £ 5 5 s ., while in 1815 No . 432 , 14 th Regiment of Foot ( originally No . 33 8 "Ancient" ) , and Grand Master ' s Lodge ,

No . 1 ( of "Ancient" origin ) , gave each 10 guineas , and the Moira Lodge ( now No . 92 ) , two guineas . In the Grand Lodge minutes of 7 th March , 1 S 04 , mention is also made of two other lodges having forwarded donations through Grand Lodge to the

Boys' Charity—No . 230 , at the Salutation , Woolwich , remitting one guinea , to be repeated annually , and No . 322 in the 7 8 th Regiment at Fort William , Calcutta , nine guineas ; a third lodge —the Marine , Calcutta , present No . 232 , which has also been

mentioned , having chosen the same medium for remitting its contribution of £ 5 * s . As regards Lodge No . 230 , which was warranted in 1785 , it became after the Union , No . 288 , and on ist December , 1826 , united . with No . 86 ( " Ancient" ) , which in

1788 had purchased for £ , 5 5 s . No . 7 warrant , and so became No . 13 after the Union , and No . 328 ( " Ancient)—Royal Marine Lodge , Woolwich , which was warranted in 1810 , and became No . 418 in 1814 ; the three lodges thus united as one , assuming

the name—which it is still known by—of Union Waterloo , and ranking as No . 13 on the present register . Woolwich , indeed , seems to have been most generous in the support it gave the

Boys' Institution in its early years , its contributions to the Festivals of which we have been able to trice any particulars by the hands of Bro ., ROBERT MONIGCMERV being on a very