Table Of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Notes on the Orders of the Temple and Hospital ... ; i i Nortonian Amenities 71 2 CoiIHKSPnXDHXCK : — Secretaryship of the Girls'School 713 The Recent Royal Visit to Lathom House 714 The Songs of Masonry 714 Masonic Notes and Queries 71 . 1

Don't Stay f . ate 71 5 . Masonic Tidings 715 Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham 713 T ! 'e Qualifications of Masonic licpresentathcs 716 Koyai Masonic Institution for Girls 716 CHAFT MASOXIIV : — Metropolitan 718

Provincial 71 . Masonic Meetings for next week 710 , Advertisements 709 , ; io , 719 720 , 721 , 722 , 72 , 5 List of J ' ro . Little ' s Committee 7 2 . 1 .

Sfi'ri . KMKNT ( four Pages ) : — So-called Ancient Landmarks 72 ;; l ' rov . Grand Lodge of Mark Masters for Cumberland and Westmoreland 726 Masonry a Need of Mankind 720 Grand Lodge of Canada 727 Ancient x ork and London Grand Lodges . By Bro . I ., ilyneman 72 S

Notes On The " United Orders Of The Temple Axd Hospital."

NOTES ON THE " UNITED ORDERS OF THE TEMPLE AXD HOSPITAL . "

A . Ledum delivered t-e / irre the Frolics 0 / tne Prudence Eiicaiii / iiueiit of Alasmiii- Kni g / ils Ternplat ; at / ps / r / c // , on llic $ isl Jtdij , 1872 . BY EMMA HOI . MKS , ; I ~ ,

Eminent Commander of the ICncaiiipiiieut , Grand Provost of England , I ' rou ' ncinl Grand Banner Bearer of the WoyciX Onier ot Scotland , < Vc . ( Continued from page (> : (> . )

A general dispersion of tbe Knights followed , but a considerable number took refuge in Russia , where they were favourabl y received by the

Emperor Paul , who at a chapter of the Order , held subsequently at St . Pclersburgh , was elected Grand Master , and formally notified the fact to all the courts of Europe .

This measure was never approved by the Italian Knig hts , who accordingl y requested the Pope to nominate one of their number as the head of the Order , with the es . pivss stipulation that the

inherent right of the cavaliers to chose their own chief , was not to be considered as in any way surrendered or abrogated b y this temporary abandonment of their privileges .

While the Congress of Vienna held its sittings several Knights formed a General Chapter in Paris , under the Prince tie Rohan , and petitioned the Congress to grant them the sovereignly of

some small island , in lieu of Malta , which tht British , who had expelled the French in 1 799 were determined not to relinquish . This attempt on the part of the Knights was , however ,

unsuccessful , and their influence , as a political 01 ruling body , seems destined never to be restored . The same writer , in speaking of the connection of the Hospitallers witli the Freemasons-

says *"—In an old diploma granted at Dominica , 011 the 10 th March , 17 S /; , the following statement is expressly made in the preamble : — " Whereas , by virtue of a dispensation , dated

in the East , the 6 th March , jj / Sj ol Light , signed J . R . S . Galley , Secretary ; and in virtue of the power given us , as faithful servants of our Lord Jesus Christ , as Knights of the Temple of St

John of Jerusalem ; and in virtue of letters patent of Encampment dated at Gozzo , the Sth January , 1717 , under the seal , \ c , of the Grand

Master , Dom Emanuel Pinto , and the llailill-1 'into and Eacs , and the Commandant Sylva , . Ye . granted to us from the great knowledge ,

goodness of heart and integrity of our trusty and well beloved brother , John Campbell , being Master of all Orders and degrees , and has taken the mass of the St . Esprit , to congregate , work , and with

the brethren to grant certificates ; and whereas our trusty and well-beloved brother , James Barclay , being unanimously and dul y elected and installed Grand Master of all Orders under the

said dispensation , ecc . " The writer adds " From the tenor . r of this document it would appear that the Kni ghts of St , John not only encouraged the rites oY

Freemasonry , but admitted the Masonic brethren to their own mysteries , Goza or Gozzo , the p lace alluded to in the di ploma , being an appendage of the Maltese possessions of the Knights . ' '

He adds that " if the dispensation granted by Dom Jhnanr . el Pinto in ij-3 7 be genuine , it certainl y establishes a very satisfactory basis for the assertion that the Masonic order is identical with

the ancient one . Find . 1 makes an important admission concerning this in his attack on th :. modem Order of Kni ghts Templar , for lie says , " "The Order of Knights Templar had been

abolished J , ] J J , and to that epoch they ( lhe Freemasons ) were obliged to ^ have recourse when : : ifter the banishment of several Knights from Malta in 17 . 1 . 0 , because they were Freemasons

it was no longer possible to keep up a connection with the Order of St . John , or Kni g hts of Malta , then in the p lenitude of ( heir power ' miller the sovereignty of the Pope . "

Between the years < : h 6 andioji an English Langue had been reorganised , under the authority of the French Kni g hts , and the Duke of Manchester ( Provincial Grand Master of Notts ) , is i

now Grand Prior . Amongst the members oi this Order we note the names of the following distinguished Masons : — Bros . Lord Leigh ( P . G . M . Warwickshire );

Lord Torphiehen , whose ancestor , th : first peer , was lhe last Lord of St . John ' s , Prior of the I ' nited Orders of the Temple and Hospital in

Scotland at the time of the Reformation ; 1 William Alexander Laurie , Grand Clerk of the [ Grand Lodge of Scotland , and andior ol the j valuable History of Frcema-oiirv , Yrt >;>> which J I

have had occasion to quote : Bro . Richard i \ ool , . - ; 1 " ' , /' .. S ' .-L , well known as a Masonic writer -. and Lord Eliot , ; o , Provincial Grand Com mander for Cornwall ( I ' nited Orders of the Temple ami 1 fospital ) .

The Baiiwick of Bradenburg separated itself . 3 1 f . oil ) the Order of Si . John in 1719 , assumed an independent existence , and chclcd a Gram ! Master of its own . It subsequently became

in pari allied with the general Order , but in 1 S 10 the estalts were , by Royal edict , incorporated with those o ! . 'he Crown , r . nd in i . 'Ji ^ Frederic ! : William (! I .

remodelled this branch under the title of the Royal Prussian Order of St . John . A new Constitution was given to the ( ) rder in iS ; 2 , and the King became Sovereign Protector , tbe Crown Prince Grand Master .

Of the branch settled in Russia , two Grand Pmrales still remain , under the protection of the Emperor . j

Ihe Grand I novate established m 1 . » :. mt . in j 177 O , was for a long lime connected with lhe .

English and Bavarian branches , but is at presen united with the Russian Prioratcs . The Portuguese and Spanish j . Languo ( Arragon

and Castile ) separated from the Order after the Peace of Amicus in 1803 , formed a college of their own , and are known as the Spanish Royal Order .

Thus it will be seen that the Order of St . J ohn is split up into several independent bodies , and I suppose the Masonic Kni ghts of Malta have had as good a claim to the title as the others .

it has been objected to the Masonic Templars and Knights of St . John that they had no power to perpetuate themselves , without the papal

sanction , that , in fact , like the Anglican church , they could not have , as it were , an . apostolical succession without an acknowledgment ^ , the Pope ' s

supremacy . I'his diiiieulty is solved , however , in the case of the Knights of Malta , by their own conduct . They are seeking to pernetuate themselves

in this and other countries without the papal authority . In this country , for instance , wc have a Catholic body under Sir GeorgejBowyeixappointed Grand Prior b y the Pope , and a Protestant body ,

under the Duke of Manchester , appointed b y themselves . Xe ' ther body , ofeourse , recognises the other , and they both , I suppose , Ignore the Masonic Order . Said Masonic Order existed in England ,

however , previous to the revival of the English Langue , and the Emperor of Russia , whose predecessor , Paul , the Knights themselves chose as Protector of the O .-o ' er , appointed the Duke of

I Sussex ( who teas Grand Master of the Masonic j Orders of the Temple and Hospital , and who sought the recognition from the elected head of

tiie Order ) Grand Prior of England for the Orders of Knights of Malta and Kni ghts

Templar . Howe , in his Freemasons' Animal , mentions this fact , which is quoted , b y Bro . Woof in his most interesting-little work , and Bro . Yarker in

nis valuable Notes of the Temple . Bro . Woof , hotvever , is not : atl ' -li : ¦

illegal one . As he i .-, a member of the branch of the Order which was re-established in this country under ihcaiithotitv of the body of the Kni ghts v . ho met iii Paris in iSi . t . and who repudiated the

1 a-t of their brethren in Russia , wc can tmder-; . ¦ ¦ tan .. ' that the English Langue , \ vluc ) i wc sup-! nose would not be recognised by the Emperor I Alexander , would object to the proceedings of

the brethren 111 Uussia . The objection , however , to use a common p hrase , cuts both ways . That the election of the Emperor Paul was

satisfactory to many oi the brethren , we may gather ;';\ , ! 11 the following extract Yi-om Taa / ie ' s History of the Kni g hts of Malta .

The book is m the library of the A . and A . Rile at Golden-square , together with a very large collection of other most valuable works , many of which bear upon the Templar and other high degrees .

1 might here state that , anticipating an objection made by many hrcihrcn that granted the Emperor ' s appointment of the Duke of Sussex ,

he had no right to confer upnn him authority over t ! : e Tcnipiars ; the Knig hts of St . John also consd . red thc ; : ; -. Ivc-- as Templars .