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UADERSussex and its New Provincial Grand Master ... ... ... 429 The Masonic "Old Charges" ... ... ... ... ~ - ... 430 Science , Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ... ... 431 Provincial Grand Lodge of North and East Yorkshire ... ... ... 432 Supreme Grand Chapter ... ... •" ,.,, - ••¦ 433 Provincial Grand Lodge of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ... ... 433 New Books ... ... •¦• ••• ••• ¦•• 433

M ASONIC N OTESRecent Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge of Scotland ... 435 Yorkshire Freemasonry ... ... ... ... 435 Proceedings of the Granel Lodge of Canada ... ... ... 435 Correspondence ... ••• ••• ¦•• •¦• 436

Reviews ... — ••• ••• ••• ••• 43 " Clonfert Cathedral ... ... ... ... ... ... 436 Capitular and Cryptic Masonry ... ... ... ... ... 436 Judge Kium ' s Lincoln Story ... ... ... ... ... 436 THE C RAFT

ABORADGrand Lodge of Canada ... ... ... ... ... 436 Presentation to Bro . Cornelius Thorne , Past Dist . Grand Master of Northern China ... ... ... ... ... 437 Bro . C . Thorne and the Freemasonry of Shanghai ... ... 438 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 440 The Late Bro . Samuel Pope's Will ... ... ... ... 440

Sussex And Its New Provincial Grand Master.

SUSSEX AND ITS NEW PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER .

Sussex is very far from being one of our oldest Provinces , its earliest Provincial Grand Master—Bro . Captain FRANCIS MlNSHALl . —having been appointed in 1774 . But it is old in Masonry , the earliest of its extinct lodges having been

constituted at the Swan Inn , Chichester , in 1724 . This lodge ranked as no 31 in 1729 ; No . 28 in 1 740 ; and No . 20 in 1755 , ancl was erased in 1769 . Its next oldest lodge was warranted as No . 65 in 1730 , and met at St . Rook ' s Hill , Chichester . It became No .

. 57 in 1 740 , and No . 35 in 1755 , but according to the Sussex Calendar for the present year , it appears to have been erased from the list of lodges in 1754 , or a year before it was advanced to the latter number . Tins , however , is not the only peculiarity

legend , there is ample evidence both from the lodges which have met in the Province , but have long since disappeared from tlie Register , and from those which are now working , that Sussex lias been a Masonic stronghold from a very early period ; and if it has had the misfortune to lose some of its earlier

lodges , it can still boast of several that from their long standing as well as from thc zeal and ability with which they discharge their duties would be an honour to any Province cither in England or elsewhere . We have said that Sussex became a Masonic Province in

attaching to this extinct Iodge , as according to the early lodge lists it was constituted in the reign of JULIUS C . KSAR , that is , several years before the commencement of the Christian Eia . But without troubling ourselves about this obviously absurd

1774 , when Bro . Captain FRANCIS MlNSllAl . I . was appointed Prov . Grand Master . According to Bro . THOMAS FRANCIS , author of the " History of Freemasonry in Sussex , " Captain MlNSllALL was an ollicer in the Horse Guards , and was present as Prov . G . Matter

when , on the ist May , 1775 , Lord PETRE , M . W . G . Master , laid the foundation stone of the Freemasons' Hall , Great Queenstreet . Bro . FRANCIS further states that his name disappears from the list of Prov . G . Masters " after 17 82 , " but "how long

he conliiued to hold the office cannot now be ascertained . " In 1788 General Sir SAMUEL HULSE was appointed Prov . G . Master , ind remained in office till 1814 . According to the late Bro ,

IHOMAS FENN ' S annals of the "Prince of Wales ' s Lodge , No - 2 59 , " the warrant of that distinguished lodge , bearing date the 20 th August , 17 S 7 , and signed liy the Farl of E FFINGHAM ,

Sussex And Its New Provincial Grand Master.

Acting G . Master , and Sir PETER PARKER , B . G . M ., " was given to Col . SAMPSON ( sic ) HULSE , first Master , " and others . He was Deputy Master from 178 7 to 1820 , and resigning in 1821 , was made an Honorary Member . On resigning

as P . G . M . of Sussex he was appointed Prov . G . M . of Kent , in 1 S 14 , and so continued in that office till 1829 . ' He was appointed Governor of Chelsea Hospital , was promoted Field-Marshal in 1830 , and died in 18 37 , after a military career

extending over 7 6 years . Gen . HULSE was succeeded as Provincial Grand Master of Sussex by CHARLES , 4 th Duke of RICHMOND , who died while Governor-General of Canada in 1819 . In 1823 CHARLES , 5 th Duke of RICHMOND , was

appointed , and remained in office till his death in i 860 . Froi . t the duke ' s death to 1865 the Province was in charge of the G . Registrar , who appointed Bro . DALBIAC to act as Deputy Provincial Grand Master , as he had done during the last three years

of the late duke's life . In 1865 Bro . Col . DALBIAC was appointed Provincial Grand Master , but he retained office only for a short time , and on his death , in 186 7 , was succeeded by WALTER J , Lord PELHAM—now Earl of CHICHESTER . On his

resignation , in 18 77 , the Grand Master was pleased to appoint Bro . Sir W . W . BURRELL , Bart ., M . P ., and on his death in 1886 , H . R . H . the Duke . of CONNAUGHT , K . G ., was appointed and installed by his brother , the M . W . G . Master , as Prov . G .

Master at the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , on the 22 nd June of that year . On the Duke ' s election to the office of M . W . G . Master in succession to the KING , his Royal Highness resigned tbe position of Prov . G . Master of Sussex , and subsequentl y

appointed as his successor as ruler of a Province he had himself presided over for . 15 years the Earl of MARCH , eldest son and heir of the venerable Duke of RICHMOND . His lordship , who is a P . M . of the Union Lodge , No . 38 , Chichester , P . Z . of

the Cyrus Chapter , and was appointed S . G . Warden of England in 1881 , will have before him an arduous task in following so able , illustrious , and popular a chief as the M . W . G . Master , but Sussex is a strong Province , with 33 lodges on its roll , of which

nine are located in Brighton , four in Eastbourne , two in Hastings , and two in Lewes . Moreover , it is not onl y a well-ordered Province , but it numbers among its Present and Past Prov . ' G . Officers several who hive achieved distinction not only in the

Province itsell , but generally , and who will readily give the full benefit of their wisdom and experience . Such are Bros , the Right Hon . Sir W . T . MARRIOTT , K . C , P . G . D ., D . P . G . M . ; the Very Rev . E . R . CURRIE , D . D ., Dean of Battle , P . G . Chap -.- Lieut .-

Gen . C . VV . RANDOLPH , P . G . D . ( Grand Superintendent Royal Arch ); V . P . FREEMAN , P . G . D ., Prov . G . Secretary ; R . CLOWES , P . G . Std . Br . ; & c , & c , & c , and on these his lcirdship may rely with confidence for counsel in the government ol his Province .

That the Earl of MARCH ' S appointment will be extremel y popular with our Sussex brethren cannot be doubted . Not only is his lordship—to use a familiar expression—Sussex born and bred ; not only have he and sundry of his ancestors been

representatives , of the County in the Commons House of Parliament and laboured hard and successfully to promote the County interests ; but , Masonically , the family have done good service to the Craft from the very earliest times . PRESION , in

his " Illustrations of Masonry' ( 17 th edition , p . 1 54 ) , states that " at a general assembly and least of the Masons in 16 97 , many noble and eminent brethren were present , and among the rest CHARLES , Duke of