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General Grand Chapter Of The United States.
body by the reinforcement of the Grand Chapters of Maryland and South Carolina . " Ten years of fair progress followed , and then a "blight came over the Fraternity more damaging than even
war's alarums . The MORGAN excitement , starting from a little town in Upper Western New York , gradually spread its malignant influence all over the land . " But this time there was no
break in the continuity of the record . " Timid ones went out , it is true , but the altar fires were kept burning , and EDWARD LIVINGSTONE , Secretary of State of the United States , was General Grand High Priest , " while " ANDREW JACKSON , Past
Grand Master of Tennessee , was President . " In 18 32 , Baltimore , was selected for the holding of the triennial . "It was a very small gathering—twenty-four , all told—but ten of these were Maryland men , who stood shoulder to shoulder with the rest to
stem the tide 01 malice and persecution . That tide was successfully stemmed , and then followed another period of progress and prosperity . In 1 S 61 , the terrible Civil War broke out between North and South . " Of course , the General Grand
Chapter went into eclipse , Companions battling for what they considered the right were upon both sides of the unhappy conflict . Nor is it strange that our organisation was well nigh rent asunder . " The war ceased in 1865 , and the
two triennial meetings that followed , " sought to re-establish unity , but the result was doubtful . " Then came the meeting held in Baltimore in 18 71 , when " we met and cemented again the bonds which had bound
us . " Thus , as Comp . SllRYOCK was careful to point out there was an appropriateness in selecting Baltimore as the scene of the centenary celebration , which would hardly have attached to any other Masonic centre in the United States .
Comp . SHRYOCK concluded his address by paying sundry welldeserved compliments to the General Grand High Priest—Comp . GEORGE L . MCC . VHAN — whom , as a Marylander , they felt especial pleasure in welcoming ; and the address having been
gracefully acknowledged by Comp . REUBEN C . LEMMAN , Dep . G . H . P ., the proceedings in General Grand Chapter were commenced under the presidency of Comp . G . L . McCAHAN , G . G . H . P .. after General THOMAS J . SHRYOCK , M . W . G . Master of
Maryland , had been received with the customary honours and most heartily welcomed . These proceedings , however , which included the inevitable address from the G . G . I LP ., appear to have been of local , rather than of general , interest , save in
respect of one act , which Comp . McCAHAN reported he had done during the past three years , this being none other than that of sending " a letter of congratulation to her Most Gracious Majesty Queen VICTORIA by a Special Deputy , " and of this he
said " that its reception by the QUEEN had been acknowledged by the Prince of WALES , Grand Master of Masons in England . " Comp . McCAHAN , also exhibited "the original certificates of the appointments of the representatives of TempleChapterof Albany ,
October nth , 1797 ; St . Andrew ' s Chapterof Boston , October 23 rd , 1797 ; and Newburyport Chapter , October 23 rd , 1797 , who constituted the first convention to 'deliberate on the propriety and
expediency of creeling a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons / and he said ' To that convention the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United States of America in direct
line traces its origin . '" The General Grand Secretary , Comp . CHRISTOPHER FOX , having submitted his report , which was full of statistical matter , there was an adjournment till ( he evening , when what are described as the " Centennial Exercises "
were held , the chief item in the programme being an Oration delivered by Comp . Jo . SIAll II . DRU . VIMOND , Past General Grand High Priest . On the 14 th October a grand banquet was served ,
and each guest was presented with a Centennial ring , marked " 1797-1897 , " as a souvenir of the meeting . A magnificent Past General G . I I . Priest ' s jewel was presented to Comp . MACCAHAN on his retirement from office , while a centennial
medal has been designed for the occasion , having on the obverse portraits of "EPHRAIM KlRBY , first General Grand High Priest , with that of GEORGE L . McCAHAN , now Immediate Past General Grand High Priest , with the legend ' General Grand Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons U . S . A . Centennial , '" the reverse showing "the Royal Arch coal-of-arms , will ) the legend ' Boston , October 24 , 1797 ; Hartford , January 24 , 179 8 ; Baltimore , October 12 , 1 * 97 . "'
Great Priory.
GREAT PRIORY .
A Great Priory of the United Religious and Military Orders of the Temple and of St . John of Jerusalem wis held on the 10 th inst ., at Mark Masons' Hall . Present : The M . E . and Supreme G . M ., the Right Hon . the Eirl of Euston , G . C . T ., on the throne ; V . E . Prov . Priors : V . E . Knights Captain N . G . Philips , G . C . T ., East Anglia ; Captain C R N . Beswicke-Royds , G . C . T ., Lancashire ; Great Officers : V . E . Knights Rev . C . E . L . Wright , P . G . Prelate , as G . Prelate ; R . Loveland
Loveland , G . C . T ., G . Chancellor ; Sir Reginald Hanson , Birt ., M . P ., P . G . C ., as 1 st G . Constable ; C . Letch Mason , 2 nd G . Constable ; Ralph Clutton , K . C . T ., G . Treas . ; Frank Richardson , K . C . T ., G . Reg . ; C . F . Matier , K . C . T ., G . Vice-Chancellor ; Charles Belton , K . C . T ., G . Marshal ; E . Knights Rev . C . Chetwynd Atkinson , G . Almoner ; Clement Godson , M . D ., G . Herald ; A . H . Jefferis , 1 st G . Std . Br . ; Percy Wallis , 2 nd G . Std . Br . ; H . E . Cousans , P . G . M . B . B ., as G . Master's B . B . ; R . A . B . Preston , G . S . B . ; F . B . Westlake , 1 st G .
Aide-de-Camp ; Major T . W . Richardson , P . G . C .-of G ., as G . C . of G . ; and H . R . Rose , G . Org . P . G . Officers : V . E . Knights Richard Clowes , G . Constable ; Major Hu h Wm . H . Carey Elwes , G . Herald ; Ralph Gooding , K . C . T ., G . Herald ; E . Knights Frederick Hastings Goldney , G . Herald ; Major-General J . C . Hay , C . B ., G . Vice-Chancellor ; Charles E . Keyser , G . Std . Br . ( Beauceant ); V . E . Knight E . Letchworth , K . C . T ., G . S . B . ; E . Knights George Mickley , M . B ., and J . A . Robinson , G . Aides-de-Camps ; and Nathaniel Goodchild , G . Captain of Guards .
There were also present : ( London ) Knights Walter ] . Ebbetts , 1 st Constable , and Herbert Wright , Marshal , of Bard of Avon ; Hubert S . Clutton , Pro Preceptor , W . B . Lethbridge , P . Pro Preceptor , and John Dimsdale , of Faith and Fidelity ; H . Thomson Lyon , E . Preceptor , Philip Saillard , P . Preceptor , and Thomas Fraser , of Holy Palestine ; John R . Carter , Marshal , Mount Calvary ; J . C . F . Tower , P . Preceptor , Oxford and Cambridge ; Sir Joseph C . Dimsdale and J . S .
Tarnburini , Herald , of St . George ' s ; John J . Pakes , P . Preceptor , Shadwell Clerke ; Alfred H . Bevan , E . Preceptor , and Percy Caldecott , of Studholme ; and Edwin P . Moore , Kemeys Tynte ; ( in the Province of East Anglia ) William Briggs , 2 nd Constable Tancred ; ( in the Province of Lancashire ) William Tyrer , Prov . Sub-Prior Jacques de Molay ; Frederick Nassau Molesworth , Prov . Chancellor United ; and William Hayes , E . Preceptor St . James of Jerusalem ; ( in the Province of Staffordshire , Warwickshire , and Leicestershire ) George C . Kent ,
P . Preceptor Godefroi de Bouillon ; ( in the Province of Sussex ) J . H . Ewart , E . Preceptor , and . Capt . Claude de M . Franklyn , R . E ., Preceptor Elect , of Sussex ; and R . Percy Clowes , E . Preceptor Da Warrenne . The knights having formed the Arch of Steel , the Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Mas ' . er , attended by the Great Officers , entered and ascended the Throne .
The Great Priory was opened in ample form . The GREAT REGISTRAR called the muster roll . The minutes of the Great Priory of the 14 th May last were read and declared to be correctly recorded . It was then resolved , on the motion of the G REAT CHANCELLOR , seconded by the GREAT REGISTRAR , that the report of the Council be taken as read , as follows :
REPORT OF COUNCIL . Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master , Your Council have the honour to report that the following has been received in reply to the loyal and respectful address presented to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen : "Whitehall ,
"SIR , " 3 rd July , 1897 . " I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the Grand Master and Knights of the United Religious and Military Orders of the Temple and Hospital in England and Wale ' s on the occasion of Her Majesty attaining the Sixtieth year of Her Reign , and I have to inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same very graciously . " I have the honour to be , " Your obedient servant ,
" The Great Vice-Chancellor of the " MATTHEW WHITE RIDLE \ " Order of the Temple , " Mark Masons' Hall , "Great Queen-street , W . C . "
Your Council note with much satisfaction that many of the Grand Com . manderies in the United States of America allude in feeling and sympathetic terms to the attainment by her Majesty of the 60 th year of her reign . Among these your Council would desire to quote the following extract from the proceedings of the Grand Commandery of Montana : " At the last meeting of the Great Priory , herein noted , the Grand Master moved , and it was unanimously carried ' with acclamation and great cheering , ' to
present her Majesty Queen Victoria , Patron of the United Ordereof the Temple and Hospital , an address ot congratulations on the happy completion of the fjoth year of her glorious and benignant reign , accompanied with the fervent hope that she might long be spared to rule over a loyal and devoted people . In the spirit and sentiment of that address , as Grand Commander of Montana , we most heartily join . In our admiration and respect for the noble Queen of England ,
who has done so much to promote peace and union amang all who spsak the English tongue , and to exalt domestic virtues , the Templars of Montana vie with her most loyal subjects at home in their loyal congratulations and good wishes , The chivalry of the new world unites with that of England and all her colonies in paying homage to England ' s noble Queen . A common tongue , common laws , taith , literature , and hig her common interests make us all one people , and this is the greatest revelation of the closing years of the nineteenth century . "
You have been pleased , by patent dated 29 th October , 1897 , to appoint the Very Eminent Knight Lieut .-Colonel Thomas Daly , Provincial Prior for British Guiana and the Windward Islands . You have been p leased to grant a warrant for a new preceptory to be held at Fremantle , in West Australia , to be called the Preceptory of Westralia , and in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners to attach the same to the Provincial
Priory of South Australia . You have been p leased to grant a warrant for a new preceptory to be held at Cape Town , to be called the Preceptory of Mount Zion . The Provincial Prior of West Yorkshire having reported that the warrant of Prince Edward Preceptory , now meeting at Hebden Bridge , had been improperly removed from the possession of the preceptory , you were pleased to authorise the meetings being held until the warrant had been restored .
The original warrant of the Royds Preceptory , meeting at Manchester , dated the 20 th July , 18 S 0 , having been lost , you have been pleased , on application , to grant a warrant of confirmation , dated the 8 th November . It having been reported that the Antient York Preceptory of Redemption , meeting at Hull , had installed their Preceptor in the chair for the third consecutive term of office , contrary to Statute 83 , your Council , after due consideration , admonished the preceptory and imposed a fine of one guinea .
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General Grand Chapter Of The United States.
body by the reinforcement of the Grand Chapters of Maryland and South Carolina . " Ten years of fair progress followed , and then a "blight came over the Fraternity more damaging than even
war's alarums . The MORGAN excitement , starting from a little town in Upper Western New York , gradually spread its malignant influence all over the land . " But this time there was no
break in the continuity of the record . " Timid ones went out , it is true , but the altar fires were kept burning , and EDWARD LIVINGSTONE , Secretary of State of the United States , was General Grand High Priest , " while " ANDREW JACKSON , Past
Grand Master of Tennessee , was President . " In 18 32 , Baltimore , was selected for the holding of the triennial . "It was a very small gathering—twenty-four , all told—but ten of these were Maryland men , who stood shoulder to shoulder with the rest to
stem the tide 01 malice and persecution . That tide was successfully stemmed , and then followed another period of progress and prosperity . In 1 S 61 , the terrible Civil War broke out between North and South . " Of course , the General Grand
Chapter went into eclipse , Companions battling for what they considered the right were upon both sides of the unhappy conflict . Nor is it strange that our organisation was well nigh rent asunder . " The war ceased in 1865 , and the
two triennial meetings that followed , " sought to re-establish unity , but the result was doubtful . " Then came the meeting held in Baltimore in 18 71 , when " we met and cemented again the bonds which had bound
us . " Thus , as Comp . SllRYOCK was careful to point out there was an appropriateness in selecting Baltimore as the scene of the centenary celebration , which would hardly have attached to any other Masonic centre in the United States .
Comp . SHRYOCK concluded his address by paying sundry welldeserved compliments to the General Grand High Priest—Comp . GEORGE L . MCC . VHAN — whom , as a Marylander , they felt especial pleasure in welcoming ; and the address having been
gracefully acknowledged by Comp . REUBEN C . LEMMAN , Dep . G . H . P ., the proceedings in General Grand Chapter were commenced under the presidency of Comp . G . L . McCAHAN , G . G . H . P .. after General THOMAS J . SHRYOCK , M . W . G . Master of
Maryland , had been received with the customary honours and most heartily welcomed . These proceedings , however , which included the inevitable address from the G . G . I LP ., appear to have been of local , rather than of general , interest , save in
respect of one act , which Comp . McCAHAN reported he had done during the past three years , this being none other than that of sending " a letter of congratulation to her Most Gracious Majesty Queen VICTORIA by a Special Deputy , " and of this he
said " that its reception by the QUEEN had been acknowledged by the Prince of WALES , Grand Master of Masons in England . " Comp . McCAHAN , also exhibited "the original certificates of the appointments of the representatives of TempleChapterof Albany ,
October nth , 1797 ; St . Andrew ' s Chapterof Boston , October 23 rd , 1797 ; and Newburyport Chapter , October 23 rd , 1797 , who constituted the first convention to 'deliberate on the propriety and
expediency of creeling a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons / and he said ' To that convention the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United States of America in direct
line traces its origin . '" The General Grand Secretary , Comp . CHRISTOPHER FOX , having submitted his report , which was full of statistical matter , there was an adjournment till ( he evening , when what are described as the " Centennial Exercises "
were held , the chief item in the programme being an Oration delivered by Comp . Jo . SIAll II . DRU . VIMOND , Past General Grand High Priest . On the 14 th October a grand banquet was served ,
and each guest was presented with a Centennial ring , marked " 1797-1897 , " as a souvenir of the meeting . A magnificent Past General G . I I . Priest ' s jewel was presented to Comp . MACCAHAN on his retirement from office , while a centennial
medal has been designed for the occasion , having on the obverse portraits of "EPHRAIM KlRBY , first General Grand High Priest , with that of GEORGE L . McCAHAN , now Immediate Past General Grand High Priest , with the legend ' General Grand Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons U . S . A . Centennial , '" the reverse showing "the Royal Arch coal-of-arms , will ) the legend ' Boston , October 24 , 1797 ; Hartford , January 24 , 179 8 ; Baltimore , October 12 , 1 * 97 . "'
Great Priory.
GREAT PRIORY .
A Great Priory of the United Religious and Military Orders of the Temple and of St . John of Jerusalem wis held on the 10 th inst ., at Mark Masons' Hall . Present : The M . E . and Supreme G . M ., the Right Hon . the Eirl of Euston , G . C . T ., on the throne ; V . E . Prov . Priors : V . E . Knights Captain N . G . Philips , G . C . T ., East Anglia ; Captain C R N . Beswicke-Royds , G . C . T ., Lancashire ; Great Officers : V . E . Knights Rev . C . E . L . Wright , P . G . Prelate , as G . Prelate ; R . Loveland
Loveland , G . C . T ., G . Chancellor ; Sir Reginald Hanson , Birt ., M . P ., P . G . C ., as 1 st G . Constable ; C . Letch Mason , 2 nd G . Constable ; Ralph Clutton , K . C . T ., G . Treas . ; Frank Richardson , K . C . T ., G . Reg . ; C . F . Matier , K . C . T ., G . Vice-Chancellor ; Charles Belton , K . C . T ., G . Marshal ; E . Knights Rev . C . Chetwynd Atkinson , G . Almoner ; Clement Godson , M . D ., G . Herald ; A . H . Jefferis , 1 st G . Std . Br . ; Percy Wallis , 2 nd G . Std . Br . ; H . E . Cousans , P . G . M . B . B ., as G . Master's B . B . ; R . A . B . Preston , G . S . B . ; F . B . Westlake , 1 st G .
Aide-de-Camp ; Major T . W . Richardson , P . G . C .-of G ., as G . C . of G . ; and H . R . Rose , G . Org . P . G . Officers : V . E . Knights Richard Clowes , G . Constable ; Major Hu h Wm . H . Carey Elwes , G . Herald ; Ralph Gooding , K . C . T ., G . Herald ; E . Knights Frederick Hastings Goldney , G . Herald ; Major-General J . C . Hay , C . B ., G . Vice-Chancellor ; Charles E . Keyser , G . Std . Br . ( Beauceant ); V . E . Knight E . Letchworth , K . C . T ., G . S . B . ; E . Knights George Mickley , M . B ., and J . A . Robinson , G . Aides-de-Camps ; and Nathaniel Goodchild , G . Captain of Guards .
There were also present : ( London ) Knights Walter ] . Ebbetts , 1 st Constable , and Herbert Wright , Marshal , of Bard of Avon ; Hubert S . Clutton , Pro Preceptor , W . B . Lethbridge , P . Pro Preceptor , and John Dimsdale , of Faith and Fidelity ; H . Thomson Lyon , E . Preceptor , Philip Saillard , P . Preceptor , and Thomas Fraser , of Holy Palestine ; John R . Carter , Marshal , Mount Calvary ; J . C . F . Tower , P . Preceptor , Oxford and Cambridge ; Sir Joseph C . Dimsdale and J . S .
Tarnburini , Herald , of St . George ' s ; John J . Pakes , P . Preceptor , Shadwell Clerke ; Alfred H . Bevan , E . Preceptor , and Percy Caldecott , of Studholme ; and Edwin P . Moore , Kemeys Tynte ; ( in the Province of East Anglia ) William Briggs , 2 nd Constable Tancred ; ( in the Province of Lancashire ) William Tyrer , Prov . Sub-Prior Jacques de Molay ; Frederick Nassau Molesworth , Prov . Chancellor United ; and William Hayes , E . Preceptor St . James of Jerusalem ; ( in the Province of Staffordshire , Warwickshire , and Leicestershire ) George C . Kent ,
P . Preceptor Godefroi de Bouillon ; ( in the Province of Sussex ) J . H . Ewart , E . Preceptor , and . Capt . Claude de M . Franklyn , R . E ., Preceptor Elect , of Sussex ; and R . Percy Clowes , E . Preceptor Da Warrenne . The knights having formed the Arch of Steel , the Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Mas ' . er , attended by the Great Officers , entered and ascended the Throne .
The Great Priory was opened in ample form . The GREAT REGISTRAR called the muster roll . The minutes of the Great Priory of the 14 th May last were read and declared to be correctly recorded . It was then resolved , on the motion of the G REAT CHANCELLOR , seconded by the GREAT REGISTRAR , that the report of the Council be taken as read , as follows :
REPORT OF COUNCIL . Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master , Your Council have the honour to report that the following has been received in reply to the loyal and respectful address presented to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen : "Whitehall ,
"SIR , " 3 rd July , 1897 . " I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the Grand Master and Knights of the United Religious and Military Orders of the Temple and Hospital in England and Wale ' s on the occasion of Her Majesty attaining the Sixtieth year of Her Reign , and I have to inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same very graciously . " I have the honour to be , " Your obedient servant ,
" The Great Vice-Chancellor of the " MATTHEW WHITE RIDLE \ " Order of the Temple , " Mark Masons' Hall , "Great Queen-street , W . C . "
Your Council note with much satisfaction that many of the Grand Com . manderies in the United States of America allude in feeling and sympathetic terms to the attainment by her Majesty of the 60 th year of her reign . Among these your Council would desire to quote the following extract from the proceedings of the Grand Commandery of Montana : " At the last meeting of the Great Priory , herein noted , the Grand Master moved , and it was unanimously carried ' with acclamation and great cheering , ' to
present her Majesty Queen Victoria , Patron of the United Ordereof the Temple and Hospital , an address ot congratulations on the happy completion of the fjoth year of her glorious and benignant reign , accompanied with the fervent hope that she might long be spared to rule over a loyal and devoted people . In the spirit and sentiment of that address , as Grand Commander of Montana , we most heartily join . In our admiration and respect for the noble Queen of England ,
who has done so much to promote peace and union amang all who spsak the English tongue , and to exalt domestic virtues , the Templars of Montana vie with her most loyal subjects at home in their loyal congratulations and good wishes , The chivalry of the new world unites with that of England and all her colonies in paying homage to England ' s noble Queen . A common tongue , common laws , taith , literature , and hig her common interests make us all one people , and this is the greatest revelation of the closing years of the nineteenth century . "
You have been pleased , by patent dated 29 th October , 1897 , to appoint the Very Eminent Knight Lieut .-Colonel Thomas Daly , Provincial Prior for British Guiana and the Windward Islands . You have been p leased to grant a warrant for a new preceptory to be held at Fremantle , in West Australia , to be called the Preceptory of Westralia , and in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners to attach the same to the Provincial
Priory of South Australia . You have been p leased to grant a warrant for a new preceptory to be held at Cape Town , to be called the Preceptory of Mount Zion . The Provincial Prior of West Yorkshire having reported that the warrant of Prince Edward Preceptory , now meeting at Hebden Bridge , had been improperly removed from the possession of the preceptory , you were pleased to authorise the meetings being held until the warrant had been restored .
The original warrant of the Royds Preceptory , meeting at Manchester , dated the 20 th July , 18 S 0 , having been lost , you have been pleased , on application , to grant a warrant of confirmation , dated the 8 th November . It having been reported that the Antient York Preceptory of Redemption , meeting at Hull , had installed their Preceptor in the chair for the third consecutive term of office , contrary to Statute 83 , your Council , after due consideration , admonished the preceptory and imposed a fine of one guinea .