Knights Templar.

Gallagher , Captain of Lines ; Thos . Evans , ist Std . Br . ; Wm . Fletcher , Samuel Hickins , Henry Firth , Joseph ' * Skeat , Thos . Cbesworth , P . Ball , Equerry . The visitors were Sir Knig hts Captain T . Berry , P . E . P ., Jacques de Morlay , P . G . Std . Br . of England , P . P . ist G . Capt . ; an Sir Knight Joseph Wood , Treas . William de la More ( Freemason ) . The muster roll having been called over , Sir

Knight H . Alpass , P . E . P ., took the throne , and at once commenced the installation of Sir Knight Richard Brown as Preceptor in a manner that did honour to his name and fame in Masonry . After the E . P . hail been saluted in the usual form , he proceeded to invest the following as his officers : Sir Knig hts Thos . Chesworth , Prela te ; M . Mawson , ist Constable ; W . H . Shakespeare , 2 nd Constable ; H . Firth , Treasurer ; J . Gallagher , Registrar ; J . E .

Jackson , Almoner ; W . Doyle , P . E . P ., Dir . of Cer . ; J . Capell , Expert ; J . Skeaf , Organist ; H . Burrows , ist Std . Br . ; J . Widdows , 2 nd Std . Br . ; W . Fletcher , Capt . of the Lines ; S , Hickins , ist Herald ; Chisnall , 2 nd Herald ; P . Ball , Equerry . Several letters of apology for non-attendance having been read , and other formal business transacted , the Sir Knig hts adjourned to a first class banquet , where the usual loyal toasts were given .

Provincial Grand Mark Lodge Of Leicestershire.

PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF LEICESTERSHIRE .

The annual communication of the Provincial Grand Mark Lodge was held under the auspices of the Kni ghts of Malta Lodge , at Hinckley , on the 3 rd inst ., and under the presidency of the R . W . Prov . G . M ., Bro . Wm . Kelly ,

F . R . H . S . Amongst the Prov . Grand Officers present on the occasion were Bros . Rev . Wm . Langley , M . A ., D . P . G . M . ; George Toller , jun ., P . G . S . W . ; Clement Stretton , P . G . J . W . ; Rev . C . H . Wood , M . A ., P . G . Chaplain ; R . B . Smith , P . G . S . C . ; J . G . Tippetts , P . P . G . S . D . ; R . Taylor , P . G . I . G ., and others .

It is gratifying to remark the increasing interest evinced in the prosperity of the Mark Degree in this province , and it is most satisfactory to be able to announce that , according to the reports from the Worshipful Masters of Lodges , that the interest continues unabated . The R . W . Prov . Grand Master appointed his officers as follows , and invested those present : —Bros . S . S . Partridge ,

D . P . G . M . ; T . W . Clarke , P . G . S . W . ; R . B . Smith , P . G . J . W . j Rev . C . H . Wood , M . A ., P . G . C . ; Wm . Sculthorpe , P . G . M . O . ; C . S . Preston , P . G . S . O . ; Wm . Adcock P . G . J . O . ; Robert Waite , unanimously elected , P . G . Treas . J . M . McAllister , P . G . Sec ; R . S . Toller , P . G . R . M . C . McBride , P . G . S . D . ; J . Nugent , P . G . J . D . ; Dr . Meadows , P . G . D . C ; R . Taylor , P . G . A . D . C . ; C . E . Stretton ,

P . G . J . W . ; Captain Goodchild , P . G . S . B . ; T . G . Tippetts , P . G . Standard Beater ; Wm . Vial , P . G . Organist -, Georee Odell , P . G . I . G . ; and J . H . Biggs and B . H . Burges , P . G . Stewards . The heartiness of the welcome , and the arrangements made by the Hinckley brethren for the reception of the Provincial Grand Lodge , were highly gratifying and satisfactory .

Multum In Parbo,Or Masonic Nores And Queries.

Multum in Parbo , or Masonic Nores and Queries .

OHDEH OF ST . LAWHENCB . In Notes and Queries of April 28 th ( 5 th S . vii ., 33 6 ) under the head of " Citizen and Girdeller" appears the following : " There was a company of girdlers incorporated in 1448 or 49 . There were a Master , three Wardens , twenty-four assistants , and eighty-four liverymen . Their hall was in Basinghall Street ( now at 39 , Basinghall St . )"

Burke describes their armorial ensigns thus : " Per fesse arg . and or , a pale counter charged , three gridirons of the last , the handles in chief . Crest : A demi man proper , representing St . Lawrence with glory round his head or , issuing out of the clouds of the first , vested arg ., girt round the body with a girdle of the second , holdinp- in

the dexter hand a gridiron of the last , and in the sinister a book at . Motto ; Give thanks to God . " "These arms were granted by John Smith , Garter , 32 Henry vi ., 1454 . " Did the Masonic Order of St . Lawrence take its rise from this guild ? J- V . BRO . EMRA HOLMES ' S TALES , POEMS , AND MASONIC

PAPERS . In answer to our dear Bro . W . J . Hughan , and to numerous others , kindly allow me to state , that the subscribers to this little work may expect to receive their copies within a few weeks from the present time , the whole of the letterpress being nearly completed . The work , I may add , will be supplied to subscribers

only . There will be a second series , uniform in size and price ( 2 s . 6 d . ) with the present , the profits to be devoted to the same benevolent and Masonic object ; and the few copies of the first series still unsubscribed for will be kept for completing both scries for subscribers whose names art not yet on the list , of which more anon . GEORGE MARKIIAM TWEDDEI . L .

Every Freemason knows how worthily , persistently , and energetically the Secretaries of the Masonic charities plead for the several causes in which they are interested . Their good tempered advocacy is well known and highly appreciated . Was it therefore by

accident or design that on the occasion of the great Masonic banquet , when the toast of the " Masonic Charities " was proposed , and while Bros . Binckes , Terry , and Little were collecting their thoughts , the vocal brethren present sang , " The Three Chafers ? " —World .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . THE RIGHT HON . THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY . It is our melancholy duty this week to record the very sudden and unexpected death of Bro . the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Shrewsbury , which sad event took place at an early hour on Friday morning , the 1 ith inst ., at his town

house , Dover-street , Piccadilly . His lordship was in his usual health up to a late hour on the preceding evening , but feeling faint on retiring for the night it was thought advisable to call in medical advice . Sir James Paget and Mr . Prescott Hewitt met Mr . Venning , his lordship ' s usual medical attendant , but after consultation it was considered

necessary for Mr . Venning only to remain . He , however , at a subsequent hour recommended that Sir William Gull should be sent for , who , on arrival , spoke hopefully , like those who had left , but his lordship did not rally , nnd eventually in their presence his heart ceased to perform its functions . The late Charles John Chelwynd Talbot , Earl

of Shrewsbury , Earl Talbot of Hensol , county Glamorgan ; Viscount Ingestre , county Stafford ; and Baron Talbot of Hensol , county Glamorgan , in the peerage of Great Britain ; and Earl of Waterford , in the peerage of freland , was the eldest of the five sons of Henry John , eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury , by Lady Sarah Elizabeth

Beresford , eldest daughter of Henry , second Marquis of Waterford . He was born 13 th April , 1830 , and married 15 th February , 1855 , Anna Theresa , eldest daughter of the late Captain Richard Howe Cockerel ! , by whom he leaves issue an only son , Charles Henry John , Viscount Ingestre , born 13 th November , 1 S 60 , who succeeds bis

father as twentieth En . rl i > f Shrewsbury and fifth Karl Talbot , and three daughters , namely , Lady Theresa , married to Viscount Castlerengh ; Lady Gwendolen , married in January last to Lieut .-Col . E . Chaplin , M . P . ; and Lady Muriel , married in December last to Viscount Helmsley . The deceased peer was hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland , as declared by the House of Lords in

1863 . He was from 1851 to 1853 in the ist Life Guards , but retired in the last-mentioned year ; and was for some years major in the Queen ' s Own Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry . In February , 1875 , he was appointed , on the resignation of the Marquis of Exeter , Captain of the Hon . Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms . He was a deputylieutenant of Staffordshire , and a magistrate for the countv of Middlesex . The following account of the

noble lord ' s Masonic career will , we think , be of great interest to our readers . His lordship was installed Provincial Grand Master of Staffordshire June 24 th , 1871 , and at once took great interest in the various lodges in his province , establishing quarterly communications for the different parts , holding a meeting

in each part every three months , so that all Masons could have an opportunity of attending Prov . Grand Lo . lge , and becoming acquainted with its members . He himself regularly attended these meetings , and , consequently , soon knew all the prominent members of each lodge , which enabled him much better to select the P . G . Officers at the

annual meeting at Stafford . He also caused at each of these four meetings the charity box to go round , giving largely himself ; the proceeds to go to a fund called the " Shrewsbury Fund , " for local charity only . His lorelship was installed a Knight Templar in the Godefroi de Bouillon Encampment , then meeting at

Ncwcastle-under-Lync , on September 13 th , 1872 , anil served the office of Preceptor in that preceptory in the years 18 73 and 18 74 . At the installation of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales as Grand Master of the Order on April 7 th , 1873 , Lord Shrewsbury was appointed Great Marshal in Convent General , and also a Knig ht Grand Cross of the Order . On the death

of Lord Athlumncy in December , 1873 , the late Earl was appointed Great Constable in Convent General , and this office he helel until his installation as Great Prior of England and Wales on the 8 th December in last year . His lordshi p ' s death occurred on the morning of the regular annual day of meeting of Great Priory . But few

members knew of the loss the Oteler had sustained until they reached the place of meeting , and then not until it was announced Imm the chair . Major Shadwell H . Clerke , Grand Sub-Prior of England and Wales , opened Great Priory for the purjie se of formally announcing the sad intelligence , and immediately closed it , no business

whatever being transacteel- The announcement was a great shock to many . His lord .-. hip tuok very great interest in the three great Masonic charities , volunteering to take the chair of each at the annual festival elinners in rotation . He began with the Boys' in 1872 , at which £ e , B ° collected , Lord Shrewsbury himself giving a large sum he had collected from his friends to the Stewards from his

province , who supported him on that occasion . In the following year he presided at the Girls' School , giving away at Wandsworth the prizes to the various young ladies who had earned them , assisted by Lady Shrewsbury and his daughter , Lady Theresa Talbot ; expressing his great delight at the splendid schools , and the proficiency of the scholars . To celebrate the event the Masons of his province subscribed , and Lad y Shrewsbury presented the

Obituary.

UUkimmBM 3 tEmmerBff | iyniJ ^ ,. l ^ ilMMITntfi ¦ ¦ I HW I Iff ^ XVZ ^ MSSPZX ^ SSBta UUA-lUa schools with an entirely new service of potterv ware , breakfast , dinner , e & c , sufficient to supply the whole school , and a few over in case of breakage . F-ach article is impressed with a design of the schools , and under is the Staffordshire knot , which gives a very pretty effect , and will remind the girls of the donors . In 1875 he presided at the dinner for

the Aged Freemasons , when £ 7020 was collected ; and at the festival of the same institution , which was held on the 12 th February of the present year , he presided , in the unavoidable absence , through illness , of H . R . H . Prince Leopold , when £ 12 , 6 5 6 13 s . was collected , being the largest amount yet obtained at any of this Institution's festivals . Perhaps , however , Lord Shrewsbury ' s Masonic love for the

brethren of his province was best shown when H . R . H . the Prince of Wales was installed at Albert ' Hall as Most Worshipful Grand Master of England . Knowing that a good many brethren would then be iu London who were not in the habit of often going , and that they would not know where to go on their arrival , he causcet his P . G . Sec . to issue circulars inviting all the Worshipful Masters ,

Wardens , P . G . Officers , & c , who were going , to meet at his house in Dover-street , Piccadilly , where he had a splendid lunch ready , and sufficient carriages and omni buses to take the whole of the brethren to the Albert-Hall , giving to each a ticket on which was the number of his carriage , to prevent confusion , and appointing a p lace to meet again . When the installation was over the

carriages were again waiting , and the brethren were taken back to Dover-street , the noble lord driving first in his own carriage to welcome thebrethien on their arrival at his house , where ano'her substantial meal was ready for those whei would partake of it , anel wine in profusion was served during the whole time the brethren were present . Such a truly Masonic gathering did not

take place in any other house in London on that great day , and the Staffordshire Masons felt justly proud of their Prov . Grand Master , anil it was with very great pleasure when , at the annual meeting of Prov . Grand Chapter , it was nTranged to present a marriage present to Lady Theresa Talbot , who was about marrying the Viscount Castlenagh . Almost every number of the

province subscribed , feeling that in so doing it would in a small way shew the respect and esteem in which they held bis lordship . The funeral tcok place at Ingestre , near Stafford , on Wednesday . The body was brought elown from London on the previous evening and removed from the train at Colwich lunctii . n , and from thence taken in a hearse to

Ingestre Hall . The ceremony took place in the afternoon , anil the body lav : ¦ : fi . ite . A precession was formed at haif-past eie e ' e ' , ¦ ..-, me coflin being cniried on the shoulders of beaicis to Ingestre Church , which is close to the lia . ll The bearers of the pall were Lord A . Paget and B . Paget , Captain A . Duncombe , Hon . A . Morgan , Mr . Iveson , Mr . Praed , Lord Lnvatt , Hon . A . Cockerell , Hon .

H . Langham , and the H 11 . G . W . Finch . I lie mourners consisted of the Countess of Shrewsbury , Viscount Ingestre , Lord ami Lady Casllcreagh , Lady W-. iii-jfo / d , Viscount Helmsley , Hon . Mrs . North , Colonel Cnaplin , Miss Chetwynd , Hon . Captain Carpenter , Lord Kglinton , Hon . and llcv . T . C . Talbot , Lorel RendUsliam , Hon . F . Jlontinimerie , Hon . W . North , Hon . G . Vernon , and other

relatives , besides deputations from the Stafford Town Council anil members of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Staffordshire . The coffin was covered with a crimson and white pall , with wreaths of hothouse flowers resting on the surface . The deceased earl ' s coronet was carried

in front and Colonel Kerr was present as representing her Majesty . The funeral service was Rail by the Hon . and Rev . A . C . Talbot . The body was deposited in the family vault . Although the funeral was considered to be strictly private , a considerable number of peisous resident on the estate anil in the neighbourhood were present .

The Daily Express slates : By the suelde-n and lamented death of the Earl of Shrewsbury , the Church has io . ^ t one of her most faithful and staunch supporters . His death will be deeply and widely felt by many who had learnt to reckon upon that clerical help which was never withheld from any true and hearty Church work . In London , as well as at Ingestre and at Alton Towers ,

many benefactions attested his kindness of heart . The clergy found in Lord Shrewsbury a ready friend . None who had the privilege of spending a week at Alton Towers , when the Church Congress tvns held at Stoke , can ever forget the heartiness with which he threw himself into all the arrangements for the comfort of his guests , amongst whom were several of the American

bishops and other clergy . We are reminded at the present time how his lordship spoke twice at the Congress , dealing , in his latter speech , with the subject of Christian burial , and pleasantly drawing a picture of the kind of funeral which he should desire lor himself , of the simplest

anil plainest kind . On the day before his death , Lord Shrewsbury attended and spoke with his wonted geniality at the annual gathering at St . John ' s College , Hurstpierpoint . None then could have anticipated that so sudden an end was at hand to one who was loved by many , and respected by all who knew him .

BRO . MAJOR HAMILTON RAMSAY . We regret having to announce the death of Bro . Major W . Hamilton Ramsay , 30 ( of Garion ) , Grand Viceroy of the Red Cross Order in Scotland , and which melancholy event occurred somewhat suddenly on the 28 th ult . Bro . Ramsay was a very energetic Masonand amongst

, other offices held for many years the posts of Prior of the Lothians and Tieasurer of the Scottish Order of 'he Temple . In 1871 ; he was elected Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . We understand that Lord Inverurie will succeed the deceased as Grand Vicero ) of the Scottish Grand Council of the Red Cross Order .