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The Royal Visit To Plymouth.
of union between your Royal Highness and every one of the brethren who are here gathered together in this vast assemblage—a bond of union of which the popular world knows nothing , and in which a stranger cannot intermeddle ; a mystic tie of fraternity felt and acknowledged by
all the members of our Craft , a tie producing that friendship which ( to use the emphatic words of our Grand Master , King Solomon , ) " sticketh closer than a brother , " Condescend , then . Illustrious Prince , and Most Worshipful Past Grand Master , to accept their hearty and loyal
address , on behalf of the brethren of all the lodges in Devonshire and Cornwall , who in , United Grand Lodge assembled , desire now to offer you their warm and fraternal welcome on this your first Masonic appearance among them . With your permission , sir , I will request my
Right Worshipful brother , the Grand Master of Cornwall , to read the address which I have now the honour to present . The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Prov . G . M . of Cornwall , then read the address , which was as follows : —
" May it please your Royal Hig hness , we , the Provincial Grand Masters , Grand Officers , and brethren of Devon and Cornwall in United Provincial Grand Lodge assembled , desire to express the warm feelings of gratification with which we hail your first appearance amongst us as the
most Worshipful Past Grand Master of England in the two loyal provinces of which the Grand Lodges are here assembled to welcome you . On a former occasion we met in our respective Grand Lodges to oiler our heartfelt and fraternal congratulations on the happy recovery of your
Royal Highness from a lingering and very dangerous illness , and on the present occasion we are unitedly assembled to greet your presence among us in the full enjoyment of of renovated health and strength . We unite in grateful praise to the Great Architect of the Universe for having preserved a life so dear and precious to
this mighty empire , and we dare to offer our fervent prayers that your Royal Highness may be long preserved in mind antibody , beloved and revered by all her Majesty ' s liege subjects , and regarded with feelings of the most earnest and fraternal affection by your loyal and devoted brethren of the Provinces of Devon and Cornwall . "
The Prince , received with a great outburst of cheering on rising , replied ns follows : — " Most Worshipful Provincial Grand Masters and Brethren of Devon and Cornwall , I thank you for your address of welcome . It has been a matter of warm congratulation to me that I
should have been able to meet the brethren of Devon and Cornwall in United Provincial Lodge , assembled on the present occasion , and I highly appreciate the motives which have led so many of you , at considerable personal inconvenience to yourselves , to assemble here to-day from all parts
ofthe two counties . I cannot be sufficientl y grateful to the Great Architect of the Universe for his merciful perservation of ray life from so severe and dangerous an illness as that from which I suffered , and I am much touched by the kind terms in which you have alluded to my
recover ) ' . The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe : May it please your Royal Hi ghness , Right Worshi pful Brother Huyshe . may I be allowed to take this , the only public opportunity I may have , of thanking my Right Worshipful Brother , and I may say of
thanking also the officers and brethren of the province of Devonshire , for having so cordially and so fraternall y given us , the brethren of Cornwall , the opportunity of joining with them on this occasion . I believe that this meeting is almost unprecedented as a United Grand Lodge ,
and I think I may also say that it has scarcel y ever been exceeded in the numbers and appearance of the assembly . Our old Cornish motto is " One and All . " It is a motto which we shall always be happy to share with our brethren of Devonshire , and on no occasion could we be
more ready to do so than upon that which has called us together to-day . Our rugged peninsula has no nei ghbour except Devonshire , and therefore it would be indeed strange if the bond of fraternity was not strong between those two provinces . I may perhaps be allowed to say of the brethren of my own province , that I believe
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that so far as it is possible to do it , they have almost literally come here " one and all" to-day , and I am quite sure I may say for those who are unavoidably prevented from being present , both from Cornwall and Devonshire , that their feeling is thoroughly and entirely unanimous ,
in the loyal welcome to your Royal Highness , which we desire most earnestly to lay before you on this occasion . The Prince of Wales : Brethren , I am anxious to have the opportunity of thanking my Right Worshipful Brothers Huyshe and Lord Mount
Edgcumbe for the very kind words they have spoken on this occasion , and I am also glad to have an opportunity of thanking you once more for having met here to-day in such large numbers . I have been present at several great Masonic meetings during the six years that I have had
the advantage of being a member of the Craft , but I never saw a gathering like the present . I do not only look on this immense gathering as a kind of personal expression of feeling on your part towards myself : but it is also a proof to
me that Masonry flourishes in this part of the world . Long may it do so , br < thren ; long may it flourish as it does at the present moment , and may it uphold those principles for which ir was instituted . Allow me to thank vou once ¦ : ; nr :-
for the reception you have given me u .-day , one which I shall never forg ? t . His Royal Highness , in due form , then declared the Grand Lodge closed , and , before he left , Bro . Trevena called for three cheers for the Princess of Wales . The call was then
responded to in the most enthusiastic maimer , every brother standing and cheering with the heartiest good-will . As the Prince left the hall . the cheering was again and again renewed , and after a short delay his Royal Highness drove away to St . Andrew ' s Church , amidsttheloyal greetings of the thousands of people who lined the streets
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Devon.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF DEVON .
The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire Masons was held in the afternoon at the St . George ' s Hall , Stonehouse . The Provincial Grand Master , the Rev . J . Huyshe , presided , and there was a very large attendance of brethren .
The Provincial Grand Lodge having been opened in the customary form , the Provincial Grand Secretary , Bro . Leigh , read the minutes ofthe Prov . Grand Lodge , held at Dawlish on the 28 th of August last , and also of the special lodges held at Exeter , on the 29 th of January ,
and at Kingsbridge on the 16 th of April , and these were now confirmed . The Prov . Grand Secretary also read the report of returns from the lodges for the year ending , 31 st December , 187 . 3 , which showed that the total number of lodges contributing to
the Fortescue Annuity Fund was 45 , that the total amount subscribed was £ 45 1 ° ; s . 6 d ., and that the total amount of dues was . £ 263 4 s . 6 d . The Treasurer ' s report , read by Bro . W . A . Maynard , showed that there was a balance in
favour of the Grand Lodge of t £ 20 () . On the motion of Bro . Jones , of Exeter , seconded by Bro . the Rev . J . Oxley Oxland , Bro . W . jB . Hambly , of Lodges 70 and 1205 , was unanimously elected as Treasurer for the ensuing
year . Bro . Lee read the report of the Treasurer of the Fortescue Annuity Fund , which showed that in August of last year there was a balance due from the Treasurer of £ 26 , 3 s . ud . Since then there had been received /' i / i iSs . iod ., whilst
the expenditure had been 56141 18 s . od ., leaving a balance in hand of £ 30 os . 4 d . There were invested in Consols , ^ 928 15 s . ; in Williams' mortgage , s £ i ^ o ; in the Devon and Exeter Club , ^' 400 ; and in the Savings Bank , £ 311 ios . ( jd ., making a total invested of £ 1 , 780 5 - 9 -
The Committee of Petitions presented the following report , which was read by Bro . Gover . — " The Committee of Petitions have pleasure in presenting their annual report to the Provincial Grand Lodge , the result of their exertions having been highly satisfactory . Very much of their success is due to the continued exertions of Bro .
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James Stevens , who undertakes the onerous duty of conducting their elections in London , and has not only given the Province his own , but by his influence and energy has secured a large number of other votes . The committee have secured the election of Bro . Abraham Freeman ,
of Lodge 372 , Budleigh Salterton , on the funds of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Bro . R . B . Thompson , of the Sun Lodge , 100 , was also selected an annuitant . The committee regret that several lodges and chapters still withold their votes . They believe this
indifference arises from misapprehension , and trust that when every lodge is represented they will have the pleasure of reporting that the Province of Devon is thoroughly united . The committee are pleased to report that from an entire absence of applications for relief there has bpen no cause
for their meeting since January , but at their meeting on Tuesday the committee , after due consideration , voted a sum of & £$ to Mrs . Windeatt , widow of a member of lodge i 24 /> and they also recommended the Prov . Grand Lodge to grant a further sum of i £ io . "
The whole of the reports were received and ad 01-. ted . The Provin ? inl Grand Master said that he hat ! to bring before them the notice ofthe Grand Lodge the question of a donation to the Female Orphan Asylum at Stoke , with which their distinguished Rro . Metham had so long and so clos . ! y been connected . There was no doubt that the
Institution , on whose beh ilf he was about to speak , was a National Institution , and one which the nation oug ' it to subscribe to , and undoubtedly would subscribe to . If they liked they could make it a Masonic Institution , and , to a certain extent , thev had already done so , because he i > ad been informed that no less than twentv-two
01 ph . - . ns of Masons had alread y h-en recipients of that charitv . He did not know any person who uas more destitute thin the female orphan , and he was sure tlv rj was not a single Mason , present or absent , whose heart did not acknowledge that fact . The position of the female
orphan was a peculiarl y sad one . The boy could go into the world and gain a livelihood in many ways . The girl was differently constituted . She required some amount of education , especially religions education , because it was necessary that the rising generation of females
should be brought up in the true principles of chastity and goodness in every respect . This could not be expected of them unless they are brought up by institutions such as the Asylum at Stoke . It had been conducted in such a manner as to gain the highest approbation . He
had seen it himself , and he could bear testimony to the truly excellent way in which it was managed , and he did not know of any institntion more deserving a general and liberal support . There were now forty-five lodges in the provincej almost too mar , for a man of his age to be able
properly to manage , and with such a strong body they ought really to do something more than was ordinarily liberal . They were called upon to support the daughters of those who were the real defenders of our country , lt was to them that we owed the peace and the comfort in which
we lived , and he was going to propose a sum which he at first thought would frig hten the Grand Lodge , but on consideration , he believed they would willingly vote the sum which he was going to ask them for , and that was that they
should give a donation of a hundred guineas towards the asylum , to be delivered at the time when the Duke of Edinburgh came down for the purpose of laying the memorial stone ofthe new buildings .
Bro . W . Hine Haycock , ofSidmouth seconded the motion . He was quite sure that the appeal of the Provincial Grand Master would not be made in vain . He was quite willing to give the sum often guineas towards the charity himself . There were nine ither brethren present from his lodge , and if they would each g ive a like amount , he would increase his own subscription
to twenty guineas . Bro . Metham said : —Rig ht Worshipful Sir and Brethren : Who among us will ever forget the glorious scene in which he has taken part today ? We have right loyally carried out one segment , at least , of our Masonic obligation . We have proved our allegiance to the Sovereign
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The Royal Visit To Plymouth.
of union between your Royal Highness and every one of the brethren who are here gathered together in this vast assemblage—a bond of union of which the popular world knows nothing , and in which a stranger cannot intermeddle ; a mystic tie of fraternity felt and acknowledged by
all the members of our Craft , a tie producing that friendship which ( to use the emphatic words of our Grand Master , King Solomon , ) " sticketh closer than a brother , " Condescend , then . Illustrious Prince , and Most Worshipful Past Grand Master , to accept their hearty and loyal
address , on behalf of the brethren of all the lodges in Devonshire and Cornwall , who in , United Grand Lodge assembled , desire now to offer you their warm and fraternal welcome on this your first Masonic appearance among them . With your permission , sir , I will request my
Right Worshipful brother , the Grand Master of Cornwall , to read the address which I have now the honour to present . The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Prov . G . M . of Cornwall , then read the address , which was as follows : —
" May it please your Royal Hig hness , we , the Provincial Grand Masters , Grand Officers , and brethren of Devon and Cornwall in United Provincial Grand Lodge assembled , desire to express the warm feelings of gratification with which we hail your first appearance amongst us as the
most Worshipful Past Grand Master of England in the two loyal provinces of which the Grand Lodges are here assembled to welcome you . On a former occasion we met in our respective Grand Lodges to oiler our heartfelt and fraternal congratulations on the happy recovery of your
Royal Highness from a lingering and very dangerous illness , and on the present occasion we are unitedly assembled to greet your presence among us in the full enjoyment of of renovated health and strength . We unite in grateful praise to the Great Architect of the Universe for having preserved a life so dear and precious to
this mighty empire , and we dare to offer our fervent prayers that your Royal Highness may be long preserved in mind antibody , beloved and revered by all her Majesty ' s liege subjects , and regarded with feelings of the most earnest and fraternal affection by your loyal and devoted brethren of the Provinces of Devon and Cornwall . "
The Prince , received with a great outburst of cheering on rising , replied ns follows : — " Most Worshipful Provincial Grand Masters and Brethren of Devon and Cornwall , I thank you for your address of welcome . It has been a matter of warm congratulation to me that I
should have been able to meet the brethren of Devon and Cornwall in United Provincial Lodge , assembled on the present occasion , and I highly appreciate the motives which have led so many of you , at considerable personal inconvenience to yourselves , to assemble here to-day from all parts
ofthe two counties . I cannot be sufficientl y grateful to the Great Architect of the Universe for his merciful perservation of ray life from so severe and dangerous an illness as that from which I suffered , and I am much touched by the kind terms in which you have alluded to my
recover ) ' . The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe : May it please your Royal Hi ghness , Right Worshi pful Brother Huyshe . may I be allowed to take this , the only public opportunity I may have , of thanking my Right Worshipful Brother , and I may say of
thanking also the officers and brethren of the province of Devonshire , for having so cordially and so fraternall y given us , the brethren of Cornwall , the opportunity of joining with them on this occasion . I believe that this meeting is almost unprecedented as a United Grand Lodge ,
and I think I may also say that it has scarcel y ever been exceeded in the numbers and appearance of the assembly . Our old Cornish motto is " One and All . " It is a motto which we shall always be happy to share with our brethren of Devonshire , and on no occasion could we be
more ready to do so than upon that which has called us together to-day . Our rugged peninsula has no nei ghbour except Devonshire , and therefore it would be indeed strange if the bond of fraternity was not strong between those two provinces . I may perhaps be allowed to say of the brethren of my own province , that I believe
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that so far as it is possible to do it , they have almost literally come here " one and all" to-day , and I am quite sure I may say for those who are unavoidably prevented from being present , both from Cornwall and Devonshire , that their feeling is thoroughly and entirely unanimous ,
in the loyal welcome to your Royal Highness , which we desire most earnestly to lay before you on this occasion . The Prince of Wales : Brethren , I am anxious to have the opportunity of thanking my Right Worshipful Brothers Huyshe and Lord Mount
Edgcumbe for the very kind words they have spoken on this occasion , and I am also glad to have an opportunity of thanking you once more for having met here to-day in such large numbers . I have been present at several great Masonic meetings during the six years that I have had
the advantage of being a member of the Craft , but I never saw a gathering like the present . I do not only look on this immense gathering as a kind of personal expression of feeling on your part towards myself : but it is also a proof to
me that Masonry flourishes in this part of the world . Long may it do so , br < thren ; long may it flourish as it does at the present moment , and may it uphold those principles for which ir was instituted . Allow me to thank vou once ¦ : ; nr :-
for the reception you have given me u .-day , one which I shall never forg ? t . His Royal Highness , in due form , then declared the Grand Lodge closed , and , before he left , Bro . Trevena called for three cheers for the Princess of Wales . The call was then
responded to in the most enthusiastic maimer , every brother standing and cheering with the heartiest good-will . As the Prince left the hall . the cheering was again and again renewed , and after a short delay his Royal Highness drove away to St . Andrew ' s Church , amidsttheloyal greetings of the thousands of people who lined the streets
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Devon.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF DEVON .
The annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire Masons was held in the afternoon at the St . George ' s Hall , Stonehouse . The Provincial Grand Master , the Rev . J . Huyshe , presided , and there was a very large attendance of brethren .
The Provincial Grand Lodge having been opened in the customary form , the Provincial Grand Secretary , Bro . Leigh , read the minutes ofthe Prov . Grand Lodge , held at Dawlish on the 28 th of August last , and also of the special lodges held at Exeter , on the 29 th of January ,
and at Kingsbridge on the 16 th of April , and these were now confirmed . The Prov . Grand Secretary also read the report of returns from the lodges for the year ending , 31 st December , 187 . 3 , which showed that the total number of lodges contributing to
the Fortescue Annuity Fund was 45 , that the total amount subscribed was £ 45 1 ° ; s . 6 d ., and that the total amount of dues was . £ 263 4 s . 6 d . The Treasurer ' s report , read by Bro . W . A . Maynard , showed that there was a balance in
favour of the Grand Lodge of t £ 20 () . On the motion of Bro . Jones , of Exeter , seconded by Bro . the Rev . J . Oxley Oxland , Bro . W . jB . Hambly , of Lodges 70 and 1205 , was unanimously elected as Treasurer for the ensuing
year . Bro . Lee read the report of the Treasurer of the Fortescue Annuity Fund , which showed that in August of last year there was a balance due from the Treasurer of £ 26 , 3 s . ud . Since then there had been received /' i / i iSs . iod ., whilst
the expenditure had been 56141 18 s . od ., leaving a balance in hand of £ 30 os . 4 d . There were invested in Consols , ^ 928 15 s . ; in Williams' mortgage , s £ i ^ o ; in the Devon and Exeter Club , ^' 400 ; and in the Savings Bank , £ 311 ios . ( jd ., making a total invested of £ 1 , 780 5 - 9 -
The Committee of Petitions presented the following report , which was read by Bro . Gover . — " The Committee of Petitions have pleasure in presenting their annual report to the Provincial Grand Lodge , the result of their exertions having been highly satisfactory . Very much of their success is due to the continued exertions of Bro .
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Devon.
James Stevens , who undertakes the onerous duty of conducting their elections in London , and has not only given the Province his own , but by his influence and energy has secured a large number of other votes . The committee have secured the election of Bro . Abraham Freeman ,
of Lodge 372 , Budleigh Salterton , on the funds of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Bro . R . B . Thompson , of the Sun Lodge , 100 , was also selected an annuitant . The committee regret that several lodges and chapters still withold their votes . They believe this
indifference arises from misapprehension , and trust that when every lodge is represented they will have the pleasure of reporting that the Province of Devon is thoroughly united . The committee are pleased to report that from an entire absence of applications for relief there has bpen no cause
for their meeting since January , but at their meeting on Tuesday the committee , after due consideration , voted a sum of & £$ to Mrs . Windeatt , widow of a member of lodge i 24 /> and they also recommended the Prov . Grand Lodge to grant a further sum of i £ io . "
The whole of the reports were received and ad 01-. ted . The Provin ? inl Grand Master said that he hat ! to bring before them the notice ofthe Grand Lodge the question of a donation to the Female Orphan Asylum at Stoke , with which their distinguished Rro . Metham had so long and so clos . ! y been connected . There was no doubt that the
Institution , on whose beh ilf he was about to speak , was a National Institution , and one which the nation oug ' it to subscribe to , and undoubtedly would subscribe to . If they liked they could make it a Masonic Institution , and , to a certain extent , thev had already done so , because he i > ad been informed that no less than twentv-two
01 ph . - . ns of Masons had alread y h-en recipients of that charitv . He did not know any person who uas more destitute thin the female orphan , and he was sure tlv rj was not a single Mason , present or absent , whose heart did not acknowledge that fact . The position of the female
orphan was a peculiarl y sad one . The boy could go into the world and gain a livelihood in many ways . The girl was differently constituted . She required some amount of education , especially religions education , because it was necessary that the rising generation of females
should be brought up in the true principles of chastity and goodness in every respect . This could not be expected of them unless they are brought up by institutions such as the Asylum at Stoke . It had been conducted in such a manner as to gain the highest approbation . He
had seen it himself , and he could bear testimony to the truly excellent way in which it was managed , and he did not know of any institntion more deserving a general and liberal support . There were now forty-five lodges in the provincej almost too mar , for a man of his age to be able
properly to manage , and with such a strong body they ought really to do something more than was ordinarily liberal . They were called upon to support the daughters of those who were the real defenders of our country , lt was to them that we owed the peace and the comfort in which
we lived , and he was going to propose a sum which he at first thought would frig hten the Grand Lodge , but on consideration , he believed they would willingly vote the sum which he was going to ask them for , and that was that they
should give a donation of a hundred guineas towards the asylum , to be delivered at the time when the Duke of Edinburgh came down for the purpose of laying the memorial stone ofthe new buildings .
Bro . W . Hine Haycock , ofSidmouth seconded the motion . He was quite sure that the appeal of the Provincial Grand Master would not be made in vain . He was quite willing to give the sum often guineas towards the charity himself . There were nine ither brethren present from his lodge , and if they would each g ive a like amount , he would increase his own subscription
to twenty guineas . Bro . Metham said : —Rig ht Worshipful Sir and Brethren : Who among us will ever forget the glorious scene in which he has taken part today ? We have right loyally carried out one segment , at least , of our Masonic obligation . We have proved our allegiance to the Sovereign