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Paracelsus ' s glance then fell upon a tall , broad-shouldered man , who was watching the execution from an adjacent house , and whose features were partly concealed by a broad-brimmed hat and cloak . The old man ' s eyes gleamed , his frame shook with passion , and he liissed rather than spoke ,

"Ha ! regicide , comest thou to gloat upon thy fell work ? but thy triumph will be short-lived . Fanatic ! would that I had the power to destroy thee where thou standest : But may thy few

remaining years of life be blighted by thc canker of remorse , and shadowed by an abject fear of sudden dissolution . May mother ' s teach their children to curse thy memory , and in death may thy poor clay lie dishonoured in a grave unknown . "

The person thus addressed was too far off to havo heard this terrible denunciation , but strange to record , he changed colour , shuddered violently , and hastily left the casement . It was Oliver Oroiuicell . The philosopher suddenly turned pale , and p lacing his hand to his forehead in painful , feeble accents moaned .

" Ah , me , what is this dreadful feeling that is stealing over me Y 1 feel faint—I cannot breathe—give me air . Dolt that I was to stir abroad without my safeguard—the water of life . Good people , I pray ye fetch me a chirurgeoii , and that speedily . Too late ! too late ! 1 die—I die . Creator of all , receive my soul !"

During this rambling speech , the spectators had rushed to the assistance of the dy ing man ; kind hands loosened his clothing , sprinkled water on his face , and poured a few drops of a cordial through his lips . All in vain , the sands of life in the old frame ,

that had defied so long the inroads of Tinie , had run out . He was dead . A leech soon arrived , and having cursorily examined the body , gave an opinion that death was due to natural decay , accelerated by exposure to thc bleak weather and the excitement in witnessing the execution .

During the last moments of Paracelsus , loud cries and oatlis were heard . Many men shouted , " King Charles is dead ! " " Long live King Charles !"

Some of the Royalists who had the temerity to utter these words in the vicinity of the troopers were rewarded with broken pates . Many were trampled upon or ridden down by the enraged Roundheads , and a scene of wild confusion ensued .

It was some hours before the precincts of Whitehall aud Charing Cross resumed their wonted tranquility . Upon searching the body of the astrologer there was found suspended to his neck a medal of bronze . Upon it was engraved a small altar standing upon a mound , and from which issued a tongue of flame

There was also a device of the sun rising from the sea and over which there hovered a dove , bejiriiig in its beak a labe l , endorsed with the word Lu . r , As Paracelsus died friendless and intestate , his effects were claimed by the Protectorate . The officers who were sent to make an inventory of his goods and chattels found but little to

reward their search . A number of retorts , crucibles , bottles , chemicals ,, old books in black letter and such like comparatively worthless ,, articles were found in every part of the old house , but not a vestige of plate nor money . Lilly , the astrologer , who was secretly a protege of Cromwell ' s , was directed to examine everything and to make report

thereon . He interrogated the old servitor of the deceased sage , hut he knew nothing . Lilly had hoped to have found manuscripts dealing with occult matters , but he was disappointed . If any existed , Paracelsus had concealed them in some secret place , known

but to himself . In the great fire of 1666 , the ancient domicile was burnt to the ground , and , no doubt , the dead man ' s hidden wealth , heirlooms , and mystical writings were destroyed in that awful conflagration that reduced London ' s famous city to ashes .

How Grand Lodge Was Built Up.

How Grand Lodge was built up .

Bv Bno . G . BL 1 ZARD ABBOTT .

t ! N | l [ j | F ?| . ; DO not purpose recounting the old familiar story of the filH ftl' " * 01 U' o 1 d Lodges" meeting at the Goose and Grid-[•j-fg § i | g | - iron , St . Paul ' s Churchyard , on the ever memorable ypP Hi 24 th June ( St . John the Baptist ' s Day ) , 1717 , and JdS ^ gl ^ gpJ then and thero electing Bro . Anthony Sayer , Gentleman , as Grand Master of Masons for the ensuing

year ; or describing how he was invested by the oldest Master present , installed by the Master of the oldest Lodge , and congratulated by the whole assembly , which forthwith paid him homage , as the Supreme Head for the time being of the whole Craft of Masonry throughout tbe civilized world ; the story has been too often repeated to need further repetition . Neither is it any part of niy purpose to

write a disquisition on the comparative rights and privileges of these " Four Old Lodges , " which existed by Immemorial Constitution , and the Lodges subsequently warranted by the said Grand Lod ge : those who desire to study this grave question must consult ^ the pages of our learned Bro . Gould . It is enough for me that from the Grand Lodge thus constituted at an unpretentious gathering of

Masonsof which many no doubt were operative brethren—held at an insignificant tavern , which , as its sign suggests , * may once have been the shop of a musical instrument maker , has descended not onl y our present United Grand Lodge , but likewise nearly all the Grand Lodges which have ever been constituted since throughout Christendom and elsewhere ; and it has occurred to " me that a brief outline of

the steps by which it has grown from a mere congregation of Masters and Wardens , presided over by a Grand Master and Grand Wardens , to its present splendid organisation as the Supreme Diet of English Masonry , may not be without interest to the readers of this journal . I have said that Bro . Anthony Sayer was installed Grand Master ¦ on the 24 th June , 1717 , and among the few particulars which have

been handed down to us of this meeting , it is recorded that Bro . Sayer ' s first official act after his induction into the chair was to appoint his Grand Wardens . It was not , however , till his Grace the Duke of Montagu was installed G . Master at Stationers' Hall , on St . John the Baptist ' s Day , 1721 , that the office of Deputy G . Master was created and bestowed on Bro . John Beal , M . D . The Duke of

Wharton , successor of his Grace of Montagu , appears to have been the first to recognize the necessity of having the proceedings in Grand Lodge duly recorded , and to him accordingly we are indebted for the appointment of a Grand Secretary in the person of Bro . William Cowper , Clerk of the Parliament , but history does not tell us if Bro . Cowper was " installed ( in the Ancient Manner )! ' by

tlie presiding officer , assisted by . the Wardens and afterwards proclaimed "thrice according to ancient custom . " This , we know , was the happy lot of a far more distinguished Grand Secretary—Bro . Laurence Dermott—who some 80 years later , after undergoing the ordeal of examination as to his proficiency in Secretarial duties , was ceremoniously inducted into office at the Griffin , Holborn , with

not a little of the barbaric splendour which generally accompanies the enthronement of an Eastern potentate . Yet a few years later , and we pass at one bound from the creation of a Grand Secretary to the institution of Provincial Grand Masters . The honour of having devised this office for the extension of Freemasonry into districts in which it had been previously unknown , or but little known , belonged to the Earl of Inchiquin , who was Grand Master during

* The Goose nnd Gridiron is held Iiy ninny to be a rude interpretation of the Swan ami Xyre , the device of the Company of Musicians .

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