Henry Muggeridge Testimonial.

HENRY MUGGERIDGE TESTIMONIAL .

Bro . E . M . HUBBUCK , P . G . S ., Treasurer . Bro . F . FELLOWS , Hon . Secretary . Amounts received and promised : — Nine Muses Lodge , 235 £ 17 I ? ° Lion and Lamb Lodge , 192 ... ... 10 10 o Lion and Lamb Chapter , 192 ... ... 10 10 o Neptune Lodge , 22 ... ... ... ... 10 10 o

Panmure Lodge , 715 10 10 o Felicity Lodge , 5 8 5 S ° Gihon Lodge ( several old members of ) , 49 5 5 o Lodgeof Emulation , 21 5 5 o Gresham Lodge , 86 9 ... ... ... 220 Lodge of Union , 166 220 Welchpool Lodge , 99 8 ... ... ... 220 Cannon-street Hotel , per Bro . Band ... 220 Bro . J . B . Scriven , P . G . S 10 10 o

„ E . M . Hubbuck , P . G . S ., ( Chaitmaii ) 10 10 o „ Lord De Tabley , R . W . P . G . M . Cheshire 3 3 o „ George Kenning , P . M ., P . G . D . Middlesex 550 „ J . T . C . Winkfield , P . P . G . W . Berks ... 5 5 o

„ R . Grey , P . G . D . ** 5 ° „ B . Head , P . G . D 4 4 o „ . las . Casey 3 3 ° „ E . Snell , P . G . D 3 3 o „ Joseph Cleaver ... ... ... ... 3 3 ° DLaw 2 2 o

.. . ... ... ... ... ... „ G . Plucknevv ... ... ... ... 220 „ J . H . Townenel ... ... ... 220 „ E . Jones , P . M . 192 ... ... ... 220 „ F . M . Newton ... ... ... ... 220

„ T . Reynolds ... ... ... ... 220 „ S . Tomkins , Past Grand Treas . ... 220 „ J . C . Havers , P . G . D 220 . . F . Barnford ... ... 220 A . uoiiiivni ... ... ... ... 2 & v

,, W . F . Larkins ... ... ... ... 220 „ F . Fellows , S . W . 1679 , S . W . 192 ... 220 „ F . D . R . Copestick , P . G . S . B . Herts ... 220 „ S . G . Myers , P . M . 715 220

„ Henry Birdseye , P . M . 715 ... ... 220 „ W . J . Crossfield , P . M . 715 220 „ M . Bennett ... ... 220 „ E . Phillips ... ... 220 n J . Jonas P . M . 7 is ., 220

„ A . J . S . Lilwall ... ... 220 „ W . Birdseye , P . M . 715 220 „ A . II . Diaper ... ... ... ... 220 „ W . M . Grocott , P . P . G . W . Herts ... 220 „ JEneas J Mclntyre , Q . C , G . Reg . ... 220 „ Watkin Williams 220

„ C . Gray 22 c „ E . F . Storr , P . M . 22 22 c „ E . B . Crichton ... 22 c „ J . Lorkin , 192 22 a „ W . S . Gover , No . 1 220 „ E . Fox 220

„ C . Birch ... ... 220 „ G . W . Hunt 220 „ C . Arkell , P . S . W . 192 220 „ F . A . Philbrick , Q . C , P . G . D 220 „ Thos . James 220 11 J- W . Vickers 220

„ C . Barclay 200 „ C . Jacomb ... ... ... ... 200 ,, J . Clabon 1 1 o „ Hyde Pullen I I o „ J . Burroughs ... ... ... ... 1 1 o „ W . Smithett 1 1 o ,, C . Jardine ... ... ... ... 1 1 a

„ F . W . Braine 1 1 o „ George Abbott , P . M . 192 1 1 o „ C . Magnay ... ,,, 1 1 o „ E . W . Richardson 1 1 o „ T . Cohu , P . M . 192 110 „ John Hogg , P . G . D 1 1 o „ J . Paddle , P . M . 715 1 1 o

„ J . Weedon , P . M . 715 1 1 o ,, A . C . Cope ... ... ... .,, 110 „ C . W . M . Wilson 110 „ H . Watts 110 ,, Warden ... ... ... ... 1 1 o „ J . Forsyth , 1 1 o „ E . Pottle ... 110

„ R . W . Little , D . G . M . Middx 1 1 o ,, A . Partridge 1 1 o „ G . Phythian , W . M . 22 1 1 o „ Darnell 1 1 o „ Geo . Cockle ... ... ... ... 1 1 o „ J . Waddell 110 ,, Tattershall 1 1 o „ Col . Creaton , P . G . D 1 1 o

„ Hooton ... ... ... ,,, , „ 110 „ Kent , 1 9 110 „ Capt . Sewell 1 1 o , > S . L . Tomkins 1 I o „ G . Beauman .,, ... ... ., 1 1 o „ T . C . Chapman ... 1 1 o 1 , Thos . Perry ... ... ... ... 1 1 o

„ H . J . P . Dumas , P . M ., etc 1 1 o 1 , John Hervey , G . Sec 1 1 o i , Rev . A . F . A . Woodford . P . G . C . ... 1 1 o „ W . Bennett 1 1 o „ D . W . Pearse , G . R . Middx 1 1 o

» J . Canham 1 1 o 11 Henry James ... ... 1 1 o 11 Isaac Paddle 1 1 o 11 E . B . Warner ... 1 1 o » i W . Bayley 1 I o 11 T . Underwood 1 1 o

Henry Muggeridge Testimonial.

Amount brought forward £ 265 9 o Bro . D . P . Owen , P . M ., Treas ., 99 S ... £ 1 I o „ E . Livingcr ... ... 1 1 o „ Downing ... ... ... ... 100 „ Locwcastark , A . D ... o 10 6 „ Loewenstark , jun . ... ... ... 0106

„ ] . Hyde o 10 6 „ Fredk . Binckes , Sec . R . M . I . B 0106 „ Peter Wagner ... ... ... ... o 10 6 „ W . Hopekirk , Treas . 179 . - o 10 6 „ J . R . Jones ... ... ... ... o 10 6 „ C . E . Mayo o 10 6 „ Eugene Benard ... ... ... 0106

„ J . Copestick ... ... ... ... 0106 „ T . S . Carter ... ... o 10 6 „ A . Wylie o 10 6 „ Dickie ... ... ... ... ... o 10 6 ,, C . G . Smithers ... ... ... 0106 „ Shayer o 10 6 „ H . C . Levander , G . Sec . Middx . ... o 10 o „ W . H . Bowden 050 „ W . T . Howe , G . P o 3 o

Making a total received up to Mar . 14 th , of £ 278 9 6 Brethren wishing to contribute to this testimonial will oblige by forwarding their contributions as early as possible . The presentation will be made next month . Full particulars will be duly announced in the Freemason . Committee Rooms , 1 , 2 , and 3 Little Britain , " * March 14 th , 18 J 8 .

Grand Lodges In England And Bro. Hyneman.

GRAND LODGES IN ENGLAND AND BRO . HYNEMAN .

By Bro . WILLIAM J AMES HUGHAN . From the " Voice of Masonry . " Our esteemed Brother Caldwell , Grand Secretary of Ohio , having given Brother Hyneman ' s misrepresentations of Early English Freemasonry new life by reviewing them

in the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ohio , for 1877 ( just published ) , we have thought it our duty again to present an antideite to the bane , as we did in 1872 , on the appearance of "Ancient York and London Grand Lodges . " Few books on Masonry , of which we have any knowledge , contain so many errors and statements contrary to facts , and probably no one has done so much to mislead

our American brethren as Brother Hyneman in his late works . We respect our brother for his Masonic zeal , but feel bound to enter our protest against such perverted and distorted accounts of our English Grand Lodges , and we are all the more sorry to see them again brought before the reading Masons of the United States in the handsome volume of the Ohio proceedings for 1877 . We hope

Brother Caldwell , who is always so ready to give fair play , will not fail to insert our answer to the statements in question in the proceedings for 1878 , and we fraternally invite our friends , the editors of American Masonic magazines especially , to reproduce our reply . We pass over all remarks by Bro . Hyneman as to the motives which actuated Drs . Desaguliers and Anderson

to say so little about their Grand Lodge in the first Book of Constitutions ( of any Grand Lodge ) , printed in 1723 , because it is too late in the day now to pretend to have discovered them , and also as unnecessary to answer them . It is more than probable that none of the " Revivalists" of 1717 ever contemplated such an increase to the society as took place within the following twenty years , and it is

quite evident that no such success was provided for , added to which , while the facts would be known to the Masons of 1723 , they would not be so familiar to those of 1738 ; hence the second edition contains information as to the " Revival" which was absent in that of 1723 . The Constitutions of 1723 was however not the first Masonic work published , for a cuiious MS . was issued in 1722 , the only

copy of which that wc know of being in the splendid library of our good friend Bro . Robert Farmer Bower . Brother Hyneman claims that " prior to the Revolution , 1717 , the Craft in the South of England still held their relation to the York Grand Lodge . " The fact is that there was no York Grand Lodge until 1725 , and the first Grand Lodge ever established was in London , 1717 . Of

Bro . Hyneman's statement there is not the shadow of a proof in this country , and as we are as familiar with the Records of the two Grand Lodges as could well be , " we speak that which we do know , and testify to that which we have seen . " Before 1725 , at York there was but one single lodge , and before 1716-7 there was not a Grand Lodge in the world ! The " annual assembly " of York

had long ceased to exist , and Freemasonry was at a low ebb , in England especially . There were doubtless other lodges in England at the time of the Revival , and which took no part in the changes of 1717 . We have ourselves traced more than one of these , some of which joined thc Grand Lodge soon after its institution . Our next extract from Brother Hyneman ' s work is a

most startling one ! " There were lodges and Masons in London holding their allegiance to the York Grand Lod ge that would not countenance nor acknowledge the new London Grand Lodge . There was no actual schism in 1738 , as Anderson , Preston , and recent writers assume . There was no third Grand Lodge formed in England

out of those lodges , which for good and sufficient reasons remained true to their allegiance to the Yoik Grand Lodge , nor of those who left the London Grand Lodge . The story of a third Grand Lodge is wholly mystical . " The foregoing paragraph is absolutely and altogether untrue , and so much so that it is difficult to understand how any one could credit such an unfounded series of

assertions in the present day , because , 1 . There were no lodges in London hailing from the York Grand Lodge until 1778 , and never after 1790 . 2 . The schism of

Grand Lodges In England And Bro. Hyneman.

1738-50 not only took place , but a third Grand Lodge was formed , the Records of which we have seen and examined in the Grand Secretary ' s office , London . 3 . This body of Seceders became the Grand Lodge , according to the old Constitution , or "Ancients , " and united with the regular Grand Lodge in 1813 , at which period the V * ork ( Jrand Lodge had ceased to exist . 4 . The " Ancients" were

sometimes called " York Masons , " but unfairly so , and it vvas the " Ancients , " or " Seceders , " which constituted so many lodges and Provincial Grand Lodges in the United States and elsewhere abroad . 5 . These " Seceders , " or "Athol Masons , " as they were called , issued many warrants for America , many of which have been transcribed and published , all of which , and all not published ,

are dated from London , and never from York , and no claim is ever made in such documents to being the York Grand Lodge , though of course mention is made therein of " Prince Edwin , " and his charges , etc ., at York , which any Grand Lodge might state with just as little or as much authoiity . 6 . The Grand Lodge of all England ( as it was called ) at York , never issued any charters

whatever out of England . Of this fact we have abundant testimony , and the Records still at York , 1 7 , 10 1790 , furnish proof positive . 7 . The claim of certain American Grand Lodges to be descended from the " Ancient York Masons " is therefore an erroneous one , and should be at once and for ever ignored . All these points we have fully elucidated in out

"Masonic Sketches and Reprints" ( New York ) , and which have never been contradicted or disproved in any way . It is singular that not only was there a third Grand Lodge , but from 1779 to 1790 there was a fourth Grand Lodge , being the third in London , all at work during that period , and with the one at York making four Grand Lodges in England , 1779 10 1790 . This fourth

Grand Lodge was formed by the " York Grand Lodge , " under the wing of the " Lodge of Antiquity , " during the temporary withdrawal of that ancient lodge from the regular Grand Lodge of England of 1717 . In 1790 , when Brother Preston and others were reinstated , and the differences healed , the fourth Grand Lodge was broken up , and two or three years later the York Grand Lodge

collapsed , when there were but two Grand Lodges left , both being located in London , and neither having , nor ever having , had any connection with the York Masons . These two Grand Lodges at London united in 1813 , and since then we have had but the one ' •United Grand Lodge of England " to rule over the English Craft . We do not think it worth while to refer at any length

to a number of other erroneous statements so abundantly scattered over Bro . Hyneman ' s work , and which , alas , have again received prominence , when we had hoped they had disappeared for ever ; we shall therefore simply conclude by saying that the final paragraph , to the effect that the lodges which " continued until the union in 1813 , " were " under the jurisdiction of the York Granp

Lodge , " is on a par with the rest of Brother Hyneman ' s assertions , and altogether opposed to the facts of the case , there being no York Giand Lodge , or any lodges under its jurisdiction ( or ever formerly so ) , then in existence , the " Union " being , as we have said , with the two London Grand Lodges , familiarly knovvn as the "Moderns " and " Ancients , " or , more correctly speaking ,

the " Regular " and " Seceding" Masons . One of the best Masonic authoiities living , Rev . A . F . A . Woodford , visited York , carefully examined the Recirds of the extinct Grand Lodge of all England ( " York Masons " ) , and declared in the Freemason , that "Bro . Hughan is quite right , and Bro . Hyneman quite wrong , " as to the matters in question . Bro . Woodford also expressed his sorrow at seeing " an able brother like Bro . Hyneman

putting forward what is in truth a parody on all the known facts of the case . * * * * It is no doubt true , as Brother Hughan well puts it , that the history is , in fact , at one time the history of four separate jurisdictions . The Antiquity Lodge was made by the York Grand Lodge , a co-ordinate Grand Lodge , South of the Trent , and Dermott ' s Grand Lodge was independent of , and separate from , the Lodges of York and of 1717 . "

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

The results of the last Cambridge Local Examination are now published , and we learn from the class lists that from the Masonic School 25 candidates were entered ( 2 seniors and 23 juniors ) , of whom 24 passed .

Out of the 22 juniors who passed , 19 gained honours and 3 satisfied the examiners . One failed out of 25 . SENIORS : I , W . R . Parker ; 2 , CD . Green . J UNIOKS : Honours 1 st Class . —3 , E . T . Sage and 4 , H . Bowler ( distinguished in Latin ) ; 3 , A . A . Bryant ; 6 , G . S . Widdowson ; 7 , W . A . Booser ; 8 , C . M . H . Uwins . Honours 2 nd Class—8 , W . Davenport ; 10 , f . I .

Hazeland ; 11 , P . K . B . Heavisidc ; 12 , J . E . Battye ; 13 , A . E . Grimes ; 14 , J . H . Moon ; 13 , H . E . K . Pinson . Honours 3 rd Class—16 , C Sage ; 17 , S . H . Sargant . 18 , W . E . Sawtell ; 19 , W . S . Sparkes ; 20 , J . G . Whyatt ; 2 i , H . J . Wellington . Satisfied the Examiners—22 , E . L . Railing ; 23 , H . N . Tayler ; 24 , W . B . Dancy .

General and Mrs . Grant and Mr . Jesse Grant , according to a Reuter ' s telegram arrived at Rome at ten o ' clock on Wedmsday night , and were received at the station by the United States Minister and the leading American residents there . Genera ! Grant proposes to make a stay in Rome of about a month . Application has been made to the War Office for permission to form a Scottish regiment of volunteers in Manchester .