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Freemasonry In Ireland.
consulted and endeavoured to promote the honour md prosperity of Freemasonry . Signed by order , J LEECH , Grand Secretary . Resolutions of the Grand Lodge , agreed to the $ th
September , 1805 , respecting Knights Templars Eneamp-Royal Arch Chaplet s and meats . I . That for the purpose of I . That in order to estabestablishing uniformity in the lish uniformity in the prinprinciples and ceremonies of ciples and ceremonies of the the Royal Arch degree , and Knights Templars degree ,
to avoid many irregularities and to avoid many nreguwhich now prevail and have larities which prevail and unavoidably resulted from have unavoidably resulted the want of a controuling from the want ofacontroulpower to regulate the pro- ing power to regulate the ceedings of the different proceedings of the numerous Chapters in the kingdom : Knights Templars
Encamp-It is indispensibly necessary ments in this kingdom , it is that the Grand Lodge should indispensibly necessary that take that Degree under its the Grand Lodge should immediate sanction and that take that Degree under its warrants should be granted immediate sanction and that to such regular Lodges as warrants to hold Encampshall make proper applica- ments should be granted to
tion ; no person is to be ad- such brethren Ivnights I cmmitted or initiated a Royal plars as shall make proper Arch Mason , under such application ; and no person warrant , except a Master is to be admitted or initiated Mason duly registered . a Knight Templar under such warrant except a Royal Arch Mason duly registered .
II . Until the first day of II . Until the first day of June next , the Grand Officers June next the Grand Officers and Members of the Grand and members of the Grand Lodge , being of the Royal Lodge , being Knights Tern-Arc ]! degree , shall constitute plars , shall constitute the the Grand Royal Arch Grand Knights Templars Chapter , and from the first Encampment , and from the
day of June next the Grand said first of June the Grand Royal Arch Chapter shall Knights Templars Encampconsist of the Grand Officers ment shall consist of such and such Members of the of the Grand Officers and Grand Lodge , being Royal members of the Grand Lodge Arch Masons , as represent as are Templars and mcmor are officers of Blue Lodges bers of Encampments held
that have warrants for hold- under warrants issued under ing Royal Arch Chapters the sanction of the Grand in such Lodges as they Lodge pursuant to the first represent . resolution . III . That the Grand III . That the Grand Royal Arch Chapter shall Knights Templars Encampbe invested with as full ment shall be invested with
power and authority over as full power and authority Royal Arch Chapters and over Encampments of Masons of that degree aa is Knights Templars and MaexercisedbytheGrandLodge sons of . that degree as is of Ireland over warranted exercised bytheGrand Lodge Blue Lodges and the Mem- of Ireland over the warranted bers thereof under its juris- Blue Lodges and the
memdiction . —The Grand Royal bers thereof under its juris-Arch Chapter at all times diction . The Grand Knights regulating its proceedings , Templars Encampment at as much as possible , in con- all times conforming in its formity to the rules and proceedings , as much as regulations of the Grand possible , to the rules and Lodge . regulations of the Grand
Lodge . IV . That a register of all IV . That 0 register of all warranted Royal Arch Chap- warranted Encampments and ters and the members thereof the members thereof shall shall be kept . —One Guinea be kept . —Two guineas to be to be paid for each warrant ; paid for each warrant ; two one shilling for registering shillings for registering a
a member ; and two shillings member ; and three shillings for a Grand Royal Arch for a Grand Knights Temcertificate . —These sums to plars certificate . These sums be applied to the general to be applied to the general funds of the Order . funds of the Order . V . That the Grand Trea- V . The Sublime Cornsurer be appointed Treasurer mander , for the time being ,
and Register of the Grand of each Encampment held Royal Arch Chapter , and under warrant granted purine Grand Secretary Secrc- suant to these resolutions tary thereto . shall be a member of thc Grand Lodge , provided his I election has been approved of by the Grand Knights
I emplars Encampment , and notice of such approbation transmitted to the Grand Lodge . VI . That the Grand Treasurer be appointed Treasurer and Register of the Grand
Knights 1 emplars Encampment and the Grand Secretary Secretary thereto . Applications for Warrants in the above degrees , and all communications respecting them , arc to be made to John Leech , Esq ., Grand Secretary , No . 20 , French-street , Dublin . ( To be continued )
BREAKFAST . — EPPS ' S COCOA . — Grateful and Comforting . —Thc very agreeable character of this preparation lias rendered it a general favourite . The Civil Service Gazette remarks : - " lly a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition , and hy a careful application ol tne fine properties of well-selected cocoa , Mr . Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'bills . " Each packet is labelled— J AMKS KITS AND Co ., Homoeopathic Chemists , London . Also , makers of Epps ' s Cacaoine , 3 . very light , thin , evening beverage . — . Advt . ]
Biographical Sketch Of The Rev Bro. James Anderson, D.D.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the Rev Bro . JAMES ANDERSON , D . D .
BY BRO . CHALMERS I . PATON , Author of "Freemasonry in Relation to Civil Authority and the Family Circle . " There is no name of greater celebrity in connection with the history of Freemasony than that of the Rev . Bro . James Anderson , D . D .,
the author ofthe " Constitutions of Freemasons , " which ever since its publication , now almost one hundred and forty years ago , has been deemed by Freemasons in general an extremely valuable , and indeed , a standard work , of the highest authority on all questions concerning the laws
and usages of the Craft . Dr . Anderson is also held in grateful remembrance by Freemasons throughout the whole world for the active part he took along with Dr . Desaguliers and others in the revival of Freemasonry in England in the beginning of the 17 th century , when from a very
low and declining state it was raised almost at once to great and previously unexampled prosperity , and began to extend itself over the whole world , its prosperity increasing and its extension becoming rapidly wider from year to year , till now the members of the Order are to be reckoned by
tens of thousands , and its lodges are to be found in every civilised country . The readers of THE FREEMASON , it may well be supposed , must desire some information concerning one whose name has long been familiar to them all , and cannot but still be often brought prominently
before them . The information which we possess concerning the life of Dr . Anderson is , unfortunately , more scanty than that which biographical dictionaries and other such works afford concerning many of his contemporaries far less eminent . Perhaps the publication of the
present very brief biographical sketch may induce some readers to direct their attention to the subject , and to seek for future information in quarters of which the author has no knowledge , by which a desideratum in Masonic literature would be supplied .
Dr . Anderson was born at Aberdeen , Scotland , in the latter part of the 17 th century , but the exact date of his birth is unknown . Nor do we know his parentage ; but he was the brotherwhether elder or younger is also unknown , but probably tbe elder , if we may judtre from the dates
of the publication of their respective worksof Adam Anderson , who was for forty years a clerk in the South Sea House in London , and finally rose to a high office in tlie service of the South Sea Company . The brothers seem to have possessed similar talents , and it would be
hard to say which of them most excelled in ability for learned researches . Dr . Anderson is distinguished as an author , not only by his work already mentioned , " The Constitutions of Freemasons , " but by another great work , evidently the fruit of much labour , entitled " Eoyal
Genealogies ; or , the Genealogical Tables of Emperors , Kings , and Princeses from Adam to these times , " which was published at London , in 1732 , in one large folio volume . His brother , Adam Anderson , was the author of the first work of any importance on the Commercial History
of England— " An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce , from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time , containing a History of the Large Commercial Interests of the British Empire "—which was
published 111 two volumes folio , at London , in 1764 , and is still of great value as a book of reference , being as remarkable for accuracy as for fullness of information on the subject of which it treats .
Dr . Anderson was educated at Aberdeen , and after passing through the usual curriculum of arts , either in King ' s College or in Mareschal College—although of which of them he was an alumnus is not known—he went on to the study of theology , and received license as a probationer
or preacher of the Church of Scotland , probably from the Presbytery of Aberdeen . Of his early life nothing further is recorded in any work which has come under the notice of the present writer ; but in 1710 he became Minister of a Presbyterian congregation in Swallow-street , London , in connection with the Church of Scot-
Biographical Sketch Of The Rev Bro. James Anderson, D.D.
land , and from Swallow-street he and his congregation removed in 1734 to another meetinghouse in Lisle-street , Leicester-fields . Of his life in London little more is known besides these few facts , except that he lived in a house opposite to St . James ' s Church , Piccadilly * that , like many others at the same date , he lost a
considerable part of his property by rash speculations in the South Sea scheme * and that , probably from his dignified appearance and manner , he was often familiarly , although disrespectfully , spoken of amongst the Presbyterians in London as "Bishop" Anderson . He died on 23 rdMay ,
1739-Meagre as is the information which we possess concerning Dr . Anderson ' s life , there is enough of it to make the notion very improbable , wbich is essential to the maintenance of the 1717 theory , that he was guilty of deception , along with Desaguliers and others , in imposing upon
the world a newly-devised system of Freemasonry as of great antiquity . It is not on slight grounds that such a charge should be brought against one who has been long in his grave , but who was certainly respected whilst he lived , and who held for many years the office of
a minister of the Gospel . How much Dr . Anderson was respected , how highly his talents and learning were appreciated in his own day , may in some measure be inferred from the list of subscribers to his work on " Royal Genealogies , " which begins with the name of His Royal
Highness William Augustus , Duke of Cumberland , the second name being that of the Duke of Argyle and Greenwich , and the list including the names of many other noblemen and persons of distinction . That Dr . Anderson , although a
Dissenting Minister , was respected even by dignitaries of the Church of England , appears from the occurrence of the names of some of them , as of the Right Rev . Dr . Chandler , Lord Bishop of Durham , in this list of subscribers .
The character of the man may be judged also by his works . Nearly every Freemason knows that in his Constitutions of Freemasonry , there is nothing but what tends to the encouragement of virtue ; and to imagine the author of that work guilty of wilful and systematic
deception , is to do violence to the laws of our own mental constitution , and to the feelings which must often in some measure control , and most beneficially control , our judgments . There is little , of course , in the work on Royal Geneologies from which any idea ofthe character
of its author can be derived , except as to the patient laboriousness with which he must have prosecuted his studies , but in the dedication , which is to " The most High , Puissant , and most Illustrious Prince , Frederick Lewis , Prince of Great Britain , Prince of Wales , Prince aud
Stuart of Scotland , " & c , & c , we find a few sentences which may perhaps be deemed indicative of the moral and religious sentiments of their author . He speaks of his being led '' in compiling this work to admire and set forth the startling miracles of the Divine Wisdom and Providence
111 propagating the various nations of the earth from one common parentage , and in strengthening this original relation by subsequent ties and renewals of consanguinity , and in making both the union and dispersion of mankind , the rise and fall of empires , the virtues , and even the
vices , of rulers , with all the numerous vicissitudes and seeming inconsistencies of human affairs subservient to the steady prosecution of one regular plan of unerring wisdom and goodness , to the exact accomplishment of the predictions of the Old and New Testament , and to the
gradual dispersion ot the light oi true religion into the remotest corners of the earth . " Again , he tells the . youthful Prince that the study of history is fitted to put him in mind " that the stability of families , and the welfare of kingdoms , next under the blessing of God , depend on the wisdom , the application and personal virtues of
Princes . " Was the man who wrote this , it may be asked , a likely man to prosecute a scheme of imposture ? Is he to be lightly suspected of such baseness ? Those who pretend to honour him as one of the origmal authors of modern Freemasonry , are really guilty of traducing him , and , in oriental phrase , defiling his grave .
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Freemasonry In Ireland.
consulted and endeavoured to promote the honour md prosperity of Freemasonry . Signed by order , J LEECH , Grand Secretary . Resolutions of the Grand Lodge , agreed to the $ th
September , 1805 , respecting Knights Templars Eneamp-Royal Arch Chaplet s and meats . I . That for the purpose of I . That in order to estabestablishing uniformity in the lish uniformity in the prinprinciples and ceremonies of ciples and ceremonies of the the Royal Arch degree , and Knights Templars degree ,
to avoid many irregularities and to avoid many nreguwhich now prevail and have larities which prevail and unavoidably resulted from have unavoidably resulted the want of a controuling from the want ofacontroulpower to regulate the pro- ing power to regulate the ceedings of the different proceedings of the numerous Chapters in the kingdom : Knights Templars
Encamp-It is indispensibly necessary ments in this kingdom , it is that the Grand Lodge should indispensibly necessary that take that Degree under its the Grand Lodge should immediate sanction and that take that Degree under its warrants should be granted immediate sanction and that to such regular Lodges as warrants to hold Encampshall make proper applica- ments should be granted to
tion ; no person is to be ad- such brethren Ivnights I cmmitted or initiated a Royal plars as shall make proper Arch Mason , under such application ; and no person warrant , except a Master is to be admitted or initiated Mason duly registered . a Knight Templar under such warrant except a Royal Arch Mason duly registered .
II . Until the first day of II . Until the first day of June next , the Grand Officers June next the Grand Officers and Members of the Grand and members of the Grand Lodge , being of the Royal Lodge , being Knights Tern-Arc ]! degree , shall constitute plars , shall constitute the the Grand Royal Arch Grand Knights Templars Chapter , and from the first Encampment , and from the
day of June next the Grand said first of June the Grand Royal Arch Chapter shall Knights Templars Encampconsist of the Grand Officers ment shall consist of such and such Members of the of the Grand Officers and Grand Lodge , being Royal members of the Grand Lodge Arch Masons , as represent as are Templars and mcmor are officers of Blue Lodges bers of Encampments held
that have warrants for hold- under warrants issued under ing Royal Arch Chapters the sanction of the Grand in such Lodges as they Lodge pursuant to the first represent . resolution . III . That the Grand III . That the Grand Royal Arch Chapter shall Knights Templars Encampbe invested with as full ment shall be invested with
power and authority over as full power and authority Royal Arch Chapters and over Encampments of Masons of that degree aa is Knights Templars and MaexercisedbytheGrandLodge sons of . that degree as is of Ireland over warranted exercised bytheGrand Lodge Blue Lodges and the Mem- of Ireland over the warranted bers thereof under its juris- Blue Lodges and the
memdiction . —The Grand Royal bers thereof under its juris-Arch Chapter at all times diction . The Grand Knights regulating its proceedings , Templars Encampment at as much as possible , in con- all times conforming in its formity to the rules and proceedings , as much as regulations of the Grand possible , to the rules and Lodge . regulations of the Grand
Lodge . IV . That a register of all IV . That 0 register of all warranted Royal Arch Chap- warranted Encampments and ters and the members thereof the members thereof shall shall be kept . —One Guinea be kept . —Two guineas to be to be paid for each warrant ; paid for each warrant ; two one shilling for registering shillings for registering a
a member ; and two shillings member ; and three shillings for a Grand Royal Arch for a Grand Knights Temcertificate . —These sums to plars certificate . These sums be applied to the general to be applied to the general funds of the Order . funds of the Order . V . That the Grand Trea- V . The Sublime Cornsurer be appointed Treasurer mander , for the time being ,
and Register of the Grand of each Encampment held Royal Arch Chapter , and under warrant granted purine Grand Secretary Secrc- suant to these resolutions tary thereto . shall be a member of thc Grand Lodge , provided his I election has been approved of by the Grand Knights
I emplars Encampment , and notice of such approbation transmitted to the Grand Lodge . VI . That the Grand Treasurer be appointed Treasurer and Register of the Grand
Knights 1 emplars Encampment and the Grand Secretary Secretary thereto . Applications for Warrants in the above degrees , and all communications respecting them , arc to be made to John Leech , Esq ., Grand Secretary , No . 20 , French-street , Dublin . ( To be continued )
BREAKFAST . — EPPS ' S COCOA . — Grateful and Comforting . —Thc very agreeable character of this preparation lias rendered it a general favourite . The Civil Service Gazette remarks : - " lly a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition , and hy a careful application ol tne fine properties of well-selected cocoa , Mr . Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'bills . " Each packet is labelled— J AMKS KITS AND Co ., Homoeopathic Chemists , London . Also , makers of Epps ' s Cacaoine , 3 . very light , thin , evening beverage . — . Advt . ]
Biographical Sketch Of The Rev Bro. James Anderson, D.D.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the Rev Bro . JAMES ANDERSON , D . D .
BY BRO . CHALMERS I . PATON , Author of "Freemasonry in Relation to Civil Authority and the Family Circle . " There is no name of greater celebrity in connection with the history of Freemasony than that of the Rev . Bro . James Anderson , D . D .,
the author ofthe " Constitutions of Freemasons , " which ever since its publication , now almost one hundred and forty years ago , has been deemed by Freemasons in general an extremely valuable , and indeed , a standard work , of the highest authority on all questions concerning the laws
and usages of the Craft . Dr . Anderson is also held in grateful remembrance by Freemasons throughout the whole world for the active part he took along with Dr . Desaguliers and others in the revival of Freemasonry in England in the beginning of the 17 th century , when from a very
low and declining state it was raised almost at once to great and previously unexampled prosperity , and began to extend itself over the whole world , its prosperity increasing and its extension becoming rapidly wider from year to year , till now the members of the Order are to be reckoned by
tens of thousands , and its lodges are to be found in every civilised country . The readers of THE FREEMASON , it may well be supposed , must desire some information concerning one whose name has long been familiar to them all , and cannot but still be often brought prominently
before them . The information which we possess concerning the life of Dr . Anderson is , unfortunately , more scanty than that which biographical dictionaries and other such works afford concerning many of his contemporaries far less eminent . Perhaps the publication of the
present very brief biographical sketch may induce some readers to direct their attention to the subject , and to seek for future information in quarters of which the author has no knowledge , by which a desideratum in Masonic literature would be supplied .
Dr . Anderson was born at Aberdeen , Scotland , in the latter part of the 17 th century , but the exact date of his birth is unknown . Nor do we know his parentage ; but he was the brotherwhether elder or younger is also unknown , but probably tbe elder , if we may judtre from the dates
of the publication of their respective worksof Adam Anderson , who was for forty years a clerk in the South Sea House in London , and finally rose to a high office in tlie service of the South Sea Company . The brothers seem to have possessed similar talents , and it would be
hard to say which of them most excelled in ability for learned researches . Dr . Anderson is distinguished as an author , not only by his work already mentioned , " The Constitutions of Freemasons , " but by another great work , evidently the fruit of much labour , entitled " Eoyal
Genealogies ; or , the Genealogical Tables of Emperors , Kings , and Princeses from Adam to these times , " which was published at London , in 1732 , in one large folio volume . His brother , Adam Anderson , was the author of the first work of any importance on the Commercial History
of England— " An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce , from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time , containing a History of the Large Commercial Interests of the British Empire "—which was
published 111 two volumes folio , at London , in 1764 , and is still of great value as a book of reference , being as remarkable for accuracy as for fullness of information on the subject of which it treats .
Dr . Anderson was educated at Aberdeen , and after passing through the usual curriculum of arts , either in King ' s College or in Mareschal College—although of which of them he was an alumnus is not known—he went on to the study of theology , and received license as a probationer
or preacher of the Church of Scotland , probably from the Presbytery of Aberdeen . Of his early life nothing further is recorded in any work which has come under the notice of the present writer ; but in 1710 he became Minister of a Presbyterian congregation in Swallow-street , London , in connection with the Church of Scot-
Biographical Sketch Of The Rev Bro. James Anderson, D.D.
land , and from Swallow-street he and his congregation removed in 1734 to another meetinghouse in Lisle-street , Leicester-fields . Of his life in London little more is known besides these few facts , except that he lived in a house opposite to St . James ' s Church , Piccadilly * that , like many others at the same date , he lost a
considerable part of his property by rash speculations in the South Sea scheme * and that , probably from his dignified appearance and manner , he was often familiarly , although disrespectfully , spoken of amongst the Presbyterians in London as "Bishop" Anderson . He died on 23 rdMay ,
1739-Meagre as is the information which we possess concerning Dr . Anderson ' s life , there is enough of it to make the notion very improbable , wbich is essential to the maintenance of the 1717 theory , that he was guilty of deception , along with Desaguliers and others , in imposing upon
the world a newly-devised system of Freemasonry as of great antiquity . It is not on slight grounds that such a charge should be brought against one who has been long in his grave , but who was certainly respected whilst he lived , and who held for many years the office of
a minister of the Gospel . How much Dr . Anderson was respected , how highly his talents and learning were appreciated in his own day , may in some measure be inferred from the list of subscribers to his work on " Royal Genealogies , " which begins with the name of His Royal
Highness William Augustus , Duke of Cumberland , the second name being that of the Duke of Argyle and Greenwich , and the list including the names of many other noblemen and persons of distinction . That Dr . Anderson , although a
Dissenting Minister , was respected even by dignitaries of the Church of England , appears from the occurrence of the names of some of them , as of the Right Rev . Dr . Chandler , Lord Bishop of Durham , in this list of subscribers .
The character of the man may be judged also by his works . Nearly every Freemason knows that in his Constitutions of Freemasonry , there is nothing but what tends to the encouragement of virtue ; and to imagine the author of that work guilty of wilful and systematic
deception , is to do violence to the laws of our own mental constitution , and to the feelings which must often in some measure control , and most beneficially control , our judgments . There is little , of course , in the work on Royal Geneologies from which any idea ofthe character
of its author can be derived , except as to the patient laboriousness with which he must have prosecuted his studies , but in the dedication , which is to " The most High , Puissant , and most Illustrious Prince , Frederick Lewis , Prince of Great Britain , Prince of Wales , Prince aud
Stuart of Scotland , " & c , & c , we find a few sentences which may perhaps be deemed indicative of the moral and religious sentiments of their author . He speaks of his being led '' in compiling this work to admire and set forth the startling miracles of the Divine Wisdom and Providence
111 propagating the various nations of the earth from one common parentage , and in strengthening this original relation by subsequent ties and renewals of consanguinity , and in making both the union and dispersion of mankind , the rise and fall of empires , the virtues , and even the
vices , of rulers , with all the numerous vicissitudes and seeming inconsistencies of human affairs subservient to the steady prosecution of one regular plan of unerring wisdom and goodness , to the exact accomplishment of the predictions of the Old and New Testament , and to the
gradual dispersion ot the light oi true religion into the remotest corners of the earth . " Again , he tells the . youthful Prince that the study of history is fitted to put him in mind " that the stability of families , and the welfare of kingdoms , next under the blessing of God , depend on the wisdom , the application and personal virtues of
Princes . " Was the man who wrote this , it may be asked , a likely man to prosecute a scheme of imposture ? Is he to be lightly suspected of such baseness ? Those who pretend to honour him as one of the origmal authors of modern Freemasonry , are really guilty of traducing him , and , in oriental phrase , defiling his grave .