Metropolitan Masonic Meetings

METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS

wickshire , mention is made of the St . Alban's Lod

be worth while to impure what has become of that a copy of the quarto edition of Anderson's Constitutions & c , by Northouck , and published in 1781 . It has somely bound , and has an inscription on the outside , " Compliment to St . Alban's Lodge , Birmingham , of man . P . G . S . London' 178 R . "

, , ItEI- 'KHENCE TO AST ' -. ' . U . ' / . V Tl' .-U'T WANTED Where can I be favoured with a perusal of an early tioned in one of Dr . Oliver's books , as published entitled A . Short Analysis of the Uncbanyed Likes and Frcemasoimi ?"—AVP

. . ANTIQUITIES 03- * YOliK . In the account g iven tinder this head of the house in York , it is stated that Mr . Blanchard had in his possession . In reference to this statement we that Godfrey Higgins's Anacalypsis , ( vol , i ., bk . x sec . 1 , p . 70 S ) , the following passage occurs : — "The from which I extracted the above information

Masons were given to me b y —Blanchard , Esq ., and by me to the person who now possesses them , and they ought most properly to be placed —his royal Duke of Sussex , " —[ Query : In whose custody are In the same article , mention is made of a Lodge the crypt of York MinsterThe meeting referred

. tioned by Higgins as having taken place on "the 27 th and was the last meeting in the crypt of the Druidical Chapter of lloyal Arch Masons , or Templar SENEX . WAS TIIE DUKE OF WELLINGTON A FREEMASON

Among the numerous appointments , titles , and great Duke of AYellington , can you tell me if he belonged to our fraternity?—IN-QUIBER . —[ In the Calendar , printed under the sanction of the Grand Dublin , for the years 1818 to 1850 , there appears in a- portion headed "Traditional and Recorded Information ing the Order of Freemasons " but this was omitted

; cation for 1 S 57 , and whether it has been so since we not having the books to refer to . In all the years tioned , from 1848 to 1850 , the following- statement " 1790 . The Duke of Kent initiated ; and , December Duke of Wellington initiated in No . 401 , at Trim , of his grace ' s father the Earl of Morning-ton and his hacl been Masters well

whom we hold in great respect , has stated to us that lie a characteristic letter from the Duke appearing in some or periodicalin which his denied all knowled

or having at any time been made a Mason . Feeling oblige "Inquirer , " wc have put his query to all whom likely to throw any li ght on the subject of its without avail ; nor can wc trace No . 191 among the or even find that there was a Lodge existing at any Perhaps some of our Irish brethren maybe able to set

ri ght , by proving to us the correctness or incorrectness authority quoted . —Eo . ] INTRODUCTION OE . MASONRY INTO ENGLAND AND Both in and out of the Craft the "Remarkable -Masonry , " ivhich is yearly perpetuated in our Calendar Booh , has met with much ridicule , on account of the

assumption of some ofthe statements put forth being , tively untrue , at least impossible of proof . But while Masons have modestly attributed to St . Alban , the of Britain , the honour of having "formed the first A-i ) . 287 , " it appears we are far more modern than our of the sister kingdom . In perusing their portion of ditional and Recorded History ofthe Irish Constitutions from Ancient Authors , and from the Archives of Lod " printed by iu the Dublin Freemasons

the first paragraph states , " . JI . 278 li . The Phoenicians posed to have settled A . C . 1261 , in Ireland , and Masonry been introduced hy Heber and ilcremon , sons of ' ceeded byEochaid , styled the Ollamh Fodhla , or Learned p ( A - c- 709 ) constituted triennial meetings at Tarah Rut

the constant warfare and aggressions of the Danes the ancient records and discouraged all sciences , eastern round towers and minarets which still exist labours of the era , corroborated by the opinions of ' ° US Siculus , and b y the Sanconiathon , referred tnlham Betham , in his second volume of Elruria Celtica lating the Masonic rites with the mysteries of

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. It might Lodge . I . have , revised , been handg ilt letters , Dr . S . Free- with the Gobhan Saor , or free smith Albans obtained the first royal charter of Masons to beholden in England . ( 872 , Alfred the Great promoted the prospered . According to Bede , Alfred in Mayo ; and the letter of Eric , a Auxerre , to Charles the Bald , about the

. tract , menin 1 O 70 , aud Ceremonies of tury , designated the Irish philosop Solomon . '" How are the discrepancies English and Irish Calendars to be totall y unable to reconcile these received history of the times in question Irish Calendar ' s account may be tested

Coffeecertain papers may observe , chap , viii ., documents there asserted that Preston is the authority now Preston says , in speaking of St . was converted to the Christian faith , persecution of the Christians , was beheaded Alban Butler ' s Lives of the Saints , dedicated to his commemoration ; and

transferred with whom of Bede ' s Works . In the passage about College in Mayo , is another gross blunder written about Alfredas he ( Bede ) died

Masonic Meetings In West Lancashire And Ch Cheshire

MASONIC MEETINGS IN WEST LANCASHIRE AND CH CHESHIRE

May , 1778 , Lodge , or Encampment . — y gned sons , who we believe to have / been totall Craft . It is time such delusions were ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD

? orders of the at any time Freemasons ' Lodge of each volume respectthe publi- Your contemporaryjjilie , of the ]) resent year ( p . 578 ) , writes thus " Wc remember a case iu -which the forgotten , and the subject , noble in itself dignity by this obliviousness . AVe derivation ofthe word 'Freemason . ' many titles of the Druids was May's May-pole having been a standard or derived from Drnidism

say , above menis made : — 7 th , the which Lodge the , etymology ; indeed has forgotten its May's Ons into Masons , by which the sentiment equally suffer . " The above , clever and original , but it appears to unworthy ofthe least confidence . Can

brother , remembers newspaper the Craft reviewer found such an authority , oris IXVESTIGATOU . —[" Investigator" need Masons do not derive their foundation Masonry forgotten itself . The writer

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

Births , Marriages , and Deaths .

ges , afc Trim . matter etymology , and reasons in support of its much more intelligible and probable

ELAN 1 ) . Occurrences in and . Pocket A NOTE lU-lOLTNE Our correspondent " Civis , " who sends seems to have misunderstood our exp AVe deal only ivith historical , antiquarian

gratuitous not posi-English protomartyr Lodge , p hical matters . Personalities are not they would lead to wounding the feelings reason , the note forwarded by " Civis , " EXTINCTION- OP A LE . UI . VI'I ) BOD V . —A

brethren The Tra-, selected the Grand Calendar , are supto have place at Valines this summer , of the learned all the remaining branches of the Celtic famil and France , nuclei- the auspices of the Brittany , of which the Yieointo de Villemarque president . Various schemes of hospitality , ivere founded ou this arrangement , and it gress might have thrown some additional

, suc-Doctor , in Meath . destroyed though the . blow . The Minister of the Interior has been sistency of such proceedings with a certain general , which law was made in 18-52 , shortly peaceful Bretons , who loved arehaiology , and found morning iu theifamil

y the Strabo , of to by Sir , assimi-, and ill magisterial language , that the association society , which was founded sixteen years Louis Philippe , contained two sections , one of of archaeology , and during its existence been contributed by its members ,

Scotland.

Scotland .

of Ireland , A . D . 300 , St . for "Assemblies or Huttes Preston ' s Illustrations . ) A . I > . and the art much

, was initiated at the College celebrated philosopher of middle of tlie ninth cen' Servants of the ivise of the dates between the reconciled ?—G . B . —[ AA ' e are with tbe

generally . The looseness ofthe by tho following : —It is for the date A . D . 30 G ; ( not St . Albans ) , "He and , in the tenth and last , A . D . 303 . So also ,

the 26 th of June is Rev . Dr . Giles's edition Alfred's initiation at the . Bede could not have 104 years before Alfred died 735 . Alfred tbe ! AVell may our

coron our Order through various events and jierunconnected with our swent away . ] " . MASON . " one of the April number ?

while reviewing- a work : —• etymology has been has suffered decrease oi to the alleged British is said that one of the

, or Men of May—the of Drnidism—Freetherefore forgotten its in itself , and vulgarized fact and the poetical dare is thought

Obituary.

Obituary .

y the Druids , nor litis the Athencemn appears to The Way lo Things hy , Svo ., London , 1700 ' for most words , and Mason" with the above

correctness . See a very in the Freemasons ' us a note for insertion , in a late number ,

, literary , and biogra-; particularly when of a brother . For this cannot be inserted . —Eo . had been fixed to take

in the national lore oi in Great Britain , Ireland , Archaeological Association oi was the distinguished research . , and consultation anticipated that the conht on ethnology , history ,

- against associations in ifter the coup d ' etat . The meddled not in polities , a brief cirri ! , declaring , was dissolved . " This , under tho patronage of agriculture , and the other valuable ivories have