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Table Of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS .

I . PAGE . THE PRINCE OP WALES AND FREExrAsONiir "'; .. ' 97 REVIEWSNotes on the Orders of tho Temple and St . John , 1 and the Jerusalem Encampment , Manchester' ' 97 Doctors'Commons , its Courts and Registries . ; . ' 98 Masonic Record of Western India ... ... ' 98 PAPERS ON

MASONRY' No . XXI . — Masonry and the Ass ' ... ' ' . „ ' 98 HISTOIIY OP THE ORDER OP KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS ' 99 THE CRAFT—Provincial ' . ' ... ... 100 MASONIC MEETINGS POR NEXT WEEK ... ,.. , 100 OBITUARY- — , ,

Ero . Colonel Peter M'Lennan ... .... , ... 100 GIVE US MORE LIGHT J : ... < ... ioi GERMAN PRIZE ESSAY ! ,., ... ; ioi BIRTDS J MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS ... ' .. ;• ' . „ 102 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS ... " ' . ; . ' ' ' ... 102 BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED IN GRAND LODQE ... 102

KNIGUTS TEMrLAR JOTTINGS ... , ... ... 103 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE — Royal Arch Masonry ... 103 llospitallaria , & e . _ .. ... 103 Specimens from a Masonic Quarry ... ... 101 " Cipes " and Bro . D . Murray Lyon , 104 Origiu of Freemasonry ... ... 104

THE IMITATIVE . \ ND THE SYMBOLICAL ' ... ... 101 MABONIO EXHORTATIONS 104 SUPREME COUNCIL , NEW YORK ... 105 POETIIYT- " Sit Lux—Et Lux Fuit" .,.. . ' ... 105 THE SYMBOLISM OP MASONRY 105 MABONIO MISCELLANEA ... ... IOC ADVEHTISKMENTB 106 107 & 108

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The Prince Of Wales And Free Masonry.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND FREE MASONRY .

"YTTE arc botli astonished andipained to find » » the following paragraph in an American

journal under the heading , "Masonic Matters" : "The Prince of Wales having become a Freemason , a brother Mason takes then rivilego of

the Order to write him a letter , assuring him that if he does not reform his course of life tho English people will never endure him as a ruler . "

Now , really this item of news is one of the mosit mendacious ever penned . No member of the English Craft , however distinguished , would venture to soar to such a sublime height of

The Prince Of Wales And Free Masonry.

laudacity as that indicated , simpl y , because wc are not quite so credulous as to believe the absurd rumours which' daily Circle , round' the lives and actions ' of our great men . ¦ ' ' I

It is a delicate subject to handle , but one thing is clear ,. that Freemasonry , ought never to have been . icoupled , even hi a newspaper paragraph , with such an atrocious calumny . "We are no apologist for evil doings in iigh . places , but we draw a wide distinction between

well-authenticated evidence and the scandals of , table-talk . The English people neither expect nor desire their ¦ princes to be hermits or even itinerant preachers , but they wish ahd believe them to be honorable English gentlemen , capable of ruling a

free and generous nation , and ready to lead the march of true progress and civilization . < The Prince of Wales is a man of the age in which he lives , and has by travel anil observation acquired a much larger experience , of men ,, and manners

than has ever fallen to the lot of his royal predecessors . Ho is undoubtedly not a Prince of the " Farmer Georgo" type , but , at tha same time , we are firmly convinced thathis only resemblance to " Georgo , Prince Regent , " consists in his courtly

bearing and pleasing address . No one can accuse his Royal Highness of indifference . to the social questions , of . the day ; for , although tacitly excluded from' politics , he and his truly amiable Princess are always ready to support in person

and purse eveiy charitable institution which needs their aid , and which commends itself . to the sympathy of our common , humanity . In this respect the Princo'follows in the footsteps of his illustrious'father , than whom a better exemplar

never existed , ; and whose memory settles deeper aiid deeper , as years roll on , in the hearts of the English people whom he loved and servod . Bearing in mind these facts , ' wc trust that Freemasons , at least , will not bo linked publicly

with , tho circulation of libels respecting the domestic life of our Prince , and in any event , we are bound to repudiate , on the part of tho English Craft , the extraordinary statement ' which has appeared in our Transatlantic contemporary ,

and . to , express our conviction hi all honest sober . truth , without au iota of subserviency or servility , that the Prince of Wales will prove liimselftobe a good . Freemason , and worthy in every respect of the exalted position to which Providence has called him .

Reviews.

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.... » , . ' .. . Notes on tlie Orders , of tlte Temple and St . John , ' . and ihe Jerusalem , Encampment , Manchester . . Collected by JOHN YARKER , junior , P . M ..

P . M . Mk ., P . Z ., P . E . C . T . Pt . R . X ., Past Grand . , Vice Chancellor of Cheshire , and Past Grand . ; Constable or Mareschalof the . Oreler in Eng- .

land , Member of the . Masonic Archseological Institute , Honorary Fellow of the London , Literary , TJnion , . & c , & c . . | ¦ . > . , , ¦ It has long been patent- toi every Masonic .

stuelent' that ¦ but scanty evidence oi a reliable , character has ; been adduced , to . support the high claims of the various chivalrie degrees to antiquity in connection with , Fi ' eemasonry . , Theory after theory is started , but documentary evidence and other substantial proofs are rarely accessible , i

If the niembeis of those degrees had : in former , days carefully extracted from their own records the facts which Bro . J . Yarker has now collected respecting the Jerusalem Encampment , they , would have rendered a greater service to thet cause they had at heart , and to the interests of

truth in . general , ¦ than by promulgating a series : of romantic fictions tlestituto alike of vraisemblance , coherence , 'or consistency . : There : is nothing in tho history of . the ancient Knights of theTeinplo to lead us to believe that they were allied to the Masonic Order , although

they practised secret ceremonies ,. and possessed a . similar organization adapted to military purposes . But it is quito another matter to deny the possibility of the alleged fraternization of the ; dispersed Templars with , the i operative Masonic bodies ) after the bloody persecution of the former .. by Philip the Fair and . Pope Clement .

Granting the existence of a Masonic fraternity at . the period alluded to , and assuming that its . mode of admitting members was secret and solemn , there if nothing improbable in the sup- i position that the , Knights sought l-efuge from their foemen ' s rage in the ranks of a jieaccful

and unsuspected association . But beyond tho ¦' . traditions of the Masonic Knights Templar there ; is absolutely nothing to support this hypothesis , however probable it may appear to those who have studied the entire bearings of the question . Bro . Yarker , however , clearly sets forth the

links that seem to establish the parallelism , between tho present and the past—between the modern Order of the Temple in England , now held . under that gooel man and excellent Mason , Bro . William Stuart , of Aldenhara Abbey—and the more formidable , though not more chivalrous

confraternity of the d-iys of . old . lie unravels tho history of the Jerusalem Encampment ;—the oldest in Lancashire—with the hand of a master , and presents us with every item of a valuable or useful description to be found in its records . - By the perusal of theso carefully-compiled

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HOSPITALLARTA; Article 3
Reports of Masonic Meetings. Article 4
METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS Article 4
Obituary. Article 4
GIVE US MORE LIGHT. Article 5
AN ESSAY Article 5
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Article 6
Answers to Correspondents. Article 6
BOOKS RECEIVED. Article 6
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BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED IN GRAND LODGE. Article 6
Mulfunt in Parbo, or Masonic Notes and Queries. Article 6
KNIGHT TEMPLAR JOTTINGS. Article 7
Original Correspondence. Article 7
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Article 8
THE IMITATIVE AND THE SYMBOLICAL. Article 8
MASONIC EXHORTATIONS. Article 8
SUPREME COUNCIL, NEW YORK. Article 9
SIT LUX—ET LUX FUIT. Article 9
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Table Of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS .

I . PAGE . THE PRINCE OP WALES AND FREExrAsONiir "'; .. ' 97 REVIEWSNotes on the Orders of tho Temple and St . John , 1 and the Jerusalem Encampment , Manchester' ' 97 Doctors'Commons , its Courts and Registries . ; . ' 98 Masonic Record of Western India ... ... ' 98 PAPERS ON

MASONRY' No . XXI . — Masonry and the Ass ' ... ' ' . „ ' 98 HISTOIIY OP THE ORDER OP KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS ' 99 THE CRAFT—Provincial ' . ' ... ... 100 MASONIC MEETINGS POR NEXT WEEK ... ,.. , 100 OBITUARY- — , ,

Ero . Colonel Peter M'Lennan ... .... , ... 100 GIVE US MORE LIGHT J : ... < ... ioi GERMAN PRIZE ESSAY ! ,., ... ; ioi BIRTDS J MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS ... ' .. ;• ' . „ 102 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS ... " ' . ; . ' ' ' ... 102 BUSINESS TO BE TRANSACTED IN GRAND LODQE ... 102

KNIGUTS TEMrLAR JOTTINGS ... , ... ... 103 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE — Royal Arch Masonry ... 103 llospitallaria , & e . _ .. ... 103 Specimens from a Masonic Quarry ... ... 101 " Cipes " and Bro . D . Murray Lyon , 104 Origiu of Freemasonry ... ... 104

THE IMITATIVE . \ ND THE SYMBOLICAL ' ... ... 101 MABONIO EXHORTATIONS 104 SUPREME COUNCIL , NEW YORK ... 105 POETIIYT- " Sit Lux—Et Lux Fuit" .,.. . ' ... 105 THE SYMBOLISM OP MASONRY 105 MABONIO MISCELLANEA ... ... IOC ADVEHTISKMENTB 106 107 & 108

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The Prince Of Wales And Free Masonry.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND FREE MASONRY .

"YTTE arc botli astonished andipained to find » » the following paragraph in an American

journal under the heading , "Masonic Matters" : "The Prince of Wales having become a Freemason , a brother Mason takes then rivilego of

the Order to write him a letter , assuring him that if he does not reform his course of life tho English people will never endure him as a ruler . "

Now , really this item of news is one of the mosit mendacious ever penned . No member of the English Craft , however distinguished , would venture to soar to such a sublime height of

The Prince Of Wales And Free Masonry.

laudacity as that indicated , simpl y , because wc are not quite so credulous as to believe the absurd rumours which' daily Circle , round' the lives and actions ' of our great men . ¦ ' ' I

It is a delicate subject to handle , but one thing is clear ,. that Freemasonry , ought never to have been . icoupled , even hi a newspaper paragraph , with such an atrocious calumny . "We are no apologist for evil doings in iigh . places , but we draw a wide distinction between

well-authenticated evidence and the scandals of , table-talk . The English people neither expect nor desire their ¦ princes to be hermits or even itinerant preachers , but they wish ahd believe them to be honorable English gentlemen , capable of ruling a

free and generous nation , and ready to lead the march of true progress and civilization . < The Prince of Wales is a man of the age in which he lives , and has by travel anil observation acquired a much larger experience , of men ,, and manners

than has ever fallen to the lot of his royal predecessors . Ho is undoubtedly not a Prince of the " Farmer Georgo" type , but , at tha same time , we are firmly convinced thathis only resemblance to " Georgo , Prince Regent , " consists in his courtly

bearing and pleasing address . No one can accuse his Royal Highness of indifference . to the social questions , of . the day ; for , although tacitly excluded from' politics , he and his truly amiable Princess are always ready to support in person

and purse eveiy charitable institution which needs their aid , and which commends itself . to the sympathy of our common , humanity . In this respect the Princo'follows in the footsteps of his illustrious'father , than whom a better exemplar

never existed , ; and whose memory settles deeper aiid deeper , as years roll on , in the hearts of the English people whom he loved and servod . Bearing in mind these facts , ' wc trust that Freemasons , at least , will not bo linked publicly

with , tho circulation of libels respecting the domestic life of our Prince , and in any event , we are bound to repudiate , on the part of tho English Craft , the extraordinary statement ' which has appeared in our Transatlantic contemporary ,

and . to , express our conviction hi all honest sober . truth , without au iota of subserviency or servility , that the Prince of Wales will prove liimselftobe a good . Freemason , and worthy in every respect of the exalted position to which Providence has called him .

Reviews.

Mtbit . io . *

.... » , . ' .. . Notes on tlie Orders , of tlte Temple and St . John , ' . and ihe Jerusalem , Encampment , Manchester . . Collected by JOHN YARKER , junior , P . M ..

P . M . Mk ., P . Z ., P . E . C . T . Pt . R . X ., Past Grand . , Vice Chancellor of Cheshire , and Past Grand . ; Constable or Mareschalof the . Oreler in Eng- .

land , Member of the . Masonic Archseological Institute , Honorary Fellow of the London , Literary , TJnion , . & c , & c . . | ¦ . > . , , ¦ It has long been patent- toi every Masonic .

stuelent' that ¦ but scanty evidence oi a reliable , character has ; been adduced , to . support the high claims of the various chivalrie degrees to antiquity in connection with , Fi ' eemasonry . , Theory after theory is started , but documentary evidence and other substantial proofs are rarely accessible , i

If the niembeis of those degrees had : in former , days carefully extracted from their own records the facts which Bro . J . Yarker has now collected respecting the Jerusalem Encampment , they , would have rendered a greater service to thet cause they had at heart , and to the interests of

truth in . general , ¦ than by promulgating a series : of romantic fictions tlestituto alike of vraisemblance , coherence , 'or consistency . : There : is nothing in tho history of . the ancient Knights of theTeinplo to lead us to believe that they were allied to the Masonic Order , although

they practised secret ceremonies ,. and possessed a . similar organization adapted to military purposes . But it is quito another matter to deny the possibility of the alleged fraternization of the ; dispersed Templars with , the i operative Masonic bodies ) after the bloody persecution of the former .. by Philip the Fair and . Pope Clement .

Granting the existence of a Masonic fraternity at . the period alluded to , and assuming that its . mode of admitting members was secret and solemn , there if nothing improbable in the sup- i position that the , Knights sought l-efuge from their foemen ' s rage in the ranks of a jieaccful

and unsuspected association . But beyond tho ¦' . traditions of the Masonic Knights Templar there ; is absolutely nothing to support this hypothesis , however probable it may appear to those who have studied the entire bearings of the question . Bro . Yarker , however , clearly sets forth the

links that seem to establish the parallelism , between tho present and the past—between the modern Order of the Temple in England , now held . under that gooel man and excellent Mason , Bro . William Stuart , of Aldenhara Abbey—and the more formidable , though not more chivalrous

confraternity of the d-iys of . old . lie unravels tho history of the Jerusalem Encampment ;—the oldest in Lancashire—with the hand of a master , and presents us with every item of a valuable or useful description to be found in its records . - By the perusal of theso carefully-compiled

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