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circumstances which constitute privilege , and , therefore , it is most important to ascertain in what manner any and what privilege not given by " lawfully constituted authority " to any individual " peaceable subject can be claimed by Freemasons as a body . I cannot believe that any privilege is accorded to Freemasons to the exclusion of all other men or societies of men , nor that the protecting " egis " of the Masonic Order can be thrown over direct violation of the " laws of the country in which we

rpsi-dp In the instance which will come before " Grand Lodge " ( I write advisedly ) , a brother ' s name and full _ Masonic rank has been printed , in connection with a motion for exclusion , in an ordinary lodge summons , which has circulated beyond the " limits " of the lodge . The W . M . had beercautioned that such publication would be considered objectionableand if persisted in would be resented .

, Whether or not the brother named had committed a Masonic offence meriting exclusion or capable of explanation , has nothing to do with the present question . He may be " white as snow , " or "black as soot "—that has yet to be determined ; but even if proved the latter in respect ot " Masonic line and rule , " there is , to my mind , no

justification whatever for doing that which , known to the outer world , would most emphatically injure his repute . If a justification or privilege , call it which you please , exists , then let it be known under what rule or regulation of our Constitutions , setting aside , for thc present , the " ordinances of the realm , " it is expressed . I can find no such thing . —Yours faithfully and fraternally ,

JAMES STEVENS , P . M ., P . Z Clapham , Whit Monday .

Reviews

REVIEWS

MASONIC CALENDAR FOR THE PROVINCE OF HERTFORDSHIRE , FOR THE YEAR 1 SS 5 . Edited by Bro . GEORGE E . LAKE , Provincial Grand Secretary , and published by authority of Provincial Grand Lodge . We do not know that we can say more of this useful

little annual than that it has evidently been compiled with the greatest care by Bro . George E . Lake , Prov . Grand Secretary , who seems to have made up his mind to secure the utmost accuracy , and at the same time to compress all necessary information within the smallest possible compass .

Bro . Lake deserves great praise for his success in compilation , tha result of his labours being the more valuable from the fact of there being no omissions—none at least that occur to us as worth noting—through failure , on the part of the lodges and chapters , to supply the needful details .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

601 ] PETITION FOR INVERNESS CHARTER . To the Most Worshipfull the Grand Master and Bretheren of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The Memorial of the Old Kilwinning Lodge of Inverness . That preceding thc year 167 S , it seems by tradition of our oldest members now living , that the Lodge keept their minuts from time to time in ane irregular manner upon

sheets or baffles of paper , most of which we now cannot collect , so as to make anything of them to purpose—they haveing either been cancelled or lost by accident . But upon the 27 th December , 167 S years , Ther was a book given in by The Honble . William Mcintosh ( Broyr . german to the then Laird of Mcintosh ) , who was then chosen Master of the Lodge , from which date all the

regular meetings & transactions of the Lodge are recorded till this date . ... Inverness , 27 th December , 1 C 7 S , William Mack Intosh was chosen Master , Alexr . Nicholson , Senr ., Andw . Ross , Junr . Wardens , and Dd . Ross , boxmr . The same persons continued in these ofiices till 15 th November , 1 CS 1 , when William Hendrie was chosen boxmaster or Thesaurer , &

the above members continued till ist December , 16 S 4 , when John McBean was chosen Junr . Warden & Andw . Ross , Thesaurer ; ye rest continued till 27 th December , 1692 , when James Barbour was chosen Master , John Reid , Senr ., and John Heburn , Junr . Wardens , and Andw . Ross , Thesaurer , and continued till 27 th December , 1699 , when John Heburn was chosen Master , John Reid , Senr ., and Robert Nicolson , Junr .

Wardens , and Andw . Ross , Thesaurer , and continued till 27 th December , 1 7 , when James Dick was chosen Master , Andw . Ross , Senr ., and William Gumming , Junr . Wardens , Alexr . Tulloch , Thesaurer , and continued till 2 SU 1 December , 1 7 02 , when the said James Dick was continued Master , Robert Nicolson and Alexr . Tulloch , Wardens , and John Thomson , Thesaurer , and continued

till 6 th August , 17 iG , when Andrew Scott was chosen Master , James Dick , Senr ., and John Dick , Junr . Wardens , and the said John , Thesaurer , and continued till 27 th December , 171 S , when the said lAndw . Scott was continued Master , Robt . Ross , Senr ., and Thos . Tulloch , lunr . Wardens , and ye said Thos . Tulloch , Thesaurer , and

continued till 2 Sth December , 1719 , when Donald McLise was chosen Master , Donald and Thomas Tulloch , Wardens , the Boxmaster continued , and ye rest till 27 th December . 1722 , when John Nicolson was chosen Master , Donald McLise , Senr ., and John McBean , Junr .

Wardens , and Alexr . Fraser , Boxmaster , and continued till 2 SH 1 December , 1724 , when John McBean was chosen Master , Donald McLise , Senr ., and John Jackson , Junior Wardens , and ye said John J ackson , Thesaurer , and continued till 27 th December , 1733 , when Bailly William Mcintosh was chosen Master . John Dunbar , Senr ., and Alexr . Fraser ,

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Junr . Wardens , and the said Alexr ., Boxmaster , and continued till 27 th December , 1735 , when John McBean was chosen Master , John Dunbar , Senr ., and Alexr . Fraser , Junr . Wardens , and the said Boxmaster , continued , & c , continued till 27 th December , 173 6 , when George Cuthbert of Castlehill was chosen Master , John Dunbar , Senr ., and Dond .

McLise , Junior Wardens , and Alexr . Fraser , Thesaurer . On the back of the copy of the petition which we have is the following indorsation : In a full meeting of this Lodge , Inverness , 26 th September , 1737 . Wee , the Master and Wardens hereto subscriveing , doe attest the above to be a genuine duplicate of the minutes of this Lodge , as the same stands recorded in the said minute book , deposited in the box by the

Honourable William Mcintosh , Esquire , as also of the list of present members herewith sent . MASTER . SENR . WARDEN . JUNR . WARDEN . [ NOTE . —It was the custom for Highlanders to sign the names of their farms , estates , and ofiices , in place of their Christian and surnames . —W . O . J

To all and sundry to whom these presents shall come , greeting , know yee , that wee , George , Earle of Cromarty , Lord Viscount of Tarbat , present Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Massons for the Kingdome of Scotland : Whereas , upon application to the Grand Lodge , in name of the Right Worshipful George Cuthbert , of Castlehill , Esq ., present Master ; John Mack Bean , Sheriff-Clerk of Inverness , Deputy-Master ; John

Dunbar , wryter in Inverness , Senr . Warden ; and William Robertson , younger of Inshes , Worshipful Bretheren Free and Accepted Massons of thc Lodge intituled Old Inverness Kilwinning , for themselves , and in name and behalf of the other Brethren belonging to the said Lodge , it was evidently made appear to us and our Brethren of the Grand Lodge , by proper documents , that from the twenty-seventh of December , one thousand six hundred and seventy-eight ,

they have been constituted and erected in a regular Masson Lodge by the name and designation of Old Inverness Kilwinning , aforesaid , since which time they have been in use to keep regular meetings in which they have received and entered apprentices , past ffellow crafts , and raised Master wherein and for that purpose have keept regular books , Massons , they entred their proceedings in the way and manner practised in other well govern'd Masson ' s Lodges , and , as

such , stand recorded in the books of Grand Lodge ; and wherein , by their representatives , they have been in use to vote at all the proceedings of the same since the twelfth of October last bypast , as appears by the books and minutes of the Grand Lodge of that date , and the Brethren aforesaid being now desirous to have their forsaid erection and constitution ratified and confirmed by the Grand Lodge , and for that end to have a Charter thereof in these termes

^^^ un made out in their favours ; Therefore , witt ye us , with the advyce and consent of our Brethren of the Grand Lodge to have ratified , approven , and confirmed , and by the tenor hereof , with consent forsaid , ratify , approve , and perpetually confirm the aforesaid erection and constitution in favours of the saids Worshipfull Brethren of Old Inverness Kilwinning , and their successors , and of new to have constituted , erected , and appointed , and hereby erect ,

constitute and appoint them and their successors a true and regular Lodge of Free and Accepted Massons under the title and designation as mentioned , in all time comeing , and ordain all the regular Masson Lodges in Scotland to hold and respect them as such for the future , hereby giveing , granting , and committing to them and their successors full and ample power to meet as a regular Lodge , receive and enter apprentices ,

pass fellow crafts , and raise Master Masons , upon payment of regular and reasonable compositions for supporting their poor decayed brethren , widows , and orphans , agreeable to their stations , and to elect and make choice of Masters , Wardens , Thesaurers , and other office-bearers annually , or other ways as they shall have occasion ; and wee hereby , with consent forsaid , enjoyne and recomend the said brethren to reverence and obey their superiours in

all things lawful ! and honest , as becomes the honour and harmony of Masonry in generall ; and shall faithfully become bound and engaged not to desert their Lodge , and that none of them presume , upon any pretence whatsomever , to make any separate or schismaticall meetings among themselves without the consent , approbation , and presence of their Master and Wardens for the time , nor shall they collect money or other separate fund from the

common stock of their lodge , to the hurt and detriment of their poor thereof , the said Worshipfull Brethren being always bound and obliged , as by their acceptation hereot , they faithfully bind and oblige them and their successors in all time comeing , to obtemper faithfully and obey the whole acts , statutes , and regulations of the Grand Lodge , their superiours , as well as those already made , as those hereafter to be made for the utility and prosperity of

Masonry in generall , and to pay and performe whatever is or shall be stipulated and demanded from them for support of the Grand Lodge , and shall record in their books this present Charter , with the regulations hereafter to be made by them from time to time , to the effect the same may be more readily seen and observed by their Brethren , subject , nevertheless , to the review , and under correction of the Grand Lodge ; and in like manner the aforsaid Brethren

are hereby appointed and required punctually to attend the whole generall meetings and quarterly communications of the Grand Lodge , as they shall be advised thereof by their representatives , being their Master and Senior and Junior Wardens for the time , or by proxies in their places , duly authorized by commission from their Lodge : Provideing the said proxies be to Master Massons or ffellow crafts belonging to some establisht Lodge , to the end the Brethren

aforsaid may then act and vote in the affairs of the Grand Lodge , and may be duely certiorate and apprysed of the whole proceedings thereof , and to whom they may represent yr . grievances from time to time , as they shall see cause : Declareing the aforsaid Brethren their precedency in thc Grand Lodge to be , and commence from the aforsaid twenty-seventh of December , one

thousand six hundred and seventy-eight years , in respect ane extract ef their erection was of that date produced and openly read in the Grand Lodge ; and tothe effect these presents may be the more effectually keept and preserved , wee , with consent forsaid , appoint the same to be recorded in the books of the said Grand Lodge , in termes of the regulations made thereannent . In witness whereof these

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presents are written by Archibald Kennedy , writer in Edinburgh , Depute Clerk of the said Grand Lodge , and "iven under our handin the Grand Lodge held in Mary ' s Chappell in Edinburgh this thirtieth day of November , one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven years , being the date of our election , in presence of William Congaltoun , your , of that ilk , Esq ., Charles Alston , Esq ., Doctor of Medicine , our Senior and Junior Grand Wardens ; John McDougal

Grand Secretary ; Major John Robertson of Carnock , present Master of the Lodge of Hamilton ; Archibald Gowan , writer in Edinburgh , present Master of the Lod ge of Greenock Kilwinning ; and Archibald Kennedy , as designed , present Master of the Lodge of Maybole ; and George Fraser , Esq ., Deputy-Auditor of Excise , late Right Worshipfull Master of the Lodge of Cannongate Kilwinning . So signed , Cromartie , G . M . ; Will . Congalton ,

S . G . W . ; Charles Alston , J . G . W . ; J . McDougall , G . Secretary ; J . Robertson , Hamilton Kilwinning , witnes ; Archd . Govanc , Greenock Kilwinning , witnes ; Geo . Frazer , witnes ; Archd . Kennedy , Maybole , witnes . Subscryved by the Grand Clerk on the back of thc forsaid Charter , bearing its haveing been registered in the books of the Grand Lodge , " Grand Lodge , 30 th November , 1737 .

" Then the within Patent was recorded in the books of the Grand Lodge in terms of the Regulations thereanent by me , Clerk to , and Keeper of , the said Record , so signed , " R . ALISONE , Gr . Clerk . "

Reports Of Masonic Meetings.

REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS .

( Kraft JKasonrg . SIR HUGH MYDDELTON LODGE ( No . 1602 ) . —The annual installation meeting of this flourishing lodge was held on Friday , the 22 nd inst ., at the Cock Tavern , Highbury ( by dispensation from the M . W . Grand Master ) , the usual rooms at the Agricultural Hall not being available on this occasion . Present : Bros . J . Greenfield , W . M . ; Poulton , I . P . M . ; Allison , S . W . ; Payne , J . W . ; Weston , P . M ., Treas ., * Osborn , P . M ., Sec ; Latter

S . D . ; Wright , Org . ; Heyse , I . G . ; Homan , W . S . j Thomas , Tyler ; Everett , Dearing , Hiscock , Dresden , Garner , Brown , Warner , Field , Keogh , Southwell , W . H , Lee , Hon . P . M ., and others . Amongst the visitors were Bros . Bird , P . M . 1897 , P . P . G . S . B . Middx . ; Woodman , W . M . 1950 , J . W . 1897 ; Cave , 127 ; Thomas , 179 ; Snook , S . D . 1693 ; Weedon , S . W . S 13 ; Wigley , W . M . 134 S ; Martin , 382 ; Brett , 1471 ; Kew , P . M . 179 ; Lee , 1897 :

James , I . G . 1441 ; Forge , P . M . 1 950 , S . W . 1693 ; Hammond , 1471 ; Wetenhall , 201 ; Hughes , 1 S 97 ; Spiller , P . M . 49 ; Potter , 1693 ; Rennie , 1 S 91 Western , W . M . 1693 ; Collings , Org . 1693 ; Bayne , Org . 1 S 97 ; and Probert , 340 . The lodge having been opened and the minutes read and confirmed , Bros . Everett and Banks , of iSp 7 , were passed to the Second Degree , after which the chair was taken by

Bro . Weston , P . M ., who in a very efficient manner installed Bro . Edwin Payne , the W . M . elect . The newly appointed were as follows : Bros . J . Greenfield , LP . M . ; Lartcr , S . W . ; Heyse , J . W . ; Weston , P . M ., Treas . ; Osborn , P . M ., Sec ; Homan , S . D . ; Dearing , J . D . ; Brown , I . G . ; Warner , D . C . ; Wright , Org . ; Garner , Stwd . ; and Thomas , Tyler . The usual addresses were then delivered in a very

impressive manner by Bros . Weston , P . M ., and Osborn , P . M . The newly-installed W . M . then commenced his tenure of office by initiating Messrs . Keogh and Southwell , the ceremony being rendered in a style that convinced the brethren that Bro . Payne would prove himself a very able and efficient occupant of the chair . A Past Master ' s jewel was then presented to the LP . M ., Bro . John Greenfield , in recognition of his services during the past year .

Several propositions were then received for the next meeting , after which the brethren adjourned to the banquet . After the usual loyal and Masonic toasts had been disposed of , Bro . Greenfield , LP . M ., proposed "The Health of the W . M ., " and congratulated him on the excellent and impressive manner in which he had performed tho ceremony of initiation that evening . He was glad to see five candidates and one joining brother proposed for the next

meeting , and predicted a nourishing year of office for him . Bro . Payne was initiated in that lodge the same evening as himself and he was pleased to see him attain the honourable position he now held , and earnestl y wished him health and prosperity during his tenure of office . Bro . Payne , W . M ., in reply , heartily thanked Bro . Greenfield for the flattering terms in which he had spoken of him , and also the brethren for the cordial reception they had

accorded the toast of his health . He would use his earnest endeavours to promote the welfare of the lodge and the comfort of the brethren . The Worshipful Master in proposing the toast of " The I . P . M ., Bro . Greenfield , " alluded to the efficient manner in which he had conducted the lodge during the past year , and hoped he might long be spared to assist them with his counsel and advice . Bro . Greenfield , I . P . M ., in response , after thanking the

brethren for the jewel that had been presented to him and for the hearty manner in which they had received the toast , said that he considered it was the duty of every Mason to practice the precepts that were inculcated in the lodge . " The Health of the Initiates " was proposed by the W . M ., who said he was proud of having initiated the two brethren that evening , and trusted they would be Masons in heart as well as in name . He was glad to see such a

large number of initiates coming into the lodge . J 3 ro . Keogh , in reply , thanked the brethren for the hearty reception the initiates had received . He had had the p leasure of being acquainted with the W . M . for the last 25 years , and was pleased to have been initiated by so old and valued a friend . The W . M . next proposed "The Visitors , " and said that

he was delighted to sec such a large number of visitors present . In the name of the lodge he gave them a hearty welcome , and trusted they had spent a pleasant evening . _ In response , Bro . Woodman , W . M . 1950 , said he appreciated thc honour done him by coupling his name with the toast . He had had the privilege of visiting the lodge frequently during the last few years , and was glad to see the