The Province Of Gloucestershire.

to have come to the rescue and himself paid the bill for the jeAvels of Provincial Grand Lodge , Avhich had been then recently purchased . These , no doubt , are the handsome set of jeAvels IIOAV in use by Provincial Grand Lodge , Avhich Avere

THE CHAPTER HOUSE , TEWKESBURY A 1 IBEY . KKSTOI ! K » I > Y TIIU FKKKMASONS IX 1 S 71 I . for many years mislaid , and onl y found in 186 9 after the death of Bro . John William Wilton , P . M . of the Royal Gloucester Lodge . Bro . Wilton Avas Prov . Grand Treasurer

at the time Avhen Provincial Grand Lodge , for some unexplained cause , ceased to meet in 18 33 , and Avhen it Avas resuscitated nearly a quarter of a century later no doubt the existence of the jeAvels had been forgotten . But they Avere never the property of the Royal Gloucester Lodge , as has

been sometimes supposed , and it Avas only the fact that the Provincial Grand Treasurer Avas a P . AI . of that lodge that caused them to be in his charge in his capacity of Provincial Grand Treasurer . The jewels of the Royal Gloucester Lodge Avere presented b y Bro . John Burrup , a former

member of that lodge , after it had been erased to the new Royal Gloucestershire Lodge , and are still in use by the latter lodge . On the 19 th August . 1823 , Provincial Grand Lodge met at the Tolsey at Gloucester and Avent in procession to the Cathedral to attend a memorial service to the late Bro . Dr . Jenner . At this service a collection Avas made toAvards a

. THE CHAPTER HOUSE ( AXOTHER VIEW ) , Rl-EsiuitiEii IIV rni : 1- ' : I-: MASOXS IN 1-H 7 U . fund for erecting a monument to him , and on the 8 th of the following month Ave find the lodge assembled at Tewkesbury , Avhere the Deputy Provincial Grand Master laid the first stone of the new Mythe Bridge over the Severn with due

Masonic honours , having previously attended service in the Abbey . The lodge AV : IS held in the Town Hall , and the ceremony appears to have gone off very Avell and to have given general satisfaction . The death of the Duke of York in 1827 necessitated the

holding of a special meeting of Provincial Grand Lodge , at the Upper George Coffee House in Gloucester ( a favourite place of meeting" ) , to pass a vote of condolence with the Grand Master , the Duke of Sussex , Avhich accordingly Avas clone in very proper terms , and the Deputy Provincial Grand

Master " proceeded to Kensington , where he Avas received Avith every mark of attention and presented the said address . " From the year 18 33 to the year 1856 no meetings of Provincial Grand Lodge are recorded to have taken place . The reason for this long silence is obscure . It is kncnvn that

the Provincial Grand Master , the sixth Duke of Beaufort , died in 18 35 , and is supposed to have been succeeded by Henry

THE HKHKDOS OK GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL , Ri : syoi ; i : n nv Till-: I '' ; I-EI-:. MASONS OK no : PKOVINIEI ; . the seventh Duke , AVIIO died ' in' 1853 . On the 14 th October , 1856 , Lord Zetland , the then Grand Master , issued a patent to Bro . the Hon . James Dutton ( afterwards Lord Sherborne )

appointing him Provincial Grand Master , and he Avas duly installed at Cheltenham on the 22 nd October , 1856 , and appointed Bro . George Frederick NeAvmarch , P . M . of Foundation Lodge , Xo . 97 , as-his Deputy . In the interval that had elapsed since 18 33 , the roll of the lodges of the

province had ' considerably altered . In 18 33 the roll Avas as follows : —Foundation Lodge , Cheltenham , Xo . J 2 T ; Royal Lebanon Lodge , Gloucester , Xo . 401 ; Royal Union Lodge , Cheltenham , Xo . 4 61 ; Royal Gloucester Lodge , Gloucester , X 0 . 473 ; Royal Faith and Friendship Lodge , Berkeley , No . 509 ; and Lodge of Sympathy , Wotton-under-Edge , Xo . 725 . Of these Xos . 401 and 72 ^ Avere erased in 18 3 8 , and X ' o . 473 in