Two Remarkable Patents.

Two Remarkable Patents .

PERFORMANCE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL , EDIXliURGH , IX 1858 . IX AID OF . MASOXIC CHiRtTl ' .- (*™« " H , ' /««»/«/«/ . Twir , / 1 « ,. JIWH . " )

THE Great Priory of the " United Religious and Military Orders of the Temple and of St . John of Jerusalem , & c , for England and Wales and the Dependencies , thereof , " has lately acquired two rare and valuable Patents , and the M . E . Grand Master , the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Euston , A . D . C ., G . C . T ., having kindly consented to their

reproduction in THK MASONIC II . LUSTHATKD , the esteemed Irish Masonic Historian ( Dr . W . J . Chetwode Crawley ) , has in the kindest manner responded to my petition for transcripts and translations of the two Documents , a work for which he is pre-eminently qualified . Accordingly the hitter is herewith

reproduced , and assuredly Masonic students generally will much appreciate Dr . Chetwode Crawley's efforts thus to provide an accurate translation of such important and curious souvenirs of the olden time . PATENT OF 1779 .

To the Glory of the Most High Deity , the Great Architect of the Entire Universe , in the Most Holy Trinity . We , Charles , styled in the Order a Sole Yivilicante [ k ' nighl of Hie life-giving Sun ' ] by the Grace of God , Hereditary Prince of the Suedes , Goths , and Vandals ; Duke of Sudcrmania ; Crown Prince of Norway ; Duke of Schleswig Holstein , Stormarsch and Dittmarsch ; Count of Oldenburg and

Delmanhorst , High Admiral of the Kingdom of Sweden , Governor-General of the Northern Province S . O . T . H . ; also Head and Chief of all the Knights , Friends , Esquires , Freemen , and Serving-men of this Order , in the Kingdoms of Sweden and Gothland , in the Grand Duchy of Finland , and in the Empire of Russia ;

To all our dearly beloved , true and trusty Brethren ; to the Knights , Friends , Freeborn and Serving-men ; to the Prefects , Chancellors , Priors , Sub-Priors , Masters , Prelates of the Temple ; Superior or Ordinary or Subordinate ; and to the Knights and Esquires of all classes together ; through

the most sacred numbers III ., VII ., and IX . ; Health , and all those things which God , Thrice Supreme in Goodness and in Power , the Protector and Judge of our Order , may deign to bestow on us out of His mercy . Whereas the Grand Officer of Us and of this Most Sacred

Order [ has uoiuiiialat ] Prince Gabriel Gagarin , Chamberlain of His Most Serene Highness the Grand Duke of Russia , [ i' 7 /< i , ] has ever carried out , with thorough obedience and observance , Our commands , issued in the name of LTs the Grand Master , and has , from time to time , been found constant , burning with zeal , trusty , faithful and ever obedient , not only in those duties to which he , of his own will ,