Two Remarkable Patents.

submitted himself as Knight Templar , but also in those duties which he took on himself as Grand Officer , on which account we have conferred on him , in sign and token of our thorough trust and friendship , the governance of the Chapter of St . Petersburg : Accordingly , on all those Knights , promoted and raised

to this knightly dignity , and also on those hereafter to be invested we enjoin that they should hold the aforesaid Prefect in reverence and obedience , to the end that they transgress in no respect their oath taken as Brethren of the Temple :

Being especially mindful that whatsoever allegiance the }* pay to him , that do they pay to me , and also to The Master of the Order , and that in what they fail towards him , they

fail towards me , and towards The Master of the Order Himself , dul y remembering that the Lord of Our Order is God , Supreme in Goodness , Supreme in Might , who directs and governs all things together to one end . Let this be for a Law unto till Brethren and Knights of the Temple , present , absent , and to come , whom we earnestly

commend to the grace and protection of the Mighty Judge , Lord and Supreme Master of our Order . In surer testimony of all which , we have subscribed Our name with our own hand , and have caused our Seal to be affixed , as of the Supreme Grand Master of the

Soldiers . Done in the Provincial Chapter of the Yllth Province . On the Vllth day of the Vth Month , in the Year of the Birth of Christ , MDCCLXXIX . Charles , Duke of Sudermania ,

Supreme and Grand Master of the Soldiers and Brethren of the Sacred Order of the Temple of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Sweden and Gothland , ( he Duchy of Findland , and the

Empire of Russia , st y led in the Order Knig ht and Professed Brother a Sole Yivificanlc . Xicholas Brclkc , Count , Styled in the Order , Professed Brother ab iguc puro , Great Chancellor . Inspected Holmens .

Xole by Dr . CHKTWOIH * CRAWLKY . " In the seventh line of the body of the document the scribe has apparentl y omitted , either by design or accident , some such phrase as has been supplied in square brackets . The omission led to the correction , by a subsequent hand ,

of qui into quib . in the following sentence . The emendation restores grammar to the particular clause , at the expense of the general context . "

(]•/„ , / , } ICIili , Pari mil Co . )

Freemasonry was introduced into Sweden during the fourth decade of the eighteenth century , and in 1762 King Adolf Fredrik assumed the Title of Protector , being then , according to Gould , W . M . of a Lodge at Stockholm . The Swedish Rite was arranged about this time , and "aimed at a spiritual revival of the Order of the Temple , " the degrees

being nine in number , of which the highest was Vicarins Soloiuoiiis . During the following decade Gustavus III . was Protector of the Craft , and his Brother Charles , Duke of Sudermania , was elected Grand Master , being thus the chief officer of

the Vllth Province of the STRICT OHSKRVAXCI * ; hence his signature being attached to this most interesting document oi the year 1779 . It will be noted that the motto taken by the Duke on becoming a "Professed Brother" ( technically known as " a name in religion " ) was a sole vivijicnnle ; and

that of Count Brelke ' s was ab ignc puio . The second Patent concerns the "Grand Lodge of Astrea , " which was formed for Russia in 1815 ( on the dissolution of the "Grand Directors , " which had been started a