Freemasonry In England.

4 th . That eveiy person who is now a Freemason , shall bring the Master a note of the time of his acceptation , to the end the same may be enrolled hi such priority of place as the brother deserves , and that the whole company and fellows may the better know each other . 5 th , That for the future , the said fraternity of Freemasons shall be regulated and governed by one Grand Master , and as many Wardens as

the said society shall think fit to appoint at every annual general assembly . 6 th . That no person be accepted unless he be twenty one years old or more . "

Br . Wren , afterwards Sit * Christopher Wren , who , from his great abilities and the great solicitude he displayed to promote the interests of Masonry , and the prosperity of those Lodges which met in Ms time , more particularly the old Lodge of St . Paul , now the Lodge of Antiquity , of which he was a member for upwards of eighteen years , was no doubt the principal originate !* of these laws . This distinguished Mason was the only son of

Dr . Christopher Wren , Dean of Windsor , and was born in 1632 . His genius for arts and sciences was exhibited early , for when very young he invented a new ^ astronomical instrument , by the name of Pan-Organum , and wrote a treatise on the origin of rivers . He also invented a pnuematic and a peculiar instrument in gnomonics , to . solve this problem , viz . — "On a known plane , in a known elevation , to discribe such lines AA'ith

the expedite turning of rundies to certain divisions , as by the shadow of the stile may shew the equal hours of the day . " Iu 1646 , Mr . Wren was admitted at the age of fourteen , a gentleman commoner of Waclham College , Oxford , where he profited greatly under the instruction and friendship of Dr . John Wilkins , and Dr . Seth Ward , who were both gentlemen of great learning , and afterward promoted by King Charles II . to the mitre . His other juvenile productions in

mathematics , are highly worthy of attention , and speak this Grand Warden , a scholar of a most exalted genius , but they are too many to be here recapitulated . He assisted Dr . Scarborough in anatomical preparations and experiments on the muscles of the human body , from whence are dated the first introduction of geometrical and mechanical speculations in anatomy ; and wrote discourses of the longitude ; the variations of the magnetical

needle ; De re nautica veterum ; to find the velocity of a ship in sailing ; of the improvement of gallies ; of an instrument perpetually noting soundings in shallows ; to recover wrecks ; a convenient way of using artillery on ship board ; to build in deep water ; to build a mole into the sea , without Puzzolan dust , or cisterns ; and of the improvement of river navigation , by the joining of rivers .

His works altogether appear to be rather the united efforts of a whole century , than the productions of one man ; whilst the patient perseA'erance he displayed in after life , in not only overcoming the difficulties incident to the working out of his great undertakings , but in combating with the selfish and ignorant obstinacy of those who were unable to understand the emanations of his great mind , but more particularly his attention to the interests of Masonry , by improving its constitutions , ancl studying the