Correspondence.

MR . GAYLOR TO THE EDITOR OF THE F . M . MAGAZINE . 1 th May , 1855 . I HAVE seen your reply to my note on the subject of the London Bon Accorel Lodge of Mark Masons , and cannot help thinking you have either far misunderstood the nature of my several communications , or are unwilling to believe what I represent . I had hoped different things from a party occupying the position of editor of a public journal , anel feel induced once more to trouble yon in case that , upon reconsideration ,

you may have any wish of putting yourself right . I need not have troubled you , except for explanation , with any notice regarding the Mark warrants which were at one time granted by this supreme body and afterwards recalled . None of these were ever granted to the Bon Accord Chapter of Aberdeen , or to any party in connection with it . They were granted between the years 1845 and 1840 , while the Chapter in question did not receive its constitution till December , 1850 a period long subsequent to their rocal . It is evidentthereforethat

, , , any power which that Chapter possessed could only bo exercised subsequent to December , 1850 , and is not to be affected by anything clone in reference to proceedings enacted long previous to their existence , and to which they were no parties , even had the warrants to which I refer stood unrecalled . The question then comes to be , what powers do they possess under their present Charter 1 Assuredly none for granting warrants of the nature of that now called in question . Independently of being limited by their charter to tho exercise of the Mark Degree within Iheir own body , no

intelligent Mason will , I think , assent to the principle of Lodges or Chapters , when once constituted , being at liberty to multiply ad infinitum , and become totally independent of the authority whence they derive their existence . I cannot make the matter plainer , and if you shall still fail to see it , I do not ask you to give yourself any further trouble . It is enough for me that I have your authority for fixing the irregularity complained of on Chapter of Aberdeen ( No . 70 ) and the necessary inquiry shall forthwith be instituted . I am , & c .

Bon Accord Lodge Of Mark Masons.

BON ACCORD LODGE OF MARK MASONS .

To the Editor of the Masonic Mirror . Sir , —The attention of several Royal Arch Masons in Scotland has been called to an advertisement in the "Freemasons' Magazine , " for April last , wherein Br . Spencer advertises the Jewel for the Bon Accorel Lodge of Mark Masters of London . I perceive also by the last number of that publication , that the Grand Scribe N . ( Comp . Gaylor ) has officially written to the Eclitor , explaining that there is no such Lodge , but that the Editor declines to publish his communication . I trust you will

have more candour , and thus prevent individuals countenancing a surreptitious body of Masons . Only three Mark Lodge warrants , unconnected with Royal Arch Chapters , were ever granted by the Supreme Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland . The two first numbers , 1 and 2 , were to Scotland , and were expired on 21 st December , 1842 . No . 3 , to Manchester , was made out on 21 st March , 1845 . The last was , a few years after , recalled . The law permitting warrants of that kind has been since rescindedand the

, power to grant the degrees of Mark or Past Master refused , unless the parties take out an ordinary Charter for all the degrees of Royal Arch Masonry . There is no Mark Lodge , holding of the Supreme Chapter of Scotland , called "Bon Accord , " except the Mark Lodge attached to the Bon Accord Royal Arch Chapter , Aberdeen , and which was instituted since 21 st March , 1850 . In your Notice to Correspondents , p . 352 , you intimate that the Bon Accord Mark Lodge of London does not- hold its charter directlfrom the Supreme Chapter of

y Scotland , but from the Bon Accord Chapter of Aberdeen . This , if correct , makes matters worse , and would render that Chapter liable to suspension or deprivation of its charter , for it had no right whatever to grant such a warrant ; or , as you very properly say , the Aberdeen Masons had no more power to grant it " than has any