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Notes On The Old Minute Books Of The British Union Lodge, No. 114, Ipswich. Ad. 1762.
A t this date , Ave note that Bro . Wootton has received £ 2 7 s . to be accounted for : — For Bro . Woollaston £ 110 For Bro . Marks Lione 16 0 = £ 2 7 0
Bro . Woollaston is entered before as Woolverstou ancl Woollaston indifferently , ancl appears to have been made in Aug . 1770 . Let us hope that Bro . Lione Avas not a , foreigner , and charged higher than a native Avould have been , for the honours of
Masonry . Such things have been , and at the present time there is a wide distinction betAveen a foreigner , or one born Avithout the pale of IpsAvich and Suffolk , ancl a man " native , and to the manner born , " though it is failto add that this exclusiveness does not
extend to Masons and Masonry so far as our experience goes . * In Sep . 1771 , one Thos . Milner' Avas proposed and " legally admitted " : appended is a note to the effect that the above Thos . Milner was afterwards rejected , being a Minor .
Marks Lione wasraisedVellow Craft 16 th Sept . 1771 , which appears to be the first instance on record of a Brother being passed at an interval of time after his being admitted .
Dec . 28 th , 1771 , St . John ' s . At a Lodge then held Bro . John Prentice Avas elected Right Worshi pful Master . So runs the minute of that clay . The Wardens , Secretary , ancl Tyler , were all elected at the same time . On the 4 th January , 1773 , Ave
find it ordered that no person be in future made a Brother of this Lodge for a less consideration than the sum of £ \ lis . 6 d . Touching this saicl term , Right Worshipful , I have already saicl , it is the style of a Kni ghtthough the old heralds say that
, Esquire is also a title of Worship . By the way , if we mistake not , the Members of the Royal Order of Scotland ( AVIIO are saicl to have descended from the Knights , whom Robert the Bruce erected into a neAV order of Masonic chivalry after the Battle of
Bannockburn in 1314 ) , address each other formall y as Right Worshipful Sir , and claim to be Knights Companions of the R . S . Y . C . S . Old Izaak Walton , Avho is just IIOAV
denounced by some of the Faculty as the most thorough-going vivisector in his folloAving the " gentle craft , " dedicates his Avorld-known book "The Complete Angler . " To the flight Worshipful John Offley , Esq ., of Macleley Manor , in the County of Stafford ; " My most honoured Friend "—the date of the work is 1653 . Perhaps honest Izaak was no herald , ancl did not know the little distinctions of rank
like many of our modern newspaper writers , Avho will speak of a Marquis as most noble , instead of most honourable , and think no Bishop is entitled to be called My Lord unless he has a seat in the House of Peers , as we said , some Avould-be herald cooly asserts in Notes and Queries a short time
. Can any one tell us if Walton -was a Freemason 1 He speaks of my friend Elias Ashmole , Esq ., who all the world knoAvs , Avas a member of the Craft ancl a Rosicrucian , ancl it Avould be interesting to knoAV Avhether he himself Avas one of the little
band of Speculative Masons Avho kept the Craft alive at that time . To return to the British Union and its Records , betAveen Dec . 1771 and Jan . 1773 , only one meeting appears to have been held , and no record seems to have been regularly
made from this time , of the absent as Avell as present members as heretofore , and consequently no clue given as to the prosperity ancl numbers of the Lodge . In July , 1762 , there appear to have been eleven Members in the Lodgethree of whom were
, absent . In Feb . 1769 , there must have been fourteen Members , eig ht of Avhom are written off as absent , tAvo being at sea , and another excused . . At the Nov . meeting in 1769 , held at the Green Man , six Avere present besides two visitorsand eiht were
, g absent . - Old IpsAvich and Suffolk names constantly appear ^ -Clarke , Prentice , Fenn , Dodd , Oliver , Harris , Bailey , Woolaston or Wollaston , Whiteside , Woodward , Kerriclge , ToA'ell , and others being amongst the number .
Under date 17 th Nov . 1773 , Ave find the folloAving : — " At this Lodge a letter from Kowlancl Holt , Esq ., Prov . Grand Master for the County of Suffolk was read , and it was agreed , ancl ordered that the Master of this Lodge , do answer the same by the next general post , and that be wait on the Grand Secretary , and subscribes one guinea toAvards the general charity , to be paid out
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Notes On The Old Minute Books Of The British Union Lodge, No. 114, Ipswich. Ad. 1762.
A t this date , Ave note that Bro . Wootton has received £ 2 7 s . to be accounted for : — For Bro . Woollaston £ 110 For Bro . Marks Lione 16 0 = £ 2 7 0
Bro . Woollaston is entered before as Woolverstou ancl Woollaston indifferently , ancl appears to have been made in Aug . 1770 . Let us hope that Bro . Lione Avas not a , foreigner , and charged higher than a native Avould have been , for the honours of
Masonry . Such things have been , and at the present time there is a wide distinction betAveen a foreigner , or one born Avithout the pale of IpsAvich and Suffolk , ancl a man " native , and to the manner born , " though it is failto add that this exclusiveness does not
extend to Masons and Masonry so far as our experience goes . * In Sep . 1771 , one Thos . Milner' Avas proposed and " legally admitted " : appended is a note to the effect that the above Thos . Milner was afterwards rejected , being a Minor .
Marks Lione wasraisedVellow Craft 16 th Sept . 1771 , which appears to be the first instance on record of a Brother being passed at an interval of time after his being admitted .
Dec . 28 th , 1771 , St . John ' s . At a Lodge then held Bro . John Prentice Avas elected Right Worshi pful Master . So runs the minute of that clay . The Wardens , Secretary , ancl Tyler , were all elected at the same time . On the 4 th January , 1773 , Ave
find it ordered that no person be in future made a Brother of this Lodge for a less consideration than the sum of £ \ lis . 6 d . Touching this saicl term , Right Worshipful , I have already saicl , it is the style of a Kni ghtthough the old heralds say that
, Esquire is also a title of Worship . By the way , if we mistake not , the Members of the Royal Order of Scotland ( AVIIO are saicl to have descended from the Knights , whom Robert the Bruce erected into a neAV order of Masonic chivalry after the Battle of
Bannockburn in 1314 ) , address each other formall y as Right Worshipful Sir , and claim to be Knights Companions of the R . S . Y . C . S . Old Izaak Walton , Avho is just IIOAV
denounced by some of the Faculty as the most thorough-going vivisector in his folloAving the " gentle craft , " dedicates his Avorld-known book "The Complete Angler . " To the flight Worshipful John Offley , Esq ., of Macleley Manor , in the County of Stafford ; " My most honoured Friend "—the date of the work is 1653 . Perhaps honest Izaak was no herald , ancl did not know the little distinctions of rank
like many of our modern newspaper writers , Avho will speak of a Marquis as most noble , instead of most honourable , and think no Bishop is entitled to be called My Lord unless he has a seat in the House of Peers , as we said , some Avould-be herald cooly asserts in Notes and Queries a short time
. Can any one tell us if Walton -was a Freemason 1 He speaks of my friend Elias Ashmole , Esq ., who all the world knoAvs , Avas a member of the Craft ancl a Rosicrucian , ancl it Avould be interesting to knoAV Avhether he himself Avas one of the little
band of Speculative Masons Avho kept the Craft alive at that time . To return to the British Union and its Records , betAveen Dec . 1771 and Jan . 1773 , only one meeting appears to have been held , and no record seems to have been regularly
made from this time , of the absent as Avell as present members as heretofore , and consequently no clue given as to the prosperity ancl numbers of the Lodge . In July , 1762 , there appear to have been eleven Members in the Lodgethree of whom were
, absent . In Feb . 1769 , there must have been fourteen Members , eig ht of Avhom are written off as absent , tAvo being at sea , and another excused . . At the Nov . meeting in 1769 , held at the Green Man , six Avere present besides two visitorsand eiht were
, g absent . - Old IpsAvich and Suffolk names constantly appear ^ -Clarke , Prentice , Fenn , Dodd , Oliver , Harris , Bailey , Woolaston or Wollaston , Whiteside , Woodward , Kerriclge , ToA'ell , and others being amongst the number .
Under date 17 th Nov . 1773 , Ave find the folloAving : — " At this Lodge a letter from Kowlancl Holt , Esq ., Prov . Grand Master for the County of Suffolk was read , and it was agreed , ancl ordered that the Master of this Lodge , do answer the same by the next general post , and that be wait on the Grand Secretary , and subscribes one guinea toAvards the general charity , to be paid out