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enable the recipients to apply for a warrant for a Mark Lodge , I am bound to suppose the other signatures were genuine . The Brother above alluded to expressed his great regret at having been mixed up in the matter , considered that he had been entirely misled , and assured me that he had communicated to the other two Brethren that he would have nothing further to do with it ; that he had written to Bro . Gaylor to withdraw the application that he had , in the above manner , been induced to make , and to decline receiving the warrant ( this was on the 11 th December ); and again on the 16 th I heard him make the same statement , when the matter was commented
upon in the Kent Lodge , of which he is W . M . And yet I see , in your report from Scotland , that such warrant was actually granted to himself and two others . This indeed makes " confusion worse confounded ; " and I await the issue with very grave forebodings . Well do you say , Brother , that "the Grand Chapter must itself rectify the error ; " but that must be not merely by recalling the warrant granted upon the
application of those whose certificates were so issued and obtained , but by entirely repudiating the conduct of Bro . Gaylor , whose acts have tended to throw distrust and discredit upon every certificate issued by that important Grand Chapter . —I am , Sir and Brother , John A . L . Barnard , An Old Kent ,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir , —I notice your pertinent remarks headed "Mark Masonry , " and bearing on the asserted issue of false certificates under the seal of the Grand Chapter of Scotland . The ^ question is , were such certificates deliberately issued with the knowledge that they were false ? Having Scotch blood in my veins , and being Principal of an English B . A .
Chapter , and W . M . of an English Mark Lodge , I am directly interested in this question , and therefore presume to send you some facts which may aid in answer . Being an honorary member of the Kent Mark Lodge , and hearing a rumour that something was being done to transfer it to Scotland , I wrote to the W . M ., and received his reply in the affirmative ; for he and two others had applied for a warrant . This made me inquire how—he having no status in the Scotch Grand Chapter ? His reply was , that he and Bro . X , had been to Scotland and had got a regular Scotch Royal Arch certificate .
I afterwards called on Bro . X ., to appeal to him on what I considered the treason of himself and the Master towards our Lodge . The result was bis honest regret at the course adopted . He said , " Come , I'll tell you a secret ; " but I refused at once all statements in confidence , and we continued our conversation . At length , the Brother jumped up , and saying ( i You know I can ' t tell a lie , " clanked the lock of a large iron
safe , and thrust into my hands a Scotch Grand Chapter certificate of his exaltation , in Scotland , on the 18 th of November last . " There , " said he , " never out of London , never obligated , never proved , never examined 1 " " What ! no ceremony , even by dispensation ? " " None whatever ; all Gaylor ' s doing , ho saw Thompson when he was up , and I met him by chance at Bro . P ' s . l Oh , ' said he , ' I'll arrange it ; ' and all I know is , I got the certificate . Gaylor never
even saw ¦ , the W . M . These facts do not affect the legitimacy of the jurisdiction ofthe Scotch Grand Chapter over tho Mark degree in England , for we know that legitimacy may not only be despotic , fraudulent , and false , but bigotedly blind to its own destruction ; therefore , any lens offence , such as the subject ofthe present scandal , is consistent with legitimacy . Legitimacy may condescend to questionable means for inducing a man to repudiate his solemn obligation or deliberate contract ; it may do so for plausible purposes or for manifestl y corrupt purposes , for the recruiting an exhausted exchequer
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Goeeesponijence,
enable the recipients to apply for a warrant for a Mark Lodge , I am bound to suppose the other signatures were genuine . The Brother above alluded to expressed his great regret at having been mixed up in the matter , considered that he had been entirely misled , and assured me that he had communicated to the other two Brethren that he would have nothing further to do with it ; that he had written to Bro . Gaylor to withdraw the application that he had , in the above manner , been induced to make , and to decline receiving the warrant ( this was on the 11 th December ); and again on the 16 th I heard him make the same statement , when the matter was commented
upon in the Kent Lodge , of which he is W . M . And yet I see , in your report from Scotland , that such warrant was actually granted to himself and two others . This indeed makes " confusion worse confounded ; " and I await the issue with very grave forebodings . Well do you say , Brother , that "the Grand Chapter must itself rectify the error ; " but that must be not merely by recalling the warrant granted upon the
application of those whose certificates were so issued and obtained , but by entirely repudiating the conduct of Bro . Gaylor , whose acts have tended to throw distrust and discredit upon every certificate issued by that important Grand Chapter . —I am , Sir and Brother , John A . L . Barnard , An Old Kent ,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir , —I notice your pertinent remarks headed "Mark Masonry , " and bearing on the asserted issue of false certificates under the seal of the Grand Chapter of Scotland . The ^ question is , were such certificates deliberately issued with the knowledge that they were false ? Having Scotch blood in my veins , and being Principal of an English B . A .
Chapter , and W . M . of an English Mark Lodge , I am directly interested in this question , and therefore presume to send you some facts which may aid in answer . Being an honorary member of the Kent Mark Lodge , and hearing a rumour that something was being done to transfer it to Scotland , I wrote to the W . M ., and received his reply in the affirmative ; for he and two others had applied for a warrant . This made me inquire how—he having no status in the Scotch Grand Chapter ? His reply was , that he and Bro . X , had been to Scotland and had got a regular Scotch Royal Arch certificate .
I afterwards called on Bro . X ., to appeal to him on what I considered the treason of himself and the Master towards our Lodge . The result was bis honest regret at the course adopted . He said , " Come , I'll tell you a secret ; " but I refused at once all statements in confidence , and we continued our conversation . At length , the Brother jumped up , and saying ( i You know I can ' t tell a lie , " clanked the lock of a large iron
safe , and thrust into my hands a Scotch Grand Chapter certificate of his exaltation , in Scotland , on the 18 th of November last . " There , " said he , " never out of London , never obligated , never proved , never examined 1 " " What ! no ceremony , even by dispensation ? " " None whatever ; all Gaylor ' s doing , ho saw Thompson when he was up , and I met him by chance at Bro . P ' s . l Oh , ' said he , ' I'll arrange it ; ' and all I know is , I got the certificate . Gaylor never
even saw ¦ , the W . M . These facts do not affect the legitimacy of the jurisdiction ofthe Scotch Grand Chapter over tho Mark degree in England , for we know that legitimacy may not only be despotic , fraudulent , and false , but bigotedly blind to its own destruction ; therefore , any lens offence , such as the subject ofthe present scandal , is consistent with legitimacy . Legitimacy may condescend to questionable means for inducing a man to repudiate his solemn obligation or deliberate contract ; it may do so for plausible purposes or for manifestl y corrupt purposes , for the recruiting an exhausted exchequer