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better stay away from * my Lodge , for as a visitor he was always creating a disturbance by addressing the chair upon all matters under discussion , and much ill feeling was the result . However , he came : he sat on the right of the W . M . and I on the left , and we were surrounded by many Brethren of the highest rank from the province of Bristol ; we were all joking Dr . Tunstall about his having transferred his allegiance , as a member of the Camp of Baidwyn , to Colonel Tynte . This subject made him very sore , and he appealed to the W . M . for protection , which was granted to him as a matter of courtesy . After the Brethren had been at the table four hours ( having previously been at the Lodge for three hours ) , some of their number ,, by permission of the S . W . —including gentlemen of high standing in society , one a nobleman , —lit their cigars ; upon which Dr . Tunstall

rose and begged that they might be put out , which was at once acceded to , and an apology tendered by Bro . Bagshawe . A short time afterwards the health of the Lodge No . 61 was proposed , and Dr . Tunstall rose and prefaced his remarks by saying "That , as a P . M . of No . 48 " ( mar \ not as W . M . of No . 61 , or as our guest ) , " he told the Brethren that they did not come there to smoke , and if they wanted so to do , Odd Fellows' Lodges and the bar of the inn were open to those who wished to do so ; " forgetting in his charity that during dinner , and up to the time he was

speaking , he had indulged rather copiously , as is his wont , in snuff-taking ; thus using tobacco in another form . Now , after this gratuitous insult had been offered to the S . W ., who had apologized for giving permission to Brethren to smoke , I own that three of the youngest members of my Lodge did involuntarily hiss Dr . Tunstall ; and although he deserved to be ejected from the room , I rose , out of deference to his age , and asked the W . M . to request his Dir . Cer . to lead the offending Brethren from the table ; but this our guest , who by his discourtesy had called down upon himself the angry feelings of a few Brethren , would not

permit . I leave the cause of the Camp of Antiquity of Knights Templar and the Bose Crucis Chapter attached thereto by Dunckerley himself , in 1793 , in the hands of our acting G-. M ., and if Dr . Tunstall or any one else has aught to say , let them appeal to him as the head of the Grand Commandery from time immemorial . I can only , in taking leave of Dr . Tunstall , hope that at this late period of his life , his heart has been imbued for some wise purpose with the principles of Masonry , which has induced him to show that light to his Brethren as a true

Christian , sans peur and sans reproche , which during his lengthened Masonic career has , I am sorry to say , hitherto been hid under a bushel . The postscript to his letter , however , almost forbids the hope . What affinity there is between the purple and Knight Templarism I know not , and if the Prov . G . M . brings his prejudices as G . M . of that Order into his Prov . Grand Lodge , I maintain that he violates the Constitutions . As a proof that this feeling operates , I may mention , that when we applied to Colonel Tynte for a dispensation , Bro . Vigne ( who boasts that he can do what he likes with the Prov . G . M . ) called upon the Brother upon whose

behalf the application was made , and ashed him if fie belonged to my camp , as it was necessary this should be known before an answer was given ! Surely these facts need no comment , and , I opine , Colonel Tynte v ^ ill not thank his Bayarddike champion for compromising him so much in the eyes of the world . My answer to Dr . Falconer must necessarily be brief , inasmuch as he confirms

nearly all that Justitia" stated . If Dr . Falconer fancies there is an intimate connection between that individual and myself , I opine that the idea can emanate only from his prolific imagination . Now I unequivocally affirm that Dr . Falconer told me that tradesmen had no right to visit gentlemen ' s Lodges , and that it was an act of condescension on the part of a gentleman to visit a Lodge of tradesmen . This was uttered to me in the coffee-room of the Castle Hotel when I was S . W .

of No . 48 , prior to our departure to attend Prov . Grand Lodge at Shepton Mallet in 1853 . This speech , so much in violation of every principle of Masonry , and coming as it did from the W . M . of No . 528 , surprised me not a little . I could not understand it , and consequently have only visited his gentlemen ' s Lodge four or five times at the outside , and I can answer for every member of No . 48 , many of whom are of higher standing in society than Dr . Falconer , that they have never in or out of Lodge thrust themselves upon the society of any member of