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Provincial Grand Lodges.
capture of Pembroke by Cromwell . However this may affectthe motto of the Poyexs , I must set you right on a somewhat interesting matter to me . It was Poyer who drew the blank , while Laugharne and the other were saved ; one result of which is , that I , as one of Laugharne ' s descendants ^ am able to write to you about it . I am sorry I cannot j bin in your glorification of their loyalty , for General Laugharne had previously received
from the parliament a grant of this very estate of Slebeach as a reward for his services against the king ; and the whole three were condemned to death on account of their previous defection . Nor can I agree that they were u three of them , " namely , descendants of Templars , and strongly attached to the Yorkists in the wars of the lioses ; for the first Laugharne in that country landed ^ with Henry of Lancaster in Pembrokeshire , at a point near St . Brides , which estate he afterwards acquired by marriage with the heiress of the then owner .
I am a Past Commander of Templars , aiid have otherwise entered with zeal into the practice and history of Freemasonry sufficiently to regret the many fables with which it is disfigrired . None are more absurd than , the fictions regarding Templar Masonry ; the result of which is the present false position in which the body in this country are placed . I therefore
feel bound to point out the inaccuracy of the premises on which your correspondent ' s theory is built , and to protest most strongly against mat shortsighted policy , whether in Templar Masonry or otherwise , whicht seeks to bolster up anything right or wrong , by deliberately favoured crochets of fiction or absurdity .
When such novel writers deal with the middle ages , there is little within the circle of the Magazine save their own conscience to" convictthem , but when they kill one ' s immediate ancestor , and that by a " crumpled paper " of monkish Latin , instead of puritan English , they are not so safe . And although it sometimes happens that the Commonwealth and the wars ofthe
Roses are the dark ages of family history , it may also occur , as in the present case , that both the origin and political bias of remote ancestors can be shown to refute the favoured crotchets I have alluded to ; I remain , yours fraternally , Blachanton , Totnes . , Alex , Ridgway . September Srrf , 1858 .
KNIGHTS OF THE MOON . TO THE EDITOR OV THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MAS OHIO . MIRROR , Dear Sir and Brother , —Among the mock Masonic societies which survived from the last century and continued their existence in this , was that of the Knights of the Moon , held at some tavern in St , Paul ' s
Churchyard . The meetings continued till about 1810 , and Mr . John Wingham , the last surviving Knight of the Moon , died about 18 :: 7 . He was a man of some literary cultivation , and of a respectable famity , but his circumstances were much impaired in the latter part of his life . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,
42 , Basinghall-street , llyim Cmlrki 30 * August , 1858 ,
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Provincial Grand Lodges.
capture of Pembroke by Cromwell . However this may affectthe motto of the Poyexs , I must set you right on a somewhat interesting matter to me . It was Poyer who drew the blank , while Laugharne and the other were saved ; one result of which is , that I , as one of Laugharne ' s descendants ^ am able to write to you about it . I am sorry I cannot j bin in your glorification of their loyalty , for General Laugharne had previously received
from the parliament a grant of this very estate of Slebeach as a reward for his services against the king ; and the whole three were condemned to death on account of their previous defection . Nor can I agree that they were u three of them , " namely , descendants of Templars , and strongly attached to the Yorkists in the wars of the lioses ; for the first Laugharne in that country landed ^ with Henry of Lancaster in Pembrokeshire , at a point near St . Brides , which estate he afterwards acquired by marriage with the heiress of the then owner .
I am a Past Commander of Templars , aiid have otherwise entered with zeal into the practice and history of Freemasonry sufficiently to regret the many fables with which it is disfigrired . None are more absurd than , the fictions regarding Templar Masonry ; the result of which is the present false position in which the body in this country are placed . I therefore
feel bound to point out the inaccuracy of the premises on which your correspondent ' s theory is built , and to protest most strongly against mat shortsighted policy , whether in Templar Masonry or otherwise , whicht seeks to bolster up anything right or wrong , by deliberately favoured crochets of fiction or absurdity .
When such novel writers deal with the middle ages , there is little within the circle of the Magazine save their own conscience to" convictthem , but when they kill one ' s immediate ancestor , and that by a " crumpled paper " of monkish Latin , instead of puritan English , they are not so safe . And although it sometimes happens that the Commonwealth and the wars ofthe
Roses are the dark ages of family history , it may also occur , as in the present case , that both the origin and political bias of remote ancestors can be shown to refute the favoured crotchets I have alluded to ; I remain , yours fraternally , Blachanton , Totnes . , Alex , Ridgway . September Srrf , 1858 .
KNIGHTS OF THE MOON . TO THE EDITOR OV THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MAS OHIO . MIRROR , Dear Sir and Brother , —Among the mock Masonic societies which survived from the last century and continued their existence in this , was that of the Knights of the Moon , held at some tavern in St , Paul ' s
Churchyard . The meetings continued till about 1810 , and Mr . John Wingham , the last surviving Knight of the Moon , died about 18 :: 7 . He was a man of some literary cultivation , and of a respectable famity , but his circumstances were much impaired in the latter part of his life . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,
42 , Basinghall-street , llyim Cmlrki 30 * August , 1858 ,