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casion , should you favour me by the insertion of this letter ) r and would therefore he looked upon as the higher prize , and would he the greater stimulus to a generous emulation among the senior pupils ^ many of whom are ^ doubtless , of such respectable origin , as fully to justify them in at least wishing for the benefits of nniversily education . Apologising for the unavoidable length of this letter , from my anxiety that such of our Brethren as have not given their attention to university matters , may , before embarking in the scheme , fully count the cost and view the question in all its bearings . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours very truly and fraternally , — College , Oxford , A Resident M , A « October 21 . 1858 .
MARK MASONRY , TO THE EDITOR 0 f JDHE FKEEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEROB . Bear Sir and Brother , —I have not been unobservant of a movement now on foot , on the part of some of the English Mark Lodges under Scottish constitution , for an amalgamation with the body styling itself The
Grand Lodge of Mark Masters of England and Wales , " by which I apprehend is meant that body some time ago exposed in the pages of your Magazine as the self constituted , surreptitious , and irregular Mark Master Lodge , whereof the Right Honourable Lord Leigh is at present the head . My connection with the Supreme Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland is of long enough standing to enable me to know the origin and history of this spurious Lodge ; and also to be sufficiently acquainted with the penalty which one of our Scotch Chapters , from which the degree improperly emanated , had to
suffer for its temerity in violating the conditions of its warrant , and giving rise to the irregular body referred to . It is not my intention , however , now to recur to these matters in any particular manner , as they are all now at an end , and the authority under which the Lodges of the Leigh constitution are acting is pretty extensively known throughout the Craft . It is not wished either , to dissuade the adherents to this so called Grand Lodge from rendering to it all manner of allegiance . If they be satisfied with the authority they possess , no one has occasion to disturb them . It is sufficient
that any regular Mark Master shall know how to act when he finds any of them claiming admittance to a Lodge or Chapter of which he may happen at any time to be a member , and can perform his duty . At present my more immediate object , and that to which , as a regular Mark Master , I am impelled by a sense of duty , is to remind those of my English Brethren who are lawfully in possession of the decree under Scotch
or other competent authority , of the reasons which actuated them in applying as they did to Scotland for the warrants they obtained ; and having done so , to offer them a caution against any act which may tend to undo the regularity which at present attaches to them , —the apparently inevitable result , irit apprehetidcd , of any such amalgamation as that now contemplated . Those Brethren to whom I refer are , doubtless , in the recollection that their connection with Scotland arose from a discovery on their part of the illegality of the source whence arose this questionable body , and the utter
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¦»(¦ The Boys' School.
casion , should you favour me by the insertion of this letter ) r and would therefore he looked upon as the higher prize , and would he the greater stimulus to a generous emulation among the senior pupils ^ many of whom are ^ doubtless , of such respectable origin , as fully to justify them in at least wishing for the benefits of nniversily education . Apologising for the unavoidable length of this letter , from my anxiety that such of our Brethren as have not given their attention to university matters , may , before embarking in the scheme , fully count the cost and view the question in all its bearings . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours very truly and fraternally , — College , Oxford , A Resident M , A « October 21 . 1858 .
MARK MASONRY , TO THE EDITOR 0 f JDHE FKEEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEROB . Bear Sir and Brother , —I have not been unobservant of a movement now on foot , on the part of some of the English Mark Lodges under Scottish constitution , for an amalgamation with the body styling itself The
Grand Lodge of Mark Masters of England and Wales , " by which I apprehend is meant that body some time ago exposed in the pages of your Magazine as the self constituted , surreptitious , and irregular Mark Master Lodge , whereof the Right Honourable Lord Leigh is at present the head . My connection with the Supreme Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland is of long enough standing to enable me to know the origin and history of this spurious Lodge ; and also to be sufficiently acquainted with the penalty which one of our Scotch Chapters , from which the degree improperly emanated , had to
suffer for its temerity in violating the conditions of its warrant , and giving rise to the irregular body referred to . It is not my intention , however , now to recur to these matters in any particular manner , as they are all now at an end , and the authority under which the Lodges of the Leigh constitution are acting is pretty extensively known throughout the Craft . It is not wished either , to dissuade the adherents to this so called Grand Lodge from rendering to it all manner of allegiance . If they be satisfied with the authority they possess , no one has occasion to disturb them . It is sufficient
that any regular Mark Master shall know how to act when he finds any of them claiming admittance to a Lodge or Chapter of which he may happen at any time to be a member , and can perform his duty . At present my more immediate object , and that to which , as a regular Mark Master , I am impelled by a sense of duty , is to remind those of my English Brethren who are lawfully in possession of the decree under Scotch
or other competent authority , of the reasons which actuated them in applying as they did to Scotland for the warrants they obtained ; and having done so , to offer them a caution against any act which may tend to undo the regularity which at present attaches to them , —the apparently inevitable result , irit apprehetidcd , of any such amalgamation as that now contemplated . Those Brethren to whom I refer are , doubtless , in the recollection that their connection with Scotland arose from a discovery on their part of the illegality of the source whence arose this questionable body , and the utter