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Knights Tdmplaeu
¦ i Grand Conclave as now established ; and its declaration of independence . It states : — - "In making known the revival and re-establishment of the Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment of the Order of the Masonic Knights Templar , of Saint
John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes , and Malta , H . R . B . M ., K . D . S . H ., from time immemorial , of England and Wales , it is desirable to present to you a brief statement of the circumstances which have rendered this revival necessary . " It then proceeds to say : — "The origin of the Baldwyn Encampment of Masonic Knights Templar at Bristol is unknown , the Encampment having been in existence in that city from a
remote period . " The records of the Baldwyn Encampment , however , which have been carefully preserved , enable us to assert that in the year 1780 the then existing Encampments of Masonic Knights Templar , from time immemorial , were , and had been previously , under the government and authority of a Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment . A document engrossed on parchment , and bearing the seals of the Orders of Knights Templar , Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , and Knights of Malta , of the Knights Rosae Crucis , and of the Grand Elected Knights Kadosh , dated from ' Our Castle at Bristol , the 20 th day of December , 1780 , ' refers" to a previously existing document , called therein , a ' Charter OF Compact '"
The document , which proceeds " to enact laws for the government of the said Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , and for the subordinate Encampments then existing , or thereafter to be created by Warrants under its authority , " is said to have " remained in the archives of the Knights Templar at Bristol , from the year a . d . 1780 to the present time , and bears the signatures of the M . E . and Supreme Grand Master of the Order in 1780 , Joshua Springer ( whose portrait , painted about 1785 , now hangs in the Freemasons' Hall , at Bristol ) , and those of other Grand Masters , and of eminent Commanders of the Encampment of
Baldwyn at Bristol down to the present time . " We are next informed that , " Under this Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , the Encampments of Baldwyn , at Bristol , and of Antiquity , at Bath , continued for many years ; " and that Encampments , styling themselves " from time immemorial , " were also known to exist in London , York , and Salisbury . The circular states that the Encampment at London also at one time st } ded
itself a Grand Enpampment , but afterwards , as early as 1809 , " adopted the title of Grand Conclave of Masonic Knights Templar ; " but the Encampments of Bath and Bristol always refused to acknowledge its authority . A correspondence was commenced between the Supreme Grand Encampment at Bristol and the
Grand Conclave in London , in 1809 ; and the last communication between thern , prior to the establishment of the present Grand Conclave , is dated in 1820 . In the year 1812 , H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex was elected Grand Master by the Grand Conclave in London , —an election in which the Grand Encampment at Bristol did not at the time concur ; though subsequently his royal highness was also elected Grand Master by that Encampment . The Order not being favoured by his royal highness , no communication took place between the Grand Conclave and the Baldwyn Encampment , from 1820 to 1844 . And the Grand Conclave is stated , by this circular , to have been during that time in abeyance ; the Grand
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Knights Tdmplaeu
¦ i Grand Conclave as now established ; and its declaration of independence . It states : — - "In making known the revival and re-establishment of the Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment of the Order of the Masonic Knights Templar , of Saint
John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes , and Malta , H . R . B . M ., K . D . S . H ., from time immemorial , of England and Wales , it is desirable to present to you a brief statement of the circumstances which have rendered this revival necessary . " It then proceeds to say : — "The origin of the Baldwyn Encampment of Masonic Knights Templar at Bristol is unknown , the Encampment having been in existence in that city from a
remote period . " The records of the Baldwyn Encampment , however , which have been carefully preserved , enable us to assert that in the year 1780 the then existing Encampments of Masonic Knights Templar , from time immemorial , were , and had been previously , under the government and authority of a Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment . A document engrossed on parchment , and bearing the seals of the Orders of Knights Templar , Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , and Knights of Malta , of the Knights Rosae Crucis , and of the Grand Elected Knights Kadosh , dated from ' Our Castle at Bristol , the 20 th day of December , 1780 , ' refers" to a previously existing document , called therein , a ' Charter OF Compact '"
The document , which proceeds " to enact laws for the government of the said Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , and for the subordinate Encampments then existing , or thereafter to be created by Warrants under its authority , " is said to have " remained in the archives of the Knights Templar at Bristol , from the year a . d . 1780 to the present time , and bears the signatures of the M . E . and Supreme Grand Master of the Order in 1780 , Joshua Springer ( whose portrait , painted about 1785 , now hangs in the Freemasons' Hall , at Bristol ) , and those of other Grand Masters , and of eminent Commanders of the Encampment of
Baldwyn at Bristol down to the present time . " We are next informed that , " Under this Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , the Encampments of Baldwyn , at Bristol , and of Antiquity , at Bath , continued for many years ; " and that Encampments , styling themselves " from time immemorial , " were also known to exist in London , York , and Salisbury . The circular states that the Encampment at London also at one time st } ded
itself a Grand Enpampment , but afterwards , as early as 1809 , " adopted the title of Grand Conclave of Masonic Knights Templar ; " but the Encampments of Bath and Bristol always refused to acknowledge its authority . A correspondence was commenced between the Supreme Grand Encampment at Bristol and the
Grand Conclave in London , in 1809 ; and the last communication between thern , prior to the establishment of the present Grand Conclave , is dated in 1820 . In the year 1812 , H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex was elected Grand Master by the Grand Conclave in London , —an election in which the Grand Encampment at Bristol did not at the time concur ; though subsequently his royal highness was also elected Grand Master by that Encampment . The Order not being favoured by his royal highness , no communication took place between the Grand Conclave and the Baldwyn Encampment , from 1820 to 1844 . And the Grand Conclave is stated , by this circular , to have been during that time in abeyance ; the Grand