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Knights Tdmplaeu
besides the Rose Croix , those of the Nine Elected Masters , the Knights of the East , the Sword , and the Eagle , and the Knights Grand Architects of Kilwinning , have been carefully preserved and conferred annually , since the period of their
introduction in the Baldwyn Encampment . Together with the Knights Templar and the Knights Rosse Crucis they form the five Royal Orders or Degrees of Masonic Knighthood , which have been placed "under a common government in the Encampment of Baldwyn .
" The Degree of the Knights Rossb Crucis has been held m Bristol uninterruptedly for nearly a century , and for the last fifty years with a splendour and completeness of ritual unapproached in any other Encampment in England . In the Encampment of Antiquities at Bath , the Degree is known to have been held as
early at least as 1793 . " The Degree of Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H . has not for many years been conferred in Bristol . The late Commanders F . C . Husenbeth , Richard Smith , and others , possessed the Degree , and a Grand Council of the Knights K . D . S . H . was held at Bristol on Good Eriday , March 29 , 1839 .
The circular concludes by announcing the re-establishment of " The Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , " for which it claims the fraternal sympathies of the members of the Order , and states : —• , " A Chapter of the Degree of Rose Croix of Heredom , or Knights Rosa ?
Crucis , is attached to every Encampment of Masonic Knights Templar from time immemorial , but the Degree of Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H ., will in future he conferred only in the body of the Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , within which a Grand Council of Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H . will be established . "
The Encampments stated to be established in connection with the Grand Encampment are , —
The Encampment of Baldwyn , at Bristol ; E . C . Sir Knt . S . E . Taylor . The Encampment of Antiquity , at Bath ; E . C . Sir Knt . E . L . Bagshawe . The Encampment of Ascalon , at Birmingham ; E . C . Sir Knt . Bassett Smith . The Encampment of the Holy Rood , at Warwick ; E . C . Sir Knt . H . Blen
kinsop . The Encampment of the Yale of Jehosophat , at Highbridge ; E . C . Sir Knt . H . Bridges . The Encampment of the Yale Royal , at Salisbury ( held provisionally by dispensation at Corsham in the county of Wilts ) ; E . C . Sir Knt . George Eirmin . The circular , an abstract of which we have felt it our duty to lay before our readers—though regretting that disunion should exist amongst any body of Masons—is signed by D . W . Nash , M . E . Supreme Grand Master ; S . E . Taylor , Deputy Grand Master ; J . J . Evans , Grand Registrar .
We purposely refrain from comment upon this document until we have received —as we presume we shall—the official reply of the Grand Conclave ; though wo cannot understand how Sir Knight Nash can reconcile the assuming the Grand Mastership of a body claiming the right to grant the Degrees enumerated with the obligation he has taken and signed as a member of the Supremo Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ,
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Knights Tdmplaeu
besides the Rose Croix , those of the Nine Elected Masters , the Knights of the East , the Sword , and the Eagle , and the Knights Grand Architects of Kilwinning , have been carefully preserved and conferred annually , since the period of their
introduction in the Baldwyn Encampment . Together with the Knights Templar and the Knights Rosse Crucis they form the five Royal Orders or Degrees of Masonic Knighthood , which have been placed "under a common government in the Encampment of Baldwyn .
" The Degree of the Knights Rossb Crucis has been held m Bristol uninterruptedly for nearly a century , and for the last fifty years with a splendour and completeness of ritual unapproached in any other Encampment in England . In the Encampment of Antiquities at Bath , the Degree is known to have been held as
early at least as 1793 . " The Degree of Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H . has not for many years been conferred in Bristol . The late Commanders F . C . Husenbeth , Richard Smith , and others , possessed the Degree , and a Grand Council of the Knights K . D . S . H . was held at Bristol on Good Eriday , March 29 , 1839 .
The circular concludes by announcing the re-establishment of " The Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , " for which it claims the fraternal sympathies of the members of the Order , and states : —• , " A Chapter of the Degree of Rose Croix of Heredom , or Knights Rosa ?
Crucis , is attached to every Encampment of Masonic Knights Templar from time immemorial , but the Degree of Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H ., will in future he conferred only in the body of the Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment , within which a Grand Council of Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H . will be established . "
The Encampments stated to be established in connection with the Grand Encampment are , —
The Encampment of Baldwyn , at Bristol ; E . C . Sir Knt . S . E . Taylor . The Encampment of Antiquity , at Bath ; E . C . Sir Knt . E . L . Bagshawe . The Encampment of Ascalon , at Birmingham ; E . C . Sir Knt . Bassett Smith . The Encampment of the Holy Rood , at Warwick ; E . C . Sir Knt . H . Blen
kinsop . The Encampment of the Yale of Jehosophat , at Highbridge ; E . C . Sir Knt . H . Bridges . The Encampment of the Yale Royal , at Salisbury ( held provisionally by dispensation at Corsham in the county of Wilts ) ; E . C . Sir Knt . George Eirmin . The circular , an abstract of which we have felt it our duty to lay before our readers—though regretting that disunion should exist amongst any body of Masons—is signed by D . W . Nash , M . E . Supreme Grand Master ; S . E . Taylor , Deputy Grand Master ; J . J . Evans , Grand Registrar .
We purposely refrain from comment upon this document until we have received —as we presume we shall—the official reply of the Grand Conclave ; though wo cannot understand how Sir Knight Nash can reconcile the assuming the Grand Mastership of a body claiming the right to grant the Degrees enumerated with the obligation he has taken and signed as a member of the Supremo Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ,