(No. 7).—The Masonic Temple, St. Helier.

nouneed "mythical" by some misinformed writers . Nor was Miss St . Leger the only one of her sex who penetrated our Order , for in the Freemasons' Magazine for Nov . 19 th , 1859 , there was the following quotation from " A General History of the County of Norfolk , " published in

1829 : — " Died in St . John ' s Maddermarket , Norwich , July , 1802 , aged eighty-five , Mrs . Beaton , a native of Wales . She was commonly called the Freemason , from the circumstance of her having

contrived to conceal herself one evening in the wainscotting of a lodge room , where she learned the secret , the knowledge of which thousands of her sex have in vain attempted to arrive at . She was in many respects a very singular character , of

which one proof adduced is that the secret of the Freemasons died with her . " It would be an act of fraternal grace if some of our brethren in Norfolk could discover a portrait of Mrs . Beaton , and present the same to the Masonic Temple , Jersey , as a companion to the portraits of Mrs . Aldworth .

The good which results to the Craft by the erection of such buildings as the Jersey Masonie Temple cannot be overestimated . They not only remove the stumbling-block of public-house meetings , which in many places are the cause of

keeping men of high character aud ability from joining us , but they enable the Masonic work to be done with propriety and zeal . Moreover , they speak volumes to outsiders in favour of the ancient Order , which , elucidating the mysteries of King

Solomon ' s Temple , has survived the anathemas of Popes , the assaults of Emperors , and the attacks of malevolent slanderers . To visiting brethren the Masonic Temple , St . Helier , is a standing recommendation to follow in the footsteps of Bro . Schmitt and his fellow-Craftsmen , and "Go and do likewise . "—J . A . H .

The Knights Templars.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .

By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE . ( Continued from page 331 ) . BOOK III . —CHAPTER I . —( contd . )

At a meeting of a chapter general of the Order , held in 1112 , Robert de Sablaus , * who was then in England , was elected Grand Master . Mr .

Addison says , " At the period of the arrival of King Richard , the Templars had again lost their Grand Master , " referring to the Grand Marshal , Walter . Undoubtedly both Ducange and the Cotton MS . confer upon Walter the title of Master ,

but , with deference to these authorities , we are or the opinion that he was only Regent during the interregnum , as William de Rupefort was at a later period . The new Grand Master ' s name is differently spelled by authors , Sable , Sabloil ,

Sambell , Sabul . He had the character of being an honourable and valiant Knight , as well as a prudent and sagacious leader . He commanded a division of the English fleet on the voyage to the Holy Land , where the English and French

monarchs , were anxiously looked for . Hoveden * gives a curious account of this voyage , and relates the difficulties Sablaus had to encounter in maintaining peacebetween the Crusaders , whose excesses were anything than befitting Christians , and the people of the ports at which the fleet stopped . He likewise relates that the' Grand Master was a

party to the agreement made at Messina , between Philip and Richard , and of that between the latter , and Tancred , King of Sicily . After many delays , Philip and Richard , with their armies arrived at Acre . On the voyage ,

Richard had made war against the King of Cyprus , in revenge for some fancied slight , and reducing the island sold it to the Templars for three hundred thousand ducats of gold . Vertot cannot permit this transaction to pass without showing

his animus . He writes , "As Cyprus was too remote from England to be annexed to that kingdom , Richard sold it to the Templars for the sum of three hundred thousand livres . These military monks took possession , and , to secure their

authority , threw a numerous body of troops into it . But the harshness of their government , and the haughty ways of these Templars , alienated the minds of these new subjects . Besides , the Cypriots , who followed the Greek rites , could not

conform to the Latin . This was the cause , or at least the pretext for continued war between the great men of that kingdom and the Templars , who were obliged at least to abandon the island , and deliver it back to the King of England , as we shall

observe hereafter . " And so shall toe . The Abbe ' s sycophancy here is at variance in every respect with historical facts . Another passage—while