Sir Knt. Matthew Cooke's Lecture.

for the retention of the statueable costume ; the Order of the Temple in Scotland and its ritual . ( Here there was an interval of five minutes ) . Freemason ^ ' and the Holy Scriptures ; liberty of conscience in the middle ages ; Freemasonry re-introduced into Europe by the Templars ; GoAver , Chaucer , Skelton , and Lydgate " ; the troubadours , Albigenses and Yaudois ; Petrarch , Dante ,

and Boccacio ; Wickliff , Huss , and the Lollards ; works Avritten in a double sense ; the Book of Revelations ; Clement V . and Philip le Bel ; the secret faith of the Templars ; Templary and Freemasonry identical as proved by the symbolic architecture ofthe Temple church ; secret sects in the middle ages ; Freemasonry allegorised in the persons of ideal females ; S . Augustine on

allegory ; Clemens of Alexandria ; Apuleius , Cicero , Toland , and Swedenborg ; esoteric and . exoteric portions of Holy Writ ; S . Jerome ; mystical nature [ of allegory ; tale by Boccacio ; another , and its Masonic interpretation ; the Knts . of S . John of Jerusalem Freemasons ; light and the _ Pythagorean philosophy ; mystic numbers of the various degrees in middle-age Freemasonry ; the keys to the science ; the higher grades the nurseries of

Freemasons ; the Christianity of Freemasonry everyAvhere "but in England and her colonies ; secrets brought from the Bast by the Templars ; practical and speculative Freemasonry and active and contemplative Freemasonry ; the six grand periods of the Craft and the seven ages of cosmopolitan Freemasonry ; losing the key ; allusion to a very high degree ; the Holy and ever Blessed Trinity ;

precious stones and colours ; a Templar pilgrimage ; passion , week the time chosen for initiation into the first degree iu Freemasonry nnder the Templars ; the Templars and Knts . of S . John of Jerusalem ; the Avar name ; initiations into Freemasonry under the Knts . Templar ; Knts . ; of the E . W . K and S . ; ' early lodges dedicated to SS . Peter and John ; the Mediterranean

pass ; Knts . of Malta ; Clement XII . ; Avhy Craftsmen kneAV nothing of the superior degrees ; several Masonic degrees and orders , existing in 1724 , nnknoAvn to Craftsmen ; York Freemasonry and its nine degrees ; rights of high brethren under the York system { the undoubted Christianity of all degrees in Freemasonry as taught in the York and ancient ceremonies and lectures ; acknowledgment in the Craft lectures , a century old , of Templary being a superior and better grade in Freemasonry ; Conclusion .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

BEO . ED 1 VAED COBMS ' s CHAKGE . What Avas Bro . Edward Collis ' s Charge about that it should call for the folloAving , inserted in an odd volume of the old " Freemasons' Magazine" for 1794 ? Where can Vol . I . referred to , he seen by—W . " CAEB

" To the Readers of the ' Freemasons' Magazine , ' and in particular to a Correspondent signing ' J . ' " Sirs and Brother , — -The charge by Edward Collis ( Mag . Vol . I . No . VI . p . 452 ) was not only communicated ' to this Magazine loitlwut his Jcnoioledge , but the putting his name to the title was also what he never

meant . The mistake orignated as follows : — " The charge was only read in a meeting of the Roman Eagle Lodge , and as the book from which he read it was very scarce ( not even to he had in Scotland ) , he was prevailed upon to print a few copies of it for the information of the brethren ; ' but without

any knowledge or design of his name being put in the title , which was done by a mistake of the printer iu a a few of the first copies ; one of Avhich haA'ing fallen into my hands , I not knowing that it had been written

by any other person ( till I made enquiry on account of Bro . J . ' s representation ) , and thinking it would be very acceptable to the readers of this Magazine , sent it to the publisher , with some other articles of own , not having the least design to impose upon any person whateA'er . Hoping this true and faithful representation of the matter will satisfy Bro . J . to whom I confess myself much indebted for the notice he has taken , I remain his much obliged brother ,

" VraMx , Fr . Aq . Bom . "Edinburgh , Feb . 21 , 5794 . " BEO . THE EEV . BE . JOHN WATKIUS . This gentleman was a native of Devonshire , though we are informed he had not any part of his education

in that county . If our intelligence is accurate ( and we have noreason to question it ) he may be considered as one of those whose genius will burst forth in spite of depression , and arise to full vieAv and catch the admiration of men .

Through all the juvenile part of his life , he seemed to be hovering over tho chambers of death . His early years were chequered with misfortunes and clouded Avith disease . More than once , we are told , have the anxious attendants declared him to be no longer an inhabitant of this nether sphere .

In such a state of weakness and inadequacy for society , literature formed his only amusement . Though placed in a respectable seminary of learning , his infirmities pressed so severely upon him , that the advantages which he derived from that situation Avere comparatively but small . To the exercisetherefore ,

, of his OAVII mind , aided by the sedentariness which necessity thus imposed upon him , ins attainments either in the languages or the sciences are principally to be attributed . Of one who has devoted himself entirely to literary pursuits , aud a life of learned ease , scarcely any

particulars can be gathered to gratiry public curiosity . The adventures of but feAV authors have afforded entei'tainrnent by their variety , or excited surprise by their novelty . If the subject of the present memoir has not dazzled by the splendour , or astonished by the number of his productionshe can yet felicitate himself on

, their teudeney . Nor has he any reason to complain of the want of public approbation . Though the far greater part of them have been anonymously ushered into the world , they have yet been marked with the applause of the judicious and the Avorthy . We canuot presume to withdraw the veil ;

otherwise Ave could point out some distinguished pieces Avhich have issued from his pen . Among these are some political performances of considerable A'igour and celebrity . He has not been the least active or successful in the literary rank who have come for-Avard in the season of alarm to vindicate our glorious

constitution against the insidious attempts of innovators . In 1791 he published " Proposals for a History of the Church of England , from the Establishment of the Reformation under Queen Elizabeth to the present time . " This undertaking , which is designed to be comprised in tAvo volumes quarto , was recommended to hirn by some of the most learned aud worthy prelates of the Church . The prospectus to this his-