Masonic Jottings, No. 76.

ible to me is the " Biographie Universelle , " first edition , in which his name is not found . According to Bro . Purton Cooper ' s Common Place Book , Anderson was the Pastor of a Presbyterian Church , Swallow

Street-DESAGULIERS . "As a French Eefugee , Desaguliers was of course a zealous Protestant , and this fact must have influenced him in the alterations in the ritual of Masonry , in which several chang * es Avei * e

made subsequently to the Eevival of 1717 , for the purpose of divesting ifc of some of the lingering remnants of Eornanism . "—MASONIC EXTEACTS .

CHRISTIAN CRAFT PRAYERS . —REIGN OF EDWARD IV . A Brother has taken the trouble to send me the copy of a short prayer entitled , " A Prayer to be used of Christian Masons at the empointing

of a Brother , used in the reign of Edward IV . " Two or three similar copies are in my bundle of Excerpts ; one of them may be seen in "Freemasons' Magazine , Vol . 24 , page 207 . They all come from the Freemasons' Pocket Companion of the middle of the last century .

"IF . TO BE A TRUE MASON . " "If to be a true Mason , " ifc is necessary to believe in the doctrines of Masonry , as taught in our English Lodges , the assertion that no man can become a true Mason unless he be a Christian , is as just , now , as it was before the year 1813 .

VITRUVIUS'S PHILOSOPHY . Brother , look into the work of Vifcruvius . According to the "Biographie Universelle "— "il veat que la Philosophic donne a Tarchitecte , une time grande et hardie , sans arrogance , et qu 'elle lui apprenne a efcre equitable , fidole , et surtout exempt d'avarice . "

A THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE . The theory of the Universe which a Corr espondenfc writes thafc he has adopted , and which supposes millions of years to have elapsed before there were life , instinct , intelligence and reason on

our globe , is no obstacle to his reception into English Freemasonry , provided he ascribes their origin to the Great Architect .

The Grand Lodge Of Massachusetts, U. S.

THE GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS , U . S .

From the proceedings of the one-hundred and thirty-seventh anniversary communication we learn that the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire , made the assertion that the

Grand Lodge of Massachusetts had no legal existence prior , 1792 , which called forth a volume of interesting history from Grancl Master Gardner . Ifc was then stated that the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Avas formed by the union of Sfc .

John ' s Grand Lodge , which Avas organised in 1733 , and Massachusetts Grand Lodge , organised in 1769 , the complete union being effected in 1792 . With this introduction our readers will be

able to understand the Address of Grand Master Gardner . The Committee of NOAV Hampshire , referred to above , claimed that by the death of General Warren , Provincial Grand Master of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge , and the death of the

Provincial Grand Master of Sfc . John ' s Grand Ledge , both Lodges ceased to exist in 1775 , and only revived in 1792 . Upon this the Grand Master says : "If this report had been read to the Grand

Lodge of New Hampshire , its venerable pasfc Grand Masters , Israel Hunt and Horace Chase , then present , could have informed the Committee thafc they were treading upon dangerous ground , for the Lodges composing the Grand Lodge of

New Hampshire at its organization , obtained their charters from the Grand Lodges of Massachusetts . The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire Avas organised July 8 th , 1789 , by four Deputies from Sfc . John ' s Lodge of Portsmouth , chartered by

the Massachusetts Grand Lodge , June 24 , 1734 , and , one Deputy from Eising Sun Lodge of Keene , chartered by the Massachusetts Grand Lodge , March 5 fch , 1734 . All Masonic authorities fully agree , that to organise a legitimate Grand

Lodge , there must be representatives from three Lodges , holding Charters from some legal Grand Lodge . All the Lodges in New Hampshire existing prior fco 1790 received Charters from Massachusetts .

The system of Provincial Grand Lodges originated in the Grand Lodge of England in 1726 , and arse from the necessity of having , in the distant colonies , where Masonry had extended