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appear by the annexed certificate ; and as they are apprehensive that a charter from some lodge in Great Britian is necessary in order to enable them to hold lodges and do other acts therein agreeable to the rules of Masonry , they take this method of

applying for the same from your ancient lodge—¦ which request they hope will be readily complied with , and an ample charter fonvarded to them as soon as may be : And your petitioners will pray , & o .

" Signed in the name of the lodge , the 22 nd day of October , 1 . 774 , anno que mundi 5774 : William Allason , G . M . ; William Love , S . W . ; William Smith , J . W . ; Edward Moor , Treas- ; Andrew Buchanan , Sec . " ¦

- ' To all and sundry , to AA * hose knowledge these presents shall come—Greeting : "" Whereas , by virtue of a charter from the Grand Lodge of Scotland , bearing date 21 st July , 1758 , during the presidency of the Right Hon .

and most Worshipful Alexander Earle of Galloway , the Right Worshipful Col . John Thornton , Grand Master : John Neilson , Senior Warden ; Dr . Robert Halkerstone , Junior Warden ; James Strachan , Treas . ; and Robert Armistead , Sec . ;

of the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Fredericksburg , and the other constituent members of that lodge , and their successors in all time to come , are fully entitled to hold a lodge of Free aud Accepted Masons , under the designation of the Lodge of Fredericksburg , and to advance and

reward their brethren according to the custom of all well-regulated lodges . And a petition being presented by a number of the members of this lodge , inhabitants oftlie toivn of Falmouth , bearing date the 30 th January , 1768 , as appears by

the records of this lodge , setting forth as follows , viz . : — To the Worshipful Master , Wardens , and other members of the Lodge at Fredericksburg : Know ye , that whereas your petitioning brethren have by long experience found it greatly

inconvenient , and sometimes impossible , to attend constantly at this our lodge , by Avhich they , and many others ou the north of the Rappn ^ nock , are deprived of the society , felloivship , turd instruction that they sincerely wish for from a regular and

well-constituted lodge ; and whereas we are well assured that many Avorthy persons ( not Masons ) are desirous of becoming such , but for the abovementioned inconveniences decline , and deprive themselves from receiving the benefits of Masonry ; therefore ive , the subscribers , having the good of

Masonry entirely at heart , and from no other motive , have ventured to address the Right Worshipful Lodge , praying them for their consent , approbation , and assistance , to erect and found a lodge in the town of Falmouth . To our

worshipful aud worthy brothers we wish health . Signed : John Neilson , Alexr , Woddroiv , James Buchanan , William Allason , William Love , Alexr . Cunninghame , Edward Moor , William Knox / " " The lodo-e , taking the same into

consideration , unanimously resolve to attend on whatever day the above petitioning brethren should appoint for the purpose ; and accordingly the said Lodge of Fredericksburg , on the 30 th March , 1768 , with their Master and other officers , and clothed in

their proper insignia , did go in procession from the lodge of the toAvn of Fredericksburg to the town of Falmouth , and then and there did , by virtue of the authority aforesaid , constitute , erect ,

and appoint the R . W . John Neilson , G . M . ; Alex . Woddrow , S . W . ; Jas . Buchanan , J . W . ; William Allason , Treas . ; Alex . Cunningham , Sec . ; William Love and Edward Moor , Stewds ., and their other constituent members , and their

successors in all time coming , to be a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons , under the title and designation of the Lodge of Falmouth ;—and Ave request all regular lodges to hold , acknowledge , and respect them as such , hereby granting and

committing to them and their successors , full poAver and authority to assemble and convene . as a regular lodge , and to enter ancl receive Apprentices , pass FelloAV Crafts , and raise Master Masons , and to confer upon their desei-ving brethren all

honours , dignities , and jDre-eminences known or practised in any regular lodge ; and to elect and chuse Masters , Wardens , and other officers , annually or otherwise , as they shall think proper ; and to exact from their entrant members such

compositions as they shall judge necessary for the relief of their brethren in their distress , —recommending to the brethren foresaid to reverence and obey their superiors in all things lawful ! and honest , as becomes the honour and harmony of

Masonry ; and to record in their books this present charter , with their OAVU private regulations and bye-laws , ancl their whole acts and proceedings from time to time as they shall occur ; and not to desert their said lodge hereby constituted , or form

themselves into sepai-ato meetings , without the consent and approbation of their Master ancl Wardens for the time being . And for the more