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masons prior to this date * Further , April liith 1747 , the Prince , to show his gratitude to the Masons of Artois , chartered in the city of Arras a " Primatial Sovereign Chapter of R > J < ., under the distinguished title of' Jacobite Scotland . ' " " The history of the Jerusalem Encampment , the oldest in Lancashire , commences in 1786 , but many old

Freemasons believe that long prior to the issue of warrants the Chivalric Orders were practised under the sanction of the blue lodges . Previously to about 1725 , all degrees were conferred in Grand Lodge only , that is , tho Grand Lodge was similar to our private lodges , sometimes moveable , and possessing parental authority , hence it was gradually from this time that tho modern private

lodges obtained the privilege of one degree after another , sometimes even from foreign centres , until the system of the Ancient Masons of last century was in full operation . The late venerable and esteemed Bro . Dr . Oliver states that in 1786 the 'York Brothers' recognised 25 ° —Encyclopaedia Metropolitans states 22 ° - —but this must be undei'stood nominally only , counting tho Rose Croix as the 18 ° of the Continental Masonic rite , and

the Templar Ne Plus Ultra as the 25 ° . They would thus appear liberally to have recognised all degrees , and when they held a Grand Lodge they seem to have opened a Chapter or a Royal Encampment , & c , and to have closed them within a limited period . The ceremonies of the first three degrees presented considerable differences to the present system : they were Christian , and named

Johannite Masonry , and meetings were held in the Crypt under York Minster , and their lectures state that 'there are three craft degrees received under different appellations , ' i . e ., in different countries . It will be observed that in the copy of the petition for the warrant of the Jerusalem Encampment , Lodge No . 39 is mentioned . The minute-book of this lodge is in possession of the

Encampment , and the by-laws bear the signature of Laurence Dermott , about 1757 , so that it was constituted by the seceding or Ancient Grand Lodge of England , t This body first made their appearance as protesting against the continued innovations of the London Grand Lodge of 1717 , and they were recognised by the Grand Lodge of all England at York , as the representatives of what was termed Ancient Masonry in the South . ! A

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few years later Baron Hunde , in 1754 , established Templar Encampments in Germany , claiming to have originated with the Scottish Templars , who , he asserted , under the Bruce , had connected themselves with the Freemasons' Lodges , in 1314 . " * ( To be continued . )

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" Constitutions of the Freemasons . " By WILLIAM JAMES HTTGHAK , Prov . G . Sec , Cornwall , & c . London : R . Spencer , Great Queen-street . Truro : William Lake 1869 .

( Con tinned from page 258 . ) AVE have noticed at pp . 238 & 258 this very interesting book , and are glad to learn that a very large and important section of the members of the Masonic Fraternity have expressed to Bro . Hughan their sense of the obligation under which he has placed them by undertaking , and performing so well , a task which , it appears

, has been specially reserved for so able and laborious a Masonic student as Bro . Hughan . The following is a further extract from this interesting work : — APPENDIX D . Harleian MSS ., vol . 1942 , page 288 Free . Mas . Q . Review , 1836 .

THE NEW ARTICLES . " 26 th . —Noe person ( of what degree soever ) be accepted a Freemason , unless he shall have a lodge of 5 freemasons , at least , whereof one to bee a Master , or Warden of that limit or division wherein such Lodge shall bee kept , and another of the trade of Freemasonry . " 27 th . —That noe person shall be accepted a

Freemason , but such as are of able body , honest parentage , good reputation , and observers of tne Laws of the Land . " 28 th . —That noe person hereafter be accepted a Freemason , nor shall be admitted into any Lodge or assembly until he hath brought a Certificate of the time of acceptation , from the Lodge that accepted him , unto

the Master of that Limit and Division where such Lodge was kept ; which sayd Master shall enroll the dame in parchment , in a roll to bee kept for that purpose , to give an account of all such acceptions at every general Assembly . " 29 . —That every person who now is Freemason shall bring to the Master a note of the time of his acception , to the end the same may be enrolled in such priority of