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fellows , pricing of work , etc ., he was also subject to the regulations of the lodge . There is indeed a notice in the records of the Lodge of Edinburgh of the Quarter-Master-General of the Army having been created a Master Mason ; but in this

acttaking into account the period at which it was conferred ( 1641 ) and the social position of the recipient—we can only recognise the Fraternity ' s formal admission to the freedom of the trade of

one who from some cause or other they delighted to honour . In later times ( 1720 ) we find Masonic Associations displaying their loyalty towards the House of Hanover , hy investing with a similar distinction citizens who had taken up arms against the Jacobites . But in none of the cases referred

to could there be said to be anything relating to the conferring of Masonic Degrees . The fact that the Master degree abounds with archaisms does not of itself contribute much to the settlement of the question of its antiquity . It is

no breach of charity to suppose that its fabricators knew their mission too well to frame the ritual in language that would point to its modern ori gin : hence the antique garb in which it is masqued . It is in the resolution of Mother Kilwinning ( June

1735)—a step which we are inclined to regard as that lodge ' s formal adoption of Speculative Masonry —that we find positive evidence of the existence in Scotland of a Master Mason degree in the sense in which the term is now understood—a

contemporaneous notice of three separate degrees being furnished by the records of Canongate Kilwinning as shown in Bro . Oneal Haye ' s admirable sketch of that lodge . One cauuofc fix the precise time at which Speculative Freemasonry with its Jewish

legend was imported into Scotland . It may have been before 1735 ; in all probability it was , taking into account the influx of non-operatives into our lodges that took place shortly after the union between the two kingdoms had been effected ; but of the fact there has yet been no written evidence produced .

THE SCOTS GREYS AND FREEMASONRY . We a 2-e indebted to "Miles" for the information that the Greys are " ab present commanded by a gallant officer who is also a Freemason . " I hat information is all the more welcome and

gratifying for being imparted contemporaneousl y with the publication of Kingslake ' s account of the Heavy Cavalry Charge at Balaclava—an episode of the Crimean war in which the name of Bro .

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Colonel George Calvert Clarke is associated with such deeds of valour as must ever redound to his fame as a soldier . Bro . Colonel Griffiths is also honourably identified with the charge of the " Three Hundred . " In the course of a recent

visit to our repository , we found that our retrospect of the Scots Greys' connection with Freemasonry lacked a feature which from its importance we now supply . In noticing some of the eccentricities of the Lodge of Kilwinning , we

showed that in 1778 Archibald , 11 th Earl of Eglinton had been elected " to be Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Mother Lodge for life . " He held the post of Deputy Master in 1742 . This brother began his military career as a cornet in

the Scots Greys about 1739-40 , and afterwards held the colonelcy of that distinguished regiment . Without recapitulating our former remarks upon General the Earl of Eglinton , we may here state that in his lordship's early connection with

the Royal North British Dragoons , coupled with his close relation to Mother Kilwinning , we think we are furnished with a clue to the circumstance which led to the erection of the " Scots Greys Kilwinning , " and also to the probable date of its original Charter .

The Knights Templars.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .

By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE . { Continued from page 3 ) . BOOK THIRD—CHAPTER V . —( ceroid . )

The news of the successes of the Crusaders at the Nile , bad filled the Christians at Acre with the greatest joy . The surrender of Damietta and the return of the vanquished army converted their glee into consternation . Instead of the power of the

Musselmeu being for ever broken , it was restrengthened ; instead of the cities of the Holy Land becoming once more the heritage of the Christians , they remained surer in the possession of the Infidel ; and instead of peace after victory ,

war after defeat stared the unhappy Christians remorselessly in the face . As ever happened in the case of defeat the leaders were blamed , accused of ambition and weakness . The gallant Templars and Hospitallers who had shed forth their blood

like water , who had been the safety of the Christians , and the most prudent councillors of the war , who had stumped their truth and fidelity in the cause of the Cross , upon the myriad slain of