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Masonic Missions: Leicestershire.

Fowke , equerry to the then Duke of Cumberland ); and , as far as his increasing years and shattered health would permit , he continued to take a warm interest in the progress of Masonry in the province , until his lamented decease in the spring of 1856 .-Your next inaccuracy is , as to the number of Lodge towns in the count }' , which you give as two only , Leicester and Hinckley . To these must be added a thirdviz .: Ashby-de-la-Zouchwhere a Lodhas recentlbeen

, , ge y reestablished . This is the Ferrers and Ivanhoe Lodge , No . 1 , 081 , of the formation of ivhich more than one notice has recently appeared in your periodical . This has taken the place of the Ivanhoe Lodge , Ne . 631 , opened in that town in 1886 , but which only survived some six or eight years , owing , unfortunately , to its having been established on too expensive a scale , including champagne dinners , & c . The neAv Lodge , which I am glad to state is unconnected with an hoteland meets at the Town Hallhas

, , amongst its members some excellent working Masons , and promises to be a really efficient and prosperous Lodge . Another Lodge , the Rancliffe , No . 608 , was opened in 1834 , at Loughborough , which , next to Leicester , is the most populous and important manufacturing toivn iu the county , but which , singularly enough , is entirely omitted from your list of towns Avhere Lodges ought to exist . The prospects of this Lodge at starting , were good , but were soon blasted

by tivo of the leading members , a surgeon and solicitor , bringing forward a resolution , as I have been informed , prohibiting any but professional men from being admitted into the Lodge . This suicidal act produced its natural results ; the- feiv respectable tradesmen who were members , withdrew in disgust , and , after vegetating for a feiv years , its members dwindled doivn until they consisted , I believe , of the above mentioned professional men only , and the warrant was at length returned . Both this Lodge and No . 631 appeared in the Calendar for several years after they had ceased to meet .

I must noiv in justice beg to observe that , however well founded might be your remarks as to the objection to the appointment of Provincial Grand Masters for life ( and in no province would they have been more applicable than this informer times ) , they certainly do not justly apply to any imputed laches on the part of either of our last or present worthy rulers , as your readers Avould naturally infer from the juxtaposition in Avhich they appear with the names of Sir Frederick Fowke and Earl Howe .

Having had the privilege to be a Masonic pupil of the late Sir F . G . FoAvke , and to have subsequently served under him in the Provincial Grand Lodge , from 1841 to 1856 , in the various grades of office from Junior Grand Deacon to Deputy Provincial Grand Master—to which office I have also had the honour to be reappointed by the present noble Provincial Grand Master—no one is so competent as myself to bear the testimony , which I do now , to the earnest and active interest ivhich they have

respectively evinced on all occasions , in everything connected ivith the well being and progress of Masonry in the province ; both their purse and personal services having been ever ready in promoting those objects . Let the recent munificent donation by Earl Howe of £ 100 to the Leicester Freemasons' Hall Fund , bear witness to his liberality in the cause , whilst his regular attendance at the annual meetings of the Provincial Grand Lodgeand on other occasionsand a voluminous correspondence

, , very relative to the Masonic business of the province , testify that he spares himself no personal trouble in the performance of his duties . With these explanations , I will take leave of the subject for the present , but with j'our permission will return to it on a future occasion , by offering

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MUSIC AND THE MASONIC RITUAL—No. II. Article 7
CLASSICAL THEOLOGY. Article 17
THE ORIGIN AND TEACHINGS OF MASONRY. Article 20
MASONRY IN INDIA. Article 24
SUNRISE. Article 25
VILLAGE BELLS. Article 26
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 27
THE DEVONSHIRE FUND OF BENEVOLENCE. Article 27
MASONIC MISSIONS: LEICESTERSHIRE. Article 29
MARK MASONRY. Article 31
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 32
METROPOLITAN. Article 32
INSTRUCTION. Article 36
PROVINCIAL. Article 36
ROYAL ARCH. Article 40
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 41
IRELAND. Article 41
AMERICA. Article 41
THE WEEK. Article 43
Obituary. Article 46
NOTICES. Article 47
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 47
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Masonic Missions: Leicestershire.

Fowke , equerry to the then Duke of Cumberland ); and , as far as his increasing years and shattered health would permit , he continued to take a warm interest in the progress of Masonry in the province , until his lamented decease in the spring of 1856 .-Your next inaccuracy is , as to the number of Lodge towns in the count }' , which you give as two only , Leicester and Hinckley . To these must be added a thirdviz .: Ashby-de-la-Zouchwhere a Lodhas recentlbeen

, , ge y reestablished . This is the Ferrers and Ivanhoe Lodge , No . 1 , 081 , of the formation of ivhich more than one notice has recently appeared in your periodical . This has taken the place of the Ivanhoe Lodge , Ne . 631 , opened in that town in 1886 , but which only survived some six or eight years , owing , unfortunately , to its having been established on too expensive a scale , including champagne dinners , & c . The neAv Lodge , which I am glad to state is unconnected with an hoteland meets at the Town Hallhas

, , amongst its members some excellent working Masons , and promises to be a really efficient and prosperous Lodge . Another Lodge , the Rancliffe , No . 608 , was opened in 1834 , at Loughborough , which , next to Leicester , is the most populous and important manufacturing toivn iu the county , but which , singularly enough , is entirely omitted from your list of towns Avhere Lodges ought to exist . The prospects of this Lodge at starting , were good , but were soon blasted

by tivo of the leading members , a surgeon and solicitor , bringing forward a resolution , as I have been informed , prohibiting any but professional men from being admitted into the Lodge . This suicidal act produced its natural results ; the- feiv respectable tradesmen who were members , withdrew in disgust , and , after vegetating for a feiv years , its members dwindled doivn until they consisted , I believe , of the above mentioned professional men only , and the warrant was at length returned . Both this Lodge and No . 631 appeared in the Calendar for several years after they had ceased to meet .

I must noiv in justice beg to observe that , however well founded might be your remarks as to the objection to the appointment of Provincial Grand Masters for life ( and in no province would they have been more applicable than this informer times ) , they certainly do not justly apply to any imputed laches on the part of either of our last or present worthy rulers , as your readers Avould naturally infer from the juxtaposition in Avhich they appear with the names of Sir Frederick Fowke and Earl Howe .

Having had the privilege to be a Masonic pupil of the late Sir F . G . FoAvke , and to have subsequently served under him in the Provincial Grand Lodge , from 1841 to 1856 , in the various grades of office from Junior Grand Deacon to Deputy Provincial Grand Master—to which office I have also had the honour to be reappointed by the present noble Provincial Grand Master—no one is so competent as myself to bear the testimony , which I do now , to the earnest and active interest ivhich they have

respectively evinced on all occasions , in everything connected ivith the well being and progress of Masonry in the province ; both their purse and personal services having been ever ready in promoting those objects . Let the recent munificent donation by Earl Howe of £ 100 to the Leicester Freemasons' Hall Fund , bear witness to his liberality in the cause , whilst his regular attendance at the annual meetings of the Provincial Grand Lodgeand on other occasionsand a voluminous correspondence

, , very relative to the Masonic business of the province , testify that he spares himself no personal trouble in the performance of his duties . With these explanations , I will take leave of the subject for the present , but with j'our permission will return to it on a future occasion , by offering

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