Bibles, &C .

chnrch s establishments must convince any one that there was for some reason or other an endeavour to palm these bibles off as different publications . Any printer must detect the fraud , inasmuch as page after page of all the four works are

impressed from the same form of letter . There must have been some mysterious object in view , or why such trouble to conceal the truth ? why these trifling- variations of dates ? why one publication on vellum in three volumes and the others on paper

in one volume ? When Henry , VIII ., sanctioned Oranmer s Bible did he also sanction the other three ? and were they printed at Paris on account of scarcity of paper in England ?" Bro . Buchan mentions Robert Baker ' s Bible of

1607 , and says Christ is represented as treading grapes in a wine-press . It would have been as well had he quoted the superscription around the press , CALCAVI SOLUS EGO TOECVLAE—Isaiah , 63

ch ., v . 3 . It was a Robert Baker that printed the prayer book in 1642 , in which K . Char Martyr is entered in the Calendar on the 30 th January . Most probably the Hanoverian Bible is in the

Euen collection . I have ' no doubt the title-page will gladden the eyes of Bro . Buchan . 55 There is the winged horse Pegasus , two horns of plenty , the caduceus of Mercury , certain mark signs and two right hands closely united very fraternally .

The Mazarine Bible is set down at page 70 as of 1543—this is a strange misprint , which every biblical scholar will at once perceive ; at p . 110 it says , from the Mazarene to 1514 , & c . To set the matter correctly , the Mazarene Bible has pasted

on a fly-leaf at the end of the first volume , " This coliphon and another at the end of the second vol . is transcribed from a copy in its original binding in the Bibliotheque Royal at Paris . Date mcccclvi-

Lodge Minutes, Etc.—No. 6.

LODGE MINUTES , ETC . —No . 6 .

( Continued from page 10 ) . By W . P . BUCHAN . I proceed to give a few more extracts from the last century , minutes of St . Mungo ' s Lodge No .

27 "At Glasgow , 28 th Nov . 1783 . "— "When it "svas agreed that Bro . John Austin should receive their proxy and appear for them in the Grand Lodge , at the ensuing election of Grand Master . ' O n 6 th Dec . 1783 , — " Having taken into serious

consideration the great number of members who have not paid up there quarter accounts , owing to the lodge not being so regular in there meetings as formerly . It was unanimously agreed that as the by-gone quarterly accounts must be very

heavy upon the brethren ; and to promote the good of the lodge as much as possible , every brother will be received upon paying one years quarter accounts , which is one shilling . . It is likeway agreed that the entry into this lodge shall

be ten shillings and sixpence , including all dues , beside the officers dues being one shilling . And that any person being a brother entry'd with a regular lodge shall at his admittion pay two shillings and sixpence to the funds of the lodge together with one shilling to the dark and one to the officer .

" And any clandestine Masson at his admittion shall pay into the funds of the lodge the sum of four shilling together with one shilling to the dark and one to the officer , as also two shillings and sixpence to the Grand Lodge . "And further

agrees that there shall be a meeting of the lodge upon Wens-day come eight days being the 17 th Currant . " " Robert Hunter . '

" Same night Bros . Willm . Buchanan and Willm . Niven were made honorary members of this lodge , as also Bros . John Gourlie and James Allan were admitted members of this lodge upon paying the dues having been formerly entry'd in a

regular lodge . Bro . Gourlie made application and was accordingly past to the degree of a Fellow Craft , and afterwards raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason , " Willm . Buchanan .

In Jan . 17 th 1784 . — "Five weavers and one shoemaker were admitted apprentices . 55 " There after the brethren took under their consideration that the cloathing belonging to the lodge had been greatly abused . in Mrs . GourhVs house and

therefore it was unanimously agreed to give them a a thorow repairing . In 17 th July 1784 . — "The next lodge meeting was proposed to be held " iu the large hall above the Weigh house at Glasgow or in case it cannot

be got , or that it may not be convenient to meet there , at any other place to be appointed by the Master .

In 25 th Sept . 1784 . —Five pounds sterling being " needed for the use of the lodge " it was got from " the kings free linen weavers society in Glas-