Masonic Notes And Queries.

the Laws and Statutes thereof , as becomes the Honour and Harmony of Massonry . And therefore craving to the effect after-mentioned which being considered by the Grand Lodge . And having seen an extract of their constitution and regulations and being then well satisfied . Have ratified , approved , and confirmed , and by the tenor hereof Ratine approve and confirm the aforesaid Erection and Constitution in favours of

the Worshipfull Brethren of the Lodge aforsaid and their successors ... of new hereby Erect , Constitute , and app . . . them a True and Regular Lodge of . . . Massons By the name and title of the Lodge of Glasgow Saint Mungo ' s , and appoint and ordain all regular Lodges in Scotland , to hold ,

own , and respect them as such in all time coming . Hereby Giveing Granting and committing to them full power and authority to meet , assemble , and convene as a regular Lodge , and to admitt and receive Apprentices , Pass Fellow Crafts , and raise Master Massons , upon payment of such composition for

support of their Lodge as they shall see convenient and to elect and chuse Masters , Wardens , and other officiers annually or otherways as they shall have occasion—Recommending to the Brethren aforesaid to T everence and obey their Superiours in all things lawfull and honestas becomes the Honour and

Har-, mony of Massonry , and becoming faithfully bound and engaged not to desert their said Lodge so constitute , nor upon any pretext whatever make any separate or Schismatical meetings without the consent of their Master , and Wardens for the time , nor collect money or other funds separate from the

common stock of their Lodge to the prejudice of the Poor thereof . They and their successors in all time comirig being also obliged to obey , and pay all due regard to the Acts , Statutes , and regulations of tho Grand Lodge , already made or hereafter to be made

for the utility , welfare , and prosperity of Massonry in generall , and to pay and perform whatever is stipulated or demanded of them for the support of the dignity of the Grand Lodge , and to record in their books this present patent of Co-nfirmation , with their own regulations , Bye Laws , aud whole procedure from time to

time as they shall oecurr , to the effect the same may be the more readily seen and observed by their brethren , subject allwayes to the review of the Grand Lodge and also the brethren aforsaid , and their successors are hereby required punctually to attend the whole generall meetings aud

quarterlcommuy nications of the Grand Lodge by their representatives Being their Master and Wardens for the time or by lawi ' uil Proxies in their name , Such Proxies being Master Massons or Fellow Crafts of some established Lodge , holding of the Grand Lodge . To the end tbey may act and vote therein . And be duely certiorate of

the Proceedings thereof . Declaring hereby and Presenting to the Brethren aforesaid their Precedencie in the Grand Lodge as they formerly stood on the Rolls lliereof . And to the effect these presents may he the more effectually kept and preserved the same are herebordained to be recorded in the hooks of

y the Grand Lodge . Given at the Grand Lodge held at St . Mary's Chappeil in the City of Edinburgh the second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two . By the most Worshipfull and right Honourable Charles Earl of Elgin and Kincardin , Grand Master Masson of

Scotland , James Stewart , Esquire , Deputy Grand Master , Richard Tod , Esquire , ^ Substitute Grand Master , Captain John Weemyss , Deputy Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh , and the Honourable Alexander Gordon , Esquires , Graud Wardens , and the seall of the Graud Lodge appended hereiuto . Witnessing

tothese presents James Hunter , Esquire , Grand Treasurer , Alexander McDougall , Esqr ., Grand Secretary , and George Bean , Grand Clerk . Apud Edinburgum , Secundo die Augusti , 1762 . ( Sic subscribitur ) James-Stuart , D . G . M . Richard Tod , Sub . G . M . Jo . Weinyss , S . G . W . Alexr . GordonJ . G . W . Half a guinea

, composition to the Grand Lodge for this Charter of Confirmation paid into ( signed ) James Hunter G . Tr . Recorded in the books of Grand Lodge pr . ( signed ) Alexr . Dougall , G . Secretary . —W . P . BucnAisr .

LODGE 03 ? AXTIQTJITX AXD THE "" WORCESTER P . M . " ' Relative to the discovery made by a " Worcester P . M ., " and which is likely to he a valuable relic of some old lodge , I should like to be informed as to whether aDy number is engraved on the copper-plate .. I cannot see why our brother at Worcester takes it

as certain that the plate must have belonged to the lodge held at Chatham , warrant dated A . D . 1723 . In . Entick ' s Constitutions of A . D . 1756 , the one to which he refers , the Lodge of Antiquity comes first , and isdescribed thus— " Queen's Arms , St . Paul's Churchyard . 2 nd Tuesday , Constitution Immemorial . "

There have been , and are , several lodges called "Antiquity , " but there is but one by that honourable title that is allowed to meet tvithout a Warrant , and , that is the Lodge of Antiquity , No . 2 , Freemasons' ' Tavern , London . Would our brother kindly favour me with a photograph of the plate , and I will look up the point ?—W . J . HTTGHAX , Truro , Cornwall .

CHIPS 01 ? EOREIGB ASHLAR . Allow me to state that I am not responsible for the apparently " strange grammar " in my article published on the 1 st inst ., not having had the proofs thereof for correction . The whole article is full of errorswhich have probably arisen from my necessarily

, hurried habit of writing . I leave your readers toform their own opinion as to the aptness of my quotation from Shakspeare . With regard , however , to " Danum's " sensitive dislike to the remark of Herr Hardenberg , I will simply say that a better hotel or a better host is not to be found in all Holland , and ,

if " Danum " visits the Dutch , I hope he will go there himself . I am sorry to say that my observation ( confirmed , I believe , by that of Bro . William Smith , C . B ., and other brethren ) has led me to believe that , nowhere in Europe , with possibly the exception of Russiais there so much drunkenness as in Great

, Britain . Nevertheless , things are much better than they were ; and , if " Danum " will send me his private address , I shall be happy to furnish him with the result of some investigations I have made on thissubject . —J . A . H .

" OE THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OE TEMPLES . " The following is what Vitruvius says on the abovesubject : — " If there he nothing to prevent it , and the use of the edifice allow it , the temples of the immortal gods-