Sketches Of Notable Masonic Works.

Crafts all the privileges of the Blue Blanket . " ( Page 25 . ) The following is a list of the Incorporations according to their precedency : 1 . Chirurgeons ; 2 . Goldsmiths ; 3 . Skinners ; 4 . Furriers ; 5 . Hammermen ; G . Wrights ( or

Carpenters ;) 7 . Masons ; 8 . Taylors ; 9 . Baxters , ( Weighers ;) 10 . Fleshers ; 11 . Cordiners ; 12 . Websters , ( or Weavers ;) 13 . Hatters aud Walters ; 14 . Bonnet Makers and Listers ; 15 . Blacksmiths ; 16 . Cutlers ; 17 . Saddlers ; 18 . Locksmiths ; 19

Lorimers ; 20 . Armores ; 21 . Pen ther ers ; 22 . Shear Smiths . The Arms of the Masons are thus explained : " Ar . on a Cheveron , 'twixt 3 Towers embattled Sab . A Compass Or ., " and placed above the Anns of each of the Crafts " are the Imperial

Arms of Scotland . " The Masons' company was not so ancient as some few others , such as the Goldsmiths , but after the Eevival of A . D . 17 ] 7 , Freemasonry soon marched to the front rank , and has since become the greatest human institution of all time .

Ihe following concludes the work , and alludes to King Charles the First : " Since the Crafts hitherto loyal , folded up their Ensign the Banner , or Bine Blanket of the Holy Ghost , when factious sectaries were triumphant , and Majesty was in

misery , falling a victim to the cruelty of the then Sectarians , by whose Impious Hands he was brought to the Block . "

The earliest printed copy of the Operative Constitutions was issued in 1722 , being one year before the Grand Lodge of England published the Book of Constitutions , under authority . Another edition of Operative Constitutions was published

by Cole A . D . 1728-9 , and when next we preside at the Masonic Anvil it is probable their character will be our theme .

The only copy we have ever met with of A . D . 1722 , is in the possession of Bro . Richard Spencer , the noted Masonic publisher . We have the pleasure of owning nearly all the other editions of the Book of Constitutions from A . D . 1723 and 1728 to the present time .

IT should be the aim of every Mason to live , and deal , and act iu such a manner that when he comes to die he may be able to say , and his conscience so adjudge , that no man on earth is poorer because he is richer—that what ha liatli he has honestly earned , and no man can go before God and claim that , by the rules of equity administered in his great chancery , this house in which we die , this land we devise among our heirs , is his , and not ours .

The Knights Templars.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .

By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE . ( Continued from page 104 ) . BOOK THIRD—CHAPTER NINTH .

GRAND MASTER—REGINALD DE VICHIERIUS . War in Egypt continued . —St . Louis taken prisoner aiicZ ransomed . — -Disagreement between Joinville and the Templars . —The Crusaders return to Acre , and renew war with the Egyptians . —Louis returns to France . — His affection for the Templars .- —The Templars and

Eenry III . of England . —Henry in the Temple at Paris . —War in Morav ' ia , A . D . 1249—1257 . Upon the death of William de Sonnac the command of the Templars devolved upon the Grand Marshal of the Order , the valiant Reginald de Vichierins . He gathered together the remnant of

the Templars , and remained with the King during the rest of this disastrous campaign , performing feats of dashing gallantry with his small but indomitable band of Knights . At last disease spread through the army , the King was taken

prisoner by the Egyptians , and the Templars seeing that all was lost , retreated to Damietta which they prepared to defend . The prisoners

taken by the infidel were put to ransom , but those who could not pay the money were made slaves or had their hands struck off , and with these ghastly trophies the walls of Cairo were decorated . The Saracens offered to give the

King his freedom upon surrendering certain castles belonging to the Templars and the Hospitallers , but the King replied that this was out of his power , as these Knights were not vassals of his , and it was contrary to the oath which the

governors of such castles took on their investiture when they solemnly swore to God that they would never surrender them for the deliverance of any man whoever he should be . At length the King and the nobles who had been captured received

their liberty by agreeing to surrender Damietta , and to pay two hundred thousand pieces of gold . The King thereupon went on board the fleet which was anchored at Damietta , and the process of weighing out the ransom money commenced .

Towards evening of the Sunday after his arrival the King ' s servants , who were occupied weighing out the money , sent Louis word that they wanted thirty thousand livres to complete the amount . Joinville said to the King that they had better ask

the Grand Marshal , commander of the Templars , to lend the money to make up the sum . On this Stephen d'Outricourfc , Preceptor of the Order ,