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Ears Of Wheat From A Cornucopia.
to have become acquainted with Knight Templary early in the present century through brethren who had been dubbed under a warrant emanating from Dublin and which was held by fraters serving in the Shropshire Militia . The members
of this corps were quartered in Edinburgh in 1798 ; and in all probability it was through their instrumentality that the first Grand Assembly of Knights Templar was first set up in Edinburgh . Subsequently this gave place to the Grand
Assembly of High Knight Templars in Edinburgh , working under a charter , No . 31 , of the Early Grand Encampment of Ireland , of which in 1807 Bro . Deuchar was Grand Master . The Deuchar charters authorised Encampments to instal
" Knights Templars and Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , " —one condition on which these warrants were held being "that no communion or intercourse shall be maintained with any chapter or encampment , or body assuming that name ,
holding meetings of Knights Templar under a Master Mason charter . " In 1837 , the most of these warrants were forfeited , aud the encampments erased from the roll of the Grand Conclave , on account of not making the required returns .
May the reported working under these cancelled charters not be connected with the unauthorised and unrecognised Mason-making that is being carried on within the province of Glasgow and other places in the west of Scotland ! The following is a fac-simile of the seal which is attached to a charter at present in our possession .
It is of a more elaborate design than that of the Grand Priory , and bears at least one emblem with which brethren who have been dubbed under the modern system are unacquainted : —
THE GEAND PEIOEY AND THE RED CEOSS OP CON - STANTINE . The nature of the connection which in Scotland subsists between Templars and Red Cross Knights will be understood when we mention that our
priories or encampments are empowered by their charters to confer the following degrees , viz . : — " ... Prima : To create Esquires of the Order , and instal Knight Templars . Secundo : To confer the Masonic degrees , first , of Knight of
St . John of Jerusalem , now usually called Knight of Malta , with the preceding step known by the name of tho Mediterranean Pass or Knight of St .
Paul ; secondly , of Knight of the Red Cross ot Constantine ; and thirdly , of the Priestly Order of the . 'Temple . " In the face of this authority we
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Ears Of Wheat From A Cornucopia.
to have become acquainted with Knight Templary early in the present century through brethren who had been dubbed under a warrant emanating from Dublin and which was held by fraters serving in the Shropshire Militia . The members
of this corps were quartered in Edinburgh in 1798 ; and in all probability it was through their instrumentality that the first Grand Assembly of Knights Templar was first set up in Edinburgh . Subsequently this gave place to the Grand
Assembly of High Knight Templars in Edinburgh , working under a charter , No . 31 , of the Early Grand Encampment of Ireland , of which in 1807 Bro . Deuchar was Grand Master . The Deuchar charters authorised Encampments to instal
" Knights Templars and Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , " —one condition on which these warrants were held being "that no communion or intercourse shall be maintained with any chapter or encampment , or body assuming that name ,
holding meetings of Knights Templar under a Master Mason charter . " In 1837 , the most of these warrants were forfeited , aud the encampments erased from the roll of the Grand Conclave , on account of not making the required returns .
May the reported working under these cancelled charters not be connected with the unauthorised and unrecognised Mason-making that is being carried on within the province of Glasgow and other places in the west of Scotland ! The following is a fac-simile of the seal which is attached to a charter at present in our possession .
It is of a more elaborate design than that of the Grand Priory , and bears at least one emblem with which brethren who have been dubbed under the modern system are unacquainted : —
THE GEAND PEIOEY AND THE RED CEOSS OP CON - STANTINE . The nature of the connection which in Scotland subsists between Templars and Red Cross Knights will be understood when we mention that our
priories or encampments are empowered by their charters to confer the following degrees , viz . : — " ... Prima : To create Esquires of the Order , and instal Knight Templars . Secundo : To confer the Masonic degrees , first , of Knight of
St . John of Jerusalem , now usually called Knight of Malta , with the preceding step known by the name of tho Mediterranean Pass or Knight of St .
Paul ; secondly , of Knight of the Red Cross ot Constantine ; and thirdly , of the Priestly Order of the . 'Temple . " In the face of this authority we