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Article MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. ← Page 2 of 5 →
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
maintain Lodges , and the positive resources necessary . It will be ¦ found that there are towns which have active and efficient Lodges with a very small population , while in larger towns a Lodge has failed for want of means . Indeed , we want in these times less talk as to the theory of Masonry , ancl more facts that can be turned to useful account . Any stray account as to old Lodges ancl old Masters we shall be
glad to enrol in our pages , as thereby in time we shall provide materials for the history of the Lodges and of Masonry in each town , which we are sorry to say the records general and locabare in too many cases incompetent to supply . Old pocket books , pamphlets , lists of members , and Lodge documents , will be acceptable to us , or , whenever brethren cannot spare them from their libraries , we shall be glad to have extracts .
SCOTTISH KEGIMENTAL LODGES . Iii 1816 , the following regiments held warrants from the Grand Lodge of Scotland : — 22 nd Foot , Moriah Lodge . „ ,, -p . ( "Hooker St . John ' s Lodge . 17 th Foot , { Tjnity Loage . 4 th Foot , The United Lodge . Lod
3 rd Dragoons , Royal Arch Union ge . 4 th Dragoons , Union Royal Arch Lodge . Queen ' s , or 7 th Dragoons . 31 st Foot , St . George ' s Lodge . 32 nd Foot , White ' s Lodge . 43 rd Foot , St . Patrick ' s Royal Arch Lodge . 56 th Foot , King George the Third Lodge .
Royal AA elch Fusiliers . General Marjoribank ' s Regiment , The Union Lodge . The most ancient of these Lodges is that in the 32 nd regiment . Sonic appear to have Royal Arch Chapters attached . We should like to know what is the present coudition of these Lodges . AVe suspect that thc Scotch Lodge in the 31 st Foot became extinct , because , last year a new warrant was granted to this regimentunder the name of the Meridian Lodge , with the number 1 , 045 on the Grand Lodge Roll of England .
MASONIC ENGRAVINGS . About 1820 a Masonic allegorical engraving was published by Bro . Shinner , " dealer in Masonic aprons , sashes , & c , " at 25 , Brompton-row , Brompton . DEACONS' RODS . In some old formulas the Deacons' roils are described as black rods . In some Lodges they have gilt tips , in some they are ornamented with gilt
inscriptions , in some they are plain white rods . Query as to the practice . CUniCAL STONE . A special volume in explanation of the cubical stone was written within the last thirty years by Chcreau , a French brother . MASONIC TOMBSTONES . There arc some Masonic tombstones mentioned lately , at Gravesend , in our pages ; there is a Masonic grave belonging to a Lodge at Liverpool , and
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
maintain Lodges , and the positive resources necessary . It will be ¦ found that there are towns which have active and efficient Lodges with a very small population , while in larger towns a Lodge has failed for want of means . Indeed , we want in these times less talk as to the theory of Masonry , ancl more facts that can be turned to useful account . Any stray account as to old Lodges ancl old Masters we shall be
glad to enrol in our pages , as thereby in time we shall provide materials for the history of the Lodges and of Masonry in each town , which we are sorry to say the records general and locabare in too many cases incompetent to supply . Old pocket books , pamphlets , lists of members , and Lodge documents , will be acceptable to us , or , whenever brethren cannot spare them from their libraries , we shall be glad to have extracts .
SCOTTISH KEGIMENTAL LODGES . Iii 1816 , the following regiments held warrants from the Grand Lodge of Scotland : — 22 nd Foot , Moriah Lodge . „ ,, -p . ( "Hooker St . John ' s Lodge . 17 th Foot , { Tjnity Loage . 4 th Foot , The United Lodge . Lod
3 rd Dragoons , Royal Arch Union ge . 4 th Dragoons , Union Royal Arch Lodge . Queen ' s , or 7 th Dragoons . 31 st Foot , St . George ' s Lodge . 32 nd Foot , White ' s Lodge . 43 rd Foot , St . Patrick ' s Royal Arch Lodge . 56 th Foot , King George the Third Lodge .
Royal AA elch Fusiliers . General Marjoribank ' s Regiment , The Union Lodge . The most ancient of these Lodges is that in the 32 nd regiment . Sonic appear to have Royal Arch Chapters attached . We should like to know what is the present coudition of these Lodges . AVe suspect that thc Scotch Lodge in the 31 st Foot became extinct , because , last year a new warrant was granted to this regimentunder the name of the Meridian Lodge , with the number 1 , 045 on the Grand Lodge Roll of England .
MASONIC ENGRAVINGS . About 1820 a Masonic allegorical engraving was published by Bro . Shinner , " dealer in Masonic aprons , sashes , & c , " at 25 , Brompton-row , Brompton . DEACONS' RODS . In some old formulas the Deacons' roils are described as black rods . In some Lodges they have gilt tips , in some they are ornamented with gilt
inscriptions , in some they are plain white rods . Query as to the practice . CUniCAL STONE . A special volume in explanation of the cubical stone was written within the last thirty years by Chcreau , a French brother . MASONIC TOMBSTONES . There arc some Masonic tombstones mentioned lately , at Gravesend , in our pages ; there is a Masonic grave belonging to a Lodge at Liverpool , and