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Masonic Missions.
Gundry . The former Provincial Grand Master ivas Bro . Willett , but the province lias been latterly in charge of thc Grand Registrar , ivho hands it over in good condition to the pz-esent administrator . The province we now [ propose to examine in the course of our circuit is Suffolk . Lying next to Norfolk , aud being in temporary
charge bf the Grand Registrar , there are no one ' s susceptibilities to be offended by our remarks . Its population and size are by no means comparable with Norfolk , for it only covers 1 , 454 acres , and had in 1851 a population of 337 , 215 , while it has no city like Norwich , nor has it equivalent trade
ancl manufactures , being chiefly au agricultural district . Previous to 1851 , the late Bro . Lord Rendleshani was Provincial Grand Master . In his time three Lodges were added to the province j two iu 184-5 at Stowmarket and Eye , and one in 1848 at Southwold .
Its next Provincial Grand Master was Bro . Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch , Bart , M . P ., who died on the 9 th November , 1856 , in the fifty-fourth year of his age . In 1851 he succeeded Bro . Lord Rendleshani , and in the feiv years of his Provincial Grand Mastership , zealously administered his province to the great satisfaction of the
brethren . Only a few months before his death , on the 26 th March , a special Provincial Grand Lodge was held for the purpose of presenting to him a portrait of himself in his Masonic costume , for which thc brethren had engaged Mr . Lucas , au artist of reputation . In 1853 Bro . Gooch added to the province a Lodge at Clare . On the death of Bro . Gooch , the brethren determined that a
special service should be held in the church of St . Mary at Tower , Ipswich , when a sermon was preached by Bro . thc Rev . Erskine Neale , Provincial Grand Chaplain , of which service an account will bo found in our . Magazine for 1857 , at p . 55 . Bro . Robert Martin was the then . Deputy Provincial Grand
Master , but the province was placed in charge ofthe G-rand Registrar , as we have stated . Ilro . Henderson was at that time the Grand Registrar , and took measures for holding the Provincial Grand Lodge at Ipswich on the 18 th of November , 1857 , Bro . Martin presiding over the meeting , and being reappointed Deputy Provincial Grand
Master ; regular appointments at the same time were mado of all Provincial Grand Officers . The Deputy Provincial Grand Master zealously undertook the discharge of the local duties , and very praiseworthily visited all the Lodges in his province . On the appointment of Bro . Roxburgh to the dignity of Grand Registrar , the charge of Suffolk fell to him , and he has held thc Pro-
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Masonic Missions.
Gundry . The former Provincial Grand Master ivas Bro . Willett , but the province lias been latterly in charge of thc Grand Registrar , ivho hands it over in good condition to the pz-esent administrator . The province we now [ propose to examine in the course of our circuit is Suffolk . Lying next to Norfolk , aud being in temporary
charge bf the Grand Registrar , there are no one ' s susceptibilities to be offended by our remarks . Its population and size are by no means comparable with Norfolk , for it only covers 1 , 454 acres , and had in 1851 a population of 337 , 215 , while it has no city like Norwich , nor has it equivalent trade
ancl manufactures , being chiefly au agricultural district . Previous to 1851 , the late Bro . Lord Rendleshani was Provincial Grand Master . In his time three Lodges were added to the province j two iu 184-5 at Stowmarket and Eye , and one in 1848 at Southwold .
Its next Provincial Grand Master was Bro . Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch , Bart , M . P ., who died on the 9 th November , 1856 , in the fifty-fourth year of his age . In 1851 he succeeded Bro . Lord Rendleshani , and in the feiv years of his Provincial Grand Mastership , zealously administered his province to the great satisfaction of the
brethren . Only a few months before his death , on the 26 th March , a special Provincial Grand Lodge was held for the purpose of presenting to him a portrait of himself in his Masonic costume , for which thc brethren had engaged Mr . Lucas , au artist of reputation . In 1853 Bro . Gooch added to the province a Lodge at Clare . On the death of Bro . Gooch , the brethren determined that a
special service should be held in the church of St . Mary at Tower , Ipswich , when a sermon was preached by Bro . thc Rev . Erskine Neale , Provincial Grand Chaplain , of which service an account will bo found in our . Magazine for 1857 , at p . 55 . Bro . Robert Martin was the then . Deputy Provincial Grand
Master , but the province was placed in charge ofthe G-rand Registrar , as we have stated . Ilro . Henderson was at that time the Grand Registrar , and took measures for holding the Provincial Grand Lodge at Ipswich on the 18 th of November , 1857 , Bro . Martin presiding over the meeting , and being reappointed Deputy Provincial Grand
Master ; regular appointments at the same time were mado of all Provincial Grand Officers . The Deputy Provincial Grand Master zealously undertook the discharge of the local duties , and very praiseworthily visited all the Lodges in his province . On the appointment of Bro . Roxburgh to the dignity of Grand Registrar , the charge of Suffolk fell to him , and he has held thc Pro-