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Sas been illegally excluded from any of his masonic £ anctitms < 3 r privileges , by a lodge within his district , order Mm to be immediately restored , and may suspend , tmtil the next quarterly communication , the lodgo or brother who shall refuse to comply with such order . " 2 ftrw no " special report" was made to Grand Lodge , aeitner could it be until it had been laid before the

General Committee , as provided in the rules we have already quoted ; and although it may be true that " a minute of the proceedings" taken against Bro . , ^ stating theoffence and the law applicable to it , together with -decision , " was transmitted to the Grand Master , we contend that his lordship should not have brought

it before Grand Lodge in December last , nor had the Grand Lodge the right to take action upon the communication then made by his lordship , it being specially provided in law 8 , above referred to , that " all reports or representations from the Most Worshi p ful Grand Master " must be laid before the General Conimittfie

of Grand Lodge prior to it being brought forward , and that it was not so communicated is evidenced by the fact that no notice of it appears in the agenda paper of the December quarterly commanieation . If that be the case it is clear the resolution

calling upon Bro . to show cause why he should not be expelled was altogether illegal , although moved and seconded by the two law officers of the Craftthe Grand Registrar and the President of the Board of General Purposes—to whom we have a right to look to shield us from the inadvertence

of other brethren , however exalted or however Immble . "Well , under the illegal vote Bro . was summoned to show cause why he should not Tbe expelled from the Order—and he obeyed the summons—though a further illegality was committed fa not giving any notice of the intended business in

the agenda paper , but then it was said to arise out of minutes , and upon the Most "Worshi pful Grand Muster ' s attention being called to the fact that he had on . a previous occasion ruled that it would be better

that resolutions arising out of the minutes -of former communications should appear in the agenda paper , stated that it was " an omission , but though omitted , the resolution might be proceeded Avith , though he suggested it had better not" until further notice had feean given—we thank Bro . Clarke for the accuracy

of his minutes—his lordship stated that this was a different ease , the former resolution having reference to a grant from Grand Lodge funds , which could not be too jealously watched . Granted it was a different case , and that votes from Grand Lodge funds cannot be too jealously Avatched ; but siu'ely the Grand Master does

aot mean to assert that the character of a brother , whose fair fame we are bound , under our Masonic . obligations , to defend as our own , is of less consequence than a vote from Grand Lodge funds , and yet his lordshi p ' s words will bear that construction ,

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though we are convinced that the expression was an inadvertent one , and could never have been intended . Indeed , we are certain that when his lordshi p reconsiders his words , if he has not alread y done so , nobody will more deeply regret their utterance than the Earl of Zetland , and that he will agree with

us that the Grand Lodge funds are as nothing , when placed in the balance against the character of the humblest brother in the Craft . We have written this article more in sorrow than in anger , trusting that precautions will be taken to prevent such irregularities in future . Of the proceedings of Grand Lodge relative to the Grand Lodge property , we shall speak hereafter .

Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

( Continued from page 206 . ) 130 . In 1306 , the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral contracted with Robert de Stow , Mason , to attend to and employ other masons under him for the new work , at which time the neAV additional east end , as well as the upper parts of the great ToAver and

Transepts were done . He contracted to do the plain work by measure , and the fine carved work and images by the day . —Archceologia , vol . 9 , p . 125 .

131 . The John of Gloucester , referred to Sec . 108 , was granted by the king , freedom for life from all tallage and tolls throughout the realm . —Walpole ' s Anecdotes , by Dellaway , vol . 1 , p . 25 . 132 . Boll , August , 1307 . To the Master Mason . To Master Biehard de Wightmanthe

Masonas-, , signed by the Treasurer to superintend and direct each of the works of building , and to be the Master in the same office in all the foregoing places ( viz . the King ' s palace and Mews at Westminster , and the Tower of London ) , for his wages for the preceding week , receiving the money by his own hands'Is .

, To the Stone-cutters . To William of Abyindone , Adam of Pipringe , William of Banbury , Simon of Banbury , Eobert of Tychemerche , John of Berhamstede , Alexander of Hoghton , Milo of Stachesdene , and John of Coumbe , 9 Masons employed in cutting

large Uaen stones , grossas petras de CJadamo , ior the said works as taskwork , taking for 100 ft . 4 s ., for 480 ft . thus cut , receiving the money by the hands of William of Abyndone and Adam of Pipringe—19 * . 2 , \ d . To the Master Workman . To Master James de Leueshamthe workman appointed to oversee the

, several operations of workmanship in all the beforementioned places . Mem . That nothing was paid to him here ; but at the exchequer , by the Chamberlain , by his writ of Liberate . 35 labourers were employed at 2 \ d . a day each . —Brai / leg and Britton ' s Anc . Balace at

Westminster , p . 110 . 133 . The foundations of the tower of Boston Church , begun by many miners on Monday after Palm Sunday , 1309 . Upon Monday next after the Eeast of St . John