History Of Freemasonry In Cornwall.

HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN CORNWALL .

ZOKDOF , SATURDAY , MARCH 23 , 1867 .

By >& Bro . "WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAST , 18 ° , & c . ( Continued from page 183 . ) The fifth volume commences January 2 nd , A . D . 1810 , when a meeting was held , at which some forty brethren attended ¦ the following were the

officers : —Bros . George Snell Williams , R . W . M . ; C . J . Lolt , W . S . W . ; J . V . Tippet , W . J . W . ; George Simmens , W . P . M . ; Henry Williams , W . P . W . j Thomas Hooper , Treas . ; John Ellis , Sec . At this lodge three Stewards were appointed

to regulate and inspect the refreshments ( for the first time ) . The several meetings during the year were well attended , and were all prosperous , both numerically and financially . Nothing , however , requires especial mention in the proceedings

recorded , except that the members never forgot the centre of the " Three Grand Principles /' ' and on all proper occasions most generously relieved the distressed . In one case the lodge granted a guinea a month to their Tyler , who was suffering most accutely by an accident , and in poor circumstances . The R . W . M . stated on 4 th September ,

1810 , " ' That the Grand Secretary had written him to say that members of ancient lodges were not eligible to be admitted members of modern lodges , and consequently a brother who had been initiated under the Grand Lodge of England ,

representing the " Ancients" so called , must defer joining the Falmouth Lodge until the union of the two Grand Lodges had taken place , which was expected shortly . This union was consummated 27 th December , 1813 , and from that time

the Craft as a body has known no divisions , but preserved the ancient landmarks in peace and concord . The feast of St . John the Evangelist was observed with great eclat on 27 th December , when the R . W . M . was re-elected and installed . The

list of members at this' date contains over sixt y brethren . On February 5 th , 1811 , the lodge granted the handsome sum of ten guineas towards the general subscription of lodges for the relief of the British

prisoners in France , and also voted one guinea for the relief of a very aged Mason . Subsequently the latter amount was increased to two pounds ten shillings . It having transpired that some

members had imprudently been conversing on Masonic matters with those who were not connected with the Fraternity , they were severely and deservedly well reprimanded by the R . W . M ., and told that the conduct of which they had been guilty was a

gross insult , not only to Masonry generally , but to the Lodge of Love and Honour in particular , We have mentioned this minute because such a

censure would not be inopportune in some lodges of the present time . We have been told valuable Masonic information by non-Masons , and have to our surprise been informed of adverse ballots in certain lodges by gentlemen not members , either of such lodo-e or even of the Craft at all . This is

a crying evil , and should be enlarged upon , and warnings given in open lodge to young' members , The actions of Freemasons , as such , are sacred , and their proceedings dare not be revealed to " cowans " by any who value either the prosperity

of the Craft , or regard their own solemn obligations and binding promises . We , in common "with , many , regret having to allude to the subject , but the existence of the evil requires its mention ; and if by this reference to the subject some are led to

be more prudent and circumspect , the object of the writer will be attained . At the next lodg-e it was stated that one of the members had been

guilty of most un-Masonic conduct , and in eonsequence thereof his expulsion was determined upon . The Senior Warden was deputed to open the subject by delivering a charge , which he did as follows , in order to lay before the members the

grounds upon which the recommendation of expulsion was founded : — " Right Worshipful Master and Brethren , I am extremely sorry that I feel myself constrained not only from the impervious duty imposed on me by

filling the office of Senior Warden of this lodge , but also from my attachment to our ancient and honourable Fraternity , and a strong antipathy to see its valuable precepts , constitutions , and maxims violated , and its landmarks and usages encroached

upon , to lay before your worship certain charges ugainst a member of our respectable lodge . It is very far from my wish or intention unnecessarily even to trouble your Worship or the lodge on any trifling or unimportant matter , and much less is it

my object to state circumstances which may at all appear to interrupt the cultivation of brotherlylove , the foundation and cope-stone , the cement and glory of this ancient Fraternity , and which ought to subsist among us ; but when the estsk-