Masonic Seals, Coins, &C.

MASONIC SEALS , COINS , & c .

LONDON , SATURDAY , JULY 25 , 1863 .

By Bro . WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN . ' No . II . ( Vide No . I ., vol . xvii ., page 141 ) . We have been some time in preparing the , ,

following article , being the second of the contemplated series , owing to the difficulty of procuring reliable information respecting the lodges , & c , in question . The first seal we intend laying before our

readers is that belonging to the Old Globe Lodge , Scarborough . Ib is of an oval shape , and contains more Masonic emblems in a small space than is generally to be found .

The Globe in the centre , the moveable jewels , and the lights , pillars , and all-seeing eye are suitably represented , as also other matters of deep interest to the Craft , which an attentive observer will discover . We consider the arrangement is both

artistic and Masonic , and although judging from the number of the lodge , the seal cannot be more than a few years old , unless the figures have been recut , we feel sure that our readers will be pleased to possess so accurate an engraving of it .

The present number of the lodge is 200 , but m 1863 it was 236 , and in 1831 it was No . 337 . The lodge is not mentioned in the regular list of lodges A . D . 1811 , which is accounted for by the fact that the Old Globe had not joined the " Moderns . "

We are unable positively to fix the date when this lodge was established . We know , however , that a warrant was granted it by the " Ancients , " or Athole Masons , and although now in the .." United Grand Lodge of England Calendar , " it is inserted between AD 1771 and 1772 . it cannot

be of so early a date ; neither can it be of so late an origin as 1791 , according to the "British and Irish Calendar , " of A . D . 1868 . The warrant granted by the Ancients was not its first , as it appears in the regular " Freemasons' Calendar /''

of 1799 , under the date of A . D . 1788 . " No . 440 , the Old Globe Lodge , Old Globe Inn , Scarborough , " page 43 . That being the case , we think the warrant was granted by the Modems ( so called , but really the Ancients ) A . D . 1788 , and

account for its being numbered 200 , while other lodges of an earlier date are numbered 206 , 218 , 230 , & c , from the fact that at the time of the union , A . D . 1813 , and the re-numbering of the lodges of both Grand Lodges , the Old Globe

Lodge " had left its first love , " and seceded to the Ancients . All the Ancient lodges took higher numbers than the Moderns of the same dates , because the lodges of each Grand Lodge were numbered alternately , and no lodge among the

Ancients could date beyond 1740 , whereas the Moderns had many from 1723 to that date , and two or three before 1717 . In the constitutions of

the Ancients of A . D . 1807 , the Old Globe Lodge appears as No . 267 , " their own hall , " thus confirming our statement of its secession . In the year 1797 the "lodge was erased for not conforming to the laws of the society , " and as we

find the fact was noted in the regular Grancl Lodge calendars for A . D . 1803 , 1805 and 1810 , we have no doubt but that the fact of its erasure led the members to join the rival Grand Lodge , A . D . 1800 . The lodge is not mentioned in Browne ' s " Master

Key " of 1799 , containing a list of modern lodges . We hope the narration of these few facts will lead some of its members to take up the subject , as there are few lodges of more importance in the north than the Old Globe , Scarborough .

The nest seal is of the Harmony Lodge , Stonehaven ( No . 325 ) , now extinct . The arrangement is of a different character to the former , and par-