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takes more especially of the second degree . According to the first edition of Bro . Laurie ' s " History of Freemasonry , " A . D . 1804 , there was a lodge held at Stonehaven , and numbered 78 . No name , however , is mentioned . The Harmony

Lodge must be of a more recent date . Masonry was in abeyance for a long time in this town , and suffered through the failure of the benefit fund in connection with the lodge . The room , furniture , & c , had to be sold , unfortunately , but we

are happy to state that an old lodge was revived A . D . 1859 , and numbered 65 , the warrant of which was granted 1755 . May the present be as successful as we

wish-The above eno-ravina * is from a coin we have in O O our possession , of A . D . 1790 . It was struck in honour of the election of His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales to the high and important office of Grand Master . The Marquis of Hastings was

appointed acting Grand Master by the M . W . the Grand Master . Three elegant chairs and candlesticks were provided for the use of the Grancl Lodge to mark the high sense the fraternity entertained of the honour done to the society by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales' acceptance of the office of Grand Master .

The Knights Templars.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .

By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE . ( Continued from page 46 ) . BOOK THIRD—CHAPTER VI . —( eontd ) . GRAND MASTER—HERMAN DE PBRIGORD .

The Hospitallers , now that the policy of the Templars was crowned with success , broke their treaty with the Sultan of E gypt , and subscribed the one made with the Sultan of Damascus . The Patriarch with all his clergy returned to

Jerusalem , and the Templars and Hospitallers emptied their coffers in rebuilding part of the walls . The following letter was despatched to England : — "Bro . Herman de Perigord , the humble

The Knights Templars.

Minister * of the poor soldiery of the Temple , to his dear brother in Christ , Robert de Sandford , Preceptor in England , greeting in the Lord . Since we are bound to inform your fraternity with letters or messengers concerning the state of the

Holy Land , so often as an opportunity presents itself , you must know that the Sultan of Babylon , after the ills which he received from us , a Nasser , who was then the furtherer of his designs , his coadjutor , and the persecutor of the Christians ,

whom we did not cease to attack , according to our forces , have been at last compelled , though unwillingly , to confer with us , and re-establish the truce and promise to restore to the Christians all the land on this side the Jordan . We , therefore ,

on this occasion , thought fit to send to the presence of the said Sultan , in Babylon , deputies , noble and discreet men of our brethren . Whom having guarded and retained for half a year and more , he cut off Gaza , St . Abraham , Naplons , Varan , and others , from those which he had

before promised us ; and this proceeding being injurious to us he then gave us nothing but words of deception and emptiness . But we , through divine grace , perceiving his craftiness and perfidy , since he was only procuring our truce that he

might the more easily bring under his power the Sultans of Damascus , Camel , and Nazar , the Lord of Carac , with their territories , that when at length he should hold in his power the land of the Saracens , which was contiguous to the land of the

Christians , he would not in any way keep his promise with us , as he broke his promises with his own people , whom all Christianity , on this side the sea , which is so weak and small , would then be unable to resist . We having prudently deliberated

with regard to this affair , having had the needful advice of the prelates , and of some of the barons of the country , have properly refused the truce of the said Sultan , and have thought proper to treat with the Sultan of Damascus , and with Nazar , the Lord of Carac , so that they have given up to Christian culture all the land on this side of the

river Jordan , except St . Abraham , Naplons , and Bisan . Wherefore angels and men should rejoice that the holy city Jerusalem is now inhabited by Christian people , all the Saracens being driven out , and that in all those holy places , in which for fifty-six years the name of God had not been called on , the Bishops of the Church having now recon-