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Masonic Missions.
considered a fitting compliment to his Masonic services to give him the Grand Mastership of the province . Bro . Cabbell has shown himself not insensible to the honour conferred on him , has presided at some banquets in the province , and exhibited his hospitality to individual brethren ; but we have at present to consider him as a Masonic
administrator . Norfolk is sixty-seven miles long by forty-two miles broad . Its area is 2 , 110 square miles—11 , 354 , 301 acres . In fact ib is twice as large as an average sized county , . and is only exceeded in size by Yorkshire , Lincolnshire , and Devonshire , holding the place of the fourth of the English counties ( for size . We caimot say that it holds
that Masonic rank among the English provinces . So far from it , there is many a province ahead of it ' ; and instead of having the importance of two average provinces , it has only the development of one average province . Its population is nearly half a million , being in 1851 , 442 , 714 . It is a great agricultural country , has a great seat of manufactures in Norwich , and some shipping interest .
Its Lodge towns and Lodges are—Norwich , No . 60 , Union Lodgo , date 173 C . ., No . 110 , Social Lodge , date 1755 .
,, No . 2-58 , Lodge of Perseverance , date 1773 . Yarmouth , No . 117 , Lodge of Friendship , date 1757 . „ No . 392 , Lodge of United Friends , date 1797 . Lynn , No . 124 , Philanthropise Lodge , date 1759 . Harleston , No . 100 , Faithful Lodge , date 1753 . North Walsham , No . 119 , Lodge of Unanimity , date 1758 .
The extreme antiquity of the Lodges is to be noticed ; out of eight Lodges , six are above a century old , one is eighty-six years old , and the youngest sixty-two years old . Thus Masonry is of old date in that province . The Harleston Lodge , No . 100 , meets in the Exchange Booms at Harleston , but all the other Lodges in public-houses . We have only
to add there is no Masonic hall in tho province , no library so far as we know , and no provincial benevolent fund . The state of the Eoyal Arch is not flourishing . It exists in the city of Norwich , for there are Chapters attached to Nos . 60 and 258 , but none in the great town of Yarmouth , or in other districts . The Eoyal Arch Chapters meet in public-houses . It is almost superfluous
to say , that the higher branches of Masonry are uot cultivated ; there is no Lodge or Chapter of the higher degrees ; which appear to be entirely unknown in the province .
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Masonic Missions.
considered a fitting compliment to his Masonic services to give him the Grand Mastership of the province . Bro . Cabbell has shown himself not insensible to the honour conferred on him , has presided at some banquets in the province , and exhibited his hospitality to individual brethren ; but we have at present to consider him as a Masonic
administrator . Norfolk is sixty-seven miles long by forty-two miles broad . Its area is 2 , 110 square miles—11 , 354 , 301 acres . In fact ib is twice as large as an average sized county , . and is only exceeded in size by Yorkshire , Lincolnshire , and Devonshire , holding the place of the fourth of the English counties ( for size . We caimot say that it holds
that Masonic rank among the English provinces . So far from it , there is many a province ahead of it ' ; and instead of having the importance of two average provinces , it has only the development of one average province . Its population is nearly half a million , being in 1851 , 442 , 714 . It is a great agricultural country , has a great seat of manufactures in Norwich , and some shipping interest .
Its Lodge towns and Lodges are—Norwich , No . 60 , Union Lodgo , date 173 C . ., No . 110 , Social Lodge , date 1755 .
,, No . 2-58 , Lodge of Perseverance , date 1773 . Yarmouth , No . 117 , Lodge of Friendship , date 1757 . „ No . 392 , Lodge of United Friends , date 1797 . Lynn , No . 124 , Philanthropise Lodge , date 1759 . Harleston , No . 100 , Faithful Lodge , date 1753 . North Walsham , No . 119 , Lodge of Unanimity , date 1758 .
The extreme antiquity of the Lodges is to be noticed ; out of eight Lodges , six are above a century old , one is eighty-six years old , and the youngest sixty-two years old . Thus Masonry is of old date in that province . The Harleston Lodge , No . 100 , meets in the Exchange Booms at Harleston , but all the other Lodges in public-houses . We have only
to add there is no Masonic hall in tho province , no library so far as we know , and no provincial benevolent fund . The state of the Eoyal Arch is not flourishing . It exists in the city of Norwich , for there are Chapters attached to Nos . 60 and 258 , but none in the great town of Yarmouth , or in other districts . The Eoyal Arch Chapters meet in public-houses . It is almost superfluous
to say , that the higher branches of Masonry are uot cultivated ; there is no Lodge or Chapter of the higher degrees ; which appear to be entirely unknown in the province .