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Article THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. ← Page 2 of 2 Article OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER. Page 1 of 4 →
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The Freemasons' Magazine.
before many months have elapsed , we shall lie in a position to state that the work of the Freemasons' Magazine is at least a remunerative labour ; and we add tho expression of our firm belief that it will live and flourish , an useful organ of the Graft , long after the memory of our bitter and unscrupulous contemporary shall have passed away !
Apologising to our readers for having troubled them with matter somewhat personal to ourselves , we shall now quit tho subject , perfectly content to leave the future prosperity of the Magazine in the hands of the Graft and of those friends who have so kindl y interested themselves to p lace our labours in a proper position before the brethren .
Our Architectural Chapter.
OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER .
WE shall , not have to go far this week for matter for our Chapter as we have received several communications bearing on the subject . Our late Bro . Firmin justly boasted in a letter ! which , was ' one of his last acts of Masonic Mai , that the Craft in Southampton had always kept aloof from taverns , so far as he could trace back .
The Lodge of Concord , No . 174 , dating from 1771 , met in the Town Hall , when it became the Eoyal Gloucester , and had a Lodge , room of its own in East-street . The present Freemasons' Hall , at Southampton , was built b y Bro . Laver , who in the earl y part of the present century was a , most zealous in
Mason Southampton . Tho premises consist of a lobb y , candidate ' s room , a large room used for artistic purposes , largo kitchen and larder , Tyler ' s living and sleeping apartments , and a ' spacious LotKroom , in which are held the meetings and banquets of the Eoyal Gloucester Lodge , No . L 12 ; the Southampton Lodge , No . 5 / 5 : 7- the Arch
Eoyal Chapters , Nos . ]/! 2 and MS ; and the Eoval Gloucester Encampment of Kni ghts Templar . It is also contemplated to hold the meetings of the Lod ge , No . 403 , in the same hall , most of the members of No . 462 being residents in Southampton . Tn 1839 tho property came into the hands of Bro . Thring . ami a tomptin" offer made to
was him to part with the property for other than iMasonic purposes . True to his Masonic princi ples , Bro . Thring preferred to snller a pecuniary loss rather than the brethren should be driven from their hall . Bro . G . E . Deacon ( the present Deputy Prov . Grand Master of ( he province ) was applied to , who , in this , as in every other instance was ready with purse , time , and influence , for the benefit of the Craft '
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The Freemasons' Magazine.
before many months have elapsed , we shall lie in a position to state that the work of the Freemasons' Magazine is at least a remunerative labour ; and we add tho expression of our firm belief that it will live and flourish , an useful organ of the Graft , long after the memory of our bitter and unscrupulous contemporary shall have passed away !
Apologising to our readers for having troubled them with matter somewhat personal to ourselves , we shall now quit tho subject , perfectly content to leave the future prosperity of the Magazine in the hands of the Graft and of those friends who have so kindl y interested themselves to p lace our labours in a proper position before the brethren .
Our Architectural Chapter.
OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER .
WE shall , not have to go far this week for matter for our Chapter as we have received several communications bearing on the subject . Our late Bro . Firmin justly boasted in a letter ! which , was ' one of his last acts of Masonic Mai , that the Craft in Southampton had always kept aloof from taverns , so far as he could trace back .
The Lodge of Concord , No . 174 , dating from 1771 , met in the Town Hall , when it became the Eoyal Gloucester , and had a Lodge , room of its own in East-street . The present Freemasons' Hall , at Southampton , was built b y Bro . Laver , who in the earl y part of the present century was a , most zealous in
Mason Southampton . Tho premises consist of a lobb y , candidate ' s room , a large room used for artistic purposes , largo kitchen and larder , Tyler ' s living and sleeping apartments , and a ' spacious LotKroom , in which are held the meetings and banquets of the Eoyal Gloucester Lodge , No . L 12 ; the Southampton Lodge , No . 5 / 5 : 7- the Arch
Eoyal Chapters , Nos . ]/! 2 and MS ; and the Eoval Gloucester Encampment of Kni ghts Templar . It is also contemplated to hold the meetings of the Lod ge , No . 403 , in the same hall , most of the members of No . 462 being residents in Southampton . Tn 1839 tho property came into the hands of Bro . Thring . ami a tomptin" offer made to
was him to part with the property for other than iMasonic purposes . True to his Masonic princi ples , Bro . Thring preferred to snller a pecuniary loss rather than the brethren should be driven from their hall . Bro . G . E . Deacon ( the present Deputy Prov . Grand Master of ( he province ) was applied to , who , in this , as in every other instance was ready with purse , time , and influence , for the benefit of the Craft '