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Article EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 6 of 6
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
Avho after the Union was entrusted by Grand Master the Duke of Sussex Avith the re-construction of the ritual , so that there might be uniformity of working throughout the English Lodges . This task , hoAvever , he was unable , owing to the failure of his mental powers , to
complete , though so much of it as he had accomplished is still worked in some of our Lodges of Instruction . What Hemming failed to do , hoAvever , was carried out by Bro . William Williams , who prepared a complete ritual , which , under the successive preceptorships of the famous Bro . Peter Gilkes and S . Barton Wilson , and others , has since
been Avorked in the Emulation Lodge of Improvement . Among the events that have taken place within its Avails may be mentioned the restoration , in 1790 , of Bro . William Preston , the well-known author of the " Illustrations of Masonry , " to his Masonic rank and privileges . Bro . Preston , about ten years previously , had quarrelled with Grand Lodge , and with other members of the Lodge
of Antiquity had separated himself from that body . His restoration was about the last act of H . R . H . the Duke of Cumberland ' s Grand Mastership . In 1792 H . R . H . the Prince of Wales was installed in the presence of large numbers of the Craft . In 1813 , a magnificent jewel was presented to the Earl of Moira on his retirement from the
Pro Grand Mastership , on which occasion their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex , York , Clarence , Kent , Cumberland , and Gloucester were present ; Avhile towards the close of the same year was enacted the solemn union of the " Moderns " and " Ancients " into one Grand Lodge . These are among the most noteworthy of the associations
Avhich every brother must conjure up Avhenever he takes his seat in the Temple , and though we might continue the record , it seems to us that no more fitting termination to the narrative of our wanderings in Great Queen-street can be found than the mention of what is , undoubtedly , the most important event that has happened in English
Masonry during the present century . ( To be continued ?)
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
Avho after the Union was entrusted by Grand Master the Duke of Sussex Avith the re-construction of the ritual , so that there might be uniformity of working throughout the English Lodges . This task , hoAvever , he was unable , owing to the failure of his mental powers , to
complete , though so much of it as he had accomplished is still worked in some of our Lodges of Instruction . What Hemming failed to do , hoAvever , was carried out by Bro . William Williams , who prepared a complete ritual , which , under the successive preceptorships of the famous Bro . Peter Gilkes and S . Barton Wilson , and others , has since
been Avorked in the Emulation Lodge of Improvement . Among the events that have taken place within its Avails may be mentioned the restoration , in 1790 , of Bro . William Preston , the well-known author of the " Illustrations of Masonry , " to his Masonic rank and privileges . Bro . Preston , about ten years previously , had quarrelled with Grand Lodge , and with other members of the Lodge
of Antiquity had separated himself from that body . His restoration was about the last act of H . R . H . the Duke of Cumberland ' s Grand Mastership . In 1792 H . R . H . the Prince of Wales was installed in the presence of large numbers of the Craft . In 1813 , a magnificent jewel was presented to the Earl of Moira on his retirement from the
Pro Grand Mastership , on which occasion their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex , York , Clarence , Kent , Cumberland , and Gloucester were present ; Avhile towards the close of the same year was enacted the solemn union of the " Moderns " and " Ancients " into one Grand Lodge . These are among the most noteworthy of the associations
Avhich every brother must conjure up Avhenever he takes his seat in the Temple , and though we might continue the record , it seems to us that no more fitting termination to the narrative of our wanderings in Great Queen-street can be found than the mention of what is , undoubtedly , the most important event that has happened in English
Masonry during the present century . ( To be continued ?)