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A Maiden.
Where ' er she went a blessing came , 'Twas so , the needy felt , - And learnt to reverence her name , Whose grace such gifts had dealt .
Oh ! maiden , were there more like thee , " How bright the world would be , " And many darkened minds would see That " light" and love are free .
The Lechmere Ms.
THE LECHMERE MS .
BY THE EDITOR . T ) T the kind permission of Bro . Sir E . Lechmere , Prov . G . M . for - ^ Worcestershire , we are enabled to give a correct transcript of the Lechmere MS . Bro . Rylands and ourselves went over it word for
word on two afternoons , and carefully checked the present copy of it word for word with the original MS . We now commend it to the notice of all Masonic Students , believing that others constitutions will yet turn up , and that many other similar MSS . exist , up to the present unknown , unnoticed , and uncollated .
Transcribed from the Original ( Nov ., 1882 ) , * payments [ h ] aue worship for sending them vnto him & other Charges hee gaue them ; & this was y first time yt any mason had any Charge of his Craft , Moreouer when
Abraham & Sarah his wife , went into Egipt theire were taught ye seven Liberall sciences vnto ye Egiptians , & hee had a worthy scholar called Euchild , & hee Learned right well , & was m of all y seven sciences , & in his daies it befell yt ye lords & states of ye Realme : had soe many soones w they had begot somes by theires wifes & some by
ye Ladies of ye Realme , for yt land is a Holy Land , & aplenyshed generation & they had noe Liueings competent for theire Children ,, wherefore they made much sorrow , & ye king of yt land made a great Councell & a parl ' ment , to know how they myght find theire Children , & they Could find noe good wayes & he Caused a Cry to be
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Maiden.
Where ' er she went a blessing came , 'Twas so , the needy felt , - And learnt to reverence her name , Whose grace such gifts had dealt .
Oh ! maiden , were there more like thee , " How bright the world would be , " And many darkened minds would see That " light" and love are free .
The Lechmere Ms.
THE LECHMERE MS .
BY THE EDITOR . T ) T the kind permission of Bro . Sir E . Lechmere , Prov . G . M . for - ^ Worcestershire , we are enabled to give a correct transcript of the Lechmere MS . Bro . Rylands and ourselves went over it word for
word on two afternoons , and carefully checked the present copy of it word for word with the original MS . We now commend it to the notice of all Masonic Students , believing that others constitutions will yet turn up , and that many other similar MSS . exist , up to the present unknown , unnoticed , and uncollated .
Transcribed from the Original ( Nov ., 1882 ) , * payments [ h ] aue worship for sending them vnto him & other Charges hee gaue them ; & this was y first time yt any mason had any Charge of his Craft , Moreouer when
Abraham & Sarah his wife , went into Egipt theire were taught ye seven Liberall sciences vnto ye Egiptians , & hee had a worthy scholar called Euchild , & hee Learned right well , & was m of all y seven sciences , & in his daies it befell yt ye lords & states of ye Realme : had soe many soones w they had begot somes by theires wifes & some by
ye Ladies of ye Realme , for yt land is a Holy Land , & aplenyshed generation & they had noe Liueings competent for theire Children ,, wherefore they made much sorrow , & ye king of yt land made a great Councell & a parl ' ment , to know how they myght find theire Children , & they Could find noe good wayes & he Caused a Cry to be