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Masonic Antiquities, Documents, &C. Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester.
" Military Order of Masonic Knights Templar of St . John of Jerusalem . " I must request that as soon as possible you send to mo the names , ages , " profession , and residence of all the Knights of your Encampment , as I " intend to have a regular register of our Order . Being Grand Superin" tendent of Royal Arch Masons at Bristol , I was requested by the Knights " Templar of that city ( who have had an Encampment from time iinmemorial ) , toaccept the office of Grand Masterwhich I had no sooner
" _ , " complied with than petitions were sent to me for the same purpose from " London , Bath , the first Regiment of Dragoon Guards" [ Captain Thomas Dixon of this regiment visited the Jerusalem Encampment , Manchester , June 15 th . 1788 ] , " Colchester , York , Dorchester , and Bidoford . I suppose " there are many , more Encampments in England , which , with God ' s per" missionI may have the happiness to receive and assistIt has alread
, . y " been attended with a blessing , for I have been but tiro months Grand ' " Master , and have already eight Encampments under my care . I shall " form a few statutes for regulating our Order as soon as I have appointed " the Grand Officers of the Grand Encampment of England , to be held on " the 24 th . June , annually , at London .
" The following I submit to your consideration : — " That every regular Encampment bo constituted by warrant , signed by " the Grand Master , and witnessed by the Grand Scribe , for which one " guinea is to be paid—10 * . 6 d . for furnishing robes to the Grand Master , " 10 s . 6 d . for engrossing the warrant . " That every Knight pay 5 . ? ., for which he will receive a certificate , " signed by the second Grand Scribe , of his being registered in the Grand " Chapter . ° D
That no Knight be installed for a less sum than one guinea , for the " use of the Enc ., and 5 s . for his certificate from the Grand Chapter . "I have given No . 5 to j-our Encampment , though Dorchester and " Bideford petitioned previous to your application ; but as no dispensations " or warrants are yet made out , I show every preference in my " power to " the second city in the kingdom . " If those regulations meet with your approbation , signify the same to convenient
"me as soon as , and I will send you a dispensation till the " the warrant is made out . —Your most affectionate companion , " THOMAS DITSCKEEIEY . "
The admission of the Encampment of Redemption led to the appointment , in 1791 , of one of its members , Captain Thomas Dixon , as the first "Provincial Grand Commander of the northern district , comprising five counties . The Bristol Camp above alluded to claims to date from a very remote
period . They have"A document engrossed on parchment and bearing the seals of the "Orders of Knights Templars , Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , and " Knights of Malta , of the Knights Eoste Crucis , and of the Grand Elected ' Knights Kactosh , dated from our Castle at Bristol , the 20 th . day of " December , 17 S 0 . "
And it refers to a previously existing document , called a CHARTER OF COMPACT . This document is signed by one Joshua Springer . As will be seen hereafter the higher degrees , above alluded to , were worked by this and other Encampments , and also by the Encamp-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Antiquities, Documents, &C. Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester.
" Military Order of Masonic Knights Templar of St . John of Jerusalem . " I must request that as soon as possible you send to mo the names , ages , " profession , and residence of all the Knights of your Encampment , as I " intend to have a regular register of our Order . Being Grand Superin" tendent of Royal Arch Masons at Bristol , I was requested by the Knights " Templar of that city ( who have had an Encampment from time iinmemorial ) , toaccept the office of Grand Masterwhich I had no sooner
" _ , " complied with than petitions were sent to me for the same purpose from " London , Bath , the first Regiment of Dragoon Guards" [ Captain Thomas Dixon of this regiment visited the Jerusalem Encampment , Manchester , June 15 th . 1788 ] , " Colchester , York , Dorchester , and Bidoford . I suppose " there are many , more Encampments in England , which , with God ' s per" missionI may have the happiness to receive and assistIt has alread
, . y " been attended with a blessing , for I have been but tiro months Grand ' " Master , and have already eight Encampments under my care . I shall " form a few statutes for regulating our Order as soon as I have appointed " the Grand Officers of the Grand Encampment of England , to be held on " the 24 th . June , annually , at London .
" The following I submit to your consideration : — " That every regular Encampment bo constituted by warrant , signed by " the Grand Master , and witnessed by the Grand Scribe , for which one " guinea is to be paid—10 * . 6 d . for furnishing robes to the Grand Master , " 10 s . 6 d . for engrossing the warrant . " That every Knight pay 5 . ? ., for which he will receive a certificate , " signed by the second Grand Scribe , of his being registered in the Grand " Chapter . ° D
That no Knight be installed for a less sum than one guinea , for the " use of the Enc ., and 5 s . for his certificate from the Grand Chapter . "I have given No . 5 to j-our Encampment , though Dorchester and " Bideford petitioned previous to your application ; but as no dispensations " or warrants are yet made out , I show every preference in my " power to " the second city in the kingdom . " If those regulations meet with your approbation , signify the same to convenient
"me as soon as , and I will send you a dispensation till the " the warrant is made out . —Your most affectionate companion , " THOMAS DITSCKEEIEY . "
The admission of the Encampment of Redemption led to the appointment , in 1791 , of one of its members , Captain Thomas Dixon , as the first "Provincial Grand Commander of the northern district , comprising five counties . The Bristol Camp above alluded to claims to date from a very remote
period . They have"A document engrossed on parchment and bearing the seals of the "Orders of Knights Templars , Knights of St . John of Jerusalem , and " Knights of Malta , of the Knights Eoste Crucis , and of the Grand Elected ' Knights Kactosh , dated from our Castle at Bristol , the 20 th . day of " December , 17 S 0 . "
And it refers to a previously existing document , called a CHARTER OF COMPACT . This document is signed by one Joshua Springer . As will be seen hereafter the higher degrees , above alluded to , were worked by this and other Encampments , and also by the Encamp-