Freemasonry In Spain.

tionary measnres of the day had prently excited Brother Calatrava , a Masonic veternn , who had sought rest , hut had found it only for a brief poriocl . Influenced by the prayers of a certain Bro . Castillo , a traveller in the wine

trade , Calatrava took the initiative in resuscitating the famous National Grand Orient of Spain , which had been established in 1840 nt Bordeaux , out of the remains of a Spanish societ y founded in 1812 , and bearing the title of " Los Comuneros "—the communists . These " Couvunevos "

so called in memory of the brave Spaniards Padilla , Bravo , and Maldonado , who had been the first to protest against tho Flemish tyranny of Charles V ., adopted in 1812 the same method which in 1820 found favour with the Carbonari . Their Lodges were named " Toms , " thoir

Chapters " Chateav" their chambers " Louvres , " their consistory of Princes oF the Royal Secret tho " Grand Encampment of Villalar , " a plnco celebrated for the massacre of the "Comuneros " b y the Walloons of Charles V . It was , however , the illustrious patriot Arguelles , who , in

moments of difficulty taking for his guide the maxim of his enemies that "the end justifies the means , " hurled these essentially political and revolutionary bodies against the positions held by the deadly enemies ' of liberty . Thus resuscitated by Bro . Calatrava , the National Grand Orient of

Spain took its place among the governing bodies of Masonry in Spain in 1869 , when liberties of every kind and without a single exception had become veritable rights . In April of this year was held , in No . 13 of the street " Las Infantas " in Madrid , a gathering of some dozens of

well-known Masons , who constituted a triad of Lodges , namely , " La Lealtad , " " La Mantuana , " and " La Francos Caballeros de San-Andres de Escocia ( the Free Knights of St . Andrew of Scotland ) . These Lodges constituted themselves first of all a Chapter , then as a Grand Orient , and

lastly , thanks to the number of S . I . Generals who took part in the proceedings , as a Supreme Council under the presidency of Bro . Magnan , the legitimate successor of the Soverei gn Grand Commanders of the Supreme Council which had been founded in 1811 , and which in 1818 had

absorbed that founded in 1808 . Bro . Magnan was better calculated to wage war than organise , and at the commencement of 1870 he left for Santander in company with the Grand Secretary and Grand Chancellor . On this the members of the 33 rd degree remaining in Madrid despoiled

him m a fraternal and kindly manner of his authority , in consequence of his inabilit y to carry out the honourable views b y which he was animated , and appointed in his stead as G . Commander Bro . M . R . Zorrilla . This Bro . Zorrilla had been made E . A . P . in Lodge " la Mantuana , "

the day following F . C . and MM . in Lodge " La Caridad , " then Kni ght of the East in the Iberian Grand Orient—an offshoot which the schismatic G . Orient of Portugal had set up at Madrid in those days of Iberian hopes and aspirations—and on the fourth day , the 20 th July 1870 ,

Grand Commander . Hence having been President of the Council of Ministers in 1871 and 1872 , and having during that time honoured Freemasonry with a protection which was benevolent and fraternal rather than enlightened and practical , Bro . Ruiz Zorrilla found himself under the

necessity of voluntarily resigning his charge of G . Commander , and restored it formally to the Craft in an instrument dated Palencia , 1 st January 1874 . Thereupon Bros . Avalos and Panzano , who had been raised to the 33 rd degree under the rule of Zorrilla , took counsel with the

deposed Brother Magnan , with a view to his having the acts of government of Zorrilla declared null and void . This was accomplished , and the dismissal of Zorrilla having been accepted , Bro . Magnan resumed his old position of S . G . Commander , as though he had never left it .

He at once appointed Bro . Carvajal as Lieut . G . Commander , and at the same meeting abdicated in his favour as S . G . Commander . Bro . Carvajal was succeeded in turn by Bros . Ferrer , Couder , Avalos , Oriero , and

Panzano y Almirall , the actual S . G . Commander of that body entitling itself the Grand Orient of Spain , and to which , for reasons that will appear hereafter , we shall add the qualification of " Primary . " ( To be continued . )

The Voice of Masonry announces the death , on 21 st June last , in the forty-ninth year of his age , of M . W . Isaac B . Sharp , Past Grand Master of Kansas .

Freemasonry In York In The Eighteenth Century.

FREEMASONRY IN YORK IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .

AS TOLD BY AN OLD NEWSPAPER FILE . BY BRO . T . B . WHYTEHEAD , YORK , ( Continued from page 139 ) . flTIIEEINGTON ' S York Chronicle of Friday , 3 rd - * -J January 1777 , has a paragraph registering a meeting of tho Grand Lodge : —

" Friday last being St . Johu ' a Day there was a very respectable meeting of Free and Accepted Masons of the Most Antient Grand Lodge of AH England at the York Tavern and at the Provincial Grand Lodge at Nioholson ' s Coffee House in this city . The brethren of both lodges attended Divine Service , the former at St . Helens and

the latter at St . Martin ' s , Coney-street , where discourses suitable to the occasion were delivered by the Eev . Brethren John Parker and James Lawson . The brothren dined together at their respective Lodges and the day was spent with that harmony and decorum the distinguishing characteristics of the Society . "

Tho York Tavern was selected by Grand Master Siddall as his p lace of meeting on 24 th June 1778 , and on the same day Sir Thomas Tancred Provincial Grand Master summoned his brethren to meet at Nicholson ' s Coffee House , in Coney Street . "William Siddall was a York

woollen draper . He was made a Mason m 1770 and served the office of Sheriff of York in 1765 , and was twice Lord Mayor , in 1783 and 1793 . In the latter

year ho died suddenly in the Mansion House whilst in the act of robing himself on Sunday morning for the purpose of proceeding to the service in the Cathedral . On 22 nd December 1778 , the Oourant has the following :

The Most Antient Grand Lodge of all England . SIDDALL , Grand Master . Free and Accepted Maceona are desired to meet the Grand Master at the York Tavern , on Monday next , the 28 th December , at 10 o'clock in the forenoon , from thence to forward to St . Helens

Chnroh to hear Divine Service , where a sermon will be preached on the occasion by the Rev . Brother John Parker , Grand Chaplain . Dinner on the Table at 2 o ' clock .

Coupland was an energetic brother , and he with others moved the Grand Lodge at York at a late period of its existence to grant a Constitution for a subordinate Lodge in York , which does not , however , seem to have been

granted . Brother Parker , Grand Chaplain , was made a Mason without fees in 1776 , it being considered that his services would be of great value to the Lodge . The next advertisement is : —

SIB THOMAS TANCRED , Bart ., Provincial Grand Master . The Free and Accepted Masons , under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England , are desired to meet the Brethren at Nicholson's Coffee House , in Coney-street , York , on Monday next , the

28 th of December , at 10 o'clock in the forenoon , and proceed from thence to attend Divine Service at St . Martin's Church , Coney-street . A sermon will be preached by the Rev . Bro . Win . Johnson , Prov . Grand Chaplain . Dinner at 2 o'clock . Tickets to be had at the bar of the said Coffee House . "

On 24 th June 1779 , Grand Master Siddall summoned his brethren to meet him at the York Tavern , and on the same day Sir Walter Vavasour , Bart ., Provincial Grand Master , called his brethren to meet him at Nicholson ' s Coffee House . Again the Grand Lodge was called to meet

at the York Tavern , on the 27 th December , and to hear a sermon at St . Helens by the Rev . John Parker . On the same day the Provincial Grand Master called his subjects to meet him at Nicholson ' s Coffee House and hear a sermon at St . Martin ' s by the Rev . "W . Johnson .

The York Chronicle and General Advertiser , published by Blanchard and Co ., Coppergate , of 16 th July 1779 , says :

At a very respectable meeting of Freemasons at the Lodge in Wolverhampton to commemorate the Anniversary of St . John the Baptist the conversation turned chiefly upon the present state of national affairs , and many loyal toasts being drunk on the occasion , Sir John Wrottosley , as became a soldier and patriot , offered his

services to the public by leading a body of his brave countrymen to any part of the globe . The Lodge immediately rang with repeated shouts of approbation , and every brother , with a zeal and ardour which ever characterize that Society in the promotion of any good design , most cordially wished for an immediate execution of so laudable and indispensable undertaking .

In 1780 the June meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge was called by Provincial Grand Master Yavasour for the 26 th June , at Nicholson ' s Coffee House , and Smy th , Grand Master , of the Grand Lodge , called his summer