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NORTH WALES AND SALOP . Province F R Spaull ( seo also London ) - - 59 17 0 1336 J Oswell Bary - 10 10 0

OXFORDSHIRE . 340 Thomas Lucas - 30 2 0 1703 Rev . Dr . J Payne - 10 10 0 1895 W A Simmons - 21 O 0 SOMERSETSHIRE . Province Major A T Perkins 71 8 0

SOUTH WALES ( East Div . ) Province D 0 Jones - - 160 0 0 SOUTH WALES ( West Div . ) Province Rev . J Marsdon - 262 10 0

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j STAFFORDSHIRE . ! Prov . & 526 C W Graham - 100 0 O Prov . & 1792 J It Leo - 80 19 6 SUFFOLK .

Province H C Caseley - 131 5 0 81 W P T Phillips - 32 11 O 936 N J Beale - - 84 0 0 ! SURREY .

! 777 C Beltou - - 36 15 0 ! 1638 C Edward Oldridgo - 42 0 0 1872 J E Bowen - 1872 W R Grove - - 10 10 0

SUSSEX . 732 Francis Daniel - 170 2 0 Inviota Rose Croix—Capt . S B MoWhinnie - 67 4 0

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i WARWICKSHIRE . j 502 Dr . J H Simpson - 48 (> 0 I 739 A W Williamson - 43 O 0 j

! WILTSHIRE . Province Thoa . Pontiug - 85 11 6 i j WORCESTERSHIRE . ! 377 JWConsterdiue-Chad- } wick - *( mi o n 377 A F Godson - 1 U 5 ° 377 G W Grosvenor •)

N . AND E . YORKSHIRE . 236 William Lawton - 84 0 0 1010 F W T Thorp - 10 15 0 1611 John T Seller - 36 15 O

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CORRESPONDENCE .

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Co ) respondents . All Letters must bear the name ani address of the Writer , no necessarily for publication , bnt as a guarantee of good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

BRO . JOHN PINE . To the Editor of the FKEEIIASON ' CHRONICLE . DEAK SIR AND BROTHER , —Some of your readers have doubtless seen some of Bro . Pine ' s handiwork , and all have read about Pine ' s engraved Lodge lists . But beyond these facts , I believe no writer for a Masonio paper has ever taken the trouble to collect any farther

information about that personage ; Bros . Mackey , Mackenzie , Rob Morris , Oliver , and other noted writers , were too much absorbed with collecting and compiling imaginary histories abont Pythagoras , Numa , the Rosicrucians , theKabbala , the Ancient Mysteries , Knights Templar , and all kinds of sectarian humbuggeries ; hence , they never

thought to write about Pine and many other Masonio worthies , and even in our standard literature very little could I find about Pine . As , however , a few scraps of information are better than nothing , I will just give a few items that my limited means of research enabled me to find . First : —

" In the Mastership of Dalkeith , a list of all the Lodges was engraved by Bro . John Pine in a very small volume , which is usually reprinted on the commencement of every now Grand Master and dispersed among the brethren . " ( Anderson ' s Constitutions 1738 ) . Second : —

' Pine—Engraver of the lists of Lodges from 1723 , and of the frontispiece to the Book of Constitutions of 1723 , and of the vignette mthe edition of 1738 . " ( Kenning ' s Cyclopedia ) . And third : — "It would seem hi ghly probable , that Eman Bowen and John Pino were in some way connected in their business as engravers , the

former , it may be , executing the order of the latter . Tho earliest edition of the engraved lists has no frontispiece , and bears the printer ' s name in very small letters at the foot of the last page . The list for 1724 , however , has a distinct heading , and exhibits Pine ' s name in fair sized type on the first page . " ( Gould ' s " Four Old Lod ges" ) .

The above is all the information about Pine I conld find in Masonic works . With regard to the 1723 Lodge list , the well-known Bro . ttobert Macoy , of New York , in 1878 , kindly lent me a copy of the said Lodge List . It was not a book , as described by Anderson , bnt mne loose cards , engraved on one side only ; neither pages nor Gouges were numbered . I knew which was the first page , on account ? ' the picture of the Goose and Gridiron annexed to the first Lodim

° ut of the remaining eight pages , I could not tell the first . from the Jas t- I think in yOur issue of 31 st August 1878 , a letter of mine appeared headed , if I recollect rightly , " Two Masonic Geese , " with a woodcut of the « Goose and Gridiron " horn the said Pine ' s Lodge

I have lately come across an edition of Hogarth , by John Nichols 173 «! \ ° - ^ SteveDS ' 1808-10 , where I found ( vol . I . p 73 ) that in Pi ^ l * . Hogarth and several other artistes , among whom was tie , had petitioned Parliament to protect their works from nnscrotha ? pnai ; ea ' * au Act ° f Parliament was accordingly passed for at purpose ; the said act is given in full . It secured the convrisht

lonrteen years from the day of first publishing any work , to which p added the following proviso : - Pubr h J ° Plne ' of LoncIon > Engraver , who was then about to jj ' ? * et of Prints copied from several pieces of Tapestry in the latin tliu 8 aml hia Ma i estv ' Wardrobe , and other drawings re-0 f th ° tile Spanish Invasion in 1588 , should have the same benefit prints" 3 S ' ° * -l Deen tne inventor and designer of the said

eu"ri Vr volume , facing page 302 , there is a picture of Pine , com , ; . . profit painted by Hogaitb , wilh tho following "S P 85 n tho ^ xt on the above page :-iu , _ r : " ' ( the celebrated EneravoiO in . the mannor nf KomhranrK

"fi » Vn i ( aboafc tho yeav 174 G )> hy Mr - Arflell > Price 2 s - Tn <> o nai was m poS 3 ession of the , ate Mr _ 1 { imh y > the gnrgcon . " "ere ) s a second head of Mr . Pino , a Mezzotinto ; both his hands

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leaning on a cane , printed for George Pulley , at Rembrandt's Head , the corner of Bride Court , Fleet Street . " I have called this a second head , bat know not which of the two was first published . In the first edition of the present work , I had described this plate as an unfinished one ; but have since met with it in a perfect state . "

There is a plate in the second volnme of tho said edition of Hogarth called " Gates of Calais . " In the centre of this plate , Pine figures in the garb of a fat friar , so I am informed in tho index ; the face , however , is too small to be recognised . From Bryan ' s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers I culled the following brief notice : —

" John Pine . —To this gentleman , who was a native of England and a man of letters , we are indebted for several splendid and in . foresting works , for which he engraved many of the plates . The principal of them are the ceremonies nsed at tho revival of the Order of the Bath by George I . The prints from the tapestry in the House of Lords representing the destruction of the Spanish Invasion , and a

superb edition of Horace , the text engraved and illustrated with ancient bas-reliefs and gems . The Pastorals and Georgios of "Virgil were published by his son after his death , ornamented in a ( similar mannner with printed type . Mr . Pine also engraved a few portraits , among which are an etching of himself , and a mezzotint bust of Mr . Garrick , taken from a cast . He died in 1756 . "

There was recently sold at auction in Boston a mezzotint picture of Pine . The engraving was about eight or ten inches long , it was exactly like the engraving in Hogarth , only of larger size . I saw a quarto edition of Bryan ' s Dictionary of Painters , & c . in four volumes . The portrait of Pine in it is the same size as in Hogarth , but no additional information was given in tho text .

And from tho " Gentleman's Magazine " of 1750 I copy tho following obituary notice of Bro . Pine : — " May 15 th . —Mr . Pine . Bluemantle pursuivant at arms , engraver to the King ' s signet and stamp office . " That is all I could collect about Bro . Pine . I hope it will stimulate some other brother to do better . Fraternally yours , JACOB Noucost . Boston , U . S ., 9 th May J 884 .

THE MASONIC CHARITIES . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . SIE , —Referring to report in your issue of 17 th , giving result of elections on 16 th , of candidates info or upon the funds of the Royal

Masonic Benevolent Institution , will yon permit me , through same channel of information , to state in common fairness to the two Devon widows elected that day , and their private friends , who from the first have with their votes and influence supported the two cases in

question , that Mrs . E . M . Thomas obtained loOO votes out of her total polled from her own exertions , and therewith elected herself . Mrs . E . Chappie , in a like manner , obtained 1150 votes from her individual efforts outside Devon . Therefore the actual votes polled

by Devon for tho two widows were very few iu number , as may be seen by the total of votes polled , as given in your issue of the 17 th inst . I remain , yonrs faithfully , CHAS . GODTSCHALK ,

Ex-Representativo of Devon at the Masonic Charities , London . 11 , Hanley-road , Hornsey Rise , London , N ., 19 th May .

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