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province , but in every other under your Royal Highness ' s guidance and control , continue to maintain the exalted position it has already attained , and spread wider and wider those blessings which it is so well calculated to confer upon mankind . "
To which address his Royal Highness was pleased to return the following answer : — " R . W . Prov . Grand Master , Deputy Prov . Grand Master , Provincial Grand AVardens , and Brethren of the Provincial Grand Lodge of the County of Nottingham , —„ " 1 accept with great pleasure your expressions of devotion to the
Craft , and of attachment and confidence in me . " It is only upon the assurance of the existence of such feelings that I can either expect to govern the Fraternity or hope to preserve that harmony so necessary to the respectability , the harmony , and the prosperity of our Society . " May the Great Architect of the Universe , under whose protection ive are here assembled this day , bless all your undertakings till time shall be no more . "
The M . AV . Grand Master then called the attention of the Brethren to several subjects connected with the interest of the Craft , and concluded by expressing the great satisfaction he felt at the numerous and highly respectable meeting of this day , and at the prosperous state in which he found the Fraternity in this province . All business being concluded , the Grand Lodge was closed in ample and solemn form , and adjourned .
LAMBTON CASTLE . Tuesday , the 21 st January , 1834 , being the day fixed for the holding a Provincial Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of this county , the Brethren from the various Lodges in the province assembled at Lambton Castle about twelve o ' clock in considerable numbers , and shortly afterwards the Provincial Lodge was duly opened by the Deputy P . G . M . After some preliminary business , a resolution was unanimously adopted to present a splendid masonic jewel '" " to the Provincial Grand
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Provincial.
province , but in every other under your Royal Highness ' s guidance and control , continue to maintain the exalted position it has already attained , and spread wider and wider those blessings which it is so well calculated to confer upon mankind . "
To which address his Royal Highness was pleased to return the following answer : — " R . W . Prov . Grand Master , Deputy Prov . Grand Master , Provincial Grand AVardens , and Brethren of the Provincial Grand Lodge of the County of Nottingham , —„ " 1 accept with great pleasure your expressions of devotion to the
Craft , and of attachment and confidence in me . " It is only upon the assurance of the existence of such feelings that I can either expect to govern the Fraternity or hope to preserve that harmony so necessary to the respectability , the harmony , and the prosperity of our Society . " May the Great Architect of the Universe , under whose protection ive are here assembled this day , bless all your undertakings till time shall be no more . "
The M . AV . Grand Master then called the attention of the Brethren to several subjects connected with the interest of the Craft , and concluded by expressing the great satisfaction he felt at the numerous and highly respectable meeting of this day , and at the prosperous state in which he found the Fraternity in this province . All business being concluded , the Grand Lodge was closed in ample and solemn form , and adjourned .
LAMBTON CASTLE . Tuesday , the 21 st January , 1834 , being the day fixed for the holding a Provincial Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of this county , the Brethren from the various Lodges in the province assembled at Lambton Castle about twelve o ' clock in considerable numbers , and shortly afterwards the Provincial Lodge was duly opened by the Deputy P . G . M . After some preliminary business , a resolution was unanimously adopted to present a splendid masonic jewel '" " to the Provincial Grand