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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
ON ROYAL ARCH MASONRY IN THE PROVINCES . IN the present state of Royal Arch Masonry , an occasional communication from Provincial Chapters , may not perhaps be unacceptable to the readers of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . I therefore beg to offer the following observations , hoping they may elicit information from other Chaptersand thus bring before the Masonic world their
, actual condition at present in the provinces . Four or five years have now elapsed since the Supreme Grand Chapter revised and promulgated their regulations and ceremonies , obviously designed for establishing uniformity of practice , and for securing the election of the most experienced and best qualified members to the highest offices of a degree , so justly denominated " the Essence of Masonry . "
The qualifications then insisted on , and the ceremonies promulgated for the installation of Principals , certainly offered great difficulties ; which in some Chapters , wherein the sceptres had never been " conferred in a particular manner , nor accompanied by any particular secrets , " were deemed insuperable , there being no duly qualified
Principals to carry out the improvements . In others where zeal predominated over devotion to a corrupted system , they have been surmounted , and with the most beneficial results . In the province of Somerset , a few zealous Principals , in the years 1 S 35 and 1836 , availing themselves of the invitation from the Supreme Grand Chapter , obtained the necessary instructions and qualifications in the Chapter of Promulgation ; aud on their return home , by mutual
assistance to each other , have effected the salutary reforms contemplated by the Supreme Grand Chapter . Amongst the Somerset Principals who repaired to London on this occasion , were two of the Chapter of Sincerity , attached to the Lodge of Unanimity and Sincerity , No . 327 , at Taunton , who were installed ' in their respective chairs in the Chapter of Promulgation ; the latter of whom since dul y installed in the second and first chairs , by the fraternal assistance of duly installed Principals
of Bath and Yeovil , in this province , and of Tiverton , in the adjoining province of Devon , has also in a recent visit to London profited by the able instructions of M . E . Companion George Aarons , No . 1 , Newcastle Street , Strand , in acquiring the ceremonies of installation to the three chairs , and he takes this opportunity of acknowledging his obligation to that learned and able professor , and of strongly recommending all those companions who are desirous of complete instruction , to apply to him for it
. At a Chapter held here on the 10 th instant , for change of officers and receiving propositions , Brother M . E . Companion Robert Leigh , who had been more than a year before elected from the second to the first chair , but which he never took until he had an opportunity in April last of being duly installed in the distinguished Chapter of Fidelity at Tivertonwas again ballotted forand re-elected Zand
, , ., having been so recently installed , was inducted into that chair , as was our M . E . Companion Eales White , P . Z . into the second , and P . M . Ash , was duly elected and regularly installed in the third chair . At another Chapter held on the 27 th instant , no less than six worthy mil zealous Master Masons , Colonel Sir Charles Webb Dance , James
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
ON ROYAL ARCH MASONRY IN THE PROVINCES . IN the present state of Royal Arch Masonry , an occasional communication from Provincial Chapters , may not perhaps be unacceptable to the readers of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . I therefore beg to offer the following observations , hoping they may elicit information from other Chaptersand thus bring before the Masonic world their
, actual condition at present in the provinces . Four or five years have now elapsed since the Supreme Grand Chapter revised and promulgated their regulations and ceremonies , obviously designed for establishing uniformity of practice , and for securing the election of the most experienced and best qualified members to the highest offices of a degree , so justly denominated " the Essence of Masonry . "
The qualifications then insisted on , and the ceremonies promulgated for the installation of Principals , certainly offered great difficulties ; which in some Chapters , wherein the sceptres had never been " conferred in a particular manner , nor accompanied by any particular secrets , " were deemed insuperable , there being no duly qualified
Principals to carry out the improvements . In others where zeal predominated over devotion to a corrupted system , they have been surmounted , and with the most beneficial results . In the province of Somerset , a few zealous Principals , in the years 1 S 35 and 1836 , availing themselves of the invitation from the Supreme Grand Chapter , obtained the necessary instructions and qualifications in the Chapter of Promulgation ; aud on their return home , by mutual
assistance to each other , have effected the salutary reforms contemplated by the Supreme Grand Chapter . Amongst the Somerset Principals who repaired to London on this occasion , were two of the Chapter of Sincerity , attached to the Lodge of Unanimity and Sincerity , No . 327 , at Taunton , who were installed ' in their respective chairs in the Chapter of Promulgation ; the latter of whom since dul y installed in the second and first chairs , by the fraternal assistance of duly installed Principals
of Bath and Yeovil , in this province , and of Tiverton , in the adjoining province of Devon , has also in a recent visit to London profited by the able instructions of M . E . Companion George Aarons , No . 1 , Newcastle Street , Strand , in acquiring the ceremonies of installation to the three chairs , and he takes this opportunity of acknowledging his obligation to that learned and able professor , and of strongly recommending all those companions who are desirous of complete instruction , to apply to him for it
. At a Chapter held here on the 10 th instant , for change of officers and receiving propositions , Brother M . E . Companion Robert Leigh , who had been more than a year before elected from the second to the first chair , but which he never took until he had an opportunity in April last of being duly installed in the distinguished Chapter of Fidelity at Tivertonwas again ballotted forand re-elected Zand
, , ., having been so recently installed , was inducted into that chair , as was our M . E . Companion Eales White , P . Z . into the second , and P . M . Ash , was duly elected and regularly installed in the third chair . At another Chapter held on the 27 th instant , no less than six worthy mil zealous Master Masons , Colonel Sir Charles Webb Dance , James