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Masonic Chit Chat.
ought to state , that those who have not eaten white-bait ( masonically ) , should visit Brother Breach at Blackwall— " Speed the Plough" say we . LORD H . JOHN S . CHURCHILL . —It has been suggested by the House Committee of the Girls' School to the General Committee , to recommend to the General Court that his lordship should be elected a vice-president of the charity , as a mark of respect for the very prominent services he has rendered the institution .
BENJ . BOND CABBELL , ESQ . —This gentleman has contributed the munificent donation of fifty guineas to the Girls' School , in addition to former donations . The House Committee have marked their sense of Mr . Cabbell ' s liberality , by recommending that his name should also be placed on the list of vice-presidents . The collection in aid of the funds for the repair of the Girls' School arewe are happy to stateproceeding in a satisfactory manner . AVe have
, , received intelligence that the Antiquity , Friendship , Somerset House , British , Emulation , and other Lodges , have subscribed liberally ; and had not the usual Masonic recess been so near at hand , no doubt the subscription would have been still greater . In November , however , we hope to make a still better report .
FEMALE FREEMASON . — " I think the following may be considered by you worthy notice , as setting at rest a question often discussed , whether there have been any female Freemasons . " In the Grand Provincial Lodge of Bristol is a copperplate print portrait of a lady standing by a chair ; she wears the badges of Masonry , and the following account of her is placed near the portrait : —
"June A . D ., 1817 ., A . L . 5821 . " Presented by Brother Henry Smith to the Grand Lodge of Bristol , and who received from Sir AVilliam Osborne Hamilton , Bart , ( the donor of this curiosity ) the following traditional account : — " This wonderful lady , by name the Hon . Elizabeth St . Leger ( who married Boyd Aldworth , Esq ., of Newmarket ,, in the county of Cork ) , was the sister of Hayes St . Legerwhoabout the 1760 ( the period
, , year of his sister ' s initiation to the secret arts and hidden mysteries of Freemasonry ) , was AVorshipful Master of the Lodge held in the Castle of Doneraiie , near Cork , and the tradition is , that she had secreted herself during the initiation of a Brother , behind the tapestry which hung round the room , and so became acquainted ivith the ancient mysteries of the Craft ; but being discovered , it was the unanimous judgment of the Brethren presentthat the only safeguard was to adopt her as a sister ,
, and she accordingly passed through the ceremony of initiation , and afterwards continued a most zealous friend of the institution to the hour of her death , which happened about forty years since . Her brother , Hayes St . Leger , dying in 1767 , without issue , the estates and title descended , in 1776 , to this lady ' s son , St . Leger Aldworth , and are now enjoyed by his lineal descendants . "
" In the year 1818 , 1 was introduced to the Honourable Mrs . Lysaght , the grand-daughter of this lady-Freemason , at Bath , and 1 gave her a copy of what I now send you . I have Mrs . L . ' s note , in which she says that she can see no mistake in the account , except that the name of Mr . Aldworth was Richard instead of Boyd . That when the subject was mentioned to Mrs . Aldworth ( the Freemason ) by any of her grand-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Chit Chat.
ought to state , that those who have not eaten white-bait ( masonically ) , should visit Brother Breach at Blackwall— " Speed the Plough" say we . LORD H . JOHN S . CHURCHILL . —It has been suggested by the House Committee of the Girls' School to the General Committee , to recommend to the General Court that his lordship should be elected a vice-president of the charity , as a mark of respect for the very prominent services he has rendered the institution .
BENJ . BOND CABBELL , ESQ . —This gentleman has contributed the munificent donation of fifty guineas to the Girls' School , in addition to former donations . The House Committee have marked their sense of Mr . Cabbell ' s liberality , by recommending that his name should also be placed on the list of vice-presidents . The collection in aid of the funds for the repair of the Girls' School arewe are happy to stateproceeding in a satisfactory manner . AVe have
, , received intelligence that the Antiquity , Friendship , Somerset House , British , Emulation , and other Lodges , have subscribed liberally ; and had not the usual Masonic recess been so near at hand , no doubt the subscription would have been still greater . In November , however , we hope to make a still better report .
FEMALE FREEMASON . — " I think the following may be considered by you worthy notice , as setting at rest a question often discussed , whether there have been any female Freemasons . " In the Grand Provincial Lodge of Bristol is a copperplate print portrait of a lady standing by a chair ; she wears the badges of Masonry , and the following account of her is placed near the portrait : —
"June A . D ., 1817 ., A . L . 5821 . " Presented by Brother Henry Smith to the Grand Lodge of Bristol , and who received from Sir AVilliam Osborne Hamilton , Bart , ( the donor of this curiosity ) the following traditional account : — " This wonderful lady , by name the Hon . Elizabeth St . Leger ( who married Boyd Aldworth , Esq ., of Newmarket ,, in the county of Cork ) , was the sister of Hayes St . Legerwhoabout the 1760 ( the period
, , year of his sister ' s initiation to the secret arts and hidden mysteries of Freemasonry ) , was AVorshipful Master of the Lodge held in the Castle of Doneraiie , near Cork , and the tradition is , that she had secreted herself during the initiation of a Brother , behind the tapestry which hung round the room , and so became acquainted ivith the ancient mysteries of the Craft ; but being discovered , it was the unanimous judgment of the Brethren presentthat the only safeguard was to adopt her as a sister ,
, and she accordingly passed through the ceremony of initiation , and afterwards continued a most zealous friend of the institution to the hour of her death , which happened about forty years since . Her brother , Hayes St . Leger , dying in 1767 , without issue , the estates and title descended , in 1776 , to this lady ' s son , St . Leger Aldworth , and are now enjoyed by his lineal descendants . "
" In the year 1818 , 1 was introduced to the Honourable Mrs . Lysaght , the grand-daughter of this lady-Freemason , at Bath , and 1 gave her a copy of what I now send you . I have Mrs . L . ' s note , in which she says that she can see no mistake in the account , except that the name of Mr . Aldworth was Richard instead of Boyd . That when the subject was mentioned to Mrs . Aldworth ( the Freemason ) by any of her grand-