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Article UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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United Grand Lodge Of England.
The next important point in the report , was the suspension for twelve months of a Brother for a Masonic offence , against which sentence the Brother had lodged au appeal . * A notice of motion was delivered from the Lodge of Israel , against the suspension of the Brother above alluded to , and another by Bro . Henry , that such Brother be restored to the exercise of his Masonic functions . A former motion was once more renewed by Bro . J . Lee Stevens
, that 50 / . be granted to Mrs . Barnett , widow of Bro . Barnett , formerly Deputy G . M . for Lincolnshire . The Scrutineers were then appointed , and the labours of the Committee were declared ended . The Brethren then resumed the duties of the Lodge of Benevolence . The petitions were not many , but especially important . The amounts awarded were liberal and just .
Two cases presented subjects of unusual interest . The one of a foreign Brother , a nobleman , who was expelled the empire of Austria for the crime of being a Freemason . He was relieved . The next was a case of severe destitution . A Brother who had moved in a highly respectable station of life , with a wife and seven children , was compelled to return home without bread for his famishing family , because the Master of his Lodge did not attend the Board . Such is the
law . We do not wish to visit with too severe reproof the Brother who thus was , we believe , only an inadvertent cause of severe disappointment to the family , that , to do him justice , he had visited ; it was stated that he had left London very suddenly for Ireland—but we trust the precedent afforded by the present Sir John Easthope , will not be lost upon him . The case of Bro . Wormal , of Margate , was deferred , owing to an
informality , and the absence of any one to speak to the matter . A few days afterwards the poor Brother died , and his widow became the inmate of the Union ! Brother Masons ! let not these warnings pass as an idle wind .
( Eoctract from Circular . ) " The Quarterly Communications will , in future , be sent out imme" diately after the meetings , without waiting for the accounts to the " close of the financial quarter , but will be accompanied by the list " of contributions , and the accounts up to the end of the preceding
" quarter , as in this communication . " The proceedings of the Grand Lodge held on the 7 th of December last , were in progress of circulation on the 14 th of January following .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
United Grand Lodge Of England.
The next important point in the report , was the suspension for twelve months of a Brother for a Masonic offence , against which sentence the Brother had lodged au appeal . * A notice of motion was delivered from the Lodge of Israel , against the suspension of the Brother above alluded to , and another by Bro . Henry , that such Brother be restored to the exercise of his Masonic functions . A former motion was once more renewed by Bro . J . Lee Stevens
, that 50 / . be granted to Mrs . Barnett , widow of Bro . Barnett , formerly Deputy G . M . for Lincolnshire . The Scrutineers were then appointed , and the labours of the Committee were declared ended . The Brethren then resumed the duties of the Lodge of Benevolence . The petitions were not many , but especially important . The amounts awarded were liberal and just .
Two cases presented subjects of unusual interest . The one of a foreign Brother , a nobleman , who was expelled the empire of Austria for the crime of being a Freemason . He was relieved . The next was a case of severe destitution . A Brother who had moved in a highly respectable station of life , with a wife and seven children , was compelled to return home without bread for his famishing family , because the Master of his Lodge did not attend the Board . Such is the
law . We do not wish to visit with too severe reproof the Brother who thus was , we believe , only an inadvertent cause of severe disappointment to the family , that , to do him justice , he had visited ; it was stated that he had left London very suddenly for Ireland—but we trust the precedent afforded by the present Sir John Easthope , will not be lost upon him . The case of Bro . Wormal , of Margate , was deferred , owing to an
informality , and the absence of any one to speak to the matter . A few days afterwards the poor Brother died , and his widow became the inmate of the Union ! Brother Masons ! let not these warnings pass as an idle wind .
( Eoctract from Circular . ) " The Quarterly Communications will , in future , be sent out imme" diately after the meetings , without waiting for the accounts to the " close of the financial quarter , but will be accompanied by the list " of contributions , and the accounts up to the end of the preceding
" quarter , as in this communication . " The proceedings of the Grand Lodge held on the 7 th of December last , were in progress of circulation on the 14 th of January following .