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Article NOTES UPON FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES. ← Page 6 of 6 Article THE CONDITION OF SCOTCH MASONRY. Page 1 of 6 →
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Notes Upon Funeral Solemnities.
bearings , and who , by reason of their profession , could not have an atchievement . These banners were square , and on their silken folds were painted emblems of thc Trinity and figures of saints . In a MS ., about the time of Henry VIL , printed in the " Archaeologia , " vol . i ., directions are given for these banners .
Item . — " To be hadde a banner of the Trinite , a banner of Our Lady , and a banner of Seynt George , a banner of the seynt that was his advowie . " Thus , in the account of the banners used at the funeral of Sir Thomas Kytson , to which we have before alluded , we find a similar number , St . Thomas being " the Seynt
that was his advowie . " E . A . H . L . ( To be continued . )
The Condition Of Scotch Masonry.
THE CONDITION OF SCOTCH MASONRY .
IN that portion of our publication which is devoted to Correspondence , and also under the head of Scottish Masonic Intelligence , several documents will be found , which deserve the earnest consideration of every Member of the Craft at this moment . We intimatedin our last numberthat the condition of
, , Masonry in Scotland was most anomalous . We gave intimation ofthe low estimation in which the Order is held throughout the whole of North Britain , by - ¦ the popular world ; " and we fearlessly avowed that the universal complaint against the meeting of Lodges is , that they are the heralds of a noisy and boisterous termination—often of
scenes of drunkenness and dissipation . It is not probable that we should have hazarded our reputation as faithful chroniclers of Masonic intelligence and of passing events , by making statements which would be nothing less than gross libels upon any race of men , were not all that we have asserted the truth . As , however , we
learn that we were branded as •- calumniators " in the last Grand Lodge of Scotland , we feel bound , in self-defence , to avow to the world what is our own experience as to the Masonic knowledge of the general class of Scottish Brethren , and what is the state of thc Craft beyond the Border . Painful as is the task to become thc accusers of our Breth-VOL . II . I-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notes Upon Funeral Solemnities.
bearings , and who , by reason of their profession , could not have an atchievement . These banners were square , and on their silken folds were painted emblems of thc Trinity and figures of saints . In a MS ., about the time of Henry VIL , printed in the " Archaeologia , " vol . i ., directions are given for these banners .
Item . — " To be hadde a banner of the Trinite , a banner of Our Lady , and a banner of Seynt George , a banner of the seynt that was his advowie . " Thus , in the account of the banners used at the funeral of Sir Thomas Kytson , to which we have before alluded , we find a similar number , St . Thomas being " the Seynt
that was his advowie . " E . A . H . L . ( To be continued . )
The Condition Of Scotch Masonry.
THE CONDITION OF SCOTCH MASONRY .
IN that portion of our publication which is devoted to Correspondence , and also under the head of Scottish Masonic Intelligence , several documents will be found , which deserve the earnest consideration of every Member of the Craft at this moment . We intimatedin our last numberthat the condition of
, , Masonry in Scotland was most anomalous . We gave intimation ofthe low estimation in which the Order is held throughout the whole of North Britain , by - ¦ the popular world ; " and we fearlessly avowed that the universal complaint against the meeting of Lodges is , that they are the heralds of a noisy and boisterous termination—often of
scenes of drunkenness and dissipation . It is not probable that we should have hazarded our reputation as faithful chroniclers of Masonic intelligence and of passing events , by making statements which would be nothing less than gross libels upon any race of men , were not all that we have asserted the truth . As , however , we
learn that we were branded as •- calumniators " in the last Grand Lodge of Scotland , we feel bound , in self-defence , to avow to the world what is our own experience as to the Masonic knowledge of the general class of Scottish Brethren , and what is the state of thc Craft beyond the Border . Painful as is the task to become thc accusers of our Breth-VOL . II . I-