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Provincial.
was attended by a numerous and respectable assemblage of Brethren . A new set of jewels and regalia had been provided for the occasion ; and as a public procession had been announced , the town was filled with visitors from the neighbourhood at an early hour , whose curiosity had been excited by the preliminary preparations , and many of them doubtless expected to catch a glimmering knowledge of those mysterious
institutes which distinguish the Order , when , as they supposed , the mantle of secrecy should be partially removed . The Grand Lodge was opened in the Mansion-house , by the Rev . George Oliver , Provincial Deputy Grand Master , and the usual routine of business being disposed of , the Prov . G . M . proceeded to deliver his annual charge to the Brethren , which this year embraced many points of considerable utility .
He took a review of the progress of Masonry in the province during the last year , and congratulated the Brethren on its increasing influence , evinced by the fact that three new Lodges had been instituted since the last annual Grand Lodge . He recommended the utmost regularity in their proceedings , and a strict compliance with the requisitions of the Grand Lodge , as set forth in the Book of Constitutions ; and he
concluded his most interesting address with an earnest exhortation to ECONOMY and EARLY HOURS ; and to practise in the world the precepts ivhich were inculcated in the tyled recesses of the Lodge . The Officers for the ensuing year were then installed , and a Procession was formed to church in the following order : —
A Marshal with a baton—Union Flag—Band of Music—Union Flag Visiting Brethren two and two—Rough Ashler borne on a Pedestal-BAYON'S LODGE . Banner—Tyler with a sword—Brethren two and two—Inner Guard with a sword—Two Deacons—Stewards—Secretary-Treasurer—Chaplain—Past Master—Two Wardens—Master .
The following Lodges in the same order as above : — TRENT LODGE—LINDSEY LODGEOLIVE UNION LODGE—DORIC LODGELODGE OF HARMONY—WITHAM
LODGEST . MATTHEW'S LODGE . Phe Perfect Ashler borne on a Pedestal before the W . Master of the senior Lodge , by a Brother of his own Company . PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . P . G . Tyler with a sword—Union Flag—Ihe two Junior P . G . Stewards with wands—Past P . G . Stewards two and two without wands—Floor Cloth of the First Degree . P . G . Stewards two and two with wands—Floor Cloth of the Second Degree—Inner Guard with a sword—
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Provincial.
was attended by a numerous and respectable assemblage of Brethren . A new set of jewels and regalia had been provided for the occasion ; and as a public procession had been announced , the town was filled with visitors from the neighbourhood at an early hour , whose curiosity had been excited by the preliminary preparations , and many of them doubtless expected to catch a glimmering knowledge of those mysterious
institutes which distinguish the Order , when , as they supposed , the mantle of secrecy should be partially removed . The Grand Lodge was opened in the Mansion-house , by the Rev . George Oliver , Provincial Deputy Grand Master , and the usual routine of business being disposed of , the Prov . G . M . proceeded to deliver his annual charge to the Brethren , which this year embraced many points of considerable utility .
He took a review of the progress of Masonry in the province during the last year , and congratulated the Brethren on its increasing influence , evinced by the fact that three new Lodges had been instituted since the last annual Grand Lodge . He recommended the utmost regularity in their proceedings , and a strict compliance with the requisitions of the Grand Lodge , as set forth in the Book of Constitutions ; and he
concluded his most interesting address with an earnest exhortation to ECONOMY and EARLY HOURS ; and to practise in the world the precepts ivhich were inculcated in the tyled recesses of the Lodge . The Officers for the ensuing year were then installed , and a Procession was formed to church in the following order : —
A Marshal with a baton—Union Flag—Band of Music—Union Flag Visiting Brethren two and two—Rough Ashler borne on a Pedestal-BAYON'S LODGE . Banner—Tyler with a sword—Brethren two and two—Inner Guard with a sword—Two Deacons—Stewards—Secretary-Treasurer—Chaplain—Past Master—Two Wardens—Master .
The following Lodges in the same order as above : — TRENT LODGE—LINDSEY LODGEOLIVE UNION LODGE—DORIC LODGELODGE OF HARMONY—WITHAM
LODGEST . MATTHEW'S LODGE . Phe Perfect Ashler borne on a Pedestal before the W . Master of the senior Lodge , by a Brother of his own Company . PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE . P . G . Tyler with a sword—Union Flag—Ihe two Junior P . G . Stewards with wands—Past P . G . Stewards two and two without wands—Floor Cloth of the First Degree . P . G . Stewards two and two with wands—Floor Cloth of the Second Degree—Inner Guard with a sword—