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To Correspondents.
A PAST MASTER , ( post-mark Ross , ) wanting name and address , cannot be answered . A MEMBER OF THE BOARD . —You have the remedy : there is a railroad to Coventry \—secure a place iu the third-class train , and you will cure the offender . AN ENQUIRER must be content to learn that the promised History of Freemasonry in Warwickshire is not likely to appear , by reason that only twenty instead of two hundred names have been subscribed . F . B . R- —Enquirer is a quiet , unassuming gentleman , and modest withal—is possibly not
anxious to be " raised to elevation of social virtue ; " —but , we will answer for him , that he never did , and never will , " prostitute his time and conduct to secret insinuation and sportive vindict ' rvcness . " Odd words these , my masters ! MONMOUTH . —We shall be glad to have some account of " Old Masonry" in Ireland , particularly " Curiosities of the Militia . ' ' A LIVERPOOL MASON . — " The Mail " reached us too late to extract from ( he very interesting report .
ARCH MATTERS . 25 . —The confirmation may be vice versa ; up and be stirring . AN UXBRIDGE COMP . —It is said that , on the Union of the Two Grand Chapters , exactly seventy-two Companions sat down to the banquet ; how many were present in the G . C . we have not heard . At the banquet in honour of the exaltation of H . H . II . the late Duke of York , seventy Companions were present . Z . —The Grand Scribe E . is thought to have made a good point at the Jate Grand Chapter on the possibility that more than seventy-two Companions might be present , if more charters were granted to London Chapters . But the difficulty might be easily obviated , and why raise the question ? If the Country Principals were to attend , which they have power to do , how would Scribe E . act ?
A COUNTRY COMPANION . —1 he remark was made m perfect good-humour : the Companion is too long-headed to require the assistance of a short-handed writer . EXAMINER is only in error as to the sum . Instead of 200 / ., Comp . Burekhardt ' s bill for jewels for H . R . H . the late Duke of York , was only 105 / . ; and Brother Godfrey's , for clothing , 40 / . EZEKIEL— The Grand Chapter of the Prince of Wales' Society , was called " The Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England . " At the Union , which took place on the 18 th of March . 1017 , the title of " United Grand Chapter" was used , until the Gth February ,
1822 , when the former title was resumed , and is still observed . A POOR Z . —All memorials to the G . Z , must pass through the Grand Scribe E . AN ATHOL COMP—There was a meeting convened for the Union of the two Grand Chapters , which took place 18 th March , 181 ? .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . D P . G . M . is wrong . A Prov . Grand Lodge is in all things possible analogous to the Grand Lodge ; and particularly as to the right to attend and be present . Consult the Constitutions . A MASON OF WALES . —The practice is not merely unconstitutional , but a violation . The mockery of passing the chair for the purpose of qualifying improper persons to attend the Installation , subjects the Past Masters to the severest penalties—they should be bundled out . If our correspondent has a grain of moral courage , he should send up his proofs , and we
will place them before counsel . A PROVINCIAL BROTHER . —Not being actually appointed , there is no indiscipline in not assuming the purple on the first aitendance in the P . G . L ., and for the obvious reason , * ' nothing is certain . " A GRAND OFFICER . —The Jate Grand Master ruled , that he had no power to remove , or accept resignations from Past Grand Officers—cr . Gra : the case of Dr . Crucefix . The resignation by the Marquis of Salisbury of thc Deputy Grand Mastership , andthe Provincial Grand Mastership of Herls , may , or may not , be according to law ; but his resignation of the Past
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To Correspondents.
A PAST MASTER , ( post-mark Ross , ) wanting name and address , cannot be answered . A MEMBER OF THE BOARD . —You have the remedy : there is a railroad to Coventry \—secure a place iu the third-class train , and you will cure the offender . AN ENQUIRER must be content to learn that the promised History of Freemasonry in Warwickshire is not likely to appear , by reason that only twenty instead of two hundred names have been subscribed . F . B . R- —Enquirer is a quiet , unassuming gentleman , and modest withal—is possibly not
anxious to be " raised to elevation of social virtue ; " —but , we will answer for him , that he never did , and never will , " prostitute his time and conduct to secret insinuation and sportive vindict ' rvcness . " Odd words these , my masters ! MONMOUTH . —We shall be glad to have some account of " Old Masonry" in Ireland , particularly " Curiosities of the Militia . ' ' A LIVERPOOL MASON . — " The Mail " reached us too late to extract from ( he very interesting report .
ARCH MATTERS . 25 . —The confirmation may be vice versa ; up and be stirring . AN UXBRIDGE COMP . —It is said that , on the Union of the Two Grand Chapters , exactly seventy-two Companions sat down to the banquet ; how many were present in the G . C . we have not heard . At the banquet in honour of the exaltation of H . H . II . the late Duke of York , seventy Companions were present . Z . —The Grand Scribe E . is thought to have made a good point at the Jate Grand Chapter on the possibility that more than seventy-two Companions might be present , if more charters were granted to London Chapters . But the difficulty might be easily obviated , and why raise the question ? If the Country Principals were to attend , which they have power to do , how would Scribe E . act ?
A COUNTRY COMPANION . —1 he remark was made m perfect good-humour : the Companion is too long-headed to require the assistance of a short-handed writer . EXAMINER is only in error as to the sum . Instead of 200 / ., Comp . Burekhardt ' s bill for jewels for H . R . H . the late Duke of York , was only 105 / . ; and Brother Godfrey's , for clothing , 40 / . EZEKIEL— The Grand Chapter of the Prince of Wales' Society , was called " The Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England . " At the Union , which took place on the 18 th of March . 1017 , the title of " United Grand Chapter" was used , until the Gth February ,
1822 , when the former title was resumed , and is still observed . A POOR Z . —All memorials to the G . Z , must pass through the Grand Scribe E . AN ATHOL COMP—There was a meeting convened for the Union of the two Grand Chapters , which took place 18 th March , 181 ? .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . D P . G . M . is wrong . A Prov . Grand Lodge is in all things possible analogous to the Grand Lodge ; and particularly as to the right to attend and be present . Consult the Constitutions . A MASON OF WALES . —The practice is not merely unconstitutional , but a violation . The mockery of passing the chair for the purpose of qualifying improper persons to attend the Installation , subjects the Past Masters to the severest penalties—they should be bundled out . If our correspondent has a grain of moral courage , he should send up his proofs , and we
will place them before counsel . A PROVINCIAL BROTHER . —Not being actually appointed , there is no indiscipline in not assuming the purple on the first aitendance in the P . G . L ., and for the obvious reason , * ' nothing is certain . " A GRAND OFFICER . —The Jate Grand Master ruled , that he had no power to remove , or accept resignations from Past Grand Officers—cr . Gra : the case of Dr . Crucefix . The resignation by the Marquis of Salisbury of thc Deputy Grand Mastership , andthe Provincial Grand Mastership of Herls , may , or may not , be according to law ; but his resignation of the Past