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The Masonic Differences.
rants ; that the introduction of the Order into Ireland does not appear to have been by virtue of any Warrant or Charter ; and that consequently it is quite unnecessary to inquire into the title or descent of any Chapter or Lodge of Rose Croix Masons , provided one can be satisfied of the initiation of the members composing it . Accordingly , having gone to Dublin for the purpose of attending the Easter Festival of the Rose Croix Masons of Irelandassembled under
, His Grace the Duke of Leinster , 1 took the opportunity of seeking another interview with my friend , and received from him such information , that I desired and obtained an introduction to Bro . Snowe , the Secretary of the ( so called ) Grand Chapter , who , by the permission of the head of that body , gave me the power of fully investigating its records , and communicated such other information as I desired . This information may be briefly resolved into the following facts : that a
Chapter of Prince Rose Croix Masons did exist in Dublin between the years 17 S 7 and 1810 , called " the Grand Chapter , " of ivhieh Peree and Boardman were successively sovereigns : that in I £ 09 a memorial was addressed to this Chapter by certain Brethren of the Order of Masonic Templars , requesting their assistance in forming another'Chapter ; which request was granted : that the Chapter so formed did accordingly continue to meet and workand positive evidence exists to show that the
, first Sovereign of it was installed by Boardman , and from thence a succession of regular installed Sovereigns continued until the year IS-iO that in this year 1840 several gentlemen were initiated into the Order in this Chapter ; that shortly after a communication took place between those gentlemen and Mr . James Walkinshaw Bell , Q . C , an old member
ofthe"Graud Chapter" which had ceased to work in 1810 , and the result of this was an expression of his willingness to receive the assistance of these gentlemen in reviving the Chapter ; that he requested the assistance of the only two other Brethren thereof whom he understood to be alive , who did not attend his summons , and also of the "Independent Chapter , " with whose assistance he opened a Chapter of Prince Masons , and . received the gentlemen above alluded to as members-of-the
" Grand Chapter , " aud installed one of them , Bro . Hercules ' - Ellis , as M . W . S . of . it ,, ' . ;' ... . . , ; . ' , From these facts , whatever opinion may be entertained as to' the gentlemen so admitted " being the lineal representatives ' -Of ' ' the Grand Chapter" of 18 LQ , of which 1 have much doubt , since 1 do riot see that one individual could revive a dormant Chapter without the concurrence and presence of others ; neverthelessI could not doubt that these
gen-, tlemen had been property initiated , and their initiation recognised by a competent judge , and that one of them had been duly installed Sovereign of a Chapter , ' which thereby become a regularly organized bod y . At the meeting of the Rose Croix Masons under the Duke of Leinster , on the 11 th of April , 1 was permitted b y ^ his Grace ' s kindness to address my Brethren ; and I delivered to them a statement of the facts I had elicitedand declared conviction that the gentlemenalluded to had
, my . been duly initiated and their Sovereign regularly installed . ' The time not then permitting a discussion of the subject , the meeting ' was ailjpu ' rned till next day , when the Council of Rites assembled , and aftermiich'discussion of what I laid before thein , passed certain resolutions of an amicable tendency , of which the first pronounced "That Bro . Mant has stated sufficiently a prima facie case to justify the Council of Rites in endeavouring to reconcile existing differences between the Council and certain
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The Masonic Differences.
rants ; that the introduction of the Order into Ireland does not appear to have been by virtue of any Warrant or Charter ; and that consequently it is quite unnecessary to inquire into the title or descent of any Chapter or Lodge of Rose Croix Masons , provided one can be satisfied of the initiation of the members composing it . Accordingly , having gone to Dublin for the purpose of attending the Easter Festival of the Rose Croix Masons of Irelandassembled under
, His Grace the Duke of Leinster , 1 took the opportunity of seeking another interview with my friend , and received from him such information , that I desired and obtained an introduction to Bro . Snowe , the Secretary of the ( so called ) Grand Chapter , who , by the permission of the head of that body , gave me the power of fully investigating its records , and communicated such other information as I desired . This information may be briefly resolved into the following facts : that a
Chapter of Prince Rose Croix Masons did exist in Dublin between the years 17 S 7 and 1810 , called " the Grand Chapter , " of ivhieh Peree and Boardman were successively sovereigns : that in I £ 09 a memorial was addressed to this Chapter by certain Brethren of the Order of Masonic Templars , requesting their assistance in forming another'Chapter ; which request was granted : that the Chapter so formed did accordingly continue to meet and workand positive evidence exists to show that the
, first Sovereign of it was installed by Boardman , and from thence a succession of regular installed Sovereigns continued until the year IS-iO that in this year 1840 several gentlemen were initiated into the Order in this Chapter ; that shortly after a communication took place between those gentlemen and Mr . James Walkinshaw Bell , Q . C , an old member
ofthe"Graud Chapter" which had ceased to work in 1810 , and the result of this was an expression of his willingness to receive the assistance of these gentlemen in reviving the Chapter ; that he requested the assistance of the only two other Brethren thereof whom he understood to be alive , who did not attend his summons , and also of the "Independent Chapter , " with whose assistance he opened a Chapter of Prince Masons , and . received the gentlemen above alluded to as members-of-the
" Grand Chapter , " aud installed one of them , Bro . Hercules ' - Ellis , as M . W . S . of . it ,, ' . ;' ... . . , ; . ' , From these facts , whatever opinion may be entertained as to' the gentlemen so admitted " being the lineal representatives ' -Of ' ' the Grand Chapter" of 18 LQ , of which 1 have much doubt , since 1 do riot see that one individual could revive a dormant Chapter without the concurrence and presence of others ; neverthelessI could not doubt that these
gen-, tlemen had been property initiated , and their initiation recognised by a competent judge , and that one of them had been duly installed Sovereign of a Chapter , ' which thereby become a regularly organized bod y . At the meeting of the Rose Croix Masons under the Duke of Leinster , on the 11 th of April , 1 was permitted b y ^ his Grace ' s kindness to address my Brethren ; and I delivered to them a statement of the facts I had elicitedand declared conviction that the gentlemenalluded to had
, my . been duly initiated and their Sovereign regularly installed . ' The time not then permitting a discussion of the subject , the meeting ' was ailjpu ' rned till next day , when the Council of Rites assembled , and aftermiich'discussion of what I laid before thein , passed certain resolutions of an amicable tendency , of which the first pronounced "That Bro . Mant has stated sufficiently a prima facie case to justify the Council of Rites in endeavouring to reconcile existing differences between the Council and certain