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condolence were forwarded from many Lodges both metropolitan and provincial . His suspension occurred on the 10 th March . On tho 25 th of the same month ho was re-elected Treasurer of the As 3 'lum ; on the 30 th of April he was elected on the House Committee by the governors of the Female Charity ; and at the ensuing ballot for Auditorsthe name of Dr . Crucefix appeared at the head
, of the list . He was at length cited before a Board of General Purposes to be holden at Freemasons' Hall , on the 18 th July , to answer the new charges which would then and there be preferred against him . This summons Dr . Crucefix refused to obey : stating that , " Having given up all membership in English Craft Masonry , I deny the
power of the Board of General Purposes to call me to account iu any way whatever ; and I therefore decline , upon this ground , attending on that Board , as summoned by a letter from the Grand Secretary , under date of the llth instant ; and as peremptorily summoned , by a second letter , from the same party , under date of the 18 th instant . " On this refusal a communication was made by the Grand
Secretary to the Grand Registrar , as President of tho Board of General Purposes , that it was the pleasure of His Royal Highness that " Proceedings be adopted for the preservation of order in the Craft , and for the maintenance of that subordination which is so essential to be observed in all regular communities which are governed by
laws , and by no one more particularly than by the great body of Masons . " The Board accordingly assembled , and after mature deliberation arrived at the following result . " That the letter of the W . Brother , Eobert Thomas Crucefix , P . J . G . D ., was a false , scandalous , and unwarrantable attack on the character and conduct of the M . AV . Grand Master , as the head of the Craft . That the publication of the proceedings of the Graud and other Lodges in
the ' Freemasons' Quarterly Review ' of the 30 th June , 1840 , aud of other proceedings detailed in it , is a gross violation of the constitutions of Masonry . That Robert Thomas Crucefix is guilty of offences against the laws and constitutions of Masonry , in the particulars above referred to , of so flagrant a nature , as to call ou the Board of General Purposes to make this Special Report to the
Grand Lodge , as the case in the judgment of the Board of General Purposes requires the expulsion of the W . Brother , Robert Thomas Crucefix , from the Order , by the Grand Lodge , to which body all this is humbly submitted . " This recommendation of the extreme penalty of the law was severeand coidd scarcely be justified by the position which the
, parties occupied ; the one being the highest Court of judicature possessed by the Craft , except the Grand Loclge itself ; the other an excommunicated person , equally powerless and of no account in Masonry , having resigned his grand office , and his membership to every English Lodge on whose rolls he was registered as a Mason .
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Obituary.
condolence were forwarded from many Lodges both metropolitan and provincial . His suspension occurred on the 10 th March . On tho 25 th of the same month ho was re-elected Treasurer of the As 3 'lum ; on the 30 th of April he was elected on the House Committee by the governors of the Female Charity ; and at the ensuing ballot for Auditorsthe name of Dr . Crucefix appeared at the head
, of the list . He was at length cited before a Board of General Purposes to be holden at Freemasons' Hall , on the 18 th July , to answer the new charges which would then and there be preferred against him . This summons Dr . Crucefix refused to obey : stating that , " Having given up all membership in English Craft Masonry , I deny the
power of the Board of General Purposes to call me to account iu any way whatever ; and I therefore decline , upon this ground , attending on that Board , as summoned by a letter from the Grand Secretary , under date of the llth instant ; and as peremptorily summoned , by a second letter , from the same party , under date of the 18 th instant . " On this refusal a communication was made by the Grand
Secretary to the Grand Registrar , as President of tho Board of General Purposes , that it was the pleasure of His Royal Highness that " Proceedings be adopted for the preservation of order in the Craft , and for the maintenance of that subordination which is so essential to be observed in all regular communities which are governed by
laws , and by no one more particularly than by the great body of Masons . " The Board accordingly assembled , and after mature deliberation arrived at the following result . " That the letter of the W . Brother , Eobert Thomas Crucefix , P . J . G . D ., was a false , scandalous , and unwarrantable attack on the character and conduct of the M . AV . Grand Master , as the head of the Craft . That the publication of the proceedings of the Graud and other Lodges in
the ' Freemasons' Quarterly Review ' of the 30 th June , 1840 , aud of other proceedings detailed in it , is a gross violation of the constitutions of Masonry . That Robert Thomas Crucefix is guilty of offences against the laws and constitutions of Masonry , in the particulars above referred to , of so flagrant a nature , as to call ou the Board of General Purposes to make this Special Report to the
Grand Lodge , as the case in the judgment of the Board of General Purposes requires the expulsion of the W . Brother , Robert Thomas Crucefix , from the Order , by the Grand Lodge , to which body all this is humbly submitted . " This recommendation of the extreme penalty of the law was severeand coidd scarcely be justified by the position which the
, parties occupied ; the one being the highest Court of judicature possessed by the Craft , except the Grand Loclge itself ; the other an excommunicated person , equally powerless and of no account in Masonry , having resigned his grand office , and his membership to every English Lodge on whose rolls he was registered as a Mason .