The History Of The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls

arrangements of the School , and on the motion of Mr . Spicer , that a Diet Table should be drawn up as Avell as a code of Regulations to be observed by the inmates . With these the Committee dealt at their meeting on the 23 rd December , Avhen Mr . Boys—Avho , as one of the Medical Staff of the School , had been specially invited to give his

assistance— " produced a Manuscri p t Avhich he had partl y transcribed from other Charities , to Avhich he had added some observations of his OAVII , " and Mr . Addington moA edthat " a sufficient number be printed at as little expense as may be and that the Secretary enclose one in the summons for the next meetina' to each member of the Committee ,

and that they be desired to come prepared to enter on the subject . At the Quarterly Court on the 3 rd January , 1789 , after directions had been given that " the Collector do use all possible diligence in Collecting the Subscri ptions ; " and that he " make out a List containing the Names of such Subscribers Avho haA e not paid tlieir Subscrip tions and deliA r er the same to the Secretary to be laid on the

Table at every Quarterl y Court , " it AA ^ as "Eesolved that the Committee be empoAvered and desired to carry into execution the several Regulations to forward this BeneA olent Institution as have been made by them at their respective meetings since the last Quarterly Court , and Avhich have been seA erall y approved of this Day . " The

following "Accompt of Receipts and Disbursements to this day " having "at the special Instance and Request of the Treasurer been previously examined by Messrs . GalloAvay , Hull , Sp icer , and Broderip for the sake of more correctly adjusting the same " Avas then read and passed , and " the Balance carried to HBAV Accompt as follows : "

DR . £ s . d . CR . £ s . d . 1789—January 3 d . 1789—January 3 d . To Cash Received per By Disbnrsemts . to 5 July , Treasurer ... 112 7 0 1788 ... 24 10 9 „ „ per Collector „ ,, to 4 Oct . and paid to 1788 ... 56 2 11

Treasurer ... 231 0 0 „ „ to this „ „ per Messrs . day ... 216 8 5 Ranson ... 82 19 0 By Cash at Ran-„ „ jier Messrs . som ' s £ 82 19 0 Ycrc ... 45 3 0 By Cash at Vere and Co . ... 45 3 0 By Cash in Treasurer ' s hands 46 4 11 174 6 11 £ 471 9 0 £ 471 9 0

The business of the Court concluded Avith the folloAving Resolution , namely : — " That the Governors present do meet at the St . Alban ' s Tavern on Monday next "•the 5 th January— " at One O ' clock to go in

procession with the Children from the Treasurer s House , Pail Mall , to pass the House of the Royal Patroness , then proceed to the School , and from thence return and dine at the St . Alban ' s Tavern , and the Governors present are desired to request the favor of the Company of their friends on that occasion . "

This brings us to the end of the introductory stage of our History . What followed the fulfilment ox the above resolution , and IIOAV it fared Avith the Institution at its original home in Somers Place East , must be described in a fresh chapter . ( To he continued ... )

The So Called Inigo Jones Ms. Of The Old Charges Of British Freemasons.

THE SO CALLED INIGO JONES MS . OF THE OLD CHARGES OF BRITISH FREEMASONS .

BY DR . W . BEGEMANN , OF ROSTOCK , GERMANY . ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON THE DODD VERSION . Since my article was printed , Bro . E . T . Carson , of Cincinnati , U . S .,

favoured me with a copy of his Dodd reprint , so that I have been enabled to compare this version with the Spencer MS . and the Cole print . There is no doubt that the Dodd print is almost the same as the Spencer MS-, being likely to go back to the same original , because it cannot have been taken

from the Spencer MS . itself , au we may see from several differences that I shall put together afterwards . From the same cause the Spencer MS . cannot De a transcript of the Dodd version ; but both of them are different transcri pts from one original .

It struck me at first that the Cole print agrees in some points with the Dodd print where the Spencer MS . differs , so that we might believe the Cole

print to have been jaken from the Dodd MS . The passages are the following : — fn the prayer at the head of the Constitution Dodd and Cole read : ' Being three Persons in one God , " whilst the Spencer MS . has "and , " instead of "in . "

In the history of Lameth and his children Dodd and Cole read : " By Zillah he begot one Son , called Tubal , " whilst the Spencer and the Inigo Jones MSS . have "had , " instead of "begot . " Afterwards Dodd reads : "And at the Bui / ding of Babylon , Anno 1810 , i , A sonr y was much made of , " Cole having the same , adding only the word . Mundi " behind "Anno ; " whilst the Spencer MS . has the date at the end

° i the foregoing paragraph , which is wrong . At the head of . the history of David , Dodd and Cole have the superscrip-J ? " "Anno Mundi 2474 , 2 Samuel , 5 , 6 " ( the same in the Inigo Jones * o . at the margin ) , whilst the Spencer MS . reads : " Anno Mundi 2474 , 2 Samuel , 4 th , 6 th . " •In 'he letter of Solomon to Hiram Dodd and Cole agree with Josephus reading : " For which cause I pray you send some one of your skilfullest

The So Called Inigo Jones Ms. Of The Old Charges Of British Freemasons.

Men , ' whilst the Spencer MS . has " send me one , " and the Inigo Jones MS . " send me some one . " In one of the inserted paragra phs Dodd and Cole agree in the following passage : "The Tower of Straton , alias Caesaria , was built by Herod in Palestine , Anno Mundi 3942 , " whilst we read in the Spencer MS . : " The , Tower of Straton ( alias Caesaria , Anno Mundi 3842 ) , built by Herod in Palestine , " the Inigo Jones MS . also having 3042 at the margin .

In the history of Edwin , Dodd reads as follows : "And he got of the King his Brother a Charter of Commission , Anno 932 , to hold every Year an Assembly , where they would , within the Realm , " and Cole agrees therewith , but that the date is omitted , and we read " a Charter and Commission , " as in the Inigo Jones MS . ; the latter omits the words " every year , " but adds at the end of the sentence the words " once a year , " and so does the Spencer MS ., offering also " every year , " and giving the date behind the word " Charter . "

Soon after Dodd and Cole have : " And commanded that Rule to be kept for ever after , " the Spencer MS . omitting the word " after , " whilst we find it also in the Inigo Jones MS . In the general Charges there are some more agreements between Dodd and Cole ; but that Dodd has "ye" and Cole has " you ; " for instance" Also , ye shall be true to one other " ( also Inigo Jones MS . ) , where the Spencer MS . has " true one to each other . "

" Also that no Mason shall be a Thief , or Thief ' s Fellow , or conceal any such unjust Action , so far as he may wit or know , " the Inigo Jones and Spences MS . omitting the words " or Thief's Fellow ; " besides , it is strange to see Cole and the Spencer MS . agree in offering " will or know , " instead of " wit or know , " whilst the Inigo Jones MS . has the correct " wit . "

" Also , that ye pay truly ( Cole—truely ) " for your Meat and Drink , " whilst the Spencer MS . has : " Also ye shall pay , " etc . " And also that ye shall do no Villiany " ( sic ! Dodd as well as Cole ) , whilst the Spencer MS . has : " Also ye shall do no Villany . " " These be the true Charges in general , that belong to every true Mason , " where the Spencer and Inigo Jones MSS . have " free , " instead of " true . "

These agreements between Dodd and Cole are striking ; nevertheless , the Cole print cannot have been taken from the lost Dodd MS ., because there are , on the other side , some differences between these two versions , wherein Cole agrees with the Spencer MS . Spencer and Cole read , " And he divided Flocks of Sheep •, " Dodd had " Flocks and Sheeps . "

Spencer and Cole read , " He was the first that began to leave off Astrology , to admire the other Wonders of Nature ; " Dodd omits the word " off , " and has "Works" instead of "Wonders . "

In the letters taken from Josephus , Spencer and Cole have the original words " Libanus " and " Cyprus ; " Dodd changes them into " Lebanon " and " Cypress . " In the passage on Hiram Abif , Spencer and Cole agree in reading " He was a Alaster of Geometry and vvas Master of all his Masons "; Dodd having only . " He was a Master of all his Masons . "

In the paragraph at the head of the general Charges , Spencer and Cole ( also Inigo Jones MS . ) read " Every Man that is a Mason , " where Dodd has " Master" instead of "Mason . "

Soon after Spencer and Cole read , "Also ye ( Cole " you " ) shall be true each unto other ; " Dodd has "true unto each other . " And again Spencer and Cole agree in reading , " and that he take him for no less Terme than five or seven years , " whilst Dodd offers " and that he be taken for no less term , " etc .

Besides , there are some more agreements of less importance , that would be too long to mention , but I will add the fact , that Spencer and Cole always have " truely , " where Dodd has " truly . " From these comparisons we may learn that the Dodd version is one of its own , and likewise that the Cole print was not taken either from the Spencer MS . or from the Dodd MS ., but that there must have been a fourth copy , more original , from which those three are transcripts of their own .

Now , there are some other strange agreements between the Cole print and the Inigo Jones MS ., where the Spencer MS . and the Dodd print resemble each other . Cole and Inigo Jones MS . write "Babilon" instead of " Babylon " in the Spencer MS . and the Dodd print ; the latter two have " Nineveh" instead of " Ninivie " with Cole , and " Nineve " in the Inigo Jones MS .

Spencer and Dodd agree in writing " Nebuchadnezzar , " Cole has " Nebuchadnezer , " and the Inigo Jones MS . " Nebuchadnezar ; " the former two have "Cyrus , " the latter two agree in "Syrus ; " the former two have " Ptolomy , " whilst the Inigo Jones MS . has " Ptolmie , " and Cole " Ptolome . "

Afterwards Cole and Inigo Jones MS . have " Aururiagus , " Spencer and Dodd reading " Aurroriagus ;" and in thehistory of St . Alban the former two read " Verulum , " the latter two " Verulam ; " the former two give the name " Athelstane , " the latter two " Athelston . " In the history of Edwin , Cole and the Inigo Jones MS . agree in the sentence , "And he held an Assembly himself at York , " whilst Spencer and Dodd omit the word " himself . "

And in the Charges Cole and the Inigo Jones MS . agree several times in writing " Aprentic ? " or "Apprentice , " where Spencer and Dodd have " Prentice . " Besides , it is to be noted that Cole and the Inigo Jones MS . have in one passage both of them the name of ' •Euclid , " where Spencer and Dodd have the name of " Hermes , " as in the whole history of the Craft in Egypt , whilst the Inigo Jones MS ., as we saw above , has always the correct name of " Euclid . "

From all these agreements as well as differences vve may conclude that there were several copies of the original manuscript of this family , two at the least , perhaps three . Wherefrom I propose the following descent : Original .

transcript A . | Transcript B . , ^ - , I / - * - v Inigo Jones MS . ( Dodd print . Spencer MS . t " \ Cole print . The Cole print may as well have been taken from Transcript A , and the

Inigo Jones MS . from the Original . In every case the Dodd print and lhe Spencer MS . came from the same transcript and preserved the original text better than the Cole print and the Inigo Jones M . S ., which are bolh of them full of arbitrary alterations of their own .