The Prov. Grand Lodge Of Cumberland And Westmorland.

also a Lodge of Unanimity constituted at Penrith by the "Aloderns" im 1776 , and its warrant was declared forfeited in 1811 , "for repeated and uniform neglect and refusal to make returns , or to submit to any decisions . " The year following , however , the Unanimity warrant was re-opened at

HALL OF THE SK 1 DDAW LODGE , No . 1 ) 11 ) 2 , ( Ol'KKRMOUTH— { l'lino J . Yr . II' . 11 . Lairfimiih ; P . P . G- Ory . )

Saddleworth , Yorkshire , under the name of Candour , and is now at Uppermill , in the same county , No . 337 . This system of transferring warrants from defunct lodges to new ones is also illustrated in the case of another Cumberland lodge , namely , the Honour and Perseverance , at Cockermouth , which , after sixteen years' existence , was in 1804 re-opened

at Batley , in Yorkshire , under the name of Nelson of the Nile , and after successive removals to Alirlield , Hopton , and Carlinghow , finally found a resting-place at Batley again , where the Nelson of the Nile Lodge , No . 26 4 , now nourishes . Mention may be made of the ornate little hall in connection with the Sun and Sector Lodge , No . 9 62 , Workington ,

containing much of the furniture and the bible belonging to a lodge of the sstne name , which existed from 1774 to 1828 , the minutes of this lodge also being very interesting ; whilst the hall of the Skiddaw Lodge , No . 1002 , Cockermouth , has during recent years been much beautified at the expense of one of its Past Alasters , Bro . Peacock . The Earl of Alayo , who , whilst Governor-General of India , lost his life at the hands of an assassin , was a member of Skiddaw Lodge .

The reference to lodges in the little County of Westmorland is naturally restricted , the fact being that from the year 1764 , when the Union Lodge , No . 129 , was warranted by the "Aloderns" in Kendal , till i 860 , it had been working all alone in its glory . In the latter year a lodge was founded in the count y town of Appleby , under

the title of the Eden Valley , No . 812 , which existed for thirty years , and has since been replaced by the Vale of Eden , No . 2493 . Turning now to the two separate Provinces of Cumberland and Westmorland , which eventually became united ,

the western county was constituted a province in 1771 , with Bro . Henry Ellison , a member of a then leading family , as chief . The Grand Lodge Calendar of the present clay gives 1795 as the year of the appointment , which is rather peculiar , as the signature of the Deputy , Bro . Robert

Baldridge , appears on the dispensation for the opening of the extinct Harmony Lodge at Carlisle , in 1771 . Add to this , the dispensation is headed " Henry Ellison , Esquire , Provincial Grand Alaster of the Alost Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Alasons of and for the County of Cumberland . " This dispensation , it is worthy of record

is the oldest known provincial record in Cumberland , whilst the earliest minutes begin in 1817 . Bro . Ellison was succeeded in 18 . 01 by Bro . John Losh , a scion of another old Cumberland famil y , and he in 1815 resigned the reins of government to Bro . George Blamire , of Thackwood , near

Carlisle , a relative of Aliss Susanna Blamire , author of the fine old Border ballad , "And ye shall walk in silk attire" ( Circa 1790 ) . It was two years before Bro . Blamire was installed , and then as the result of a requisition from the twelve lodges composing the province . This document is headed : — " To George Blamire , Esquire , appointed

Pro-1 IR 0 . F . R . SEWELL , P . G . D ., DEPUTY PROV . G . MASTER . ( Pliala Stall , f- Sou , ( iirlMr ) vincial Grand Alaster of Alanual , Instrumental , and Scientific Alasons for the County of Cumberland . " It is in this

connection pleasing to recall the circumstance that Bro . Blamire ' s Deputy , was Bro . George Sewell , an ancestor of Bro . Colonel F . R . Sewell , P . G . D ., the present able Deputy Provincial Grand Alaster of Cumberland and Westmorland .