An Old Medal.

An Old Medal .

j \ T ) ECENTLY , when in the Lake District , Bro . J . F . Hope , \ P . M . Greta Lodge , No . 1073 , Keswick , P . P . A . G . D . C . of Cumberland and Westmoreland , showed me the following interesting and well-preserved medal in silver , which came into his possession some lime ago , after winding ini the estate of a deceased relative : —

OltVKH . SK . The obverse of the medal , it will be observed , refers to Craft Masonry , whilst the reverse is made up of emblems connected with the Royal Arch . Strange to say , the latter supplies the only means of identitythat is to say , as to the

, original owner , the chapter , and dale . It may , however , be explained that there was a Mount Horeb Chapter in the City of Carlisle , the earliest information as to which is about the year 1805 , and in 1823 , a charter of confirmation war .

granted . This reference to the Mount Horeb Chapter will go to show that the lodge to which it was attached was the Lodge of Harmony , also in Carlisle , warranted by the regular Grand Lodge in 1771 . This lodge made its last payment to the Grand Lodge funds in 18 31 , and twenty years later was erassd . In the early part of the last century its membership

HKVKKSK . roll included some of the leading men of position in the county , amongst them three successive Provincial Grand Masters of Cumberland , and the second Provincial Grand Master of Cumberland and Westmorland . Further , the

Harmony Lodge during the first half of its existence regularly appeared in the Grand Lodge reports as a subscriber to the General Charity and Hall Funds . W . F . LAMOXHY .

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Dorsetshire.

Provincial Grand Lodge of Dorsetshire .

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