An Ancient Scotch Masonic Medal.

An impression of this medal , as above stated , is in Mi ' . Appleton ' s collection , U . S . A . There was also one sold in New York , in June , 1881 , at the sale of the Marvin collection . Bro . Newton ' s impression thus makes the third so arc known . Bro . Hughan considers that the medal is , in all probability , the oldest of its kind as yet discovered . He also takes it that the collar and badge on the

obverse are those of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , which was fonmed in 17 : 36 , and that the medal was probably struck about this date to commemorate the institution of the Grand Lodge .

The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.

THE LEGEND OF THE INTRODUCTION OF MASONS INTO ENGLAND .

BY BRO . W . HARRY RYLANDS , F . S . A . PART I . THE following account , culled from the Ancient Chronicles , was published in an edition of " The Summarie of English Chronicles " by John Stow , London , 1566 . Succeeding this I have placed a portion of the introduction to the edition of " Stow ' s Survey of London , '' by John Strype , London , 1720 . *

ABOUT A . M . 192 , Lucius , King of Britain , died , and "for so muche as of hym remayned no hcyre " f the Britons fought amongst themselves for about fifteen years . " By nieane of thys foreayde discorde ainonge the biitons : Seuerns was moned to make haste into thys Countrcye , as well to qnyetc the realme as to kepc back the Pictes and Scotts , whych vexed them with warre . hee caused a wall of turues and greatc stakes to be made of the lengthe of 112

myles , or ( after some ) repayred the wal of Adrian : It began at Tyno , and reached to the Scottyshe seawhyche is yet called the scottyshe banke . This Scuerus gouerned Britayne V years : and was burred at Yorke . " " Themic about the yeave oil Christ iiii hundred xxxviij the Britaynes were inuaded agayn b y the Pictes and Scots , which not withstanding the foresaydc walle , that was made bthe ltomaynsspoyled the coutrey very soreso that

y , , they wer drynen to soke for new helpe of the Romains : wlio sent to theim a company of souldiors : which agayn chased the Pictes , and made a Avail of stone of the thicknes of viii foot , it I ' height xii foote . Whichc thing when they had done , comi ' ortvng the Britons , and aclmonyshynge them hereafter to trust to their own mahod and stregth , they returned agayn to Rome . ''' STOW , 1720 . — "In few Years after , as Simeon of Durham ( anancient Writer )

reporteth , Helen , the Mother of Constantino the Great , was the first that inwallecl this City [ London ] about the Year of Christ cccvi . But however , those Walls of Stone mi ght be builded by the said Helen , yet the Britains , I know had no Skill of Building with Stone ; as may appear by that which i ' olloweth about the Year of Christ cccxcix , when Arcadius and Houorius , the Sons of Theodosius Magnusgoverned the Empirethe one in the East the

, , , other in the West . For Honorius having received Britain , the City of Rome was invaded and destroyed by the Goths . After which Time the Romans left to rule in Britain , as being employed in Defence of their Territories nearer home . Whereupon the Britains , not able to defend themselves against the Invasions of their Enemies , were many years together under the Oppression of