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The United Orders Of The Temple And Hospital And The Press.
of Avhich Ave have attempted a description elseAA'here combined some of the more extravagant elements of a Lord Mayor ' s SIIOAV , and some of the grotesque ! " passages of a very High Church function , " Ave may
remind our friend that a real and an assumed ubiquity are two different things ; and that as the description it was good enough to quote from was mainly supplied from the inner consciousness , the fervid imagination of the Telegraph correspondent
AVIIO , no doubt , got possession in some informal manner of a printed programme to help him , its pleasant sarcasm is throAAm aAvay and its assumed historic kiiOAAdedge rather AA'asted . We are inclined to suspect Scotch
influence at work , as the origin of this gratuitous attack on the Templars , as it is now well knoAvn that the Scottish Knights after agreeing to the union Avith England ancl Ireland , ultimately , and it is Avhispered not too honourably , AA'ithdreAv from the
treaty . The Spectator , probably inspired as Ave have suggested , gives us the astonishing information that " the Scotch Templars regard the English Templars as no more true Knights Templars than the Duke of
Manchester ' s Lodge of Knights Hosjritallers , are true Johauniter . " If our contemporary AVOUM condescend to read Masonic history before it preaches about our orders of Knighthood , it Avould speeddy discover that its vaunted historical
knoAvledge is of no great value and that its statements are sometimes—as in this in- - stance , incredible though it may appearabsolutely false . The Order of the Temple Avas not suppressed in 1312—the proceedings of the seventh of April last Avere not
a mock revival—ancl the Scotch Templars do not deny the A alidity of the claims of their English brethren . Tho Spectator asks " Avhat Avarrant can the Prince of Wales conceive he has for conferring tho decorations of Knight Grand
Cross ancl Knight Commander in Avhat after all was a military monastic order of the Roman Catholic Church , notoriously suppressed ( rightly or Avrongly it does not signify ) by the same authority that created
it—that is to say the Pope—many centuries ago . ?" Our reply is that the Prince did not create what he did not find in the Order before , and the Spectator if it IGIOAVS anything about the Scotch Order , Avhich it
vaunts above the English , must be awaro that the Grand Cross is conferred b y the Chapter General of Scotland , Avhich itself exists at this moment under Charter from the late Duke of Kent in 1810 , A \ dio Avas Grand Patron of the English Templars then
under the Grand Mastership of tho Duke of Sussex , Ave believe . The Royal Kent Preceptory at NeAvcastle-on-Tyne has long given the Grand Cross , but Avhence it derived its authority AVO have no means of ascertaining . The Spectator may sneer at the Knights Grand Cross of the Temple
ancl Hospital , and may ask jeerinrd y Avhether Garter or Ulster Avill take any notice of them , but Avhen such honours are accepted as distinctions by such great personages as the Emperor and CroAim Prince of Germany , the King of SAveden
, Prince John of Glucksburg , Lord Limerick , Lord ShreAVsbury and numerous other heads of noble and princely houses , Ave can Avell afford to smile at the eccentric sarcasm , the egotistical disdain of the self-elected Junius Avho . penned this article .
Our Avorthycontemporary says "these sham Templars already assume , it appears , the specific title , the " Sir" of British Knighthood . Don Quixote , if we remember right , speaks someAvhere of the retort courteous . We make the Spectator a
present of the same , ancl remind it that in making tins statement it lies under a mistake . Knights Templar assume no rank or precedence outside their Preceptory . ( To be Continued . )
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The United Orders Of The Temple And Hospital And The Press.
of Avhich Ave have attempted a description elseAA'here combined some of the more extravagant elements of a Lord Mayor ' s SIIOAV , and some of the grotesque ! " passages of a very High Church function , " Ave may
remind our friend that a real and an assumed ubiquity are two different things ; and that as the description it was good enough to quote from was mainly supplied from the inner consciousness , the fervid imagination of the Telegraph correspondent
AVIIO , no doubt , got possession in some informal manner of a printed programme to help him , its pleasant sarcasm is throAAm aAvay and its assumed historic kiiOAAdedge rather AA'asted . We are inclined to suspect Scotch
influence at work , as the origin of this gratuitous attack on the Templars , as it is now well knoAvn that the Scottish Knights after agreeing to the union Avith England ancl Ireland , ultimately , and it is Avhispered not too honourably , AA'ithdreAv from the
treaty . The Spectator , probably inspired as Ave have suggested , gives us the astonishing information that " the Scotch Templars regard the English Templars as no more true Knights Templars than the Duke of
Manchester ' s Lodge of Knights Hosjritallers , are true Johauniter . " If our contemporary AVOUM condescend to read Masonic history before it preaches about our orders of Knighthood , it Avould speeddy discover that its vaunted historical
knoAvledge is of no great value and that its statements are sometimes—as in this in- - stance , incredible though it may appearabsolutely false . The Order of the Temple Avas not suppressed in 1312—the proceedings of the seventh of April last Avere not
a mock revival—ancl the Scotch Templars do not deny the A alidity of the claims of their English brethren . Tho Spectator asks " Avhat Avarrant can the Prince of Wales conceive he has for conferring tho decorations of Knight Grand
Cross ancl Knight Commander in Avhat after all was a military monastic order of the Roman Catholic Church , notoriously suppressed ( rightly or Avrongly it does not signify ) by the same authority that created
it—that is to say the Pope—many centuries ago . ?" Our reply is that the Prince did not create what he did not find in the Order before , and the Spectator if it IGIOAVS anything about the Scotch Order , Avhich it
vaunts above the English , must be awaro that the Grand Cross is conferred b y the Chapter General of Scotland , Avhich itself exists at this moment under Charter from the late Duke of Kent in 1810 , A \ dio Avas Grand Patron of the English Templars then
under the Grand Mastership of tho Duke of Sussex , Ave believe . The Royal Kent Preceptory at NeAvcastle-on-Tyne has long given the Grand Cross , but Avhence it derived its authority AVO have no means of ascertaining . The Spectator may sneer at the Knights Grand Cross of the Temple
ancl Hospital , and may ask jeerinrd y Avhether Garter or Ulster Avill take any notice of them , but Avhen such honours are accepted as distinctions by such great personages as the Emperor and CroAim Prince of Germany , the King of SAveden
, Prince John of Glucksburg , Lord Limerick , Lord ShreAVsbury and numerous other heads of noble and princely houses , Ave can Avell afford to smile at the eccentric sarcasm , the egotistical disdain of the self-elected Junius Avho . penned this article .
Our Avorthycontemporary says "these sham Templars already assume , it appears , the specific title , the " Sir" of British Knighthood . Don Quixote , if we remember right , speaks someAvhere of the retort courteous . We make the Spectator a
present of the same , ancl remind it that in making tins statement it lies under a mistake . Knights Templar assume no rank or precedence outside their Preceptory . ( To be Continued . )