Pine's Engraved Lists Of Lodges.

PINE'S ENGRAVED LISTS OF LODGES .

WILLIAM JAMES HOGHAN . THROUGH the kindness of Brother James

Newton , of Bolton , we have become possessed of a beautiful transcript of Pine ' s List of Lodges for A . D ., 1734 , which he had copied from the original , owned by the Prov . Grand Secretary ( Bro . Tunnah ) of East Lancashire . It is the only one of its kind we have been able to trace , and its value is considerable to all Masonic

Students , for which reason we have sent it to the Editor of the "Masonic Magazine " for reproduction—thus the property of the one will become the possession virtually of the many , and all thus benefited should remember their indebtedness to the two

Brethren mentioned . Ihe following information on the subject will doubtless interest some of our readers , and also serve the purpose of an introduction to the List . The first of these engraved Lists was issued in 1723 , the only known survivor being in the Archives of the Grand Lodge of

England . As it was published annually another was we presume issued in 1724 , of which we can find no trace , and in 1725 apparently two editions were issued . One of the earliest is in the Library of the Grand Lodge of England , and what we take to be the second edition is in the

custody of that ripe Masonic Scholar , General Pike , who has had an excellent fac-simile made , an impression of which we have compared with its elder fa-other . Brother Pike ' s edition has the " Arms" and "Titles" of The Most High Puissant and noble Prince Charles Lenos

, Duke of Richmond and Lenox , Earl of March and Darnley , Baron of Setterington Methuin and Torbolton , Knt . of ye most Honourable Order of ye Bath , Grand Master , " A . D ., 1725 , A . L ., 5725 . The edition in the Grand Lodge is minus

the Knight of the Bath qualification , and in consequence the Coat of Arms lacks the Garter , and Motto Tria Juncta in uno , by which it is surrounded . Moreover the

first issue has eight Lodges less on the List than the second edition , includinn those warranted for Reading and Chester evidently during A . D ., 1725 . After 1723 and 1725 is an unfortunate gap to 1734 , none having yet been found between these yearsand the copy of the

, latter year was only recently made known through our enquiries in the " Freemason . " The Grand Lodge of England has no Lists between 1725 and 1736 ; then follow in regular order 1737 and 1738 , and then another wide space , which we hope

will yet be filled up , as it is the duty and the privilege , we take it , of brethren iu possession of the Lists for the years vacant ( if there be such ) to supply our National Masonic Library , so that they may be permanently cared for , and be at hand for the

examination of all interested . The years of the Engraved Lists required by the Grand Lodge are 1724 , 1726 to 1735 ( inclusive ) , 1739 to 1745 ( inclusive ) , 1747 to 1749 ( inclusive ) , and 1 S 16 [ Freemason ' s Calendar " ) . We trust this notice may lead to the discovery of some of the defaulters . A deal depends upon what these

Lists contain , as they are the only official Roll of Lodges from 1723 until past the middle of the last century which we possess , save the List of Lodges in the Books of Constitutions for 1738 and 1756 , which are devoid of the numbers of such Lodges , and therefore less valuable than Engraved

Lists of those years . In one of the early numbers of the " Masonic Magazine , " * we inserted a List of Lodges for A . D ., 1730 , a great curiosity in its way , and in the " Voice of Masonry , " for August , 1876 , we gave another List , ( with the numerical

position added by us for subsequent years ) of the year 1733 from Dr . Rawlinson ' s MSS . in the Bodleian Library , Oxford . It will be noted that No . 79 is left vacant , as it is in the following transcript of the Roll of A . D ., 1734 , and which in the

" Companion" issued in 1735 at Dublin , is ascribed to "The Hoop in Water Street , in Philadelphia , " ( without date ) and comes after and before Lodges in England of 1731 —the latter work having thus to do with a still earlier copy of these Engraved Lists , not at present discovered , but which we do not despair yet of tracing , having , since