Ancient Lodges.

304 Marquis of Granby ' s Head , Dmiiam , first Tues " day , Sept . 8 , 1763 . 305 Lodge at tbe Hall at Burnley , Lancashire , every Saturday nearest the full moon , Oct . 9 , 1763 . 306 Union Lodge , at a Private Room , Bell-lane , Spitalfields , Nov . 7 , 1763 . 307 Royal Mecklenburgh Lodge , at the Hermoine

and Active Frigate , Compton-street , St . Ann ' s , fourth Friday , Nov . 28 , 1763 . 308 Saracen ' s Head , Chelmsford , Essex , second and fourth Monday , Jan . 18 , 1764 . 309 Lodge of Amity at the Haulover up the river Belise , in the Bay of Honduras , first and third Tuesday , Sept . 1763 .

310 Paulcon , East-street , Gravesend , second and fourth Thursday , March 4 , 1764 . 311 Royal Edwin Lodge , at Lynn Regis , in . Dorsetshire , first and third Monday , April 6 , 1764 . 312 The Door to Virtue , at Hildesham , in Germany , Dec . 22 , 1762 , 313 Horn , Westminster , first Wednesday , April 4 ,

1764 . 314 King ' s Head at Ross , Herefordshire , May 3 , 1764 . 315 The St . George , at Taunton , Somersetshire , first Wednesday , July 13 , 1764 . 316 Swan , at Kendall , Westmoreland , first Wednesday , July 31 , 1764 .

317 Three Crowns at Harwich , second and fourth Thursday , Aug . 9 , 1764 . 318 Nag ' s Head , at Lymington , Hants , first and third Friday , Aug . 16 , 1764 . 319 Ship , at Faversham , in Kent , every other Wednesday , Aug . 30 , 1764 . 320 Salutation , at Topsham , Devon , second and fourth

Wednesday , Aug . 30 , 1764 . 321 A Private Room , Snowsfields , Bermondsey , Oct . 23 , 1764 . 322 Club Inn , Isle of Ely , first Wednesday , Oct . 23 , 1764 . 323 Fountain , at Helsey , Hants , first and third MondayNov . 71764 .

, , 324 Pons's Coffee House , Castle-street , Leicester fields , . second and fourth Monday . 325 Half Moon , Cheapsida , Caledonian Lodge , first Monday , Nov . 15 , 1764 . 326 Swan at Bridgewater , Somerset , first and third Monday , Dec . 4 , 1764 . 327 Rose and

CrownMill-streetDockheadSouth-, , , wark , first and third Tuesday , Dec . 11 , 1764 . 328 George , Milton in Kent , first and third Tuesday . 329 Crown at Swaffham , Norfolk , first Monday Dec . 17 , 1764 .

330 King of Sweden , Wapping Dock , first and third Tuesday , Jan . 8 , 1765 . 331 Old Bell Savage , Ludgate-hill , second and fourth Monday , Jan . 29 , 1765 . 332 Boar ' s Head , West Smithfield , Jan . 29 , 1765 . 333 King's Head and Green Gate , City-road , first and tihird Thursday , Jan . 29 , 1765 .

334 Wheatsheaf , Hand-court , Holbourn , Jan . 22 , 1765 . 335 George , Wardour-street , Soho , Operative Masons , ¦ every other Thursday , March 13 , 1765 . 336 George , Snug-lane , March 22 , 1765 . 337 Bell , Brecon , South Wales , first and third Monday .

338 Lion and Whelp , Pool , Dorset , first and third Wednesday , April 1 , 1765 . 339 White Hart , Strand , Corinthian Lodge , April 16 , 1755 . 340 Rose and Crown , Sheffield , Yorkshire , second Tuesday , April 19 , 1765 .

Ancient Lodges.

[ We have now exhausted the list of Ancient Masonic Lodges published under the above heading in a book printed in London in the year 1765 , "for J . Cooke , at the Shakespear ' s Head , in Pater-noster Row , " this book bears the title " SHIBBOLETH ; or Every Man a Free-Mason . By a PASS ' D MASTER . " The list is full of interest to those who desire to know something more

about the history and progress of Freemasonry , than is to be found by a perusal of the list of lodges contained in the English Grand Lodge Calendar , and we shall be glad to receive for publication , any information respecting such of the old lodges as are named in the foregoing list as are defunct , or have any interesting and Avell authenticated history attached thereto , and respecting the houses or places of meeting mentioned in the list , —as no doubt there are many very interesting documents connected with them still extant . ]

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

INELIGIBILITX OF CANDIDATES FOE EEEESIASONEr . I was much pleased to see in your issue of June 26 th , p . 505 , our esseemed Bro . D . M . Lyon stating that he knew of no Scottish Masonic Statute which debarred bastards from being Ereemasons . It is not the man ' s pedigree we have to look at ; it is own

character . It is both uncharitable and cowardly to throw the sin of a man ' s parents thus in his face . An honest " bastard " will make a better Preemason than any specimen of humanity whose chief passport to Ereemasonry is the circumstance that his mother was married , or that his sMn is white , or that he has that sine qita non money to pay his fees .

Another supposed impediment to admission to Ereemasonry is the loss of a limb . A man happens to lose ( in battle , say , or by accident ) one or both his legs , or one of his arms ; a spurious anxiety " to uphold the purity of lodge membership , " therefore , would tell him—you cannot be admitted ; you may

be sound in mind and hold the best of characters ; you may have served your country nobly , and lost your limbs in defending its honour and safety ; but , as we perceive you are not sound (?) or perfect in body , therefore you cannot be admitted amongst ua ! *

I am proud to say I have bad the pleasure of practically setting aside such a silly notion ; as only a few weeks ago , e . g ., I duly initiated a candidate who had his right arm cut off , and although both his legs had also been lost , and he under the necessity of hobbling up to the altar upon his stumps , yet I

consider that one hand , Avith a good and true heart , was quite sufficient to carry him through every ordeal . An Adonis must not necessarily make a good Mason , for he may turn out an Absalom ; but the man who , although he wants a limb , yet possesses a clear head and a good heart , will be sure to be an honour to the Craft . — ~ W . P . BUCHAN ' .