The Supreme Grand Council 0f France And Marshal Magnan.

"When the decree appeared , and they submitted at the same time , but did not render themselves up to the Grand Orient , as the latter ordered , in the Temple of that body , hut closed their own lodges , they felt they would not suffer aloue , for when the Grand Master of France consults his lodges , he will be very much astonished to find himself disavowed

bniney teen-twentieths of the brotherhood , and , since he issued his manifesto , they have come in crowds to the lodges under the Supreme Graud Council to protest against such a fratricidal measure . Bro . Yiennet also thinks it probable that the Grand Master of the Grand Orient has not consulted his council since ,

contrary to all Masonic usage , he has not made any mention of them in the preamble to his summons , and regards that a witness of the opposition which will be manifested against his circular . If , nevertheless , he persists in it , or public authority sanctions itit is necessary that they should be informed what

, must be the material result . Bro . Yiennet has before alluded to the rent which the rite pays to the hospitals of Paris for its accommodation , and asks if to five or six of the Supreme Grand Council the burthen of a lease , yet having six years to run , is to be left on their hands ?

Some of the lodges under the rite having constituted themselves into civil societies , Bro Yiennet asks several pertinent questions as to the financial prospects , both of those lodges and the Supreme Grand Council . He argues against a forced sale of their effects , showing that such an event would result in great disaster and realise nothing . Their treasurytoocollected amongst

, , themselves , is in danger , and it is questionable if the Grand Orient has not an eye ; to the main chance in appropriating it to their own uses . Bro . Yiennet considers that such events would he a

sad victory , recalling to mind the fable of the wolf and the lamb ; and it was not for the glory of the wolf that La Fontaine wrote . The Marshals of France considered the Masons of the Considate amongst the number of their brethren who had cooperated , for the most part , in the Masonic Convention of 1804 « . Such distinguished Marshals as

ELellerman , Serruier , Massena , Angereau , Soult , Mortier , Oudinot , Lefebvre , and McDonald , all knew their value , aud the dependance to be placed on them . The situation of the Supreme Grand Council is then reviewed , and the evils recapitulated and pointed out , the circular ending by being signed YiennetGrand

, Commander Grand Master of the Eite Eeossais for Prance . There is also the following memorandum attached : —The undersigned members of the Supreme Council regularly met on the 14 th of May , 1 S 62 , have determined that Bro . Yiennet ' s answer to his Excellency Marshal Magnan shall be read to the Central Grand

Lodge , and addressed to his Majesty the Emperor , to their Excellencies the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice , to all the Masonic Confederations , and to all the lodges of the Ancient and Accepted Kite Eeossais . This was signed by SS . GG . II . GG . MM . of the Supreme Council , Guiffrey ; Allegry ;

Marquis De Tanlay ; Count de Lanjuinais ; Baron < Ie Dellay D'Avaise ; Moitie de ' Coulommiers ; ttoelen ; Berryer ; Viscount de Lajonquiere ; Geneyny ^ Barthe ; Daron de Bulow ; Millet-Saint-Pierre ; Liutret ; and Le Batteux . ( To he continued . )

Masons Of England And Their Works.

MASONS OF ENGLAND AND THEIR WORKS .

( Continued from page 125 . ) During the sixteenth century , Eobert Jenyns , Eobert Yertue , and John Lobins are called " ye kings iii Mr . Masons , " about 1509 , when estimating for a tomb for Henry Yll . Eobert Yertue built , 1501 , a chamber in the Tower of London , and -was paid for a ' new platt '

at Greenwich . Master Estfield , 1501-4 , mason , in the reign of Henry VII , 1501 , was paid for " a king ' s tomb at Windsor , " £ 78 . 3 s . 2 d . ; the king's name is not given in the record , but it does state afterwards , by a payment of £ 10 that it was eventually removed to Westminster . Should the entries refer to a tomb

for Henry VI , it would tend much to prove that his body was removed to Westminster after all . * John Cole was " master mason of the broach , " of Louth Church , 1501-15 , and towards the completion , it is stated that " Lawrence , mason , was paid 6 s . 8 d . for riding to his master in the north country for to

sjieer him whether he would make an end of the broach , and he said he would deal no more with it , but he showed his counsel ; " and William Walker , and Lawrence mason , were paid 2 s . for " riding to Boston to speak with master mason to make an end of the broach ; " while William Lemyng and Christopher Scume are also recorded as master masons working there . John Hylmer and William Yertue , freemasons , 1507 , contracted to execute the groined vaidting to

to the choir of St . George's Chapel , Windsor , for £ 700 ; and afterwards , 1512 , assisted William Este to build Corpus Christi College , Oxford . John Eastawe , or Estow , engaged , 1525-38 , to " do all manner of masons's work , bricklaying , and all other things concerning the masonry and bricklaying , as well as the labourers concerning the same " in the

erection of Hengrave Hall . Christ Church College , Oxford , had the following officers at its erection , 1512-7 , a collection very rarely to be obtained , namely , M . Nicholas Townley , priest , master of the works ; William Frere , purveyor of the works ; M . David Grifhts , priest , overseer of the workmem ; M . Eowland

Messenger , comptroller of the works ; Mr . John Smith , auditor of the works ; with Thomas Cowper and Philip Lenthall , his clerks , who were paid 66 s . Sd . for their labour duriug the five years the college was being erected ; John Adams was the freemason ; and Thomas Watlington , the warden of the carpenters .

The trades are not mentioned of Thomas Sellers and Nicholas Craven , who contracted , 1533 , to rebuild the ' hylings' of Bm'nley Church , Lancashire , for sixty pounds and a reward , —hut it may be supposed they were masons . John Multon , Freemason , had granted to him in 1536 , by the prior and convent of Bath , the " office of master of all their works commonly called freemasonry , when it shoidd be vacant . " This is probably the same person noticed