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and was afterwards purchased by the Slingsby family , who are its present possessors . At the dissolution of the religious houses , this building was so effectually demolished that scarcely one stone was left upon another above the surface . Some of the foundations of one corner were laid bare a few years since , and attracted considerable attention . Most of the stones

which composed the walls have been appropriated for the fences , outbuildings , & c , of two farms adjoining . It will doubtless interest my brother Mark Masters to know that upon every cleansed or dressed stone examined ( in nearly all cases upon more than one face of it ) , there was a mark , evidently made by the mason who wrought the stone . A few of these marks I carefully copied , and subjoin some of them for inspection : —

The marks are very numerous , and vary in size from four to eight inches long , and from three to five inches broad . I shall , in common with many readers to whom the subject of marks is very interesting , be glad to receive any information hereon through the medium of your pages . Yours fraternally , ANTIQUAEIAN .

Curious Old Document.

CURIOUS OLD DOCUMENT .

( bee page 153 ; . 10 THE EDITOE OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEROE . Dear Sir and Brother , —Bro . Thos- Haiper , D . G . M . of the ancient Masons , in his seventh edition of the Ahiman Rezon , Svo ., 1807 , p . 152 , g ives this article under the head of " An Address delivered by a Noble

Brother to his Son on 'his first initiation into Freemasonry . " Bro . Stephen Jones in his Masonic Miscellanies , 12 mo ., 181 . 1 , page 254 , entitles it " The Speech of a Foreign Nobleman on receiving Ms own son into Freemasonry . "

Bro . Donnes , in his third edition of the Irish Ahiman Rezon , 8 vo ., 1817 , page 81 , heads it , " The following discourse ( translated from the French ) was pronounced at Brunswick , Lower Saxony , when Prince Ferdinand was Grand Master , by the Comte

T , at the initiation of hia son . " All the articles are perfectly alike . The triple anagram is also given by Bro . Thos . Harper in his seventh edition of the Ahiman Rezon , p . 135 , as "The Freemasons' Memento , by Bro . T . M . af South ton . " Yours fraternally , F . H ., P . M . 8 .

The Royal Arch Degree.

THE ROYAL ARCH DEGREE .

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEKOR . Dear Sir and Brother , —It appears to me that " Fiat Lux , " in attacking the Royal Arch Degree , falls into the very error against which , in others , he so vigorously protests , viz ., that of giving words only in place of facts . He says , " All fhe so-called high degrees , including the Royal Arch , are subversive of the

principles of Masonry . " As an admirer of the Royal Arch , I should be glad to know what there is in its principles or ritual at all subversive of the genuine principles of Masonry ? I know of nothing myself , and must really ask for some further proof than his ipse dixit . Of the other high degrees I know nothing , as they are not worked in my neighbourhood . However , I

agree with " Fiat Lux" so far , that being Christian degrees they are contrary to the spirit of universal Masonry ; indeed , I consider the Rose Croix apron in shape altogether unmasonic . I agree with "Fiat Lux ' ' on one point more fully —that too much attention is now paid to jewels and

man-millinery , to the neglect of the real jewels of charity and brotherly love . I think if we endeavoured more earnestly to carry out these great principles , we should be the less ready to engage in somewhat acrimonious discussion as to the relative merits of our pet theories . Yours fraternally , R . A . M .

Jewish Law And Legend.

JEWISH LAW AND LEGEND .

TO THE EDITOR 01 ? TIIE EEEEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —A very interesting lecture upon the above subject having been delivered here by Emanuel Deutsch , I beg to append report of it , as it appeared in the Glasgow Iferald of the 17 th inst . As to the Talmund I say nothing about it ; but his other remarks ought to be hihly valuable to all

g _ students of Masonry , both Operative and Speculative . He shows what we have already stated , that the Jews were not a race of builders ; they excelled , however , in music and poetry , also in their knowledge of natural history , and , above all , in their theological ideas . Yours fraternally ,

W . P . BUCHAH " . Last nig ht Emanuel Deutsch , of the British Museum , delivered a lecture , under the auspices of