Masonic Jottings.—No. 17.

PREMISES . An Oxford Brotherthinks that those , who assert the great antiquity of Masonry , will one day find premises sufficient for the exercise of the Stuart-Millian and the Hamiltonian , although not of the Aldrichian , Logic .

MASONRY OP THE BRITONS . If you can make out that the Britons ever constructed a great building , then say that there once was a Masonry of the Britons . But add that the Masonry of the Britons went to sleep , and finding

when she awoke that the Masonry of the Anglo-Saxons had taken her place , she went to sleep again . —Old M 8 .

PROCEEDINGS OP 1717 . A correspondent thinks that the proceedings of 1717 were a resumption of measures begun by Ashmole for the improvement of Speculative Masonry , which at the time of his death had , in part only , been carried into effect .

CIVILISATION—ARCHITECTURE . Is it more correct with some Masonic writers to call civilisation the mother of Architecture , or with others to call Architecture the mother of Civilisation ?—Question from an Old Craft MS .

RISE OP SPECULATIVE MASONRY . As regards the rise of Speculative Masonry , the question of the rise of any particular Operative Masonry—as , for instance , of any European Operative Masonry—is not important .

THE BEGINNING OP A TRADITION . The beginning of a tradition should be in the lifetime of a person , AVIIO might have been an eye witness of the event to which the tradition relates .

THE MORAL LAW . Everywhere—beings endoAved with reason are bound by the Moral Law . The inhabitants of the planets of all the Stellar systems are bound by it .

ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGES OP THE ROMANS . The Masonic Student should make himself acquainted with all that has come down to us respecting the Architectural Colleges of the Eomans .

THE OLD SCOTCH LODGE . Speculative Masonry seems to have slumbered in it for 600 years , but some time in the reign of King George the Second the introduction of the new English nomenclature sufficed to awaken it , and it has not slumbered since .

A REMARK OP BROTHER VAN DALEN . "In those German Lodges which preserved the Old Charges intact , the spirit of Masonry more prevails over the mere rehearsal of the Ritual than it does in the country to which we are

iudebted for those landmarks . " LITURGY AND SYMBOLS OP MODERN MASONS . German writers have lately shown that the modern Masons inherited their Liturgy and Symbols from their forefathers , the Masons who

preceded them . PAGODA—PYRAMID—BIBS NIMRUD . The builders of the Pagoda had their Lodge . The builders of the Pyramid had their Lodge , The builders of the BirsNimrud had their Lodge , —Old MS .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

GRAND LODGES 03 ? GERMANY IS THE SIXTEENTH CESWRT . A Correspondent will find the ensuing lines of the Abbe Grandidier ' s letter ( Bro . Findel ' s " History of Freemasonry" ) an answer to his inquiry : — "The lodges all agreed to recognise the authority of the oriinal

g lodge at Strasburg , which was named Haupt Hutte , or Grand Lodge . The different Masters of the individual lodges assembled at Ratisbon , where they drew up , on the 25 th April , 1459 , the Act of Fraternity , which established the chief of the Cathedral of Strasburg and his successors as sole and perpetual Grand

Masters of the fraternity of Freemasons of Germany . This society , composed of Masters , Companions , and Apprentices , formed a particular jurisdiction , and the body at Strasburg embraced all those of Germany . The lodges of the Masons of Suabia , Hesse and Bavaria , Franconia , Saxe , Thuringia , and the provinces on the banks of the Moselle , acknowledged the authority of the Grand Lodge of Strasburg . " —CHARLES PUETOJST COOPER .

NE PLATS ULTRA .. A distinguished brother , John Tarker , in a late number of your Magazine signs himself , "t t John Tarker , N . P . TJ . " Will he kindly explain what ifl meant by these hieroglyphics . The letters following his name I take to mean tie lus ultra . I shall be

p glad to know by what authority he signs thus , as he is only registered on the roll of the S . C . 33 ° as 18 ° , and the N . P . T 7 . evidently refers to the 30 ° . —EITE ECOSSAIS .

ROHAN , FRENCH , AND GERMAN EDIFICES ( page 307 ) , The correspondent alluded to at page 307 coulcl not do better than buy Ferguson ' s "Illustrated Handbook of Architecture , " and study the subject for himself . I understand there was a new edition issued last year , which I am sorry to say I have not yet seen . —W . P . B .