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EDITED FOB THE COMMITTEE BY

W. H.

BYLANBS,

P.A.G.D.G.,

SEC.

VOLUME

XVII.

H. KKBr.E, Printer, Maegatk.1904.

THE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.CHRONICLE.Grand Loilgeof

PAGE

Iowa

...

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...

...

177 177 178 178178

Masonic Chair

...

... ...

......

...

......

Modern MaccabeesNorthampton Association

... ...

Freemasonry and the Church Congress

...

......

for Masonic Kesearch

...

LODGE

PROCEEDINGS.1904......... ...

Wednesday, 6th January,Friday, 4th March, 1904

1

Thursday, 21st January, 1904.Friday, 6th May, 1904Friday, 24th June, 1004.

Permanent and Audit Committee......

... ...... ...

12

... ...

... ......

3673

St. John's

Day

in

Harvest

99129 179

Thursday, 7th, to Sunday, 10th July, 1904.Friday, 7th October, 19U4...

Summer...

Outing, Worcester...

...

...

Tuesday,

8th

November,

1904....

Festival of the Four...

Crowned Martyrs,...

Installation

...

220

NOTES AND QUERIES.Masonic Certificates of the Netherlands...

...

... ... ...

20 22 235660, 176,

... ... The Masonic Certificate of Edward Gibbon Bye-Laws of the Lodge held at the Bedford Arms, Covent Garden, London ... Masonic Carvings on the Church of Sta. Eulalia, Majorca

... ......

Early nse of theWheeler's Lodge

Word

"

Freemason"...... ...

... ... ...

...

235

......

6060,

The Magic Scroll The Creed of the CraftLiverpool Cathedral

......... ...

23661

...... ...

... ... ......

... ...

6263 63 6466, 176

Washington as a Freemason

The Chevalier d'EonTrowel Jewels...

.........

...

... ...... ...

...... ... ...

......

An

Interesting Engraving...

Moira Apron

... ...

... ... ... ......

66

Colour in Freemasonry

......

66,17667

Egyptian Superintendents of Works

... ......

Two

Silver Jewels

... ... ... ...

........

6872 93

Theveneaa de MorandeIrish Certificates (Wexford) Irish Certificates (Cookstown)

... ... ......

... ...... ...

...

96126

Francis Wheeler

......

.

.

Masonic Medal for BraveryBritish

...... ...

176201

Museum MSS.St. Paul's...

relating to Accounts of St. Paul's Cathedral

Accounts of

Cathedral... ...

...

...

203 233

Dagger Jewels

......

... ... ...

... ... ...

Japanese Craft Guilds

234 236

Philo-MusiCcB Societas, 1725-27

...

;

iv.

Table of Contents. PAGE...... .....

OBITUARY.Ashenden, HenryBarr, W. R....

... ......

...

7171

...

Campbell, R.

J.

......

...

7171 71

Carkeek, CharlesElder, H. V....

... ...

......

... ... ... ......'

......

Gardner, W.

J.

... ...

...

71

Grant, Alexander

...... ... ... ...

......... ...

7171 71

Jackson, Henry,

J. P.

...

Kempster, Dr. W. H.Reid, Dr.J.

.

..

MaclaganJ. P.

...

,..

1367(>

Richards, Dr.

...

...... ... ... ... ...

... ...

Roberts, Austin

...

...... ... ... ... ...

7171

Rustomjee, H. M.,Sharpe, W....

J. P.

...

...... ... ... ... ......

...

136136

Smith, Lt. Col. E. G.

S.

... ...

Thomas, James LewisVenning, E....

2367171

...

...... ... ...

Vincent, WilliamWilliams, S. Stacker

...

...... ...

...

707i

Wood, the Rev.

C.

H.

...

...

PAPERS AND ESSAYS.ColoursDarkin

Freemasonry.;

By

F. J,

W. Crowe;

Blue, Order of the Gaiter;

Red, Order of the BathSt. Patrick,

Green, Order of

the Thistle

Light Blue, Order of;

3

;

Blue adopted after;

formation of Grand Lodge in 1717Resolutions of 1731;

Apron

of

Anthony Sayerof

Grand LodgeGarter as4;

Prominent Masons KnightsDr. Rawlinson";;

of the Garter;

part of R. A. Clothing;Bro. Sadler and the "

Apron

Thomas Dunckerley,Wales Lodge"

Red Apron

Dr. Crawley and light blue in Ireland;

Colours of " Country Stewards' Lodge "

" Prince of

and

"Middlesex Lodge," 5; Garter Blue

v.

Purple; Colours used by foreign

Grand Bodies, Scotch Lodges, 6and AcceptedRite, 7;

;

Royal Arch, Knights Templar, Ancient;

Criticism by Canon Horsley, 8J.

G. P. G. Hills, 9

;

W. H.

Ryland.-, 9;

W.

Hughan,

10.

Masonic Chivalry.

By

J.

T.

Thorp;

...

...

...

17

Extracts from Limerick Chronicle, 17to Capt. Marencourt, 19.

Presentation of a piece of plate

Minutes

... of an Extinct Lodge. By E. A. T. Breed First Meeting of Royal Sussex Lodge No. 720 at Worthing, 37; Request

...

37

of

Initiates to

become Subscribing Members, 39;Questions put by S.W.;

Gift of

Rough and Perfectfor the Master's;

Ashlar, 39;degrees, 40;

Interval of fourteen days between

Chains and Jewels for Officers;Pedestal and Throne for Secretary;

Canopy

Throne, 41;secration, 43;

Service in Church prior to Consecration of Lodge, 42;

Con-

" Step " and " footcloth,"

44; Fines for non-attendance, 45Installation, 45;"

Assumption;

of Chair

by W.M. without

Form;

of the Lodge," 46;

clearance certificate refused,Tools,

47; Sword for I.G.

Sockets for Wands

Lodge Board and Working

48;

Subscriptions to Oliver's "

Signs and Symbols," 49; Gift of Trowel for

use of Tyler, 50;

Double Installation, 51; Letters from Grand Lodge;;

Sale of Furniture, 53

Comments by W.

J.

Songhurst, 54.

;

Table of Contents.

v._

PAPERS AND ESSAYS. Continued. Budrum Castle. By Admiral Sir A. H. MarkhamTownof

PAGE... ...

74

Budrum occupied by the Knights;

Hospitallers in

1404,

75;

Derivation of name, 76

City of Helicarnassus, and;

Description of Castle, 77

tomb of Mausolus, 76 The Keep, the Water Tower, the English Tower,Hills, 81

Armorial bearings, 78Sir 0.

;

Comments by W. H. Rylands, Canon;

Horsley,

Pnrdon Clarke, 80; Gordon

E. A. T. Breed, 82.

The Very Ancient Clermont Chapter.Degrees, 84; Symbols,8.5;

By John Yarker;

...

84

Seven Steps of Chivalry, 85Scottish

Origin of Kadosh,

86; The Carbonari, 86;

Masonry

in

France before 1715, 86;87.

Grades possibly derived from the Rosicrucian Societies,

The High Grades

in Bristol

and Bath.

By John 7arker;

...

88

Intercha.nge of degrees between York and France, 88

Degrees conferredDegrees in Bath in Degrees

by Lambert 1790, 89; Foundation of the Baldwin Encampment atde Lintot, 88;

and by Charles

Sheriff,

88

;

Bristol, 89;

in Bristol, 90.

The Chetwode Crawley MS. ByDescription of MS., 91;Trinity College MS., 92.

W.

j.

Hughan

...

...

91

Comparison with Haughfoot Minutes, 91; and

An AccountLondon.MSS.in

of re-building the Cathedral By Canon J. W. Horsley ...;

Church...

of St. Paul's,...

101

Foundations and Preparatory Lambeth Palace Library, 101 102 Coal dues, 103 Illicit ComAccidents to Workmen, Expenses, 101 missions, 103 The Bells, 104 The Organ, 104 Commutation of Penances,;;

;

;

;

;

105

;

Transcript of the Accounts, 105

;

Comments by H.

Lovegi-ove, 125,

Summer

Outing, Worcester. By W. J. Songhurst ... ... A Masonic Welcome, 130; Museum and Library of Provincial Grand Lodge, 130; Lecture on "Old Worcester," 130; The present City, 131; TheCathedral, 132; The " Guesten Hall," 132; The " Commandery," 133; The

129

Works and the New Sewage Works, 133 Fort Eoyal, 133 hurst and Tewkesbury, 134; The Victoria Institute, 135.Porcelain;

;

Deer-

Notes on

Irish

Freemasonry,

No. VIII.

(The Grand Lodge of Ireland

and the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Dr. W. J. Chetwode Crawley

in the Eighteenth Century.)......

By...

137

"Reports on Foreign Correspondence," issued by Grand Lodges of the U.S.A., 137 150th Anniversary of Washington's Initiation, 138 Comments:

;

on the celebration by Sir James Creed Meredith, 138 Washington as Master of the Lodge at Alexandria under two separate jurisdictions, 139;;

Washington as a "Grand Master," 140

;

John Boardman, and the Masonic;

Female Orphan Schools

of Ireland, 141;

Resolutions in Grand Lodge of

Address by J. B. Smith, Grand The connection between Freemasons of Ireland and of Pennsylvania; William Penn Springett Penn The Grand Lodge of the "Ancients" and its Provincial Grand Lodge in Philadel-

Ireland on Washington's death, 141

Master of Pennsylvania, 142

;

;

;

phia, 144;

Portrait of

Washingtona

in the

"Sentimental and Masonicof;

Magazine,"

General;

Lafayette

member

the

Grand

Lodge

of

Pennsylvania, 145Ireland (now No.

Regimental Lodges, 145

Lodge No.146.

227, L.S.M.V.,;

1,

Quebec), and George Washington, 146

Washington

initiated in the " Colony

and Dominion of Virginia,"

"

vi.

Table of Contents.page......

PAPERS AND ESSAYS. Gontimied.Appendix AppendixI.

The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine

149 155

II.

A

List of Lodges

.

.

.

1804

...

...

Supplementary Note. Irish Army Lodge

The Tradition connecting Washington with an... ... ... ...

230

A

Glance at the Records ofGeo. L. Shackles...

Two

Extinct Hull Lodges....

By...

...

181

The Rodney Lodge, No. 436dissentions;

(1781).

Resuscitation in 1819, 181;

;

Internal

Complaints against the Minerva Lodge, 182;

St. John's

Day

Celebrationties,

Procession on accession of George IV., 183; Financial difficul-

184;

The

Phcenix

Lodgeof

No. 368, formed by members of the

"Rodney," 186; PurchaseLodgeof York, 189;

Warrant and Furniture of the "Apollo";

Deacons "appointed" by W.M.

all

other officers

" elected " by members, 190;

New

Ritual adopted after the Union in 1813,;

190; Public processions considered " improper," 191191;Quarrels with the ";

Officers "obligated,"

Humber95

"

Lodge, 191; Payment of Rates andMaster, 193;

Taxes, 192

Presentation to theJ;

first

194

;

Fines, and Charity,

Irregularities in the ";

Mark " degree, Humber " Lodge, 196;The"

Furniture seized for rent, 198

Final accounts, 200.

Templarla et HospltallariaRitual, 204;

(Introduction).

By

Ladislas A. de Malczovich

204

Traditions of Knights Templar in

Hungary explained by Modern Templarof the Ancient

Documentary evidence shewing continuance;

Orders in Scotland, England and Ireland, 208

Ritual of Teutonic Knights;

resembling those of

Modern Knights Templar, 211;

Alterations of terms

and Denominations, 212 Tradition of Templars joining Robert Bruce, 213; Similar instances in Hungary, 214; Templars in I7th and 18th centurieswere a secret society and therefore notofficially

recognized, 216

;

They

were

also Protestant

and therefore were not

in

correspondence with the

Roman

Catholic Order of Malta, 217;

Continuance of other Orders under

similar conditions, 217.

Installation Address.

By Canon

J.

W. Horsley, M.A.

...

...

222

Toast of "TheMarkham, K.C.B.

Worshipful...

Master."...

By Admiral...

Sir

A.

H....

227

REVIEWS.Dr. Robert Fludd (Robertas de Fluctibus),

TheE. Armitage...

English RosicrucianTransactionsof

;

by the Rev."

J.

B.

Craven

2757237

the

Lodge...

of

Research...

No. 2429, Leicester, 1903-4

W.

J.

HughanThorpThorp

...

History of the " Emulation" Lodge of Improve-

ment

;

by Henry Sadlerof the "...

...

...

J. T.

...

MemorialsSadler

Globe " Lodge...

;

by Henry...

J. T.

...

238

INDEX.PAGEAlfred, Master of the

Work

at...

Tewkes135 155

Dagger Jewels

...

...

...

buryAnderson's

...

"Ancients" Lodges, 1804

Constitutions, Translation of Exhibit

German2 58 12

Dagger, Spanish Exhibit ... ... Deerhurst, Summer Outing ... ... Degrees recognized by the Chapter of

pAce 233181 134

Clermont

...

...

...

84

Ashmolean Theory

...

Degrees.88 86 84 ... ... Clermont ... ... ...84,88,233 85 Eastern Star... ... ... 84 Ecossoise ... ... ... Elu... ... ,.. 86,233 ... 90 Grand Architects of Kilwinning 88 Grand Elected ... ... 84 Grand Sacrificer ... ... 84 Harodim ... ... ... ... 86 Heredom ... ... 233 Holy Sepulchre ... ... Kadosh ... ... ... 85,89 204 Knight Hospitaller ... ... 233 ... Knight of God ... Knight of Malta ... 85,204 ... 85 ... Knights of Palestine ... 85 Knights of Rhodes ... ... 233 Knights of the Holy Sepulchre 84 Knight of the Pelican... ... 84 ... Knight of the Sword ... Knight of the White Eagle ... 84, 233 204 Knight Templar ... ... 87 Ma9on Parfait ... ... 194 Mark Master in Craft Lodge (1819) 85 Masonic Knight Templar ... 84 ... Master Elect... ... 92 Master Mason or ffellow Craft ... 86 Master of Nine ... ... 89 Mizraim ... ... ... 89 ... ... Noachites ... ... 84,89 Order of Melchisedec ... 89 Philippi ... ... ... ... 85,89 Prince of the Tabernacle 88 ... ... Prussian Blue ... 84, 89 Red Cross of Babylon ... 88 ... Rite of Perfection ... 84 ... ... Rosse Crucis ... 85 Rosoe Crucis of Mount Calvary ...84,88,154 ... Rose Croix ... 84 ... Rosy Cross ... ... 89 ... Royal Ark Mariners ... 84 ... ... Scotch of the East 84,233 ... Scotch Master Elect ... 233 ... ... Scottish Master 86 ... ... Templar Kadosh 85 ... Templar of St. John ... 85 ... ... Templar Priest 89 ... Temple of Holy Wisdom 63 ... ... d'Eon, The Chevalier " Drawer " for a Lodge 57 ... ... 57 . ... Drawing the Lodge 73 "Dunckerley" K.T. Jewel Exhibit ...Bristol......

Audit Committee, Report of

and Bath

... ...

Baldwin Encampment founded by French Canadian Masons Banquet in 1819 Bath, Degrees in Bath, Order of the ... Bed Quilt with Masonic Emblems

Carbonari ,., Chevalier Templar

89 183 88 3, 10179

ExhibitBible on which Washington received a degreeBristol Charter of Compact ... Bristol, Degrees in ... Budrum Castle Bye-Laws of Lodge at Bedford

231 88 88 7423

Arms,

Covent GardenCagliostro in the Lodge of Antiquity

Exhibit

...

...

...,.,

Certificates (Cookstown) ... Certificates (Wexford) ... Certificate of Edward Gibbon Certificates of the Netherlands Certificates, Masonic Exhibit Chains for Officers' Jewels ...

219 9693 22 20 99, 100 41 177 62 84

.........

... ......

2,

Chairs, Masonic

...

...

Chapter House at Liverpool Cathedral ... Chapter of Clermont ... Chapter of Clermont, Degrees of the System ... ... ... ... Chapter Penny Exhibit ...

233 18036 73 97 54 2 180 186 210,

Chapters

(R.A.) referred to

:^

Apollo (Beccles) ... ... Charity, No. 9 (Bristol) ... Cookstown R.A. Super-excellent Iris, No. 477... ... ... Mount Zion, No. 241 ... ... Ousatonic No. 33 (Milford, Conn.)

Phoenix (Hull) ... ... .., Prince of Wales ... St. James, No. 2 ... ... South Saxon of Meridian Splendour Wexford R.A. Super-excellent ...Charity in Paris, 1789 Charles Edward Stuart... ...

74 54 9465

as... ...

Grand...

Master

...

59

91 Chivalry of Capf. Louis Marencourt ... 17 Church Congress, Freemasonry at the 178, 181 Church of Sta. Eulalia ... ... 56 Clermont, Degrees of the Chapter of ... 84, 233 Clothing, Masonic Exhibit ... 2, 99, 100, 180, 181 Cole's "Constitutions," 1731 ... 60 Colours in Freemasonry ... 3, 66, 176, 2.38 Colours used by Grand Lodges ... 6, 176 Private Lodges ... 5,6 ,, A. & A. Rite ... 7 ,, ,, "Common Judge" ... ... ... 91 Constitutions, German Translation of Anderson's Exhibit ... ... 2 Craft Guilds in Japan ... 234 ... Creed of the Craft ... ... ... 61...

Chetwode Crawley MS.

... ... Eastern Star Order of ... "Ecce Orienti" Exhibit ... Emblems, Print of Masonic E.fhibit... ... Emulation Lodge of Improvement Engrvaing, commemorating Masonic

582,

2 100 237

Charity in Paris, 1789 Essenea ... ...

...

...

.

65,176 2,8

Vlll.

Index.

Exhibits. Bed Quilt Burns as Poet Laureate of Canongate Kilwinning Lodge Cagliostro in the Lodge of Antiquity Certificates... ......

PAGE179Ireland, Grand Lodge of Irish Apron Irish Certificates ... Irish Lodges, List of (1804)

220219

PAGE 137 93 93,96 155234 68,73,8365 2,99,180 209

2, 73, 99,

100, 181

Constitutions, German Edition (1741) of Anderson's Copper Plate for Printing Aprons Freemasons' Hall with Girls from the Masonic Schools ...

2 36

Japanese Craft Guilds ... ... Jewels, Engraved ... ... ... Jewels in possession of Lodge " Love

and Honour," FalmouthJewels,

... ... ... ...

Masonic Exhibit

22036

Johannite Knights

...

Freemasons'

Magazine, Illustra-

tions from French Engravings purporting to shew tlie Ceremonies in a Lodge 100, French Prisoners' Badges Gormogons, Engraving by Hogarth Jewels ... 2,36,73,99, 180,

Keep within Compass Exhibit Knight Templar Certificate, 1795Knights Knights Knights Knights Knights Knights Knights Knights KnightsHospitallersof of of of of of of of...

.-..

... ...

220

Kerchief

Mark

(or Chapter)

Penny

221 221 181 100, 180 180

Masonic Clothing 2, 86, 73, 99, 100, 179, 181 ... Medals ... 73, 179, 180 Miniature of King Solomon (?).. 2, 100 Mug, Lowestoft ware ... 179 " Picart's " List of Lodges 220 Plate, Engraved 2 Print, Masonic Emblems ... 2, 100, 221 Print, " Melencolia" ... 2 Kibbon Badges 221Rituals Scald Miserable Masons2,

Avis ... ... Calatrava ... Montesa ... Montjoye ... St. George ... St. Lazarus ... St. Maurice ... the Holy Sepulchre

... ... ...

.........

......

221 98 74 216 215 216 215 214 215 215 216

Lambeth Palace Library, Accountsthe

of

rebuilding

of

St.

Paul's

Cathedral ... ... ... Les Coutumes des Franc-Ma9ons (1745)

101

Exhibit

...

...

...

18015

181

220181

Librarian, Report of ... Lists of Lodges (Picart's) Exhibit Liverpool Cathedral ...

...

... ...... ... ......

220 629

Spanish DaggerStatuette, possibly the Earl of

Livery of Hanoverians Livery of Stuarts ...

...

... ... ...

Zetland

... ...

SummonsesTeapot

221 73 100

Faith, Hope and Charity, representations of

Emblematic153 141 57

Lodge Board Lodge of Sorrow Lodge Warrant, pounds

... ...

9 48 199

&c.,...:

bought for sixty...

...

189139 155 6 232 220 36 189 189 73 23 73 73 6 6 184 97 5 179 58 43 237 180 6 6

Lodges

Female Orphan SchoolFloorcloth

of Ireland

referred to Alexandria (Virginia) Ancients (1804) ...

...

... ... ... ......

"Footcloth"

44

Ancienf

Stirling, No.

30

" Foreign Correspondence," Reports on 137, 177 " Form of the Lodge " 46 Freemason, Early use of the word 60, 176, 235

Freemasons' Magazine (London) Freemason's Prayer, A

French Prisoners' " badges "F. S. K.

Exhibit

L

P. F. T.

...

Funeral, Masonic

...

151 226 100 86 613, 9, 10,

Antiquity, No. 1 (Quebec) Antiquity, No. 2 ... Apollo (Beccles) ... Apollo, No. 544 (Grimsby) Apollo, No. 368 (York) Beaufort, No. 138 (Bristol)

...... ...

Garter, Order of the Gavel of a Palraa Operative Mason Girl's School, Procession from, in Freemasons' Hall Exhibit ...

66 56

22091

Grand

Secret, or the

form of giving theEngraving221 222 234

Mason- Word ... Gormogons, Hogarth'sExhibit

Government of the Lodge, The Guilds in Japan

Bedford Arms ... ... Bordeaux ... ... ... British, No. 637 (Cape of Good Hope) ... ... ... Canongate and Leith, No. 5 ... Charite (Amsterdam) ... ... Chatham, of Antiquity, No. 20... Cookstown, No. 553 ... ... Country Stewards, No. 540 ... De la Pro (Northampton) ... Derbyshire (Longnor) ... Derwent, No. 54 (Hastings) ... Emulation of Improvement ...Faithful (Harleston)...

... ...

Harodim Degrees

...

Hat, Presentation to a Grand Master High Knights Templars, Certificate ...

Hiramic Legend Hull Lodges, Records

84 177 94 58,59181

Flamboyante (Dordrecht)

of

Frederick Royale (Rotterdam)... Globe, No. 23 (London) ... Harmony, No. 522 ... ... Harmony, No. 275 (Huddersfield)

5,23837 180 91 144 54 181 155 180 92 180

HaughfootI.G. Jewel a trovrel... Initiates not necessarily members Installation Address .(^Canon J.

...

...

...

65 39

W.222 51,54

Hoop in Water Street, Philadelphia Howard (Arundel) ... ... Humber. No. 57 (Hull) ...Irish (1804) Jersey, No 293...

Horsley)Installation in Special Room Invocation to Masonry, by

... ...

...

Thomas150 177

DermodyIowa, Grand Lodge of

Kilwinning ... L'Amitie (Paris)

... ...

......

Index.

IX.

Lodges

referred to

:

...

PAGE

Moira Apron, original cost of.....

L'Amitie (Boulogne)

La Parfaite Union (Smyrna)Longnor (Derbyshire).., Love and Honour (Falmouth)

L'Astro de I'Oricnte (Vlissingen) Les frores unis regetieies(Marseilles)......

2 181 6 2

" Molly" Exhibit ... Mopsea, Plan de Lege des Exhibit Mug, Lowestoft ware Exhibit

...

PACE 66 221 220 179

Loyal Lodge, No. 251 (Barnstaple) McMillan, No. 141 (Cincinnati) Middlesex, No. 143 ... ...Military (1804) Minerva (Hull)... .....

58 64 66 235

Northampton AssociationResearch

for

Masonic178 199 191 215 215 21363,

...

Netherlands, Lodges of the ... Northern. No. 25 (Newark, N.J.) No. XVII. (1723) ... ... No. 187 ... ... ... No. 227, L.M.S.V. (Ireland) ... Old King's Arms, No. 28 ... Operative (Dumfries)... ... Palladian (Hereford) ... ... Pattison, No. 193 ... ... Phoenix (Hull) ... ...

155 182 20 2 138 68

OfiBcers elected by Members... Officers "Obligated" Order of Christ Order of St. Anthony of Vienne

"Outfield" Lodges

...

Pennsylvania, Grand Lodge of " Perpendester "

137 92

145,23044 6 68 228 186 178 45

Persons

referred to Dr. ... Allen, J. W. ...

:

'A",

Pomfret (Northampton)

...

Prince of Orange's Head ... Prince of Wales, No. 259 ... Research, No. 2429 (Leicester) Ri.sing Sun, No. 952 (Limerick)

Anderson, James Anderson. Wm. Andrea, Joh. Val. Andrews, Bro. Arnold, Edward Arnold, EdwinArnold, John Aroux, Eugene Artemesia Arundel, Earl of Ashmole, Elias Atherton, Joseph Atherton, J. L.Attree, Bro. Austis, John...

Rodney (Hull)Royal Royal Royal RoyalClarence

...

... ......

...

Kent

of Antiquity

Sussex, No. 720 (Worthing)

York (Brighton)

...

900(Tewkesbury) St. John's, No. 1137 (Timaru) ... St. Magdalene, No. 96 (Lochmaben) St. Matthew, No. 488 (Barton) ... Saye and Sele, No. 1973 ... Semper Fidel is, No. 529 (Worcester) Sligo, No. 837 ... ... Stewartstown, No. 554 ... Thistle (Dumfries) ... ...St. George's, No.

Union, No. 13 (Limerick) Union, No. 423 ... United, No. 423 (York) Wellington, No. 651 (Rye) Worcester, No. 280 ...

... ... ...

...

...

57 18 181 38 184 37 46 134 176 47 189 228 130 93 68 6 18 188 189 43 130

64 22 138 194 33 64 102 30 236 86 76 79 176 58 72 50

4,552 102 134 219 102 182 220 97 102

Bacon, Richard Bacon, Roger Baker, A. Balsamo, Joseph Banks, Will ... Barker, Bro. ... Barker, Mr. ...Barkley, Samuel Barnet, Peter Barns, Henry Barron, B. J. Batson, Thomas Bedford, John, Duke of Beevers, P. M.Bell,

Maccabees, Order of Modern

... ...

178

Magic ScrollMalta,

...

...

60,23587 194 180 65,176

Seymour

97,98 64 4 79 182 18058 102 175 61, 235 60 37

Knights of, protected Emperor Paul of Russia... Mark Degree in Craft Lodge (1819)

by...

Belton, Frank G.

BemroseBernard, Rev. John H. Berry, Clement H. Berry, H. F. ... Bew, Charles Bing, Bro.

...

Mark Penny Exhibitrestored to the Lodge

...

...

Masonic Charity, Paris, 1789 ... Masonic Chest captured in war and... ...

23017 61

4095,

Masonic Chivalry ... ... Masonic Funeral ... ... Masonic Processions ... Masonic Teapot Exhibit ... Masonic Tobacco Pipe ... Masons' Marks, Tewkesbury ... Mason- Word ... ...

......

Bingham,

S. C.... ...

183, 191, 194... ......

Bixby, C. S. Blainey, N.

100

90 13486, 91

Boardman, John Bowring, Bro.Boyce, William Boyce, W. A. Breed, B. A. T.Bridge, John...

... ...

96 58 180 140 57 89 134 203 38

Mausoleum

76 66 Medal of English Lodge of Bordeaux Exhibit 73 Medal for Bravery, Masonic ... 176 ... Medal, Prince Masons of Ireland 153 ... Medals, American Exhibit ... 179 ... Melchisedec, Order of 85 ... ...at Helicarnassas.....

.36,37,57,82

Mazarin Blue

...

...

Broadhead, Bro. Brough, W. F. Brown, Bro. ... Browne, John

40 52 57188 182

Brumby, W. W.Buck, Bro. ... Buckeridge, John BuhleBurley, Sir John Burns, Robert

" Melencolia," Albert Diirer's Exhibii;

2

Memorial

to /arZ of

Lathom...

...

Military Lodges, 1804 ... ... Moira Apron Exhibit ... ... Moira Apron in possession of "Loyal"

62 155 181

2734 79 220

Lodge, Barnstaple

.,,

...

66

Index.

PAGE

PAGE

Persons

referred to:J.

Persons94 78 219 46 196 100 17102

referred tofield

:66 62 175 93 94, 95, 96 4, 86, 88 182 65,

Burrows,

Dormer, Philip, Earl of Chester-

Buxols, Prtoj' of Catalonia Cagliostro, Count Caldwell, Joseph

Dow,

J.

M.

...

Callaway,

J.

H.

Drew, Sir Thomas Duffield, JosephDunckerley, Thomas Dundas, Hon, L, Dunstan, Bro. Diirer, Albert

......

Cameron, JohnCampbell, Capt. James Capon, John ...Carlyle, Thomas Carretto, Fabricio

22077 53 194 80 53...

Carter, Wm. ... Casson, John... Castle, E. J. ... Chaplin, Bro.Chesterfield, arZ of Chittick, Henry

Edward L Elkyns, ThomasEllis, Bro....

...

Elrington, S. N.

4,6622 103 180 36 80 36, 73, 180, 221 79 84 1002 5

Evans, E. Evans, E. P.

... ...

CibberClark, Edward G. Clarke, Abraham Clarke, Sir C. I'urdon... Clarke, Sydney R. ... 2, Clarence, Thomas, Duke of Clermont, Prince of Cobham, G. W. Cohu, Thos. ... Coke, Sir Thomas

Exeter, John Holland, Duhe of Farr, F. W. ... Feetham, Bro. Fercervis, Matthew ... ... Finch, W.Fitz Hugh, Lord Fluctibus, Robertus de Fludd, Dr. Robert Ford, W. Harland Forster, William Foster, William Francis, Thomas Frazer, Dr. William ... Freeman, V. P. Fripp, J. T. ... Fuller, Bro. ...

2 83 60 93 128 100 133 79 36 182 68 2, 54 79 27 27 188 188 28

Cook, James ... Cook, J. S. ... Cooper, Fredk. Cope, Rev. R. E..Corbett,

97,98132 37 26 37 23 27 18 136

54,92153 37 221 40 87 100 140 22 17 195 125 182 22

Wm.

Corey, Robert H. Craven, Rev. J. B. Crawford, Capt. J. C. ... Crawford-Smith, D. ... Crawley, Dr. W. J. Chefcwode5, 60, 63,

GabiiancoGairdner, E. J. Galbraith, Bro. Galloway, James Gautier, J. Gawtness, Bro. Gedge, A. S. ...2,

72, 91, 96, 137, 230

Crees, Thomas Croft, John ... Croft, Bro. ...

51

22 18218 1953,

Gedney,

Bro....

Croker,

J.

W.

Crow, William Crowe, F.J. W.

11,20,58,65,72, 176, 235 86 84 D'Antiu, Due 42 Davidson, Rev. William 2 Davis, G.W.... 37 Dawes, Frederick 187 Dawson, John D. 188 Dawson, William 176 Day, Robert ... 77 de Blanchefort, Guy .. 233 de Bonneville, Chevalier 100 de Goerduck, J. F. 89 de Grasse Tilley de Lafayette, General Gilbert 145 Motier ... 63 de Lafayette, Marquise 88, 221 de Lintot, Lambert

Dante

Gibbon, Edward Gibbons, Grinling Gilbert, D. William ... Gleadow, Robert Ward Godley, Jerry Godsell, Walter E. ... Golby, F. W. Goldney, F. H.

103, 125

Goodman, Samuel Gorman, J. ...Gould, R. F. ... Grace, Charles S. Graham, Dr. ... Graves, Philip

GrayGreen, J. S. Greeven, R.GruteriusHall,... ...

Gresham, Bro.

Henry

...

Hammond, ThomasHanck, Charles Hannam, WilliamHarper, Thomas Hayes, L. Henning, A. ...

...

Deloraine, Earl of de Naillac

5

75,827263, 72

de Morande, Theveneaud'Eon, Chevalier

Dermody, Thomas Derwent water, EarlDesaguliers, Dr.

of

Devon, Edward Courtenay, Earl of d'Harnouester Dixon, John ... Dodd, Daniel Doe, George M.

Donoughmore, Earl Donovan, F. ...

of

150 84 64 79 84 89 100 66, 236 18, 149 100

Henry IV. ... Heseltine, James Hextall, W. B.Hills,

Gordon

P. G.

...

Hinton, E.

Hodgkin, Eliot HogarthHoldsworth, Bro. Holme, W. E.

29 198 89 130 219 80 37 93, 94, 95 27, 157, 232 18 64 72 79 180 72 182, 184 27 187 17 23 100 72, 175 66 2 78 22 58, 236 9, 67, 81, 235 50 64 221 178 99

Lidex.

XI.

PAGE

PAGE

Persons

referred to Hooper, Rev. Mr.:

Persons42 63

referred to

:

Hooper,

S.J.

Uorsloy, Canun

W.221 180 131 182 102 86, 157 182 188194,

56, 61, 80, 101 , 178, 180,

Montague, John, Duke of Moore, Cornelius ... Moore, Thomas ... Mornington, i'a?-^ of ...Moseley, Isaac Mossop, William Munday, William Nash, D. W. ...... ... ......

...

4,

......

... ... ...

Horncastle, Capt. Thomas Hough, Rev. G. F.

Howard, Bro. Hoy, Peter ... HughaD, W. J.Hutchinson,Irven, JohnB^'o....

......

11,

.59,

Jackson, William Jacques, D. ...Jaifray, Alex.

43141

Neale, llr. ... ... ... Newcastle, John Hollis, Duke of Nichol, John ... ... ... Noraers, Abraham ... ... Northumberland, Henry Percy,

10 23 152 149 100 153 37 89 103 103 38 89

EarloiOliver,

...

...

...

Jainson, John Jones, J. Jones, John ... Jennings, Hargrave Kelley, Nicholas M. Kiesewetter, Karl Lachaise, Pere Lacy, Lieut. -Col. W. Lake, Dr. Richard

...

...

...

...

22 100 149 27 187 32 234 146,230

Andrew

20, 22, 100, 125, 176, 201,

Lamberton, J. M. Lane, John ... Larndan, Able Lathom, Earl of Laud, William, (Archbishop) Lawrence, General Leake, WilliamLee, Edwin ... Leeson, Dr. H. Beaumont Levander, F. W.Levitt,

2 ...63,138,152

157 85

62,178 27 92 18751

Orsini Oxford, Richard Vere, Earl of Page, Bro. Page, William S. Page, W. T. ... Palmer, Thomas Paracelsus ... Parker, Ashley Parker, Thomas Parsons, George Parsons, Joseph Patton, M. ... Penn, Springett

..

Penn, William Peter the HermitPiggott,

Thomas...

Henry

Lewis, Bro. ... Lewis, Professor Hayter

Joseph Littlebury, Mr. Loewy, BennoLister,

Lloyd, Henry

J....

89 100 187 65 67 187 133 96,99 83

Pincoffs, Pierre

Plummer, BenjamimPocock,J.

C.

Potts, G. David Powell, F. A....

79 203 78 79 182 187 129 41 32 89 22 37 37 89 144 144 74 102 99 85, 89 100 59

2,10097,

Loughrage, William ... Loveden, E. Loveden ... Lovegrove, Henry Luckington, John MacDonald, Bro. MacDonnell, Alexander Mcintosh, T. J.

97,98,9923 125 100 51 128 176 95

McKeown,

J...,

Maclean, Hector MacWhirter, James ... Maguffery, A. Maier, Michael Malczovich, L. A. Marencourt, Capt. Louis Markham, Admiral Sir A. H.

...

84 47 93, 94, 95 34

87,20417

Markham,

Sir

Clements

Marks, MorrisMarrett, C. A.

74 79 59128

27 98 Rawlins, Mason 102 Rawdon, Lord 151 Rawlinson, Dr. 4 Rennells, E. ... 66 Richard II. ... 79 Richmond, Charles, Duke ot 4, 10 Riland Bedford, Rev. ... 80 Robertson, J. Ross 2, 72, 177 Robinson, Rear Admiral 77 Robinson, William 37 Rogers, J. J.... 49 Rosa, Philipp Samuel ... 234 Rosenbaum, Morris 59 Rosenkreutz, Christian 32 Rylands, W. H. ... 4, 9 68, 80, 180 Russell, Thomas 66 Russia, Emperor Paul of 87 Sadler, Henry ... 4, 57, 68, 237, 238 St. Albans, Duke of ... 4

Rainoldes, John

Ranken, William

Salisbury,

Thomas Montacute79 190 203 66 130 4 36 91 91 28 140 194 77 74, 180, 183 65 72 93, 94, 95

Mash, Bro.Masse, H. J. L. J. Mathers, William Maund, A. Arrowsmith

22013t

Mausolus

MayneMeggitt, Bro. Meredith, Sir James Creed Milnes, Robert P.Mitchell, F.

W.

Mitchinson, Bro. Moira, Earl of Monck, Oeneral Monkhouse, Richard

...

Monmouth, HenryMonson, G.J.

of

...

96 130 76 103 199 138 189 2 184 66, 151 85 38 79 2

Earl of Samuels, Sampson Sancroft, William Sandwich, Earl of Santouna, J. F. Sayer, AntonyScott, Arthur R. Scott, Thomas Scott, Sir James Scott, Si> Walter Seaton, A.

Seymour, Bro.Schlegelholt ... Shackles, George L. Sharpe, W. W. T. Shallcrass, G....

36,

Shaw, William

,,,

Xll.

index.PAGE

PAGE

Persons

referred to

:

Persons77 88 129, 130 100 231 100 5837

referred to

:

Sheffield, Sir Thomas... Sherriff, Charles

Shuttlevvorth.C. B. ... Silby, Ebenezer Silvester, John James... Sinclair, Charles Sleigh, Mr. ...

Westmoreland, Nevill, Earl of Wheeler, Francis ... Whelpdale, William ... Whitehead, J. G. ...Wilkes, John ... Wilkinson, Thomas ... Williams, William ... Williams, W. E. ... Williamson, Bro. ... Wilson, John ... Wilson, Ret'. J. Boustead

... ...... ...

79 126 176 180

... ......

6418

Smart, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith,

JosephFather

... ... ......

JamesJonathan BayaidSir

Sydney

104 157 141 87

97,98 129 64 42 131

M.

40153 154 51 49 79

Smyth, Edward Smyth, John...Snelling, Bro.

Wimble, John ... Wood, Albert ... Wray, Sir Cecil ... Wren, Sir ChristopherWright, Charle.s ... Wulstan, Bishop ... York, Edward, Duke of Yarker, John ... Zetland, ^ar? of ... Zouch, Lord ... ...

Snow,

J.

Somerset, John Beaufort, Earl of Songhurst, W. J.15, 62, 63, 72, 96, 129, 177,

178 103 203 60, 218 87 Squires, James W. ... 180, 220, 221 Stafford, Lord 79 193 Stark, Jeremiah Stevens, J. W. 2 Strange of Knokyn, Lord 79 Strange, Canon Cresswell 132 Stuart, Charles Edward 58 Stoddart, Bro. 182 235 Stone, John ... Stothard, James 191 Suffolk, Michael de la Pole, Earl of 79 Sussex, Duke of 73,87 Symons, Bro. 64 Tall, John ... 188 Taylor, John 57 Terrevink, L. V. 23 Terry, Richard George 187 Thome, William J. 66 Thompson, VVm. 89 180 Thompson, W. R. Thorowgood ... 102 Thorp, J. T. .;. 17, 26, 36, 57, 60, 69, 72, 180, 237, 238 125 Tijou, C. R. J. Tijou, Jean ... 125 Toby, Jacob ... 72 Tribe, Bro. ... 41 37 Trotter, Thos. 42 Tufnel, Rev S. J. Turner, Thomas 187 89 Tyler, Dixon 68 Underwood, Richard ... 68 Underwood, Thomas ... 68 Underwood, William ... 94 Valentine, J. 75 Villaret von Falkenstein, Count, Bishop 32 of Treves Waite, A. E. ... 27 102 Walter, Ted ... 182 Ward, Bro. ... 188 Warton, Thomas Warwick, Richard Beauchamp, 79 Earl oi ... Washington, George ... 63, 138, 230 189 Watson, John 100 Watson, J. Procter ... 133 Webb, Colonel Albert... Webb, Capf. Joseph ... 17 22 Wentworth, Lord 33 Westcott, Dr. Wynn ...Spencer, Mr.... Spencer, Laurence Speth, G. Sporck, Count

W

Philo Musica; Societas ... Pierced Jewels ... ... Pillars, height of two which stood at

51 58 ... 44 103, 125, 202 ... 38 ... 133 ... 79 ... 84,88 ... 221 ... 79 ... 236 ... 65......

entrance of King Solomon's Temple Poet Laureate, Burns as Exhibit ... Prince Masons of Ireland ... ... Priut of Masonic Emblems Exhibit ... Purchase of Lodge Warrant ... ...

177

2,

220 153 100189 192 238 183 1512

Rates and Taxes paid by Phoenix Lodge

Red Apron, The

...

...

...

Refreshment before Labour ... ... Report of Librarian... ... ... Report, Permanent and Audit CommitteeResearch, Northampton Association for

Masonic Ribbon Badges Exhibit Rituals, Masonic Exhibit

...

...

2,

Rosicrucian, Robert Fludd, the English

Royal PurpleSta. Eulalia, Carvings Order of

178 221 181 27 66 56 66 201

on Church of

...

St. Patrick, St.

3,

Paul's Cathedral,

MSS.

in

British

MuseumSt. Paul's

101 Cathedra], Rebuilding Accounts of 220 Scald Miserable Masons Exhibit Scroll, the Magic 60, 235

Sentimental and Masonic Magazine ... Seven Steps of Chivalry Sidbury, Monument in Church at Smith's Pocket Companion, 1735 Solomon, Painted Miniature of KingExhibit

148 852.35

602,

Somerset House in 1742 Exhibit Square and Compasses, Positions of ... Statuette, possibly the Earl of Zetland

100 220 96

Exhibit

" Step " for use of Candidate

Summer

Dieting,

Worcester

... ......

Super-excellent Masons, Certificate

Superintendent of Works, Egyptian Sword Bearers of Livonia

Sword for LG. Symbolism of Colour

221 44 129 94, 97 67 216 48 8, 58"

Tabby Riband "for Order

of the Thistle

Teapot with Masonic Emblem.s Templar Legends in Hungary Temple, Height of Pillars Teutonic Knights ... Tewkesbury, Summer Outing Thistle, Order of the Toast of the W.M. ...

Exhibit

3,

67 100 204 177 211 134 11, 66 227

Index.

Xlll.

PAGEToasts in 1818

Tobacco Pipe, Masonic

Tomb Tomb Tomb

in St. Patrick's, Coleraine of Mausolus ... ... of William Mathers Traoinsf Boards

192 90 96 76 96 57

Washington and Washington as a Washington as " Warrant used as

an Irish Army Lodge Freemason ... ... Grand Master " ... an Apron ... ............

Weapon SalveWheeler's Lodge

... ... ...

.........

Trowel Jewels

forl.G Trowel for Tvler ...Uniformity of Working after the Union(1813)

64 65 50

Windsor Uniform

Worcester, Masonic Museum and Library Worcester, Summer Outing ... ...

PAGE 230 63, 140 140 196 28 60 9 130, 133 129

190

CONTRIBUTORS.Armitage, E. Barron, E. J.Berry, Clement H....

PAGE 27 6361 93

PAGEHorsley, Rev. CanonJ.

W. 8,56,61,80, 101,178,22211,57,70,91 234125

Hughan, W.Kistner, F.

J.

Bingham,

S. C.

Breed, E. A. T.Clarke, Sir C. Purdon Corey, Robt. H. Crawley, Dr. W. J. Chetwode

82 80 23 60, 72, 137, 23037,...

Lovegrove, Henry ... Malczovich, Ladislas de Markha.m, Ad)niral Sir A, H.Oliver,

Andrew

Crowe, F. J. W. Day, Robert Doe, George IVI. Hanck, CharlesHextall,Hills,

3,65,235176 66, 236 23 236 67, 81, 234

W. B. Gordon?.

G....

9,

Rylands, W. H. Shackles, Geo. L. Sharpe, W. W. S. ... Songhurst, W. John Thorp, J. T. Westropp, Thos. J. Yarker, John.

204 ... 74,227 ...20,22, 176,201,203 9, 74181

15, 62, 63. 96, 129, 177,...

17,

64 178 60,69,237, 238 126 84, 88

ILLUSTRATIONS.Apron. Indian Needlework ... Leather, hand painted Linen ... ... small French ... ...

...

...... ...

PAGE 219 179 93181 73141

PAGE

Markham,

Sir A. H.

...

Frontispiece... ......

White Satin Boardman Cenotaph,

...

St.

Patrick's.....

Cathedral, Dublin ... Castle ... ... Certificate, La Parfaite Union,

Medal, Prince Masons of Ireland Moira, -EarZ of ... ... Pierced Jewel ... ... Prince Arthur's Chantry, Worcester Prince Mason's Medal ... Rose Croix Medal ... ...

... ... ... ...

Budrum

Smyrna

Deerhurst ... ... ... ... Despencer Monument, Tewkesbury ... Edgar Tower, Worcester ... ... Engraved Jewel ... ... 11,21,69,83 Engraving, Masonic Charity, Paris, 1789 65 Gavel, Double-headed ... ... 56 129 Gnesten Hall, Worcester ... ... Leinater, Duchess of 160 ... ... Leinster, Duke of ... 158 ... ... 137 Love, Honour and Justice ... ...

76 181 129 129 129

Santa Eulalia, Church of ... Sentimental and Masonic MagazineSnufE Box, Enamelled...

154 174 64 129 154 I54 56 174 218 129 90 64 129 129 152 175 129

137, 148, 150, 152, 158, 160,... ......

Tewkesbury

...

...

Tobacco Pipe ... ... Trowel Jewel ... ... Wakeman Cenotaph, Tewkesbury Warwick Chantry, Tewkesbury Washington, George ... Watch with Masonic Emblems Worcester ... ...

... ... ......

......

ARS QUATUOR CORONATORUM

; ;

^v& ^xxahxovBEING THE

0vonrttoxntm,of the

TRANSACTIONS

Qiiahwr Coronati Lodge of A.F.No.2076.

& A.M., London.

VOLUME

XVII.

WEDNESDAY,HE

6th

JANUARY,

1904.

Lodge met at Freemasons' Hall at 5 p.m. H. Markham, P.Dis.G.M. Malta, W.M. E. J.;

Present

:

Bros.; ;

Admiral Sir A.J.

Castlo, I.P.M.

Rev. Canon

W.E.

Horsley, S.W.

;

G.

L.

Shackles, J.W.;;

W. H.

Rylands," P.A.G.D.C,as;

Sec;

Armitage,P.D.G.D.C.,S.D.

F. J.

W. Crowe, Steward,

J. D.

R. F. Gould, P.G.D.,

D.C.; E.A.T.Breed.asI.G.; Sir C. Purdon Clarke, P.M.

Lt.-Col. S. C. Pratt,

P.M.;

and W.

J.

Songlmrst, Assistant Secretary and Librarian.

Also the following

members

of the

Correspondence Circle : Bros.

W. H.

Stocks, G. T. Phillips, G. P. G. Hills, B. McNeill, F.

W.;

Mitchell, E. Halford,J.

Major

J.

A. C. Gibbs,

A.C.

S.

Gedge, A. Oliver, A. Simner, W. Morant, Rev. H. F. Oliver,P. Hollingbery, P. Weiss, F. A. Powell, P.G.St.B.

Peschek, T. Taylor, J.G.D.

W.

B. H. Springett, J. P. Richards, D. Bock, J.

W.

Odell, A. H. Belstead, E. A. Kendall, R. S. Ellis, J. D.

Hamlyn, W. Felton,J.

F. Mella, H. Kemball, J. A.J.

Webb,Fisher,J. F.

F. Stotzer,

S.

R. Clarke, L. Danielsson, C. Isler, A. G. Hamilton,J.

H. P. K. Scott of Gala, A.T. H. Dey,

W.

A. Brown, E.S.

Mason, C. F. Appleton, P.

Allan, S.

Walsh Owen, H. King, H. White,T. B. Roberts,

Henley,L.

Meymott, H. Mercer, A. Schmerl, H. Bladon, G. C. Kent,;

Rev. C. E.

Wright, P.G.J.D.

J.

W.

C. Clarke, A. Henning, Rev.

W.

E. Scott-Hall,

and W. Coghill.

Also the following visitorsL.

:

Bros.;

E. J. Gairdner, J.D, St. Clement Dane's Lodge, No. 1351

Hughes, Cestrian Lodge No. 425;

P. R. Simner, Apollo University

Abercorn Lodge No. 1549

F. Gubbins,

P.M. Carnarvon Lodge No. 708

Lodge No. 357 D. G. Fallor, W. Prows Broad, W.M.; ;

Pythagorean Lodge No. 79;

H.

J.

Mayeli, Arcadian Lodge No. 2696;

H. White, W.M.

St.

Stephens

Lodge No. 2424

;

and

T. Leete, P.M. City of

London Lodge No.

901.

One Lodge andCircle.

fifty-three Brethren

were admitted to the Membership of the Correspondence

Apologies for non-attendance were receivedG. Greiner, A.G.S.G.C;B.

from

Bros.Dr.

H.

le

Strange, Pr.G.M. Norfolk

Conder, jua.,

J.

T.

Thorp,

Chetwode Crawley, S.G.D. Ireland;

W.

J.

Hughan, P.G.D.;

J. P.

Rylands, H. Sadler, F. H, Goldney, P.G.D.

W. M. Bywator, P.G.S.B.

and L. A. do Malczovich.

2

Transactions of the Qtiatuor Coronati Lodge.

The W.M. proposed and the S.W. secondedKoBERTSON, of Toronto, Canada.Representative of the Grand Lodge of England,

as a joining

member

of the Lodge, Bro. J.

Ross

Past Grand Master of Canada, Past Grand Warden of England,etc., etc.

Author of "Talks with Craftsmen,"

of

"History of the Cryptic Rite," "History of the Knights Temiilars of Canada," and the "History Freemasonry in Canada from 1749, and Embracing a General History of the Craft " (2 vols.),1899, etc., etc.

The Exhibitions were:

By

Bro. Mitchell, a large coloured Print of Masonic

Emblems, published August

10th, 1838.

Presented to the Lodge,

By

Bro.

J.

W.

Stevens, Pull from

same

plate as the last exhibit.

This plate has quite recently

been found

in the cellars of a Publishing firm in

London.

Presented

to the

Lodge.to

By1840,

Dr. Lake,

Grand Deacon's Apron and

Collar, with Collar

Jewel date probably about 1830

Grand

Officer's (R.A.)

Apron, Sash and Collar of same date.still

R.A. Breast Jewel dated 1797, owned later by "C. H. Bicknell," and laterthe Prince of Wales' Chapter (warranted 1824),clothing.

by a member

of

who was a Grand

Officer

and owner of the above

MS. Ritual

(R.A.) belonging to

same brother

:

all

presented to the Lodge.of Boulogne, to Stevens Felix

ByCuUen

Bro. A. Henning,

M.M.

Certificate granted

by Lodge I'Amitic;

of Donnington, Lincolnshire, 30th

December, 1839

with Apron, Sash and Breast Jewel.

Also

a case, probably made to carry Masonic clothing, worked in wools and beads on canvas.

By

Bro. F. A. Powell, " Finch "

M.M. Apron, edged with dark

blue, but light blue flap.

Printed

from an engraved plate with

Certificate in blank.

M.M.

Certificate granted

by Lodge " Les Freres unis regenercs "

of Marseilles, to

John Lark

of

Gorleston, Morfolk (sic) 17th May, 1852.

By

Bro. G.

W.

Davis, Newark,

New

Jersey, a large China plate issued as a Souvenir of the

Jubilee in 1903 of the Northern Lodge No. 25 of Newark,

New

Jersey, U.S.A.

:

presented to the Lodge.

By

the Lodge,

Circular perforated jewel, dated 1763, with Masonic

emblems on both

sides.

Large R.A. jewel, dated 1829, bearing the name of Charles Stainton, Mount Zion Chapter No. 241.Small R.A. jewel, dated 1838,Tate, Regent Street, fecit.

Ry

Bro. Cohu, " Ecce Orienti," or the Rites and Ceremonies of the Essenes.

New York

1872,

6th Edition.

Bythe Lodge.

Bro. Monson, a facsimile of the Print called " Melcncolia," by Albert Diirer

:

presented to

Byand Orb,

Bro. Gairdner, a veryset in a paste star.

handsome painted Miniature

of a King, robed

and holding the SceptreTeesdale,

Originally belonging to an ancestor of his wife,

named

who was

a prominent Mason in the early part of the 19th century.

By

Bro. Clarke, 1st Edition, 1741, of the

German

Translation of Anderson's Constitutions.

The Secretary announced that he had procured the necessary dispensationof the meeting,it

for altering the date

having been found impracticable to hold

it

on the 1st of January.

Bro. F.

J.

W. Crowe read

the following paper

:

Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodje.

COLOURS

IN

FREEMASONRY.W.

BY

BRO.

F. J.

CROWE.

HAVE

many

times heard brcUiren

ask "

Why

has

blue been soto

^nsystem.

J^- ^^ K/.,\>f

geuei'ally adopted as the

Masonic colour?" and from time

time

I

have given the matter some consideration as any stray facts appearedto give light

on the subject, and the present paper gives the results of

my ownfacts

opinions and theories thus formed, as well as some generalI

which

hope

Avill

be of interest.

Muchgi'eat learning

has been written on colour symbolism by both Masonicnotalply

and profane authors, and amongst the former,read into his subject

by Bro. Dr. Oliver, who with

combined a very vivid imagination, and

like so

many

other commentators

many

things that never occurred to the originators of the

White, the original colour of the apron, has doubtless been always considered an

emblemat a

of purity, for such

an idea seems naturally to spring to the mind when we lookit

lily,

or at newly fallen snow, but

seems

difficult to

understand

why

the blue

fringe on the edge of the white initiatory garment of an Essene should prove to be " an

incitement to personal holiness."

Amongst the Druids

the sacred colours of white, blue

and green, were understood

to be respectively typical of Light,is

Truth and Hope." Blue

In the Royal Arch ceremonial colour symbolismis

thus enlarged upon.It is theit is

one of the most beautiful and durable colours in nature.

adopted and

appropriate colour of our ancient Brethren in Craft Masonry, for

the distinguishing

characteristic of our Institution that it has stood the test of ages,

and that

it

is

asits

much

distinguished by the durability of

its

material or principle as by the beauty of

superstructure.

This colourin the

is

an emblem of universal Benevolence and Friendship,of a

and instructs us that

mind

Mason those

vii'tues

should be as expansive as

the blue arch of Heaven

itself."

Of purple, we are;

told

it is

"

an emblem of Unionit is

purple

being formed by the

union of blue and red " and of scarlet thatI believe myself,fact,

" an

emblem

of imperial dignity."

however, thatof our

all this

symbolism has been invented after the

and that the originators

Masonic usage drew their inspiration from a much

simpler source.Briefly,

my

theory

is

this

:

The

colour of the

Grand

Officers

clothing was

The Grand Stewai'ds from the second national order the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The Scottish Grand Lodge undoubtedly copied the ribbon of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, and the Grand Lodge of Ireland anticipated the formation of the Mostadopted from the ribbon of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.Illustrious

Order

of the St. Patrick in

1788 by selecting light blue

thus

accidently

completing the

would suggest that light blue may in all probability have been chosen merely to mark a difference from the English Grand Lodge. In like manner I believe the light blue of our own private Lodge clothing was by a natural sequence of ideas to contrast with the deeper colour of Grand Lodge attire and wasseries,

although

I

adopted not very long after the last named became the rule.

"

4

Trhnsadions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge.

MyI

reasons for tliese conclusions are as follow.

The

first

mention of colour that

know

of is in the resolution of

Grand Lodgeall

of

June 24th, 1727, by which the

Worshipful Master and "Wardens of

private Lodges Avere ordered to wear " the

jewels of Masonry hanging to a ivhite ribbon," so that blue was evidently not coeval

with the formation of the Grand LodgeSayer, thefirst

of 1717.

In the engraved portrait of Anthony

Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of 1717, copied from the painting by Joseph Highmore, the apron is certainly plain white without any addition, thus showingthe absence of colour to be universal forrepresentation of our apron.all

ranks.

This

is

The next resolution on the subject 1731, by which the Master, Wardens and members of private Lodges were ordered the Grand Stewards' aprons and to wear white leather aprons lined with white silk collars of red silk; and the Grand Officers to wear gold or gilt jewels pendant to;

known was on March 17th,the earliest

blue ribbons about their necks, and white leather aprons lined with blue

silk.

Bro.

Sadler infers that the

first

change in the Grand Lodge clothing was made about 1726,

but

it is

only authorised in 1731.

No

shade of blue

is

specifically mentioned,

but a

reference to the Rawlinson

MSS.

in connection with "

Constitution of the Lodge at the Prince of

The order for aprons, at the Orange's Head in Mill Street Southwai'ksettle the point.silk,

given by Tho"

:

Batson

Esq''.

D.G.M. 1734

"

seems to

It quotes

:

Two Grand Masterstwo

aprons Lined with Garter blue

and turn'd overditto."

inches, with white silk strings.

Two deputy Grand

Masters aprons turn'd over one inch

&

^

:

Here the connection with the colour of the Order of ihe Garter is most clearly indicated, and I think there is little doubt that the then members of our fraternitythought that they were adopting a colour which, as the badge of the most famous

Order

of

Knighthood

in

Christendom, added to their dignity and increased the growing

Grand Officers. If a fuither reason is needed it may be found in ihe fact that two Grand Masters previous to this date were Knights of the Garter, i.e., John, Duke of Montague, G.M. in 1721, and Charles, Duke of Richmond, G.M. in 1724; and Bro. Henry Sadler informs me that the Duke of St. Albans and the Earl of Chesterfitld were both Knights of the Garter and craftsmen, whilst Bro. John Austis, of the University Lodge (to which Dr. Desaguliers and many other notabilities belonged), wasprestige of the

Registrar of the Order of the Garter.the Royal Arch clothing.

I

may

also mention, as a side light on the

subject, that in 1765 garters (of purple, indented with pink), are described as part of

For the information

of those

members

of our circle

who

know of these MSS., I may state that the " Rawlinson MSS." consists of a number of Masonic scraps and newspaper references collected by Dr. Richard

may

not

Rawlinson and pi-eserved in the Bodleian LibraryFellowof the

at Oxford.

Dr. Rawlinson was a

Royal Society, as well as a zealous memberThere are various allusions

of the Fraternity,

and was

a Grand Steward in 1734.

to the

Garter, both in our

ceremonies and early literature, which would seem to iniply a connection of ideas in the

mindsis

of the brethren.v.,

Bro. Rylands says in his paper on "

The Masonic Apronin 1789, heIf

(^A.Q.C, vol.

p. 181), " In the portrait of

Thomas Dunckerley, publishededged with'

represented wearing an apronto

....

garter-blue.' "

then

it

seems i^easonableitis

assume

that the acceptance of "garter-blne "

was made purposely,

only a natural sequence of thoaght that

when they

desired to

make some

difference in the clothing of the

Grand Stewards, they should turnllieir

to the second great

National Order of the Bath for

next colour.

Since I read this paper in open

Lodge,

I

have had the gratification

of finding that Bro. Sadler also favours

my

views as

Colours in Freemasonry.to tlic origin of colours.

5

He

also has

most kiudly allowed me

as to the

Red Apron from

his forthcoming

"Memorials

of

some particulais the Globe Lodge No. 23,"to quote

an interesting volume which should speedily require a second edition. writes: "I think it quite probable that about the year 1728, the Grand

Bro. SadlerMa.ster, as a

Grand Steward, gave a verbal sanction to their being distinguished from the ordinary Masters and Wardens, and that this sanction was foi-mally ratified by the Grand Lodge on the 17th of March, 1732.further inducement for brethren to serve theoffice of

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, after having been many years in abeyance, was i-evived by George 11. on the 17tli of June, 1725, on which day thirty-six Knights were installed, at least five of whom were active members of the Craft, headed by the Duke of Montague (who was appointed by the King to be Grand Master of the revivedOrder), followed by the

Duke

of

Richmond, the Earlas

of Deloraiue, the Earl of Inchiquin

(Grand Master 172G), and Sir Thomas Coke, who,Master in 1731."

Lord Lovell, was

installed

Grandcan

The before-mentioned John Austis was and Herald of Arms of the Order of the Bath on its revival. be no doubt that the green of the Order of the Thistle wasIn Ireland

also appointed Genealogist

As

to Scotland, there

deliberately selected.

my

learned friend and brother. Dr. Chetwode Crawley, says that the

light blue clothing of

the ribbons of

Grand Lodge has never been altered in shade. He also says that the seals on original Lodge warrants of 1730-1 are still in exifctence, sois

that the exact shade

known which was then

in use.

Bro. Crawley thinks that the uses of the

Grand Lodgesseemto

of

England and IrelandI

were then

identical, but whilst

it is

with the greatest diffidence that

venture to differis

from so profound a studentin 1731 should

of our Art, it does not

me

that there

any proof

of

this as far as colour is concerned,

nor does there seem to be any reasonto garter blue in 1734.it is

why

light blue

have been changed

However similarit

the customs

and ceremonials of these two Grand Lodges were,

probable thatof

inconvenient not to have had some small outward

mark

would have been distinction by which the

members

of one

might be known from those

of the other.

Just in the samedistinguish the

way

I

think that light blue was worn in private Lodges toof

members from those

Grand Lodge.

There was once, for a short time,

a curious deviation from the rule permitted in the case of the " Countrv Stewards' Lodge " No. 540, which was constituted on July 25th, 1789, for Stewards responsiblefor an annual

Festival meeting out of London.

Bjto

a vote of the Grand Lodge on

Novembercountry.

25th, 1789, the

members were allowed

wear a suitable jewel suspendedfor

from a green ribbon doubtless because green was considered appropriate

the

The bx^ethren applied for permission to line their aprons with green silk, thus creating what might have been styled a " green-apron " Lodge. The Grand Lodge agreed to this on November 25th, 1795, but it was not confirmed until February, 1796. The matter was discussid in February 1797, and again in March, when it was moved that the privilege be withdrawn, which was carried. In February 1798, however, the green collar and jewel were restored. In 1792 it became No. 449. The Lodge soonafterwards collapsed.I

may perhaps

just mention for the sake of completeness the

" Prince of Wales Lodge " No. 259, the apron of which has a garter blue stripe on the usual light blue, also that No. 143 Middlesex Lodge has for some years worn a blue

edging of double width, butI

I don't

know on what

authority.

should here like

colouring of

draw attention to the great laxity which prevails in the Grand Lodge clothing, and also of Provincial Grand Lodges. The Book oftois to

Constitutions distinctly states that the ribbon used

be "garter blue," but nineteen

6

Transactions of the Qwituor Goronali Lodge.vvhicli

out of every twenty aprons aud collars are either purple or violet, fromthe

comes

common bat

erroneous phrase "gaining the purple."

It is almost impossible toif

obtain the pi'oper shade from the Masonic clothiers, but

all

brethren insisted on

having

" garter blue " the mistake

would quickly be remedied.in the various

The clothing worn under Grand Bodies working the Craft degreesjurisdictions of the world

may

be divided into four broad classes (omitting for the

present any mention of other degrees).First

Those which

confine themselves to the various shades of blue.

This

comprises most of the Grand Lodges.

Second Ci'aft Lodges working under Grand "Orients" which generallyreplace blue by red, both in the apron and Lodge decorations.

An

exceptions to this rulePortugal, where the

is

the Grand United Lusitanian Orient of

Grand Officers wear light blue and gold, similar to that of the Grand Lodge of Ireland and the Grand Orient of Belgium, where the clothing of Grand Officers is of blue silk, edged and embroidered in gold.;

Third Those

in

which each Lodge choosesfixed colour.

its

own

colour.

The Governing

Body alone having a

Fourth The Grand Lodge of Egypt which replaces blue by dark and green. (" Dark green " and " water green.")In class Two, the clothing of the Grand Officersas in the cases of theis

light

often of orange and green,

Grand Orient

of

France and the extinct Grand Orient of Hungary,

whilst the Grand Officers of the present Hungarian Grand Lodge, although wearing

blue aprons, have collars of orange edged with green.covers, etc., in

The

walls, hangings, tablered,

Lodges descended from the former Grand Orient areSt.

and that

of

Lodges formerly of theare blue.

John Grand Lodge and

of the present symbolic

Grand Lodge

Theis

solitary instance within

my

knowledge of yellow or orange being usedto,

in England," one

mentioned in the Rawlinson MSS. before referredsilk for the

which mentions

apron lined with the deepest yellow

Grand Masters Sword Bearer,"fact.

This, although very curious, can hardly have set the example of orange ribbons to

foreign

Grand

Orients,

and

I

can offer no explanation of the

The ThiidLodges.

class includes only the

Grand Lodge

of Scotland

and the Grand Orientdaughter

of the N^etherlands, each of

which gives the greatest freedomIn

of choice to

In Scotland aprons are found of every shade, and even combination, of red,

blue, white, green

and tartan.

Holland, with the exception of tartan, similar" at

varieties are in vogue.

For example. Lodge " Flamboyante " at Dordrecht used orange

and

blue.

" Charite " at

Amsterdam has

crimson.

"Frederick Royale

Rotterdam

has seven narrow stripes of green and white.green with a crimson centre, and so on.

" L'Astre de I'Oriente " at Vlissingen has

Netherlands use blue and gold, both in

The Grand Officers of the Grand Orient of the aprons and collars. In Scotland the colours in

use in private Lodges are not even permanent, but appear to be changed at pleasure. To give a few instances -in the published list of 1848, " Canongate and Leith " No. 5is

entered as wearing crimson;

in the 1860

list,

white and pink;

in

1879 again

crimson, and in 1896

crimson lake.white

" Ancient Stirling" No. 30,

under the same dates,62

has light

blue

and

light

blue

dark

blue.

"Thistle" Dumfries No.

has dark blue, white

edge green and white

green

and gold.

"Operative" 140,

Colours in Freemaaonry.7

Dumfries,l)luc,

has dark andred." St.

light

hlue

l')lue

and red

red,

l)lack

and green

white,

and

Andrew

" 199,

Cumbernauld, has black

crimson

and yellow

blue

and

so on.

Tlie late Scottish historian, I3ro.all

David Murray Lyon, informed me

that the

custom of using

these

various colours certainly obtained before the

formation of the Grand Lodge in 1736.

The Grand Orient of Italy might be classed as a mixture of Two and Four, as the F.C. Apron is ornamented with green, whilst the M.M. apron is decorated with red, and worn with a green ribbon sash. The adoption of green in Italian Masonry may be due to the fact that a Lodge of Scottish Jacobite Masons was working in Rome in 1735. In Egypt the colour may again come originally from the same source as much of Egyptian Masonry came from Italy.Turningto theto other degrees, red,

and purple and crimson are specially apportioned;

Royal Arch and attendant degrees

black to the Templars, and green or white to

higher grades.etc.,

Hence we hear

of " blue

masonry," " red masonry," " black masonry "

as a convenient

way

of distinguishing the

component groups

of such Rites as the

"Early Scottish" and

others.

In the Ancient and Accepted Rite (so often, but quite

erroneously termed " Scottish ") colour is also largely used, andvarious degrees are worked infull,

when

(if

ever) the

each has

its

symbolic hue.

In the 4th degree (Secret Master) the lodge should be hung with black, symbolicof grief,

and the apron

is

white, with black edge and blue flap.

In the 5th degree (Perfect Master) the lodge should be hung with green, andthe api'on white with green flap.

In the 6th degree (Intimate Secretary) the lodge

is

hung with black sprinkled

with white, and the apron white bordered with red.In the 7th and 8th degrees (Provost and Judge, and Superintendent of theBuildings) the lodgegi'een respectively.is

hung with

red,

and the aprons adorned with

red,

and red and

In the 9th and 10th degrees (Elect of Nine, and Elect of Fifteen) the lodge

is

hung with

black, and the aprons are white spotted with red, and whiteis

and black.

In the 11th degree (Sublime Knight) the lodge

hung with black sprinkled hung with

with

tears,

and the apron white and black.is

In the 12th degree (Grand Master Architect) the lodgesprinkled with flames, and the apron white.

white,

In the 13th degree (Royal Arch of Enoch) the lodge

is

draped with yellow.

Nored,

apron

is

worn.is

In the 14th degree (Grand Scottish Chevalier of the Holy Vault) the lodge

and the apron ornamented with red and

blue.is

In the 15th degree (Knight of the East or the Sword) the lodgelight green

hung with

mixed with

red.

In the 16th degree (Prince of Jerusalem) the two rooms are hung with red and with orange, and the apronis

red and pink.is

In the 17th degree (Knight of the East and West) the chambersprinkled with gold stars.

hung with

red,

The roomsThe lodge

of the 18th degree are too well

knownis

to need description.stars.

of the 19th degree

(Grand

Pontiff]

draped in blue with gold

8

Transactions of the Quatuor Goronati Lodge.

Of the 20th degree (Venerable Grand Master ad vitam)

in blue

and yellow.

In the 21st degree (Noachite or Prussian Knight) for obvious reasons hangingsare useless, but

would probably be

of blue.

In the 22nd degree (Prince of Libanus) the two apartments are hung with blue,

and with

red,

and the apron white bordered with flame

colour.is

In the 23rd degree (Chief of the Tabernacle) the lodgered and black.

white, ornamented with

In the 24th degree (Prince of the Tabernacle) are the colours of the Tabernacle.

In the 25th degree (Knight of the Brazen Serpent) the lodge

is

red.it is

In the 26th degree (Scottish Trinitarian, or Prince of Mercy)green decorated with red andAvhite.

hung with

In the 27th degree (Grand Commander of the Temple) both lodge and apron areof i^ed

and black.In the 28th degree (Knight of the Sun) the lodgeis

hung with blue and

gold.

In the 29th degree (Grand Scottish Knight of St. Andrew) the decorative colouris red.

at

The decorations from the 30th to the 33rd degrees can be seen by those entitled the splendid chambers of our own Supreme Council of the Thirty-third degree.Inall

these last

named degrees

the colours are purposely symbolic, and thisseries,

is

also the case in the

Swedish Rite, the French Rite, and similar

but I must

conclude this brief essay by repeating

my

firm conviction that the first nse of colour

by

our

own Grand Lodge had no intentional symbolism, but was more or less accident, and I may again quote Bro. Sadler, who, after a careful perusalsays:

the result ofof

"A

my

paper,at the

strong Masonic leaven permeated

the

noble

Order mentioned

period of the selection of distinctive colours for the Craft, and having looked at the

matter from every conceivable point of view and rejected severalfailed to think of a

possibilities, I

have

more

feasible explanation than that

now

enunciated."

Bro. Canon Horsley said

:

It seems

difficult to

understand

why

the blue fringe

on the edge of the white initiatory garment of an Essene should prove to be " an But see Numbers xv., 37, 38, 39, 40. " And the incitement to personal holiness."Loi'd spake unto Moses, saying.

Speak unto the children'

of Israel, and bid')

them thatgarments

they

make them:

fringes in the borders (or

tassels in the corners

of their

throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord and it shall be nnto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember of blue

commandments of the bord, and do them and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring but ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be Tioly unto your God."all

the

;

;

This of course antedates Essene practise, andthe connection between blue and the idea of holiness.

still

leaves unexplainedit

what

is

But

renders

it

" not " difficult

but easy to understand

why an Esseneof

i-ecognized the traditional relation.

ThePhilo that

tint is best explainedit

was emblematic

by the statements of Josephus (Ant. iii., 7, 7,) and the sky, in which case it represents not the light blueand the term adopted

of our northern climate, but the deep dark blue of the eastern sky,

Colours in Freemasonry.

9

by the Greekblack.whicliis

Soptuagiiifc

is

applied by classical writers to a colour approaching toin Estheri.,(>,

The Authorised Versionis

j^ives in the marg-in the

word

" violet,"

no douI)t ])referable to the " blue" of the text.of coarse the

Tlie blue used

and honoured

by Oxford men

deep Garter blue, althoughis

many

shades pose under the

name

of Oxford.

Tlie

weaker colour

used by " Cambridge persons."

Bro. Gordon P. G. Hills said

:

At the period of

the institution of the Order of

the Garter (1348) the garter was of light bine colour, and the insignia consisted of the garter and the badge, which was worn on the left shoulder of the mantle.

Henry VII.

added the

collar,

with knots of

Tudor roses encircled by buckled garters, alternating intertwined cords from which hung the George, the figure of the saintcomposedof

overcoming the dragon.

Order in the Lesser

Henry VIII. made a further addition Gi'orge, which is tlie same device of the saint

to the regalia of the

in combat,

but placedfirst this

on an enamelled ground and encircled by a buckled garter in oval form.

At

was worn round the neck suspended by a gold chain, afterwards a black ribbon was Soon after the accession of George I. used, changed to sky blue by Queen Elizabeth.(1714) the colour of the blue was changed from sky blue to the present Garter blue, todistinguish the Order from that which the Stuart family on the Continent conferred ontheir adherents.

TheOrder

uses of the different colours of the Order of the Gai^ter for the

Craft are not the only points which suggest that the organizers of Grand Lodge hadthis illustriousinto

very similar in shape

The Past Grand Officers' jewels are the Lesser George which originally worn on a collar is nowmindas their example.

pendant

to

a ribbon, in sash form, passing over the left shoulder and across the body sois

that the jewelsash.

under the right arm, in the same position as that of the Royal Arch Perhaps the knots on the Grand Officers' chains are borrowed from the garter

chains, and, as in the Craft so in the

Order

of the Garter, each officer

wears bis own

proper badge.It

seems

to

me

those of the livery of

Royal Arch are the Hanoverian family, in distinction to the red and white of theof the

of interest that the colours, red

and blue,

Stuarts, and that these colours are

worn by Royal Arch Companions

in a

manner

similar to that in which livery colours used to be borne.

A sash from

right to left

may

have been evolved from a cross-belt for a sword, but sashes from

left to

right are of the

same genus as the black chaplain's scarf (which usedlivery), the black scarf formerly

to be of the colour of his ^latron's

common

at funerals,

and the sash

of

an

officer in

the

army which has recently been degraded to the position of a superfluous belt round the waist. The idea of livery would be familiar from long-established custom to operative masons. The Tyler of the Grand Lodge at York wore a livery of blue and red, and to-day we have the same colours perpetuated as the Royal Livery known as the " Windsor uniform."thanks are due to Bro. Crowe for opening up the question of colours in Freemasonry, and, as I think, answering the question withBro.said:

W. H. Rylands

Our

whichperiod

his

paper commences.earliest

The

aprons bore no decorations, andto line

it is

very

difficult to state atsilk.

whatI

it first

became the fashionfirst

and border them with coloured

am

inclined to think that in thesilk;

instance the aprons were lined with white linen or

examples

of

both are extant.

This

may have been simply a matter of convenience,w^ith the

in order to prevent the clothes being

marked

white powder which would always

be the case with a

new

leather apron.

This also

may have

suggested the use of

10

Transactions of the Quafuor Coronati Lodge.tlae

linen in place of leather, for

apron

by the Grand Lodge,change took

in 1731, for

The white silk lining was allowed Masters and Wardens of partiadar Lodges. Theitself.

place, like tlie

change

in shape, wlien the

body

of

Freemasons ceased

to be

anything in the form of a guild, or even the semblance of a guild, and passed into what

was more or

less

looked upon as a kind of (unrecognized) Order.

The

collar of silk

ribbon, as well as the sash,It

would naturally

follow.

may be worth-

noting that John,

Dake

of

Montague, who was the Grand

Master 1721

was made a Knight of the Garter in 1719, and Grand Master of the Bath in 1725; Charles, Duke of Richmond, wdio was the Grand Master in 1724, was made a Knight of the Bath in 1725 and of the Garter in 1726.1722,

With regard to the colours now belonging to the Royal Arch, more difficulty arises, when we remember that the proper and earliest colour was crimson. (The ribbon of the Order of the Bath, revived by George I., in 1725, is red). The Colneaprons

may

be cited, and crimson

is,

I believe, the colour still

used in Ireland for theis

R.A.

Some

early aprons have plain borders of crimson and purple, which, of course,

a combination of blue and crimson.to

The indented border

of crimson

and purple appears

have been of much, latersilk, will

date.

A

sketch of one of the Colne Aprons, ornamented

with narrow red

be found infig.

my

paper on the Masonic Apron, printed in ouraprons of operative use.I

Transactions, vol. v. (plate 4,

31).

These aprons were obtained in the year 1783,

and

it

will

be noticed that they are the old skin

An

examjile

may

be seen in the

MuseumI

of the

Grand Lodge.

added some notes on the

indented border in " Records of the Chapter of St. James, No. 2 " (pages 19, 31, 32).

At the

present

moment

have no note of the exact date at which Georgeit

I.

must have been before the 11th of June, 1727. It seems to me, however, more than probable that some years elapsed before a similar change was made by the Freemasons.changed the ribbonof the

Garter from light blue to dark blue, but

Theto be in the

first

mention

of the colour

used upon the aprons of the Grand Officers appears 1738(p. 153), in

Book

of Constitutions of

which a regulation of

tlie

17th of

March, 1730 [1731], provides for the colours to be used. The Grand Officers are to " wear their Jewels in gold pendant to Blue Uibhons about their Necks, and whiteleather aprons with blue silk."It does not,

however, state the particular blue to be used.

Contrary to the sug-

gestion II

made

in

my

paper on the " Masonic Apron," that this was possibly darh blue,it

am

inclined to believe that in the first instance

was

light blue silk.

It

seems moreof

natural to suppose thatGarter,

the

sTiy

blue

silk,

as

in

the

case

of

the

Order

the

was

in use at an earlier date than the " Garter Blue."

In an order about aprons of the York Grand Lodge (for the festival), dated the17th of December, 1770, "Those of theofficers of

the

Grand Lodge, and the Brethrensilk,

who haveof the

served

offices therein, to

be lined and bound with Mazarine bluesilk," etc.

those

Stewards and Deacons to be lined and bound with red

Bro. Crowe, like myself, has spent some considerable time in the study of Masonic

Aprons, and

it

would be most interesting to gather togetherI

all

the datesto

known withsome extent

regard to the use of and change in the colours.in

endeavoured to do thiscould

my

paper on the

"'

Masonic Apron

":

much more"

now be

added.

A

vqiy valuable and interesting account by Bro. Dr. Chetwode Crawley of the

Masonic collection commonly called theTransactions^ vol. xi.

Rawlinson MSS."

will

be found in

tlie

Colours in Freemasonry.

11"

Bro.in

W.

J.

IIuGn.VN writeswill

:

The interesting paper by Bro. Crowe onis

Coloursheeded,

Freemasonry"still

do good by directing attention to a point that

little

and

less understood.

His suggestion as

to Garter blue

and green being selectedtheir connection

England and Scotland respectively, because of with the Order of the Garter and Thistle, appear to me reasonable, and, solution offered. The Stewards also, in like manner, may fairly point

by the Grand Lodges

of

so far, the bestto the

Bath for

their distinctive colour.I think,

however, that Ireland

is

more symbolical

in character, in the adoption of

light blue, so as to typically

represent the sky, as the " Canopy of a Lodge," and

may

have started the use

of colours in

Masonic clothing.after the

I take it that colours

were adopted

inauguration of the premier Grand

Lodgeeither.

;

before that time the Aprons being white, and no Collars were worn, or Jewels

Thewhich led

" Order of St. Patrick"to the reason

is

not in

it,

and the green

of the

Country Stewards'

Lodge may be dueto

mentioned by Bro. Crowe, but unfortunately the motives

the selection of the colours named, in each case, have never been

authoritatively stated, and so all our explanations

must be more orthat

less conjecture.

Bro.so

Crowe

in replying said

:

I am gratified to findmyideas supportedoffered

my

paper has aroused

much

interest,

and doubly so

to find

by Bro. Rylands. and Bro.

Sadler.

I believe I

am

the

first

writer

who has

any suggestions or theories on

the origin of colours in Freemasonry, and I feel firmly grounded in

my own

views

when supported by two suchpoint.

able authorities.

As

to the date of the

change of colour

in the ribbon of the Garter, I think Bro.

Gordon Hills has answered Bro. Rylands'is

The same

brother's suggestion of the Hanoverian livery of I'ed and blue having

influenced the change of the Royalnotice and consideration.

ArchI

colours from the original red,find that garters

worthy ofof the

Li Scotland

were worn as part

Grand Lodge

regalia in the days of knee breeches.

I shall gladly

welcome any

facts

bearing on this newly-ventilated subject.

Silver, real sizk, in

the Lodge Collection.

12

Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge.

PERMANENT AND AUDIT COMMITTEETHURSDAY,21st

JANUARY,

1904.

HE

Committee

of the

Lodge met

at the

Holborn Restaurant at 5.30 p.m.

Present .Bros. Admiral Sir A. H.E.G.,I. P.M.,

S. T. Klein,

Markham, K.G.B., W.M., E. J. Castle, W. M. Bywater, P.M., G. Greiner, P.M., Edward Macbean, P.M., P.M., W. H. Rylands, P.M., Sec.his books

31

The Secretary producedou the following pages.

and the

Ti-easurer's accounts

and vouchers,

Avhich had been examined by the Auditor and certified as being correct, as apjjears

The Committee agreed upon the following

REPORT FOR THE YEARBrethren,In presenting the Report for the past year,

1903.

and on the signs of continued prosperity, which webeen admitted during the year, and our numberis

we once more congratulate you on the work done, Two new Members have trust may always remain.therefore, at the j^i-esent time, thirty.

In the Correspondence Circle there are a number of deaths to be deplored, andfriends have been called from us.

many good

256 new Members have been admitted to our Association, the total

now being

2,823.of our original

During the past year a very important portion

scheme has been

realised,

and the

Lodge now possesses London premises,suitably arranged, and the

at 61, Lincoln's

Inn Fields, W.C., where the Library has been

books can now be consulted by the Members of both Circles.is

The

Report of the Assistant Secretary and LibrarianIt

given on page 15.

must never be forgotten thattime, at

this

most important step has been taken for the advantage, and,requestof

at

the same

the often repeated

our Members

;

and

for

this

reason

the

Committee

look naturally to

them

for

more than the usual amount of support, in order that the good

work, so well commenced,

may

continue to improve year by year.

In order to secure this very desirable result, two things are absolutely essential, and cannot betoo strongly brought to the notice ofall.

The

first is

an individual and continuousso

effort to

introduce

as

many new membersis

as possible;

and the second, which plays

important a part in the well being

of the Lodge,

a prompt payment of the subscriptionsof our

when

due.

many

cases

some

Members regard

this second duty has often

The irregularity with which in been pointed out; and it is a

matter of regret that by not paying their subscriptions regularly, they heedlessly and systematically

hamper the working

of the Lodge.it

The Balance Sheet, now submitted, thoughasit

shows a balance

in

hand,

is

not so satisfactory

should

be,

and

this

is

entirely

to

be attributed to the large number of members whosetrust that in future this most important matter will

subscriptions are in arrear.

The Committee

be set right.

The Assets comprisedAntiquarianReprints, the

in the

Accounts given below do n