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B E I N G

THE TRANSACTIONS O F THE

LODGE QUATUOR CORONATI of A F A.M. ONDON

No.

2076

VOLUME

I.

COPY OF PETITION.

me he undersigned, being regular ly registered

Master-Masons of th e Lodges aga ins t our respective

names, having the prosperity of th e Craf t at hear t,

are.anxious to exert our best endeavours to promote

an d diffuse the genuine principles of the A r t ; and

f o r th e couveniency of our respective dwellings and

othe r good reasons, we are desirous of forming a new

Lodge, to be named QUATUORORONATI. n conse-

quence of this desire we

pray for a War rant of Con-

sti tut ion , empowering us to meet as a regu lar Lodge,

at

Freemasons' Hall , London, on the first Wednesday

of every month, and there to discharge the dut ies of

Masonry, in a constitutional manner, according to

th e forms of the Order and the L a m of the Grand

Lodge and we have nominated and do recommend

Brother Sir Charles Warren, K.C.M.G., who has

served th e office of Warden in a regular Lodge to be

the first Master, Brother William amj Rylands to

be

th e first Senior Warden, and Brother Robert Freke

Goz~ld to be th e first Junior Warden of th e said

Lodge. The prayer of th is petition being granted,

we promise strict obedience to the commands of the

Grand Master and the laws and regulations of the

Grand Lodge.

Char les Warr en, B Colonel, R.E.. P.M., Lodge o f

Friendship, No.

278,

and Charles War ren

Lodge, No.

1832.

Willia m Ha rr y Rylands, Lodge of Antiquity , No. 2

Rob ert Fre ke Gould, P.S.G.D., and P.M. o f Nos.

9 2 , 1 5 3 , 5 7 0 , and 743.

Adolphus F. A. Woodford, P.C.C. and P.M., No.

2.

Wa lt er Besant, M.A., P.M. M ar qui s o f Dalhousie

Lodge, No. 1159.

John Paul Rylands, Lodge ofLig hts , No. 148 , Mar-

quis o f Lorne Lodge, No. 1354.

Sisson Coo per Pra tt , MaJor, R.A., Nos. 02 615

and 1724.

William James Hughan, P.G.D., P.M., 131 , (Lodge

of Fortitude.)

George William Speth, P.M. of Lodge of Unity,

No. 183.

We, the undersigned, beg to recommend the an-

nexed petition for a W arr ant of Constitution.

WILL BOHM,W.M., NO.92.

BERTRAMOAKES,.W., No. 92.

ALFRED ENT,'J.W., NO.

92

Sir Charles Warren,

K.C.M.G.,

(now G.C.M.G.), born

1840. Entere d H er Majesty's Service as Lieutenant in th e

Royal Engineers in 1 857 ; Captai n, 1869. Conducted th e

Palestine Exploration 1867-70. I n 1876 settled the boundary

liue of the Orange Fre e Sta te and Griqualand West; Gazetted

C.M.G. in 1877, an d app oint ed S pecial Commissioner in th e

lat ter district. Was engaged in th e Griqua-Kaffir War, an d

made Lieut.-Colonel in 1877.

I n 1879, Administrator of

Griqnaland 1881, Surveying Instruc tor at Chatham.

Served in Ee yp t against Arabi, an d recovered che bodies of

Professor Palm er and his companions in 1882. Proceeded

to South Africa in command of th e Bechuanaland E spcaiti on,

in

1884, and was created G.C.M.G. for his services.

O n

his return he was placed in command a t Suakim, but was

recalled in 1886 to re-organize th e London Police Force as

Chief Commissioner. I s th e author of Underground

Jerusalem, The Temple or th e Tomb, and of ma ny

papers to various learned societies.

Bro. William Harry Rylands, born 1847. Fellow of

th e Society of An tiquaries , Mem ber of th e Asiatic Societies of

London and Paris, &C., C., Sec reta ry of t he Society of

Biblical Archaeology, was initia ted in 1872 in t he F ai th an d

Unanimity Lodge, Dorchester, No. 4 7 ; oined Antiquity No.

2,

London, in 1881, an d was exalted i n St. Jam es'Cha pter No.

2, London, in 1882. Gra nd S tewa rd, 1887.

He

is th e Author of

Freemasonry in th e xvii centu ry in Warrington, Chester, &C.,

and of man y other works and contributions to th e Masonic

press, a s well as papers. &C., on Antiquari an matters.

Bro. Robert Fr eke Gould, was born in 1836. Ent ere d

her Majesty's Service in 1855 as Ensign, 86th Foot ; Lieut.

31st Foot in 1855; served i n th e North China Campaign of

1860 (medal and clasp); Barrister a t Law 1868. Was


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TRANSBCTIONSF THE LODGEU A T U O RO R O ~ A T I

initiated i n the Royal Navy Lodge, R amsgate, KO. 621 (then

429) in 1855, and successively joined th e followir~gLodqes-

Friendshi p, Gibraltar, No. 278 (then 34.5). i n l837 ; Inhabi-

tants ' Lodge, Gibralta r, No. 153 (th en 1;s). iu 1858, as first

W.M. on its rcvival ; Meridian Lodge, in H.M.'s 31s t Foot,

No. 743 (then 104.i), in 1858, of which Lodge he w as elert ed

W.M. in 1858 and again in 1859; St. Andrew's in th e East,

Poona, East Indies, No. 313, under the Grand Lodge of

Scotl and, in 1859; Orion in the West Lodge. Poona, No. 415

(then 598), in 1859 ; Northern Lodge of China, Shanghai, No.

570 (then 832), in 18G3; elected

W M

ia 1864; Royal Sussex

Lodge , Shanghai. No. 501 (th en 735), in 1864 ; and Moira

Lodge, London, No. 92, in 1866, serving as its W.N. in 1874

an d aeain in 1875. Was exalted in Nelita Chapter. Malta,

No. 349 (the n-43 7), in 1837; joined th e Scotch Chap ter a t

Poona in 1859 ; the Zion Ch apte r, Sha nghai, No. 570, in 1863,

of which he was Z. in 1863 ; and Moira Chapter, London,

No. 92 in 1875. Z in 1878. I n 1858 he was appointed

Provincial Senior G W of

Andalusia,

and in 1880 Senior

Grand Deacon of Enrla nd. Appointed, 5th December, 1877,

member of the Special Committee to enquire into and report

t o Grand Lodge on the action taken by the Grand Orient of

Fra nce in removing from its constitutio n t he paragraphs which

asser t a belief in th e exis tenc e of T.G.A.O.T.U. Served

on t he Board of General I'urposes in 1876, 1I;S and 1879,

as an elected member, and from 1880-83 by nomination of

t he G.M., and as an elected memb er of the Colonial Board

from 1676-18i9. Besides nume rous contribution s to tho

Masonic press, datin g almo st from his initiation, he in th e

aut hor of The Fou r old Lodges, 1879, Th e Atholl Lodges,

1879, and The History of Freemaso nry, 1883-1887.

Rev . Adolphus F red er i ck Alexan der Woodford ,

born in 1621, gazetted Christmas Day, 1838, Ensign and

Lieutenant Coldstream Guards, retired in 1841, matriculated

at Durham University 1842, took B.A. degree and Licence of

Theology in 1847, an d M.A. d egre e some yemv after.

Ordained Deacon in 1846, ccr atc of Wh itb um, near Sunderlan d,

1846-47, ordained priest July, 1847, and in the same year

presented t o th e Rectory of Swillington, Leeds, which he

resigned in 1872.

I n

1852 he was Chaplain t o Sir John

Lowther, Bart., as High Sheriff of Yorkshire. Initi ated

i n t he Lodge of Friendship, Gibraltar, No. 278, in 1842. and

subsequently joined the following Lodges -Marquis of

Granby, Durham, No. 124, in 1842, W.M. in 1844 and 1845

;

Phil anth ropic Lodge, Leeds, No. 304, in 1854, W.M. in 1858

an d 1859; and Lodge of Antiquity, London, No

2,

in 1863,

D M in 1878, under H R.H. the Duke of Albany.

He was

exalted in Concord Chapter, Dur ham, No. 124.in 1848; joined

th e Philanthropic Chap ter, Leeds, No. 304, in 1863, and i ts

first Z.; and St. Jame s' Cha pter , London, No. 2, in 1874 Z

thereof in 1862. Appointed Provincia l Grand C haplain of

Durh am in 1847, Frovincial Grand Cha plain, West Yorkshire,

1860, and Provincial Gran d Senior Warden, 1657, and finally

Grand Chaplain of England in 1863. Was first Cha irman of

th e West Yorkshire Cha rity Committ ee from 1859-1870. He

has been a constant contrib utor t o the Masonic press, few

names being betterknow n than Masonic Student, one of his

many noms e

plume,

and was th e editor of th e London

Freemason and of th e Masonic Magazine, from 1873 to

1686

;

and th e auth or of Kenning's Cyclopoedia, Defence

of Freemasonry, Th e Sloane Manuscript, and other works

-as well as of the learned introductiou to Hughan's Old

Charges of the British Freemasons.

Bro.. W al te r B es an t, M.A.. Cambridge, Secretary to the

Palestine Exploration Fund. He was initiated in Lodge of

Harmony, Port Louis, Mauritius, in 1862, and joined the

Marquis of Dalhousie Lodge, No. 1159, London, in 1869, of

which he became W.M. in 1873. I s the author of Th e

Fren ch Humourists, EarIy Fren ch Poetry. Life of

Coligny, Life of Whit tingt on, Rabelais, Readinge in

Rabelais, The History of Jeru sal em from Jesu s to Saladin,

joint author with J ame s Rice. (deceased) of th e Golden

Butterfly, and other novels, and sole auth or of Children of

Gibeon, and other novels.

Bro. Jo hn Paul Ryl and s, born 1846, Barrister at Law,

Nort hern Circuit, Fellow of t he Society of Antiquaries.

Was

initiated in t he Lodge of Fai th and Unanimity, No. 417,

Dorchester, in 1872, joined th e Marquis of Lorne Lodge, 1354.

Leigh, Lancaster, in 1879, and th e Lodge of Lights, No. 148,

Warrington, in 1880, whe re he served as J.W., in t he s am e

year. Was exalted in th e Elias Ashmole Chapter, No. 148,

Warrington, in 1880. I s the author of Account of t h e

Holcroft Family, Arms in Warrington Church, Lanca-

fihire Inquisitions Post Mortem, Ch ~s hi re nd Lancashir e

Funeral Certificates, Vi~ ita tio ns f Cheshire Visitation

of

Dorset, 1632.3,'' Genealogies of the Families of Bat e a n d

Kirkland, Gcnealogies of the Families of Culcheth an d

Risley, and numerous pamp hlet s and articles on Heraldic an d

Genealogical subjects.

B ro . S i s s o n C o o p e r P r a t t , b or n

1844, Major Royal

Artillery,

P

S.C ,Pr ofe ssor of Military Hirtory , R.M. Academ y,

Gold Medallist, R.A. Institution. He obtained his commission

in June, 1863, served throughout the Dhootan Campaign of

18634-65, was present a t th e capt ure of Fo rt Dalirnkote, t h e

affairs at Chumurchi and Xagoo, and th e recapture of th e B ala

Pass. Was appointed as:istant Field Engineer to the Le ft

Brigade, Dooar Field Force, three timcs mentioned in des -

patches, Medal and Clasp. Served as Nstrict Staff O Ec er

to t he Sout,h Western District during 1867-68, passed th roug h

th e Staff College in 1873, and has siuce held the app oint ment

of Instr ucto r in Tactics and Professor of Militar y His to ry

at th e Royal Military College. He was initiated in th e

Baya rd Lodge, No. 1615, London, in 1876, and s ubse qnen tly

joined t he Kiser-i-Hind and Moira Lodges. Is the aut ho r

of Field Artillery, its organization and Tactics, Mil ita ry

Law, its proceedure and practice, Prdcis of th e Fran co-

Ger man War, Notes on Field Artillery, '' The Strategic

Defence of Egypt, The Egypti an Campaign of 1801,

Not es on Milit ary History, etc., etc.

Bro. William J a m e s Hugha n, born 1841, init iated

in Lodge St. Aubyn, Devonport. No. 954, in 1863, joined t h e

Phcenix Lodge, Truro , No. 331, iu 1864, and For tit ude Lodge.

Truro,No. 131, in 1866, serv ing as W.M. of the latter,

in

1868.

and again in 1878. H e was exalted in Glasgow Chapter.

No.

50,

in 1865, an d joined

l

Kilwinniug Chapter, Ayr, No.

80,

in 1868, of which he became '2. in 1873. Is an Hon. Memb er

of man y Home and Fore ign Lodges aud Societies, such as t h e

Penn'a Association of Nason ic Veterans, etc., and was in 1880

made Hon. Senior G.W. of Grand Lodge of Quebec, an ho nor

from which he withdrew i n 1886.

In 1876 he was granted t h e

Rank of Pas t S.G.W. of Gram3 Lodge of Egy pt, and has be en

Graud Representative of the Grand Chapter of P en ns yl ~a ni a

from 1872. Besides holding past rank as Grand Secre tary ,

etc

, n his own province of Cornwall, he was, in acknowledg-

ment of his masonio researches, granted the rank of Past

Senior Grand Deacon of England IU 1874, declining a t t h e

same time the offered past r ack in Grand Chapter, which h e

however accepted in 1X83, as Past Assistant G rand Soj oume r.

He was the editor of the Devon and Cornwall Masonio

Calendar. 1865-8; originator and edit or of Cornwall

Masonic

Directory,

1870-1887, and i n addition t o innnmer-

able communications to t he masonic journals of bo th

hemispheres,

th e autho r of the following works, (a ll now

ou t of print ) Constitutio ns of th e Freemasons , 1869,

History of Freem ason ry in York, (Kingston Maaonic

Annual, 1871), and Unpublished Records of the Craft, in

one volume, a s '' Maaonic Sketches, 18i1 , Old Cha rges

of th e Briti sh Freemasons, 1872. L'Memorials of th e Masonio

Union of December, 1813; 1874, Numerical and Medallic

Masonic Register, 1878, Origin of the English Kite of

Freemasonr y, 1884, and numerous pamphlets. H e is

freq uent lecturer on Masonic History an d Biblical Archie olom.

Bro George Wll l iarn Speth , born

1847,

initiated

i n 1872 in the Lodge of Unit y, London, No. 183, W.M., in 1876.

Exalted i n Sir Fra ncis Bu rdet t Chapter,I'io. 1503, Twickenham ,

i n 1883. I s th e author of

A

History of the Lodge of

Uni ty, No. 183, 1881, an d of Roya l Freemasons, 1885.

besides having been freq uent contributor to the Masonio

Press of London and Philadelphia. and th e writ er of se ver al

articles in th e Masonia Monthly.


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littl e as it seemed to him.

Whether t he idea was souad Time

alone could show.

At any ra te, just now, any theories a re

welcome which would enable us to overcome many difficulties

and explain many enigrnata.

On motion duly made and seconded, th e t hanks of th e

Lodge were voted to Bro. Woodford for his learned, sugges-

tive, and interesting discourse, and the brethren adjourned

to refreshment.

-

~ R D ARCH. 1887.

The Lodge met at Freemasons' Hall, at 5 p.m.

There

were present Bros. S ir Charles Warren, in th e chair ;

R F.

Gould, S.W. as I.P.M.; W. M. Bywater, J.D. as S.W.; Wm.

Simpson, J.W.; G. W. Speth , Sec. : Major Pr at t, S.D.; Prof.

T. Hayter-Lewis,

I.G.;

and Dr. Wynn Westcott. Also the

following Visitors :-Bro. Jo bn Lane, P.M. No. 1402 ;

J

Liddell McGregor Mathers, of Hengist Lodge, No. 195;

W. R. Woodman, P.G.Sw.B., Otto Hehner, and C. Kupfer-

schmidt, of Pilgrim Lodge, No. 238; and C. F. Hogard and

Jos. da Silva, both of the Lodge of Israel, No. 205.

The Secretary reported that in pursuance of the Resolu-

tion passed at the last meeting the Committee had drawn up

and issued the following circular.

Lodge Quatuor Coronati, No.

2076,

London.

Sir harles Wawen

G.C.M.Q.

Vorshipful Master.

In reply to nnmerous enquiries the following particulars

with regard to th e design and scope of this Lodge are here

briefly outlined.

M A I N OBJECTS

l.-To ~rov ide centre and bond of union for Masonic

Students.

2.-To att rac t intell igent masons to its meetings, in order

to imbue them with

a

love for masonic research.

3.-To submit th e discoveries or conclusions of students

to the judgment and criticism of their fellows by means

of papers read in Lodge.

4.-To submit these communications and the discussions

arising thereon to th e general body of the Craft by puhlish-

ing, at proper intervals, the Transactions of th e Lodge in its

entirety.

&-To reprint scarce and valuable works on Freemasonry,

and to puhlish Dlauuscripts, etc.

6.-To make the English-speaking Craft acquainted with

the progress of masonic study abroad, by translations (in

whole or part) of foreign works.

7.-To tabulate concisely, in th e printed Transactions of

the Lodge, the progress of the Craft throughout the world.

8.-To acquire permanent premises and for m a masonic

library and museum.

The Lodge having only been consecrated on the 12th

January, 1886, it is not to be supposed that all of these

objects have ye t been realized, but t he members may safely

congratulate themselves on the fac t t ha t the first three have

been most satisfactorily attained.

UEMBERS OF THE L O D G E .

Sir Charles Warren, W.M.; Rev. A.F .A. FVoodford.1.P.M.;

R. F. Gould, S.W.

;

W Simpson,

J W

; W. Besant, Treasurer ;

G. W. Speth, Secretary;

Major S. C. Pratt, S.D. ; W. M.

Rywater, J.D .; Professor T. Hayter-Lewis, I.G .; W J

Hughan

;

W H. Rylands

; J

P. Rylands

;

Major B. G. Irwin

;

T.

U.

Whytehead

;

J. Ramsden Riley

;

Dr.

W

W

Westcott

;

etc.

I N T E R N A L E C O N O X Y

O F

THE

LO D G E.

Tho membership is limited to forty , in order to prevent

th3 Lodge becoming unwieldy.

The fees for initiationand joining are twenty guineas and

five guineas respectively, the ann ual subscription i s one

guinea.

The funds a re wholly devoted to Lodge purposes, nothi ng

being spen t on refreshment. The members usually dine

together, but a t their own individual cost, and visitors, who

ar e cordially welcomed, enjoy the option of partaking-on

the same terms-of refreshment at the common table.

h'o members are admitted without a literary or artis tio

qualification.

The stated meetings are, the day succeeding the four

quarterly communications of Grand Lodge, and the 8th

November, (Feast of Quatuor Coronati.)

At every meeting an original paper is read which is

followed bp a discussion.

During the current year papers en-

tit led On some old Scott ish Masonic Customs ; The

Steinmehen Theory , critically examined ; On an early

version of the Hir au~ icLegend ; and Hermeticism and

Freemasonry; have been read by the S.W., Secretary,

I.G., an d I.P.M., respectively, and will be printed in the

Transactions.

The first volume of our Proceedings or Transact ions ie

being prepared for publication, and will be continued periodi-

cally a t intervals of three , six, or twelve months, as may

hereafter be determined.

Many Masonic Stude nts, both a t home and abroad, have

expressed a wish to participate in the apesial as distinguished

from the

ordinary

labours of the Lodge. The members of

No. 2076 are anxious to meet thes e brethren half-way.

Distance, inability to a ttend , the rules which, under some

Grand Lodges, forbid th e membership of more than one Lodge

;

and the absence, as may well happen, of a lite rary qualifica-

tion ; all these may in turn render impracticable (even were

our numbers un limited) the admission to full membership of

the numerous brethren whom we should otherwise so gladly

welcome in our ranks.

But it seems to us, in th e interes t of our own Lodge. of

th e Literature of the Craft, and of Masonic Research in its

largest and widest sense, tha t it mill be both practicable and

expedient to establish an outer and far reaching circle of

Students, and thus bind to us by an even closer t ie tha n th e

bond of Fellowship already subsisting, the ever-growing band

of earnes t searchers aft er Masonic Tr uth and Light, both in

the Old World and the New.

C O R R E S P O N D R N C E

CIRCLE.

Under the above title we have therefore decided t o

establish a Litera ry Society in close and intimate connection

with the Lodge, for the convenience of such brethren of oth er

Lodges-subscribers to the Transactions-who may be desir-

ous of partic ipating in our special labours, by the communi-

cation of Papers, o r in other ways (in writing) to t he

Secretary.

The members of our Correspondence Circle will be

placed on the following footing :

l.-The printed Transactions of the Lodge will be posted

to them as issued, and also the summonses convoking th e

meeting, if desired.

2.-They will be entit led to purchase at cost or a t a

reduced price copies of all publications of the Lodge, such a s

are included under No. 5 of M A I N

OBJECTS.

3.-Should circumstances permit of the ir occasional

presence among us a t meetings of the Lodge, they will feel

that altbough not members, tbey are more than visitors, in

the ordinary sense, as being united to us by the tie of

Fra ter nit y in the outer Circle of tho Quatuor Coronati.


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4.-The Proceedings in Lodg are of course regula ted by

th e Book of Constitutions, but

L I ~

rethren present n-hen a

Pape r is read are invited to take part in the subsequent dis-

cussion. Papers , moreover, from Correspondence members,

will be gratefully accepted if approved by the Perma nent

Committee.

5.-They will be accorded free adm ittance at all reason-

able h m rs to our Lodge Library and Writing Rooms, a8 soon

aa circumstances shall permit us to ca rry out thi s part of our

plan.

6.-A

Candidate for membership of our Correspondence

Circle will be subject to election, but will require no special

qualification, and will be as nearly as possible on th e same

footing as an Honorary Member in the popular signification

of that term.

7.-No entrance fee is demanded, and the subscription

ia half-a-guniea (0 10s. 6d.) per annum. (If residing beyond

th e Postal Union extra postage will be charged.) This sum

is calculated to just cover cost of Transactions, Stationery,

Printin g, and Postage.

Should the subscription more than cover the above

expenses, the balance will aid the Lodge in No. 5 of the

YAI N OBJECT^.

Subjoined is a frank statem ent of the benefits to be ex-

pec ted uhould our Circle of Correspondence Members be

largely increased.

It ia evident that the great er the number of subscribers,

th e lesa will be the cost of our prin ted Transactions per c o p y ,

and the larger will be our means for republishing scarce

works and manuscripts.

With an extended circle interested i n o ur pursuits and

animated by a common impulse, the chances are greatl y in-

oreaaed of waifs and strays of curious information coming to

ou r hands, and of Hidden Manuscripts being discovered and

brought t o light.

I t ia confidently anticipated tha t the members of t he

Quatuor Coronati

S o c i e t y

or Correspondence Circle or some

of t hem , may occasionally favour the Secretary with commu-

nications to be read in Lodge and subaequently printed.

Members of foreign jurisdictions will, we trust, keep

u

poste d from time to time in t he cur ren t Masonic history of

the ir districts. These reports will furnish

a

valuable annual

appendix to our Transactions, available

to

historians in all

times to come.

Foreign members might fur the r assist by periodic

annonncem ent and criticism of new Masonic Works published

abroad. (Communications may be addressed to the Secreta ry

in a ny of t he Germanic or L atin tongues, more especially

English, French, German, and Spanish.)

Thus would not only our means of Research and Publi-

cation be increased, but those pnblications themselves be en-

hanced in value, to the lasting benefit of all connected with

the Lodge and the Craft in general.

Every mason* throughout the Universe, being a t the time

a

subscr ibing member of a Lodge, is eligible as a member of

ou r Correspondence Circle, and it is hoped that more

especially our British, Colonial, American, and German

bre thre n will avail themselves of the invitation which is

hereby extended to them.

The annual subscription is due in December. I t is

merel y necessary to forward name, address, masonic ra nk,

name of Lodge, and 10s. 6d. to the Secretary of the Quatuor

Coronati, and subject to the approval of the Permanent Com-

mittee, or in such manner as may be from time to time pre-

scribed, a candidate will be at once enrolled.

We are, dear Sir and Brother,

Yours fraternally,

Fo r th e W.M., OEcers, and Members of t he

Lodge Quatuor Coronati, No. 2076, London,

G. W. SPETH, P.Y. Secre tary, 2076.

L o n d o n , January 1887.

*

N.B.-Lo dges, Chapters, Councils, Comm anderies, Lihrariea,

Institutes, and sll other Associstions

of

a kind,-ed character

Masonic or

otherwise, can be placed on the roll of the Correspondence ~i ;cl e, and the

printed Transactions will he regularly forwarded to then).

?.S.-It is contemplated to issue shortly the first Volume

of the Quatuor Coronati Reprints.

This will probably con-

sist in te r a l i a of th e Masonic Poem, (II_alliwell's) in

f ac simile ;

The Defence of Masonry o f 1 30 ; and the

article in th e Plain Dealer of 1724, on the Society of th e

Gormogons.

TO

BRO

G . W S P E T B , S E C R E T A R Y , 2076,

Streat ham House, Margate, Kent, England.

Please enrol me as a Correspondence Member of th e

Quatuor Coronati Society.

I enclose 10s. tid. subscription to

December next.

Date

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

Signature

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

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

d d r o r

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

ame

o Lodge

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

asonic Rank and

0Bce

uany)

The result so fa r had been thirty-seven applications, of

which twenty-six bad already been accepted by the Perma-

nent Committee, and he now moved th at the remaining

eleven be elected Corespondence members. Thero being no

objections to any single name on the list, the remainder were

then approved.*

On the motion of the Secre tary tho following Commit-

tees were then appointed to assist him in t he following pur-

poses

:

Bros. Woodford, Bywater, and Westcott, to enquire into

the question of either altering our days of meeting

or removing to other quarters, and to report to the

Lodge.

Bros. Simpson, Pra tt, a nd W hytehead, to p rint and issue

the Transactions.

Bros. Gould, Hugban , and Hayter.Lewis, to select subjec t

ma tte r fo r first volume of Quatuor Coronati Reprints.

obtain estima tes and subscribers, and undor certain

conditions, to prin t and issue.

The failure of Bro. Chapman (elected to join in June,

1886 , to tak e up th e membership of the Lodge was explained

to t he brethr en, and on motion duly made he was excused

his fees.

The following presentations to th e Lodge Library were

announced. From Bro. Budden, a Treatise on Secondary

Education, a Masonio Fun era l Service with original musio

by said brother, and various publications of the Masonio

Charity Association of Dorset . From Bro. Cramer , of Berlin,

the back numbers of Latomia, 1887, and a promise to sen d

the paper in futur e for the use of the Lodge. From Bro.

Simpson, The Rock Cut Caves and Sta tues of Bamian, being

a paper by Captain Talbot, with notes by Bro. Simpson, rea d

before the Royal Asiatio Society.

The following brethren were proposed as joining mem-

bers by the Worshipful Master and seconded by th e Senior

Warden

:-

Bro.

John Lane

Torqnay. Chartered Accountnut, F.C.A.,

born 1843. Was initi ated in 1878 in the Jordan Lodge,

Torquay, No.

14172,

and served ar W.M. in 1882. Joined

Lodge True Love and Unity, Brixllam, No. 248, in 1883;

was exalted in St. John' s Royal Arch Chapter, Torquay,

No.

328 ,

in 18SO. and passed the chair of J. in 1887. H e

is the author of Nasonic Records, 1717--lbSG, and of

the Court Rolls of the Manor and Borough of l'aington,

Devon.

To save valuahle space the names or(, not ~ i v e n are.

It i s proposed

to issue to each nietnbcr of t he Lodxe and Circle a St. John s Cord on the

27th Deceni1,er of each year, s h ow i ~ ~ gniuvs sztd renidv~~cc,tc . , of e very

oieniber of the Correspond.tnce Circlv

;

atid a full list will also e printed

at] an append ix to each voluuie of the Transactions , whcn completed.

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