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18. Yamaska, .................... 21,.............. Granby,.......July 12, 1860,....... Canada.. Three Rivers,...July 12, 1860,....... Canada. 24,...... W'st Farnham,..July 14, 1864,.......Canada. 25,...... Montreal, ...... July 13, 1865,...... Canada. 27,...... Mansonville,...July 13, 1865,......Canada. ...Levis,.... .July 11, 1867, ...... Canada. Sweetsburg,.... July 11, 1867,...... Canada. 30......... Lennoxville,....July 11, 1867, ..Canada. Coaticook, .July 11, 1867, ...... Canada. Frelighsburg,...July 9, 1868,.

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Danville,......July 9, 1868,...... Canada. 36,...... Huntingdon,...July 15, 1869, ...... Canada. Knowlton, July 15, 1869.......Canada. 38,...... Montreal,...... July 14, 1870,......Canada. 39,...... Sutton, ..July 14, 1870,.......Canada. 44,...... Montreal,......Oct. 20, 1870,......Quebec. 45, ... Montreal, ...... Oct. 20, 1870,......Quebec.

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Bolton Centre,.. Sep. 28, 1871, 40,...... Shawville,.....July 11, 1872,......Canada. 38. Mount Orford,... 48,...................... Georgeville,........ Sept. 26, 1872,................Quebec. 39. Prince Consort,.. 52,...... Montreal,. Sept. 26, 1872, ...Quebec.

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51. Argenteuil, .... 67,.............. Lachute,.......Sept. 23, 1880,...... Quebec. 52. Good Samaritan,. 68, ... New Carlisle,...Jan. 31, 1884, . ... Quebec. 53. King Solomon,... 69,...... Aylmer,........Jan. 27, 1886, ...... Quebec. 54. Portage du Fort,. 70,...... Portage du Fort,..Jan. 26, 1887,...... Quebec.

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71,...... Buckingham,..... Jan. 29, 1890,...... Quebec. 56. Hemmingford,... 72,...... Hemmingford,...Jan. 29, 1890,...... Quebec. 57. Victoria, 73,...... Lachine,............. .Jan. 28, 1891,...... Quebec. 1892-93.-Grand Officers elected and installed, Jan. 27, 1892: "M: W: Frank Edgar, G: M:; R: W: S. Lebourveau, D: G: M:; R: W: H. B. Sample, D: G: M:, Quebec and Three Rivers Dist.; R: W: J. B. Tresidder, D: G: M:, Montreal Dist.; R: W: D. B. Knight, D: G: M:, Bedford Dist. ; R : W: J. P. Plummer, D: G: M:, St. Francis Dist.; R: W: Wm. Thompson, D: G: M:, Ottawa Dist.; R: W: J. Bruce Payne, D: G: M, Shefford and Brome Dist.; R: W: H. Walters, B.A., S : G : W : ; R: W: F. B. Farnsworth, J: G: W:; M: W: I. H. Stearns, G: Treas.; R: W: J. H. Isaacson, G: Sec.; R: W: G. R. Dewar, G: Reg.; R: W: Rev. W. T. Forsyth, M.A., G: C:; R: W: Rev. R. Hewton, M.A., G: C:; and W: Bro: T. Highmore, G: Tiler."

G: Officers appointed by the G: M: V: W: Bros: F. H. Pickel, M.D., G: D: of C; J. J. Reid, G :O : ; J. Hope, S: G : D: ; W. Nutt, J: G: D:; W. A. Williams, G: S:; W. De Mouilpied, M. L., G: S:; W. R. Peters, G: S:; W. M. Shepherd, G: S: ; and V: W: Geo. Glover, G: Pur.

"Standing Committees. Jurisprudence: R: W: J. P. Noyes, M: W: E. R. Johnson, R: W: T. P. Butler, V: W: G. H. Aylmer Brooke and W: P. S. G. McKenzie. State of Masonry: R: W: S. Lebourveau, M: W: J. H. Graham, R: W: W. M. LeMesurier, R: W: H. E. Channell and R: W: H. Butler. Finance: M: W: J. F. Walker, R: W: S. P. Franchot, R: W: Charles Knowles, R: W: F. B. Farnsworth and R: W: David Seath. Benevolence and Charity: R: W: James Fyfe, M: W: I. H. Stearns, R: W: James Mitchell, V: W: Henry Higgins and R: W: Daniel Boyd. Foreign Relations and Correspondence: R: W: E. T. D. Chambers, R: W: Charles Knowles, R: W: W. H. Whyte, R: W: Dickson Anderson and R: W: I. B. Futvoye. Credentials: R: W: J. B. Tresidder, R: W: H. E. Channell, R: W: Charles Knowles, R: W: Arthur Lyon and R: W: S. R. Whitman.”

CHAPTER X.

CAPITULAR AND CRYPTIC MASONRY.

1740, England.-It appears that the degree of the Royal Arch was known at York, and at London, in the year 1740, but whether it was of British or Continental origin is uncertain.

1751.-The Ancients' doubtless introduced the R: A: into their system shortly after the formation of that G: L:, in 1751.

1753. Curiously enough, the earliest known record' of exaltation to the R: A degree is in a Minute Book of Fredericksburg Lodge, No. 4, Virginia, U. S., of date Dec. 22, 1753! (S. J. Quinn.)

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1759.-It is of record that, in 1759, an Ancient' Irish Brother, having applied for relief to the G: Sec. of the Moderns' at London, received in answer: Our Society is neither Arch, Royal Arch,' nor Ancient,' so that you have no right to partake of our Charity."

1762. It is also a fact of record that 'a Most Sublime, or Royal Arch Lodge,' was in existence at York, England, in 1762. In its Minutes of 1868, it is first called a 'Chapter.' (Whytehead.)

1765.-Bro: Sadler, in his 'Life of Dunckerley,' says: "The earliest evidence of the existence of Royal Arch Masonry in London is contained in a Minute Book in the archives of the Grand Lodge of England. The first Meeting therein recorded was held on the 22nd of March, 1765, ‘at Mr. Inge's.

"On the 12th of June, a removal was made to 'The Turk's Head,' in Gerrard Street, Soho, then a much more fashionable quarter than it is now."

"The first Anniversary Feast was held on the 8th of January, 1766; Dunckerley being present, he was proposed to become a Member by (James) Galloway, which was approved Nem. Con. This being election day, Bro: Galloway was chosen Z, Bro: McLean, H:, and Bro: Dunckerley, J:

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"In the course of a few months the Chapter was joined by many of the leading Masons in London, including the Grand Master, Lord Blayney, the Grand Treasurer, Rowland Berkeley, and the Grand Secretary, Samuel Spencer. Lord Blayney, shortly afterwards introduced several of his personal friends, and, at the next Election Meeting, he was unanimously elected Z:, or 'Grand Master of the M: E: C:, or Fourth Degree.' Bro: Dunckerley was elected by ballot into the Office of Z:, in the absence of the M: E: G: M:, and of M: E: D: G: M:, in his Lordship's presence."

"More particular details of the working of this important Chapter are set forth in Masonic Facts and Fictions' (by Bro: Sadler). I need now only add that, in 1767, it was formed into a Grand Chapter by a Charter of Compact (see Hughan's 'Origin of the English Rite') between Lord Blayney, Galloway, McLean, Dunckerly, French and several other eminent Brethren. The Royal Arch Degree was not, however, then formally acknowledged by the Grand Lodge; it occupied a position similar to that held by the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons at the present time."

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On the 13th of January, 1769, the first three Charters were granted for private Chapters. From 1780-95 Bro: Dunckerley was the first G: Supt. of 16 counties! He was also G: Supt of two others.

1791. On the 27th of January, 1791, Bro: Dunckerly was unanimously elected our M: E: Z: for the current year.' He was installed Feb. 24, when it was 'Resolved, That the M: E: Z: do now appoint his own Officers, which was accordingly done.' The Officers were usually elected by ballot at the same time as the M: E:Z:"

1813.-The R: A degree was made a part of the system of the present United G: L: of England at the ' Union' of the "Ancients" and "Moderns" in 1813, as set forth in "Article II" of the terms of Union, as follows:

"It is declared and pronounced that pure Ancient Masonry consists of three degrees and no more, viz., those of the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow Craft, and the Master Mason, including the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch. But this Article is not intended to prevent any Lodge (!) or Chapter (!) from holding a Meeting in any of the degrees of the Orders of Chivalry, according to the Constitutions of the said Orders."

The R: A: appears originally to have been a 'complement' of the third degree.

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The S: G C of England has now about 725 Chapters on its Registry. They are attached to Lodges, and confer the R: A: degree only.

1740, Ireland.-It appears beyond peradventure that the R: A was known in Ireland at this period, and that the degree was then conferred under the sanction of Lodge Warrants.

1779.-It is stated by Bro: F. C. Crossle, the noted Irish Masonic Antiquarian, that the Chair, the Excellent, the Super-Excellent, the Knight Templar, and the Prince Rose Croix were conferred, in 1779, by the "High Knight Templar of Ireland, Kilwinning' Lodge at Dublin, under its 'Lodge' Warrant, which apparently' authorized work' in Craft Masonry only!"

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1834.-The Grand R: A: Chapter of Ireland was formed in 1834. It has now on its Registry 145 Chapters at home and abroad. These Chapters are attached to Lodges, and confer the Royal Arch only. Such Lodges only as have R: A: Warrants can confer the degree of Mark Master Mason. The degrees of Mark Master Mason and R: A: are properly made 'prerequisites' for the degree of Rose Croix !

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1743, Scotland.-There exists a Minute Book of the Royal Arch Chapter of Stirling,' of date 1743. This and other higher' degrees were conferred therein apparently under the sanction of the Sterling Ancient Lodge.' The next known 'documentary' proof is of date 1765, but it is said that "in these years the Chapters were already accounted'old' and in full operation."

1817. The S: G: C: of Scotland was formed Aug. 28, 1817.

"It practices and recognizes no degrees of Masonry but those of “Mark Master, Past Master, Excellent Master, Royal Arch, Royal Ark Mariner, the Babylonish Pass (which last is commonly, but erroneously, called the Red Cross degree, and is composed of three points, viz., Knights of the Sword, Knights of the East, and Knights of the East and West), and the three Installation degrees."

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"All Chapters holding of the S: C of Scotland are entitled to grant the following degrees: Mark, Past, Excellent and Royal Arch."

"All Lodges holding of the G: L: of Scotland are strictly prohibited from holding any Meetings other than those of the three degrees: Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft (including the Mark) and Master Mason, denominated St. John's Masonry, and the degree of Installed Master."

Masons' Marks.-The use of Marks' by operative Masons to distinguish their work, and for other purposes, appears to have been all but coeval with the Art of building' in stone' or other like material! Each workman seems to have had a distinctive' Mark. They were of almost every variety of Geometrical figure, more or less complex. Some are of marked 'individuality;' others have a 'family' likeness, and others still appear to have racial' resemblances.

1598. The 13th of the twenty laws promulgated by Wm. Schaw, Master

of Work (and General Warden) to King James VI, of date Dec. 28, 1598 (commonly called the Schaw Statutes, No. 1), legibly written in the first volume, 1599, of the records of the Lodge of Edinburgh, summarized from Bro Lyon, by Bro: Gould, reads as follows:

13. No Master or Fellow-of-Craft to be received or admitted except in the presence of six Masters and two Entered Apprentices, the Warden of that Lodge being one of the six, the date thereof being orderly booked, and his name and mark insert' in the said book, together with the names of the six Masters, the Apprentices and the Intender. Provided always, that no one be admitted without ane assay and sufficient tryall of his skill and worthyness in his vocation and Craft.'

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1778.-Bro: Hughan gives the following instructive extract from the records of Lodge Operative,' Banff, Scotland, of date Jan. 7, 1778:

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That, in time coming, all Members that shall hereafter raise to the degree of Mark Mason' shall pay one merk Scots, but not to obtain the degree of Mark Mason' before they are passed Fellow Craft; and those that shall take the degree of Mark Master Masons' shall pay one shilling and sixpence sterling into the Treasurer for behoofe of the Lodge. None to attain to the degree of Master Mark Mason until they are raised Master." Bro: Mackey says: "Much of the Esoteric Ritual of the ' Mark Man' has been incorporated into the Master Mason' of the American System."

1750, England.-It appears that the Mark degree was conferred in England before the middle of the 18th Century.

1855-56.-During this period an effort was made to have the G: L: of England add the Mark' to those degrees declared in the 2nd 'Article of Union,' 1813, to constitute 'pure Antient Masonry.' At the Quarterly Communication, March 5, 1856, a Joint Committee of the G: L: Board of General Purposes, and of the S: G: C:, made Report to the G: L. as follows:

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"That, after obtaining all the information in its power, the Committee is of the opinion that the Mark Mason's Degree' does not form a portion of the Royal Arch Degree,' and that it is not essential to Craft Masonry; but they are of opinion that there is nothing objectionable in such degree, nor anything which militates against the Universality of Masonry, and that it might be considered as forming a graceful addition to the Fellow Craft's Degree." Thereupon the G: L: unanimously'

"Resolved, That the Degree of Mark Mason' or 'Mark Master' is not at variance with the ancient landmarks' of the Order, and that the Degree be an addition to form part of Craft Masonry; and consequently may be conferred by all regular Warranted Lodges, under such Regulations as shall be prepared by the Board of General Purposes, approved and sanctioned by the G: M:"

1856, June 4.-At the next Quarterly Communication of G: L:, held at this date, the foregoing resolution was rescinded by a vote 'non-confirming' that portion of the Minutes of March 5.

1856, June. Thereupon the Grand Mark Lodge of England was formed by the co-operation of 'ten old Mark Lodges' of those then in existence. In 1760, seven Mark Lodges' in England, holding of Scotland, became of allegiance to the G: M: Lodge of England!

1865, June 7.-In reply to a Memorial, re the foregoing, from the G: L: of Scotland, the G: L: of England resolved, re-affirming :'

"I. The 2nd Article of Union,' 1813.

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2. That the G: L: of England does not acknowledge the 'Mark

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