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to . Conceiving that I have been discourteously treated by the Editor of that magazine in refusing the insertion of my letters , anel that I have shewn him be is completely in error , I commit the correspondence to your editorial care to make what use of it you think proper , and have the honour to be , Sir , your most obedient servant , WM . GAYLOR . Grand Scribe N . for Scotland .

MR . GAYLOR TO THE EDITOR OF F . M . MONTHLY MAGAZINE . Edinburgh , 1 th April , 1835 . MY attention has been called to an advertisement by Br . Spencer in your magazine for April , wherein he states that he has been appointed to furnish the Ba- ! ge and Joivel of the London Bon Accord Lodge of Mark Masters , held under the wan-ant of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland .

I beg to inform your readers that no Mark Lodge in London holds any warrant from the Supreme Grand R . A . Chapter of Scotland , and that , any such self-styled body is illegal . Tho only Mark Lodge called " Bon Accord" in connection with us is the Mark Lodge attached to the Bon Accord R . A . Chapter of Aberdeen ( No . 70 ) , and it has no power to grant a warrant to any London Lodge . In Scotland there are three degrees given under authority of our warrants before one can obtain the Royal Arch Degree , properly so called . The first is Mark ; the

second the Past , which in England has been taken from the Royal Arch Series , and attached to the Chair-master of a Blue Lodge ; the third is the Excellent Degree of Three Points or Parts , and is given only to those who are about to receive the Royal Arch itself . Separate warrants are not now girtm , and hare not boon given for many years to practise the first , or first two degrees only ; indeed , none but three such wairjnts were ever given : two of these have been recalled , and tho third has long been dormant .

I shall in tin ; circumstances consider it my duty to institute an inquiry into the cause of this irregularity , with a view alike to the suppression of usurped powers as to the prevention of brethren being thereby misled . I am , & c .

Tm : liDiron OF THE MAGAZINE TO MR . GAYLOR . London , 21 st April , 1855 . A REPLY to your note will be found in the Notices to Correspondents , " Freemason ' s Monthly Magazine , " May number . The Bon Accord Lodge of London is legitimate , and received their warrant from No . 70 , Aberdeen , before the law you allude to was abrogated . I have the honour , & c .

MR . GAYLOR TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY MAC-AZI ^ . Edinburgh , 25 th April , 1 S 55 . I AH favoured with yours of 21 st , and trouble you at present to correct a mistake into which you seem to have fallen . The Chapter ( No . 70 . ) , of Aberdeen , at no time had power from the Supreme Chapter to issue warrants for the exercise of the Mark Degree , and those Lodges to whom Mark AVarniuts were granted by the Supreme Chapter had ceased working under them long prior to the constitution of Bon Accord ,

Aberdeen ( No . 70 ) . The warrants I allude to were issued between June , 1 . 845 , and September , 1840 , at which latter elate they were recalled . The Charter to No . 70 , was not granted till December ,. 1850 . I am , & c . Then appeared tho following notice in the F . M . Magazine : — " AV . Gaylor . —Had our worth y correspondent instituted inquiry before , instead of after be wrote his letter , he would have discovered that the Loudon Bon Accord Lodge of Mark Masters is epiite legitimate , and that it is working under the warrant granted from Chapter No . 70 , Aberdeen , before the abrogation of a law to which he alludes . AVe have investigated the matter from the records , and find that the brethren of the London Bon Accord are right and he is wrong . His second letter does not alter our opinion .