History Of The Airedale Lodge, No. 387,

This is curious as showing that of the three candidates for passing who are said to have been initiated into the second degree , two were also raised to the third degree on the same nig ht ; and b y reason of those proceedings , only ten clays elapsed between initiation aud raising . The necessity for officers appears to have sanctioned those irregularities . As there are some interesting facts worth recording in the minutes after this date , these are referred to by extracts on the several dates named .

Nov . 3 rd , 1788 . —Minute . Bro . Scott , the Secretary , and Bro . Haigh , from tbe St . George ' s Lodge , No . -100 , waited on us with a message from their Lodge , requesting the favor of our company to attend them to Church in procession , on Wednesday , the 5 th clay of November , il , being the Qeiiteiitiary of the glorious Revolution , to hoar divine service , when a most excellent sermon was preached on the occasion by tho Rev . Henry Ray ; after service the brethren proceeded in the like manner to the Toivn Hull , and afterwards met at Bro . Carnelly ' s , the Reindeer , where n most excellent dinner was provided , and the day was spent with the greatest harmony and conviviality .

In Raymond's History of Lngland , published m 1 / 98 , page 611 , the following reference is made to this evidentl y national commemoration of the historical event alluded to : The 5 th of Nov . being- the centenary of the Revolution of 1688 , was observed by many Societies in tbe Metropolis , aud other parts of the Kingdom , not only with festivity but devotion and thanksgiving . At the most respectable of these Societies , a noble Earl , who presided on the occasion , moved that application be made to Parliament ; to observe the future Anniversary of the 16 th Dec . as a day of solemn thanksgiving , it being on that day the Bill of Rights was passed . "

The most respectable society here mentioned was the Free ancl Accepted Masons , the noble Earl also referred to being the Earl of Moira , D . G . M . In this year the Royal Yorkshire Lodge , Keighley , No . 439 , and the Globe Lodge , Scarborough , No . 440 , were constituted , ancl in 1789 the Albion Lodge , Skipton , No . 460 , ancl the Harmony Lodge , Halifax , No . 461 . Very little time seems to have been lost in preparing ancl adopting lodge bye laws , ancl on October 5 th , 1789 , occurs the following : —

Oct . 5 th , 1789 . The Bye Law of the Lodge inflicting the Penalty upon Officers not present , or not attending in time , was directed to be put in full force , aud Bro . Girdley , S . W ., and Bro . G . Nicholson , T ., not attending was by the Brothers present ordered to pav the fine .

Shortly after this it appears to have been discovered that the warrant or dispensation was not , strictl y speaking , in the custody of . the lodge ; and there being apparently other lodge property missing , we find the brethren taking action thereupon at their meeting- on the 5 th January , 1790 , by these resolutions in open lodge :

Jan . 5 th , 1790 . The brethren then came to the following resolutions , viz : that in future the brothers sup in n room by themselves , aud that no person not being a brother shall be introduced on any account whatever , unless it be with the consent of the majority of members then present . Also , that a committee of as many members present as chose , should wait upon Bro . Plummer requesting he would return the Warrant of Constitution that it might be deposited in the lodge chest . Resolved also , that for the future no books or any part of the lodge furniture shall be lent out of the said lodge without special reasons for the same .

On November 3 rd , 1789 , the W . M ., Bro . Hawley , acquainted tbe brethren present that Bro . T . Priest desired to decline being any longer a member , which " was agreed to . " This was not quite so serious a matter then as in our clay , for on the 2 nd February , 1790 , this passage occurs in the minutes : Peb . 2 nd , 1790 . Bro . Thomas Priest being desirous of being again a member of this Lodge , it is accordingly agreed that he paying one quarter into the hands of the Treasurer he shall be again reinstated without a ballot . Z 2