Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-21

MISSION 10 us ranks.
This demand was not only repre-
hensible on the part of the Grand Con-
clave, as closing the door to peace and
reconciliation, which had been opened
by the proposals of the Encampments
from time immemorial, but was the more
preposterous and unjustifable, that many
of the officers and Commanders of the
Grand ConclaYe had themselves been
created and installed Knights Templar
in the Eneampment of Baldwin at Bris-
tol. which had at one time been the
chief asylum and centre of Knight
Templar Masonry in England. The En-
campments of Baldwin and Antiquity
rejected this arbitrary and insulting de-
mand with mingled feelings of sorrow
and Indignation.
The result of this unfortunate termina-
ton of the negotiation has been the re-
vival of the Ancient Supreme Grandand
Royal Encampment of the Masonic
knights Templar, ETC., II. r. D. ~, K.
\ D. s. H., under the Constitution Of A.
d. 1879, the election of a Supreme
Grand Master, and the organization of
the Grand Encampment by the appoint
ment of the necessary officers, and Of
Provincial Grand Commanders.
The circular next informs US
One feature which pre- minently
/ distinguishes these Encampments from
those holding under the London Grand
4 ConelaVe is this that while the latter
has abandoned an important portion of
the rights and authority which it exer-
cised previous to the year 1914, selling
its birthright for mess of pottage, the
! Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment
maintains its Ancient Constitution intact
and unimpaired. We refer especially to
the Degree of Knights Rose CrucIs, or
Sovereign Princes Rose Croix of Here
dom, a Chapter of which, according to
the ancient Constitution Of the Order,
was attached te all the Eneampments of
Masonic Knights Templar in England,
of which, and the privileges belonging
to it, the Eneampments holding under
the London Grand Conclave have been
deprived, that body having yielded its
authority over the Degree of the Knights
Rose Crucis to another different Ma
sonic body. =
The seven degrees " which are given
under this newly erected or revived
Grand Encampment are
l. Masonic Knights Templar
2 SKnightS of Saint John of Jerusa-
lem.
}. Knights Of Palestine.
t. Knights of Rhodes
). Knights of Malta
6. Knights of Rose Croix and Here
dom.
:. Grand Elected Knights K. D. 5. II.
Relative to these degrees the circular
says
+" These seven degrees we're evidently, /
at one time. kept distinct. and conferred /
upon candidates in some regular grada-
ton. The signs, tokens and passwords
Of the Knights of Malta, together with
those assigned to the Mediterranean
Pass, which probably belonged to the
Knights of Rhodes, have always been
given in the Baldwin Eneampment, but
those Of the knights of Saint John Of
Palestine have fallen into disuse in the
Templar Encampment. The latter de-
gree, however, in the form in which it
exists in the old Rite Franchise as
Knights Of the Red Cross, OF of the
East, the Sword and the Eagle, has been
regularly held once year at Bristol, the
only place in England where the degree
has been preserved.
81 The Degree Of the Knights Of Pal
estine in its present form in the BALDWIN
Encampment, dates from about the year
1900, when the degrees HaUts Grades
of the Rite FfGncaise were introduced
into Bristol by some French refugees,
under the authority of the Grand Orient
of Paris. These degrees, which com
prise besides the Rose Croix those Of the
Nine Elected Masters, the knights Of
the East, the Sword, and the Eagle, and
the Knights Grand Architects Of Kill
winning, have been carefully preserved
and conferred annually since the period of
their introduction in the Baldwin En-
Together with the Knights
Templar and the knights Ros@ Crueis
they form the FIVE Royal Orders or De-
grees of Masonic knighthood, which
have been placed under common gov
eminent in the Eneampment Of Bald
wyn. n
The Degree of the Knights Rose
Crucis has been held in Bristol uninter-
for nearly century, and for
the last fifty years with a splendor and
of ritual unapproached in
in any other Encampment in England,
In the Encampment of Antiquity at
Bath, the degree is known to have been
held as early at least as 1898.
The Degree of Grand Elected
Knights X. d. S Il has not for many
years been conferred in Bristol. The /
late Commanders, F. c. Husenbeth,
Richard Smith, and others, possessed
the degree, and Grand Council of the
Knights X. D. S H was held at Bristol
On Good Friday, March 20, 1887.
The circular concludes by announcing
the establishment Of the Supreme
Grand and Royal Encampment for
which it claims the fraterpal sympa-
-hies of the members of the Order, and
states
A Chapter of the Degree Of Rose
Croix Of Heredom, or Knights Rose
Jrucis, is attached to every Encampment
Of Masonic Knights Templar from time
but the Degree of Grand
Elected Knights X. D. s. II. will in fu-
lure be conferred only in the body of
he Supreme Grand and Royal Encamp-
nent, within which Grand Council Of
Grand Elected Knights X. D, S. H. viii
be established.
The Encampment stated to be estab-
ished in connection with the Grand En-
are
The Encsmpment of Baldwin, at Bris- i
.ol; Z. c. Sir Knight S. f. Taylor.
The Eneampment Of Antiquity, at i
Bath E. C. Sir Knight E. L. Bag .
Shave.
The Eneampment of Ascalon, at Bir- 1