Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-21
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE.
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KNIGHTS TESPLAR.
We have received acircular letter pur
porting to emanate from the Supreme
Grand and Royal Encampment of the
Masonic Templar, etc, H. r. d. NJ, K
D. S. H. from time immemorial, of Eng.
land and Wales, which, in other words
means a manifesto of the Baldwin En-,
campment in opposition to the Grand
Conelave as now established and its de-
elaratiOn of independence. 1t says:
3" In making known herevival and re-
establishment of the Supreme Grand
and Royal Encampment of the Order OF
the Masonic Knights Templar, of Saint
John Of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes
and Malta, H. R. D. NJ, K. D. S. H.
from time immemorial, of England and
Wales, it is desirable to present to you
a brief statement of the circumstances
which have rendered this revival neces-
sary."
1t then proceeds to say;
The origin of the Baldwin Encamp-
ment of Masonic Knights Templar at
Bristol is unknown, the Encampment
having been in existence in that city
from a remote period.
The records of the Baldwin En-
campment, however, which have been
carefully preserved, enable US to assert
that in the year 1880, the then existing
Encampment of Masonic Knights Tenn
plar from time immemorial were and
had been previously, under the govern
ment and authority of a Supreme Grand
and Royal Encampment A document
engrOssed on parchment, and bearing
the seals Of the Orders Of knights Tenn
plar, knights Of Saint John of Jerusa-
lem, and Knights of Malta, Of the
Rosa Crusis, and of the Grand Elected
knights Kadosh, dated from Our Cas-
tie at Bristol, the Goth day of Deem
Der, 1880, refers to a previously exist
ing document, called therein a Charter
of Compact
The document, which proceeds to
enact laws for the government of the
said Supreme Grand aud Royal Encamp-
ment, and for the subordinate Encamp-
ments then existing or thereafter to be
created by warrants under its authority,
is said TO have remained in the archives
of the knights Templar at Bristol, from
the year A. d. 1880 to the present time,
and bears the signatures of the NJ T.
and Supreme Grand Master of the Order
in 1880, Joshua Springer Whose por-
trait. painted about 1888, now hangs in
the Freemason's Hall at Bristol. and
those of other Grand Masters and of
eminent Commanders of the Eneamp-
ment of Baldwin at Bristol down to the
present time.
We are next informed that under
this Supreme Grand and ROYAL Encamp-
ment, the Eneampment of Baldwin at
Bristol, and of Antiquity at Bath, con
tinued for many years 5" and that En-
csmpments styling themselves from
time immemorial, were also known to
exist in London, York and Salisbury.
The circular states that the Encamp-
ment at London, also, at one time styled
itself a Grand Encampment, but after
wards, as early as 1909, 4" adopted the
title of Grand Conclave of Masonic I
Knights Templar - but the Encamp- /
ments of Bath and Bristol always re-
fused to acknowledge its authority. A /
correspondence was commenced between 7
the Supreme Grand Encampment at Bris- /
tol and the Grand Conclave in London, !
in 1909; and the last communication /
between them prior to the establishment 4
of the present Grand Conclave, Is dated 4
1920. In the year 1872, H. r. II. the /
Duke of Sussex, was elected Grand .
Master by the Grand COnclave in Lon
don, an election in which the Grand En- /
eampment at BRISTOL did not at the time 1
concur; thous -6sequently his royal .
highness was alsJ elected Grand Master 4
by that Encampment. The Order not 4
being favored by his Royal Highness, no 4
communication took place between the .
Grand Conclsye and the Baldwin En- +
campment from 1920 TO 1874 And the .
Grand Conclave is stated BY this circular
to have been during that time in abey-
ance the Grand Encampment at Bris-
tol, never receiving any communication
from the Grand Master, also merging
into the individual Eneampment Of
Baldwin. which continued to act - indie
pendently, nader the control Of Grand
Commanders and Grand Superintend-
ents elected from Its own body Butthe
Supreme Grand and Royal ERoampBteat,
though dormant and neglected, continued
to erist IA the person Of the Grand Has
ter 10hom Il had elected. x
At the death Of the Duke of Sussex,
in 1943, the Grand Conclaye, which the
circular asserts had been unheard of for
twenty -four years, at once showed its
vitality and assuming the name Of the
" Grand Conclave Of Masonic Knights
Templar of England and Wales, elected
Col Tynte, in 1874, as Grand Master, the
Baldwin Eneampment,. however, refus-
ing TO concur in the advancement, and
the Camp Of Antiquity at Bath appear
ing to be in allegiance. In 1855 the last
named Eneampment received large ac-
cession Of members, and resumed its ac-
tiyity Upon which the circular says
Two Eqeampments of the Masonic
Knights Templar, from time immemo-
rial, being thus in active existence, itbe-
came necessary to provide for their gov
eminent by some central authority, or
Grand Encampment Of ministerial and
executive officers undera Grand Master.
This was the more desirable, as a feeling
of hostility, injurious to the general in
terests of the Order and unseemly in
Masonic confederation, had unfortu-
nately arisen between the Encampments
from time immemOrial and some Of the
acting under the London
Grand Conelaye. The Knights of the
of Baldwin at Bristol,
and Antiquity at Bath, we're in the first
place DESTROYS of uniting themselves in
fraternal union with the other Eneamp-