2019-03
In this portion of our website, I will present various articles that I hope readers will find interesting and educational. Hopefully a new one each (calendar) month. Most, if not all articles will not be my own creation, so I will indicate my source of information.
BOARD OF INSTALLED MASTERS: The ceremony of Installation was in many cases little more than a formality before and, indeed, long after the Union of 1813. The matter received the attention of the Lodge of Promulgation (April 2019 issue.) on 19 October 1810, when it was decided that the ceremony was one of the landmarks of the Craft and ought to be observed. Accordingly a considerable number of Masters of London lodges were installed in Boards of Installed Masters, brethren below the chair being order to withdraw. The ritual to be used was not among those settled by the Lodge of Reconciliation and in 1827 the Duke of Sussex warranted a ‘Lodge or Board of Installed Masters’, authorizing it to hold meetings at which qualified brethren could be ‘made’.
The modern connotation of the term is well-known and need not be pursued here (but see Installation). (May 2019 issue.)
From ‘A Reference Book For Freemasons’ – compiled by Frederick Smyth and published in 1998.
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R.W. Bro. Robert South