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'MORE » NEW LIGHT ON BRITISH
HISTORY."
The Duke of Connaught presided on As the result of excavations carried out | » August 8th at a luncheon in connection on the Sussex Downs, near Brighton, by with the Masonic Million Memorial Fund Mr. Garnet Wolseley, a relative of the Festival. The fund was inaugurated by famous' General, and supervised by Mr. the Duke as Grand Master of English Reginald A.
the Smith, of
British Freemasons, with a view to providing in Museum, important additions are being London a suitable building which will be made to our knowledge of early British at once the beadquarters of English Free-history.
masonry and a permanent memorial of On a lonely slope of the Sussex Downs, Freemasons who fell during the Great to the north-east of the well-known pre- War. The luncheon was held at Olympia, historie fort of Cissbury, have been dis the only building in London capable of covered hitherto unsuspected remains of accommodating so large an assemblage villages of the late Bronze Age period, Freemasons from all parts of the king of the Iron Age, or Celtic period; and of dom, with many distingished "visitors" Celtie tribe which persisted right from overseas, were anxious to take part through the period of the Roman decupa- in the festival, and arrangements had con- tion, absorbing Roman culture, and in- sequently to be made on a gigantic scale, lly was destroyed by the Saxon in- The guests numbered between seven and vaders, eight thousand.
The charred remnants are clearly to be. seen, now that they have uncovered from the kindly turf which hid them, of the site where undoubtedly the Romano-British fought their last fight against the Saxon, and met the fate that the Saxos Chronicle sa' tersely describes to Anderida-" Not one Brit was left." Littered about under the accumulated loose soil and turf are Roman tiles, Röman tile nails, fragmenta of walls with coloured distemper, Ronian glass, and a large amount of fragments
Of waitresses alone there was a small army. Entrances, gangways, and tables were all arranged to a system of colours, so that the guests should havo: no dif-¦ ficulty in finding their way to the tables, The brethren wore full craft aniform, The scene was one of splendour. The white tables were adorned with red enrna- tions, and the blue and gold of the bra. threns' garments contributed to an agree, Fable blending of colours. The glass of jof pottery.
the arched roof was veiled by blue dra- pery. At the eastern end of the build. ing a throne dais was erected, with an alcove for the Grand Master's chair,, draped with crimson velvet. During the hour the guests were assembling the band of the Welsh Guarda rendered a musical programme. The speeches were elayed by amplifers and reached every member of the huge assembly...
THE KING'S REPLY.
GRADUAL PROGRESS.
Exports ileclare that these potsherds reveal a gradual progress from the purely Celtie type to native attempts to imitate Roman ware and, indeed, to puro Roman ware. A broken wine cup was found of the finest Samian ware, delicately orna- mented. Among the mass of miscellane- ous fragments have been identified por tions of the classic Roman amphora, used for importing wine from latly.
Other evidence yielded by the spade, The Duke of Connaught, who was sup-and interpreted by Mr. Reginald Smith ported by the Duke of York, Prince and other experts, is considered as estab- Athur, Viscount Lascelles, and many lishing conclusively that this particular distinguished Freemasons, announced Celtic tribe invaded England some seven' that he had sent a telegram to the King, hundred years before the Saxons came, conveying an expression of the loyal and first brought into England knowledgo devotion of 7,000 Freemasons, assembled of iron. Armed with their superior wen- at Olympia, to his Majesty's throne and pons, they exterminated the inhabitants person. The king, replying from the of a Bronze Age village, of which the Royal yacht at Cowes, asked the Duke to thank the assembled brethren and to say that he hoped soon, to hear that the scheme for the establishment of so useful and worthy a memorial as that which was proposed was in a fair way to being
crowned with success.
The Grand Secretary Announced the contributions from the various districts and provinces at home and abroad, and the Duke of Connaught gave the total of £646.014. The London lodges alone had contributed £417,000.
most defnite remains have been found here, and established a village of their own about a quarter of a tile from the Bronze Age site, at the top of the hill known na Park Brow.
the floors of their houses. the deep pits The "excavators today are digging out-
in the chalk used for stores by them, the curious little holes that must have been made far cupboards, some still containing. the pots they were meant to hold. Abun- dant evidence has been found of the mill- ing, the weaving, and the feasts of this earliest known of Celtic tribes in Eng- land.
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Lord Ampthill (Pro-Grand Master), proposing the health of 'the Grand Master, zid they had come from every
At a point of Park Brow, intermediate shine in Great Britain and from every in position between this earliest Celtic corner of the globe in response to his village and the Romano Celtic village. Royal Highness's invitation. They had are the beaten floors, the crumbled come in their thousands and bad done wattle and daab walls, the primitive pot- their best to respond to the appeal madeltery, of the late Bronze Age period. All to them by the Grand Master six years the indications point to a pastoral, unskil ago. His Royal Highness had performed ful people, hunters of the red deer and la grint tanki despite many difficulties the wild boar, keepers of goats and sheep, and many discouragements. They had being overwhelmed by invaders, their also come to show the results of their village harned, and its site ploughed over labours and endeavours, and finally they by the conquerors," had come to take advantage of a unique The rallies of the Bronze Age period occasion. Those present represented 40 are confined to the one site-they show times their number. The Grand Master no signs of development, and they are had set to every man a high example of mixed with nothing else. The Celtic re- spiendid and unwenrying devotion to mains show continuous progress from public duty. He had shown great forti- what is recognized as early Iron Age cul- tude in the hour of personal sorrow and Lure to the Romano-British culture. Ex- affliction. The new temple would be perta state that this is the first evidence raised not only as a memorial to the yet discovered in England of this early dead, but as au inspiration to the living, Iron Age, and that there is no other site reminding them of the invisible temple history from, Bronze Age to the Saxon known in England giving a continuous built, without hands to which they all destruction. nspired.
The chain can be carried further. Not far from the site of the destroyed Romano-Celtic village in the present-day village of Sompting, which still retains the tower huilt by the Saxons.
OVERSEAS SUPPORT. The Duke of Connaught in a speech of acknowledgment, spoke with deep feeling about the warmth of the greeting extend- It is with a strange thrill that one puts |
to him. He said in view of the efforts one's spade into the ashes of the fires which had been made, he anticipated no kindled over the bodies of slain Britons difficulty in completing the fund, and by the Saxons in their fury of 1500 years lonked forward with pleasure to the ago. Stranger still is it to disturb the prospect of laying the foundation-stone. ashes of the fires of a forgotten race; Bis Royal Highness read a cablegram cold 1,500 years before the Saxons came, from the Prince of Wales regretting his inability to be present and wishing the festival every success, “
TENNYSON'S VOICE.
RECORD MADE ON THE FIRST PHONOGRAPH.
The Duke of Connaught referred spe- cially to the support given by brethren from overseas, the majority of whom could never hope to see the" new build- Tennyson on the gramophone! That ing. He should like their overseas breis the remarkable secret that they have thren to know how proud he was of their been hiding at the British Muscum for operation and loyalty. That spirit the past few months, and which has just had also been exemplified by the desire been learned from the present Lord of certain of their daughter Grand Tennyson, who has kept the secret for Lodges in the Dominions, to have their 35 years. At first hearing it sounds al- names identified in some way with the most incredible that the great Victorian effort of the mother Grand Lodge. It poet should ever have been linked with made one more link in the chain of affer anything so modern, for he died in 1892, tion and regard which bound together something as truly modera as aero and we think of the gramophone as every portion of the British Empire.
Freemasonry alrendy, continued the planes, two-seaters and cabareta." But if Duke, has done much to foster and you can remember back to those primi- deepen the unity of feeling which has brown wax you will realize that Tenny- tive cylinders, covered with a sort of existed so long among all the English- speaking peoples. In our future build-on on the gramophone is actually ing there will be a greater opportunity
possible,
Actually the Grst phonograph record-
of still further fostering this spirit, as ing instroment that was ever brought to our new headquarters are intended to be England from America was used. It
a rallying point for brethren from all was set up in the room'known. „ma the parts. It would be remiss were I to lail library at Aldworth, and Tennyson, to express my appreciation of the excel- speaking in grave, measured "tone, re- lent work performed by the social com cited anme 12 of his favourite works mittee during the last six years, of which into the receiver. The matrices passed I have always bera" kept fully informed,
into the hands of the family, where My thanks and your thanks are also due they were carefully locked away. Only to the Festival Committee who have or ganized this great meeting, the largest of its kind, I am told, ever held in this country."
After the luncheon the Grand Master, accompanied by the Duke of York, Lord Ampthill, and Viscount Lascelles walked right round the great hall to the accom paniment of deadening cheers in order to get into closer personal touch with his follow Freemasons.
few months back the present Lord Tennyson turned them over to Sir Frederick Kenyon at the British Mu Beum, and it is not unlikely that copies will be present to the poet's college, Trinity, Cambridge.PN
The British Museum has many records of famous voices: Lord Roberta, Pro sident Wilson, Sarah Bernhardt, Graig, the composer, Saint Sarns, Patti, Jas chim and Roosevelt.
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