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Master and his successors in perpetuity.” It is 
now in possession of the convent of St. John of 
Jerusalem, at Paris. When the Order of the 
Templars was, as is asserted, illegally suppressed 
by Pope Clement V., and other potentates, be- 
cause they could not suppress what they had not 
established, a successor to Jacques de Molay was 
appointed, and the order has been continued ever 
since, and is still in existence. On the death of 
Fabré de Palaprat, in 1838, Sir Sidney Smith, 
previously Grand Prior of England, was invited to 
assume the office of Grand Master. This honour, 
however, he declined, but consented to preside 
over their councils as Regent, according to their 
statutes, until some fitter person should be put in 
nomination, an event that did not occur during 
his life. A work entitled Régle et Statuts secrets 
des Templiers, par Maillard de Cambuse, Paris, 
1840, gives a list of all the successive grand mas- 
ters of the order of the Temple. Sir Sidney 
Smith is stated to be the forty-sixth. It appears 
he was at the head of forty English knights of 
the order, which was one reason for his election. 
The above work is said to contain much curious 
information, and renders it probable that the 
earliest freemasons’ lodge in England was founded 
by some recreant and seceding Templars, and it is 
generally understood that all the lodges in the 
world at present are offshoots from the early 
British one. The foregoing information, which 
perhaps may be interesting to some of your 
readers, is gathered from the thirteenth chapter of 
the second volume of Barrow’s Life of Sir Sidney 
Smith. EK. H. A. 
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, or in 
other words of the Knights of Malta, still exists 
at this island, and many are known to me, who 
have taken this masonic degree within the last 
twelve months. The present commander is Major 
Cholmeley Dering, of the East Kent militia, now 
stationed in this garrison. Might I inform your 
correspondent F. C. H. that all masonic degrees 
are separate and distinct. W.. Wi 
Malta. 
Grey Beards (2°4S.i. 293. 361.) — A historical 
reference to the class of jugs called greybeards is 
cited and illustrated in “ N. & Q,,” 1S. x. 113., 
where for mark read mash. L. 
Odd Titles of Books (1* §. xii. 403.; 277 §. i. 
283.) — The enclosed, which I have just cut from 
a Cork bookseller’s catalogue, may well rank under 
this head : 
* Sibs’ ‘ Bowels Opened,’ or Communion betwixt Christ 
and the Church; Twenty Sermons on Canticles, 4, 5, 6; 
ek wa and last leaf damaged at corner, scarce, 
6s. 6d. 1639.” 
Witriam Fraser, B.C.bL. 
Alton, Staffordshire, 
Singular Funeral Sermon (2"4 §, i. 353.) — The 
sermon to which M. E. alludes may have been 
published, but it was not preached, in 1733. The 
Rev. Robert Proctor, M.A., was presented to the 
rectory of Gissing, March 27, 1613, and died in 
1668. Hugh More, M.A., a Scotchman, was in- 
stituted to the rectory of Burston, March 12, 
1626, and was not succeeded in the living until 
May 9, 1674. Of Hellesdon Hall or its inmates 
I am unable to discover any mention. 
Mackenzie Watcort, M.A. 
Burials in Unconsecrated Places (1* S. viii. pas- 
sim.) — 
“Lord Camelford (who died March 10, 1804, haying 
received a fatal wound in a duel) was altogether a singular 
character. The day before his death he wrote with his 
own hand a codicil to his will, in which he particularly 
describes the place where he wishes his remains to be in- 
terred, and assigns his reasons. He states that persons in 
general have a strong inclination to the country in which 
they were born, and generally desire that their remains 
may be conveyed from any distance to their native place. 
His desire, he says, may be thought singular, because it 
is the very reverse of this. ‘My wish is that my body 
may be removed as soon as is convenient to a far distant 
country, to a spot not near the haunts of men, where the 
surrounding scenery may smile upon my remains.’ It is 
situated on the borders of the lake St. Lampierre, in the 
canton of Berne, and three trees grow on this spot; he 
desires that the centre one may be taken up, and the body 
being there deposited may be immediately replaced ; and 
he adds: ‘At the foot of this tree I formerly passed many 
solitary hours contemplating the mutability of human 
affairs. ” —Barrow’s Life of Sir Sidney Smith, vol. ii, 
p. 124. 
E. H. A. 
Blood which will not wash out (2°4 8. i. 374.) — 
The belief that blood shed by the dying will not 
wash out from the floor or garments on which it 
has flowed, is so widely spread, that one cannot 
help believing there is truth init. I have been 
informed that the blood of the priests who were 
martyred at the Convent of the Carmes in Paris 
during the French Revolution is yet visible on 
the pavement. This is a fact that some of your 
correspondents can no doubt verify. 
About fifty years ago there was a dance in the 
court-house at Kirton-in-Lindsey: during the 
evening a young girl broke a blood-vessel, and 
expired in the room. Ihave been told that the 
marks of her blood are yet to be seen. At the 
same town, about twenty years ago, an old man 
and his sister were murdered in an extremely 
brutal manner, their cottage floor was deluged 
with blood, the stains of which are believed yet to 
remain. Epwarp Peacock. 
Bottesford, Brigg. 
Passage in “ Timon of Athens” (2°4 S. i. 85.) 
— Your periodical has an interesting article, 
signed W. R. Arrowsmiru, in which that gen- 
tleman proposes the word deject as the probable 
