The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . by it, professingthat it had ever had a very great esteem for that body and thebrethren claiming privileges under its authority. Findel says that a correspondence with the Grand Lodge ofEngland in London, in the year 1767, proves that the York Lodgewas then on the best of terms with the former. l I confess that I fail to find the proof of this feeling simplybecause there is no proof of the correspondence of which Findelspeaks. A correspondence is the mutual interchange of Grand Lodge in London had
The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . by it, professingthat it had ever had a very great esteem for that body and thebrethren claiming privileges under its authority. Findel says that a correspondence with the Grand Lodge ofEngland in London, in the year 1767, proves that the York Lodgewas then on the best of terms with the former. l I confess that I fail to find the proof of this feeling simplybecause there is no proof of the correspondence of which Findelspeaks. A correspondence is the mutual interchange of Grand Lodge in London had sent an official communicationto a lodge in the city of York, ignoring, in so doing, the GrandLodge of York. This was itself an act of discourtesy. The lodgehaving been discontinued, this communication comes into the pos-session of the Grand Lodge at York, for which it had not beenoriginally intended. It sends to the Grand Lodge at London aletter in which it asserts its equality with that Grand Lodge and the 1 History of Freemasonry, p. 166. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN viu:xwk5tt vi\Mk\waa. THE GRAND LODGE OF ALL ENGLAND 1073 immemorial right that it had to grant Warrants, which right ittrusts that the Grand Lodge in London will respect. It appears to me that this language, if it means anything, is amild protest against the further interference of the London GrandLodge, with the territorial jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge inYork. It is true that in the close of the letter the York Grand Lodgeexpresses its esteem for the Body at London and its willingness toconcur with it in anything that will affect the general good ofMasonry. The letter was dignified and courteous. It asserted rights andprerogatives, which it need not have done if they had not been in-vaded, and it made the offer of a compact of friendship. To this letter there is no evidence that the Grand Lodge ofEngland deigned to make a reply. It was treated with frigidsilence, and hence there was no correspondence between the twobo
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