Translation of letter from the Master and officers of Lodge of the Three Arrows,...

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Translation of letter from the Master and officers of Lodge of the Three Arrows, No. 473 [erased], Nurnberg, Germany to the Grand Master, Moderns' Grand Lodge

4 June 1797

Translation of letter from Carl Jacob Wilhelm Scheurke de Fersdorf, Worshipful Master, Christoph Carl Joseph Ludwig von Zeuder, Senior Warden, Christoph Buchner, Junior Warden, Carl Heinrich von Oertel, Secretary and Johann Leonard Seybold, Corresponding Secretary of Lodge of the Three Arrows, No. 473 [erased], Nuremberg, Germany [Lodge of the Three Pillars] to the Grand Master, Moderns' Grand Lodge complaining about action taken by the Provincial Grand Lodge at Frankfurt am Main five years before. With copy letter translation of previous correspondence from Hans Carl Welser von Neuhof, Worshipful Master, Paul Joachim Sigmund Vogel, Senior Warden, Christoph Carl Joseph Ludwig von Gruder, Junior Warden and Christoph Hamer Joachim Haller von Hallerstein, Secretary, providing a brief history of the Lodge which desired to meet under the Moderns' Grand Lodge principles of Masonic equality and liberty rather than the system of Strict Observancy. The Lodge was constituted by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Frankfort, which then erased this German Lodge as it sought a connection with another German Lodge, without contacting the Grand Lodge in London. Mentions opinions of von Grafe, Representative of the Moderns' Grand Lodge and now seeks the opinion of the Grand Lodge on this matter.

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Nineteen members met as Lodge Joseph to the Unity in Nurnberg from 1789, who sought a warrant from the Moderns' Grand Lodge in London to meet as the Lodge of the Three Pillars. Lodge of the Three Arrows, Nurnberg, Germany was granted a warrant to meet as No. 564 by the Moderns' Grand Lodge on 12 March 1790 and was constituted by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Frankfort. The Lodge was renumbered as No. 473 in 1792. The Lodge was erased in 1813, when the Moderns' and Antients' Grand Lodges formed a union as the United Grand Lodge of England. The Lodge remained under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England until 1823 but was replaced on the Roll of Lodges in 1815 by Lodge of Three Arrows, No. 671 [SN 1669], Nurnberg, Germany. This was one of the Lodges to form the Independent Grand Lodge of Frankfort in 1822. The Lodge Is still working under the Grand Lodge of Eclectic Union, Frankfort, Germany.