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Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of North & East Yorkshire
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Mark Masonry
Welcome to our website for Mark Masonry within the Province of North & East Yorkshire. If you are already a member of this Friendly Degree we hope that the website helps with what you are looking for, be it information, news or events. If you’re not yet a Mark Mason, then now is your chance to learn more about the ‘friendly degree’ and that all important fourth step in Freemasonry.
If you are interested in joining the North & East Yorkshire Mark Masons we will be delighted to hear from you. You have to be a Master Mason in the Craft to be eligible. Please watch our video’s, or read below, to find out more about us.
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Royal Ark Mariners
The Degree of Royal Ark Mariner is open to all Mark Master Masons. The Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Royal Ark Mariner, more commonly known as the R.A.M., has been under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons since 1871 and is now governed by the Grand Master’s Royal Ark Council.
There are references to a Grand Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners being reconstituted in 1772, but the degree’s early history is obscure. The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons took full possession of the rights to the Grand Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners on the 10th June 1884 for just £25. Lodges, which are governed by a Worshipful Commander, rather than a Worshipful Master, are attached, or moored, to a Mark Lodge assuming their Number in the Roll.
There the similarity ends. In chronological terms it precedes the Mark by hundreds of years because it relates to the building and voyage of Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood and has none of the other characters whom we meet in Freemasonry.
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