of "Brother" with degree honorifics used in lodges. Knights Chapters and RoH assemblies exist for members of those degrees and are operated alongside the Provincial Grand Lodges but have no function other than as ceremonial bodies. Chapters are responsible for the 3rd degree ceremony. RoH assemblies the 4th degree Ceremony. The Buffaloes were once a very large worldwide fraternal movement made up of a number of "Orders" and over 15,000 Lodges having been established around the globe at one point or another. The Largest Buffalo Order is the Grand Lodge of England (originally the Birmingham section) with over 10,672 Lodges having been issued dispensations since 1897 or before then. Mother Lodges and Banners By the 1850s there existed dozens of Lodges across Britain, with Mother Lodges or District Lodges, acting as the head of the movement in their respective area. Each of these Lodges or Mother Lodges worked their own ritual and had their own rules. In order to create uniformity in rules, rituals and operation, The first National Governing Body, the Grand Primo Lodge of England, was organised in 1866 as a result of a meeting of delegates from various Lodges. In the years following, Various schisms emanated from the Grand Primo Lodge, owing to disagreements and in fighting. The first of these was the Grand Surrey Lodge. In 1874 the Grand Primo Lodge had 112 Lodges under it. In 1897 the mother of all divisions occurred and Lodges either went with the Metropolitan movement or the Provincial (or Birmingham) Movement. The two movements would rename themselves as the Grand Lodge of England Limited (Metropolitan) and the Grand Lodge of England (Birmingham). The Grand Lodge of England Limited, is simply known as "the limited section", whilst the Grand Lodge of England Inc, is known as the GLE. The GLE is the largest of the Buffaloe Orders. There have been a number of Buffalo Orders, thus leading to a general opinion that there have been close to 20,000 Buffalo Lodges formed since the movement began in 1822 all the result of schism after schism. The Grand Surrey Lodge, The Grand Surrey Banner (Mother Lodge) and Grand Surrey Banner (Mother Banner), Grand Middlesex Banner and Grand Executive Banner being examples of these. In their day these various Orders were competing against each other with lodges of each order often meeting in the same town and it was not unusual to find