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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JANUARY 1795 . MEMOIRS
OF MR . WILLIAM PRESTON , PAST MASTER OF TKE LODGE OF ANTIQUITY , No . 1 . [ WITH A PORTRAIT . ]
THE writer of the following pages has long enjoyed the happiness of Mr . Preston's acquaintance , and feels the highest degree of obligation to him for his friendly and useful communications , from time to time , on Masonic subjects . His known intimacy with that Gentleman pointed him out to the Proprietor of the Freemasons' Magazine , who has at sundry times since the commencement of that obtain from for
Work applied to him to permission Mr . P . engraving his Portrait , and publishing some memoirs of him , to gratify the curiosity of numerous enquirers among the j > atrons of the Magazine . In the humility , however , of Mr . P . he long found an insuperable bar to such a measure : fearful of trusting ; too much to his recollection of circumstances that have been at times the subject of conbut in vain
fidential communication , he often , , requested some data on which to found an account of his life . At length , overcome by repeated solicitations , the writer has extorted a reluctant consent to his stating such recollections as his memory may supply , to accompany a Portrait engraved from a Painting with which he was lately kindly presented by Mr . Preston , and which is , beyond
any doubt , the most accurate likeness that has ever been taken of that Gentleman , Bz
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JANUARY 1795 . MEMOIRS
OF MR . WILLIAM PRESTON , PAST MASTER OF TKE LODGE OF ANTIQUITY , No . 1 . [ WITH A PORTRAIT . ]
THE writer of the following pages has long enjoyed the happiness of Mr . Preston's acquaintance , and feels the highest degree of obligation to him for his friendly and useful communications , from time to time , on Masonic subjects . His known intimacy with that Gentleman pointed him out to the Proprietor of the Freemasons' Magazine , who has at sundry times since the commencement of that obtain from for
Work applied to him to permission Mr . P . engraving his Portrait , and publishing some memoirs of him , to gratify the curiosity of numerous enquirers among the j > atrons of the Magazine . In the humility , however , of Mr . P . he long found an insuperable bar to such a measure : fearful of trusting ; too much to his recollection of circumstances that have been at times the subject of conbut in vain
fidential communication , he often , , requested some data on which to found an account of his life . At length , overcome by repeated solicitations , the writer has extorted a reluctant consent to his stating such recollections as his memory may supply , to accompany a Portrait engraved from a Painting with which he was lately kindly presented by Mr . Preston , and which is , beyond
any doubt , the most accurate likeness that has ever been taken of that Gentleman , Bz