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To The Editor.
Sem , who was the Son of Noah ; the said Hermaxmes was afterwards called Hermes the father of wise men had found one of the 2 pillars of Stone , he found these sciences written thereon , he taught them to other men ; at the Tower of Babel Masonry was much made on , for the King of Babylon , who was Memorth , ' * was a Mason , and loved the Science ; and when the City of Nineveh , and other Cities of tbe East , should be builded , Memorth sent thither threescore Masons , at the desire + of the King of Nineveh , and when they went forth he gave them charge after this manner : —
" I hat they should be true one to another , that he might have worship by them in sending them to his cozen the king ; he also gave them charge concerning their science , and then was it that any Mason had charge of his science ; also Abraham J and Sarah went into Egypt , and taught the Egyptians the seven liberal sciences , and he had an ingenious scholar called Euclides , § who presently learned the said liberal sciences ; it happened in his days the Lords and States of the Realm had got many sons unlawfully begotten by other mens' wives and ladiesthat
, the land was burthened with them , having small means to maintain them with all , the King understanding thereof , caused a parliament to be called and summoned for redress , but being numberless that no good could be done with them , he caused proclamation to be made throughou the Realms , that if any man would devise any course how to main-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
Sem , who was the Son of Noah ; the said Hermaxmes was afterwards called Hermes the father of wise men had found one of the 2 pillars of Stone , he found these sciences written thereon , he taught them to other men ; at the Tower of Babel Masonry was much made on , for the King of Babylon , who was Memorth , ' * was a Mason , and loved the Science ; and when the City of Nineveh , and other Cities of tbe East , should be builded , Memorth sent thither threescore Masons , at the desire + of the King of Nineveh , and when they went forth he gave them charge after this manner : —
" I hat they should be true one to another , that he might have worship by them in sending them to his cozen the king ; he also gave them charge concerning their science , and then was it that any Mason had charge of his science ; also Abraham J and Sarah went into Egypt , and taught the Egyptians the seven liberal sciences , and he had an ingenious scholar called Euclides , § who presently learned the said liberal sciences ; it happened in his days the Lords and States of the Realm had got many sons unlawfully begotten by other mens' wives and ladiesthat
, the land was burthened with them , having small means to maintain them with all , the King understanding thereof , caused a parliament to be called and summoned for redress , but being numberless that no good could be done with them , he caused proclamation to be made throughou the Realms , that if any man would devise any course how to main-