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The Grand Masters ,
Garter , and by them summoned a Lodge of Master Masons in the Palace , with whom he marched in procession to the East-end of Westminster Abbey , and with his own hand levelled the footstone of his celebrated chapel , June 24 ( St . John ' s day ) , 1502 . Deputy Grand Master , Sir Reginald Bray , Knight . CARDINAL WOLSEY was , in the following reign , chosen Grand Master , He built Hampton Court , Whitehall , College of Christ , Oxford , and several splendid edifices , which , when he was hurled from
" The full meridian of his glory , " to merited degradation , were forfeited to his false and fickle monarch , the subtle and truculent Henry VIII . THOMAS CROMWELL , Earl of Essex , was the next Grand Master . He built St . James ' s Palace , Christ ' s Hospital , Greenwich Castle . On Cromwell ' s fall and decollation , JOHN TOUCIIET Lord Audleybecame Grand Master .
, , 1552 At the death of Henry , PROTECTOR SOMERSET was Grand Master , and built Somerset House , which was forfeited to the Crown . When the duke was beheaded , John Poynet , Bishop of Winchester , was Grand Patron of Freemasons until the demise of Edward VI . 1561 SIR THOMAS SACKVILLE succeeded , and continued Grand Master , until the accession of Elizabethwho "finding that
Free-, masons had certain secrets which could not be revealed to her , " she sent an armed force to break up their annual Grand Lodge at York , on St . John ' s day , the 27 th of December ; but some of the commanding officers having been initiated , returned , and made so favourable a report to her Majesty , that she ever afterwards patronized and protected them ,
1567 When Sir Thomas Sackville demitted , the EARL OF BEDFORD was chosen in the North ; and , in the South , 1570 SIR THOMAS GRESHAM , who built the Exchange , and which was burned in 1838 . 1588 to 1603 GEORGE HASTINGS , Earl of Huntingdon . 1602 CHARLES HOWARD , Lord of Effingham , ( who , when Lord Admiral , took or destroyed the celebrated Spanish Armada ) was Grand Master in the South till 1558 and the Earl of Huntingdon till
, the Queen died . Sir Walter Raleigh ( who , without any government assistance , had colonised new England ) , the Earl of Essex , the generous and affable Norfolk , and indeed most of the great men of this interesting period , were all Freemasons . 1607 JAMES I ., a Brother Mason , Grand Patron by Prerogative , appointed the celebrated Inigo Jones , Grand Master of all Englandin which capacity he served for eleven His
, years . Wardens were the Earl of Pembroke , and Nicholas Stone , Esq ., who , attended by many Brothers attired in Craft clothing , walked to White Hall , and laid the first stone of the Banquetting Hall , with knocks , huzzas , and sound of trumpets , throwing a purse of gold upon the stone for the operatives to drink " TO THE KING AND CRAFT I"
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Grand Masters ,
Garter , and by them summoned a Lodge of Master Masons in the Palace , with whom he marched in procession to the East-end of Westminster Abbey , and with his own hand levelled the footstone of his celebrated chapel , June 24 ( St . John ' s day ) , 1502 . Deputy Grand Master , Sir Reginald Bray , Knight . CARDINAL WOLSEY was , in the following reign , chosen Grand Master , He built Hampton Court , Whitehall , College of Christ , Oxford , and several splendid edifices , which , when he was hurled from
" The full meridian of his glory , " to merited degradation , were forfeited to his false and fickle monarch , the subtle and truculent Henry VIII . THOMAS CROMWELL , Earl of Essex , was the next Grand Master . He built St . James ' s Palace , Christ ' s Hospital , Greenwich Castle . On Cromwell ' s fall and decollation , JOHN TOUCIIET Lord Audleybecame Grand Master .
, , 1552 At the death of Henry , PROTECTOR SOMERSET was Grand Master , and built Somerset House , which was forfeited to the Crown . When the duke was beheaded , John Poynet , Bishop of Winchester , was Grand Patron of Freemasons until the demise of Edward VI . 1561 SIR THOMAS SACKVILLE succeeded , and continued Grand Master , until the accession of Elizabethwho "finding that
Free-, masons had certain secrets which could not be revealed to her , " she sent an armed force to break up their annual Grand Lodge at York , on St . John ' s day , the 27 th of December ; but some of the commanding officers having been initiated , returned , and made so favourable a report to her Majesty , that she ever afterwards patronized and protected them ,
1567 When Sir Thomas Sackville demitted , the EARL OF BEDFORD was chosen in the North ; and , in the South , 1570 SIR THOMAS GRESHAM , who built the Exchange , and which was burned in 1838 . 1588 to 1603 GEORGE HASTINGS , Earl of Huntingdon . 1602 CHARLES HOWARD , Lord of Effingham , ( who , when Lord Admiral , took or destroyed the celebrated Spanish Armada ) was Grand Master in the South till 1558 and the Earl of Huntingdon till
, the Queen died . Sir Walter Raleigh ( who , without any government assistance , had colonised new England ) , the Earl of Essex , the generous and affable Norfolk , and indeed most of the great men of this interesting period , were all Freemasons . 1607 JAMES I ., a Brother Mason , Grand Patron by Prerogative , appointed the celebrated Inigo Jones , Grand Master of all Englandin which capacity he served for eleven His
, years . Wardens were the Earl of Pembroke , and Nicholas Stone , Esq ., who , attended by many Brothers attired in Craft clothing , walked to White Hall , and laid the first stone of the Banquetting Hall , with knocks , huzzas , and sound of trumpets , throwing a purse of gold upon the stone for the operatives to drink " TO THE KING AND CRAFT I"