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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
manner of his murder ; they took the denomination of " Sons of a Bereft Wife , " for the widow of Charles was now the head of the family , and sought for the restoration of a lost word , indicating thereby the title of legitimate king then lost to the nation . We will , however , at present , pursue this subject no
farther , though if , as some believe , Charles I . was himself initiated , the name of Master would receive greater significance and the benefits the Stuarts had formerly derived from the institution ( for it is to Monk's initiation that his conversion to the royal cause is attributed ) would account for the favour which the first and second Pretenders showed it ; one proof of
which is the charter granted by the latter to the Rosicrucian Freemasons of Arras , given in New Series , No . 2 , of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine , also the initiation of all his foreign adherents , and the exertions of the Chevalier Ramsay in Scotland , and through Masonry , in the favour of his father .
In the tivo centuries , however , that had almost elapsed since the earliest demonstrations , the Order had completely changed its character , thrown off its political mission , and with the aid of Sir Christopher Wren , assumed its present high position of morality , charity , and truth . We cannot noAV pursue the change ; another opportunity may be opened , when much
corroboration of Nicolai ' s views Avill be found in the unpublished MS . stores of the British Museum , and particularly in Elias Ashmole ' s OAVU MS . in the University of Oxford , of which we have the excellent Catalogue , by W . H . Black , Esq ., of the Record Office , to assist our researches : amongst the former a sliht examination enabled mewith the kind assistance of
very g , Mr . E . G . Ballard , to find in the Birch and Sloane MS . 3848 , p . 213 , a long charge , in which are found most of the facts of our present ritual ; but , as it is dated 1646 , with the inevitable .omissions of all allusion to the murdered master , the lost word , the sign , or the sons of the bereaved wife . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Dr
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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
manner of his murder ; they took the denomination of " Sons of a Bereft Wife , " for the widow of Charles was now the head of the family , and sought for the restoration of a lost word , indicating thereby the title of legitimate king then lost to the nation . We will , however , at present , pursue this subject no
farther , though if , as some believe , Charles I . was himself initiated , the name of Master would receive greater significance and the benefits the Stuarts had formerly derived from the institution ( for it is to Monk's initiation that his conversion to the royal cause is attributed ) would account for the favour which the first and second Pretenders showed it ; one proof of
which is the charter granted by the latter to the Rosicrucian Freemasons of Arras , given in New Series , No . 2 , of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine , also the initiation of all his foreign adherents , and the exertions of the Chevalier Ramsay in Scotland , and through Masonry , in the favour of his father .
In the tivo centuries , however , that had almost elapsed since the earliest demonstrations , the Order had completely changed its character , thrown off its political mission , and with the aid of Sir Christopher Wren , assumed its present high position of morality , charity , and truth . We cannot noAV pursue the change ; another opportunity may be opened , when much
corroboration of Nicolai ' s views Avill be found in the unpublished MS . stores of the British Museum , and particularly in Elias Ashmole ' s OAVU MS . in the University of Oxford , of which we have the excellent Catalogue , by W . H . Black , Esq ., of the Record Office , to assist our researches : amongst the former a sliht examination enabled mewith the kind assistance of
very g , Mr . E . G . Ballard , to find in the Birch and Sloane MS . 3848 , p . 213 , a long charge , in which are found most of the facts of our present ritual ; but , as it is dated 1646 , with the inevitable .omissions of all allusion to the murdered master , the lost word , the sign , or the sons of the bereaved wife . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Dr