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Freemasonry In The Seventeenth Century: Chester, 1650-1700.
FREEMASONRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : CHESTER , 1650-1700 .
BY BRO . W . HAKRY RYLANDS , F . S . A . EEW Heraldic works are more curious or of greater rarity than " The Academie of Armory , or a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon , & c , By Randle Holme , of the City of Chester , Gentleman Sewer in Extraordinary to his late Majesty King Charles 2 . And sometimes Deputy for the Kings oi
Arms . Printed for the Author , Chester , 1688 , " folio . It is certainly a storehouse , but not only of armory and blazon ; and Lowndes fitly describes it as " a heterogeneous mass and extraordinary composition , containing a vast fund of curious information . " To this may be added the opinion of Dr . Ormerod in his note on the second Book : — " The author ' s object appears to have been the formation of a kind of
encyclopaedia in this awkward heraldic form ; ancl in the rest of the present book he proceeds through all the range of creation , treating the reader with the strangest jumble on Natural History , Mineralogy , and Surgery , occasionally diversified by Palmistry , Hunter ' s terms , the Cook-pit laws , Diseases , an Essay on Time and on Men punished in Hell . Introducing each subject successively as the fancied bearing of an armorial coat . " As this description is a fair sample of the contents of the wkoleivork , it is needless to add more . Many accounts of the work have been published , * of it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Freemasonry In The Seventeenth Century: Chester, 1650-1700.
FREEMASONRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : CHESTER , 1650-1700 .
BY BRO . W . HAKRY RYLANDS , F . S . A . EEW Heraldic works are more curious or of greater rarity than " The Academie of Armory , or a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon , & c , By Randle Holme , of the City of Chester , Gentleman Sewer in Extraordinary to his late Majesty King Charles 2 . And sometimes Deputy for the Kings oi
Arms . Printed for the Author , Chester , 1688 , " folio . It is certainly a storehouse , but not only of armory and blazon ; and Lowndes fitly describes it as " a heterogeneous mass and extraordinary composition , containing a vast fund of curious information . " To this may be added the opinion of Dr . Ormerod in his note on the second Book : — " The author ' s object appears to have been the formation of a kind of
encyclopaedia in this awkward heraldic form ; ancl in the rest of the present book he proceeds through all the range of creation , treating the reader with the strangest jumble on Natural History , Mineralogy , and Surgery , occasionally diversified by Palmistry , Hunter ' s terms , the Cook-pit laws , Diseases , an Essay on Time and on Men punished in Hell . Introducing each subject successively as the fancied bearing of an armorial coat . " As this description is a fair sample of the contents of the wkoleivork , it is needless to add more . Many accounts of the work have been published , * of it