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Chivaley,
in this place to enter into an examination of the claims our Institution has to the invention of heraldry ; but we may remark that the form of the shield approaches to our badge ; the chief ordinaries , as they are termed , are the Passion Cross and the St . Andrew ' s Cross * or saltier , as it is heraldically designated- the half of which we would chevron mullet
term the ^^^ rd- ^ eralds call it a j me we affirm to be the Masonic symbol of the five points , and we may observe that the arms of tnat true Mason , Sir Thomas < 3 reshatn , have these distinguishing Masonic characters—the square dividing the five points of fellowship . In most of the bearings , ; we discover some traces of the Masonic character . In the arms of Thomas
Thavie who left a good estate towards the support of St . Andrew ' s Church , Holborn , in the south-east window of that church , ire have a shield azure , with a , wheatsheaf on a bend ^ fe ^ a chief sable , on it a T ; the motto , " Peace and concord ; " here we have the symbol of the first pass-word : and there is also in the watt , very near this window ^ on a shiel d at the bottom of a large tablet covered over with plaster and whitewash , this remarkable version of the triple Tau qym * The family of Atlowe , in the sixteenth
century , bore a chevron dividing three carpenter ' s squares , and the arms of the Aliens of Essex were r i"T i » We must acknowledge these are but slender grounds on which to found our assumption , but we throw them out as hints for others who have studied the subject . All the information we have with regard to the origin of heraldry is very obscure ; the professors , of
the science have wasted their time and their learning upon idle controversies and still more idle speculations ; and although we are aware that every writer gives a different signification to every charge and tincture known , still , so far as we are aware , no learned Mason has treated the subject with care " and attention . We therefore think our suggestion worthy the pursuit of the antiquary .
By the iniquitous extermination of the Templars in Prance by the atrocious Philip le Bel , who coveted their possessions ; and the suppression and destruction of the Order in England , and seizure of its property and records , by oar own weak and inglorious Xing Edward II ., we are doubtless deprived of the means of filling up the hiatus in the history of Masonry , and , as we believe , the
power of throwing light on its connection with heraldry , as well as some other interesting points in its annals . In those days—properly called the dark ages—learning and literature were in the hands of the Church , which retaining so much as Eome did not consider injurious to its own authority , committed the rest to the flames .
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Chivaley,
in this place to enter into an examination of the claims our Institution has to the invention of heraldry ; but we may remark that the form of the shield approaches to our badge ; the chief ordinaries , as they are termed , are the Passion Cross and the St . Andrew ' s Cross * or saltier , as it is heraldically designated- the half of which we would chevron mullet
term the ^^^ rd- ^ eralds call it a j me we affirm to be the Masonic symbol of the five points , and we may observe that the arms of tnat true Mason , Sir Thomas < 3 reshatn , have these distinguishing Masonic characters—the square dividing the five points of fellowship . In most of the bearings , ; we discover some traces of the Masonic character . In the arms of Thomas
Thavie who left a good estate towards the support of St . Andrew ' s Church , Holborn , in the south-east window of that church , ire have a shield azure , with a , wheatsheaf on a bend ^ fe ^ a chief sable , on it a T ; the motto , " Peace and concord ; " here we have the symbol of the first pass-word : and there is also in the watt , very near this window ^ on a shiel d at the bottom of a large tablet covered over with plaster and whitewash , this remarkable version of the triple Tau qym * The family of Atlowe , in the sixteenth
century , bore a chevron dividing three carpenter ' s squares , and the arms of the Aliens of Essex were r i"T i » We must acknowledge these are but slender grounds on which to found our assumption , but we throw them out as hints for others who have studied the subject . All the information we have with regard to the origin of heraldry is very obscure ; the professors , of
the science have wasted their time and their learning upon idle controversies and still more idle speculations ; and although we are aware that every writer gives a different signification to every charge and tincture known , still , so far as we are aware , no learned Mason has treated the subject with care " and attention . We therefore think our suggestion worthy the pursuit of the antiquary .
By the iniquitous extermination of the Templars in Prance by the atrocious Philip le Bel , who coveted their possessions ; and the suppression and destruction of the Order in England , and seizure of its property and records , by oar own weak and inglorious Xing Edward II ., we are doubtless deprived of the means of filling up the hiatus in the history of Masonry , and , as we believe , the
power of throwing light on its connection with heraldry , as well as some other interesting points in its annals . In those days—properly called the dark ages—learning and literature were in the hands of the Church , which retaining so much as Eome did not consider injurious to its own authority , committed the rest to the flames .