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The other w $ l answer , God greet well the Masters and Fellows of the Worshipful Company from whence you came . 6 , Stroke two of your Fore-Fingers over your Eye-Lids three Times .
7 . Turn a Glass , or any other Thing that is hollow , downwards , after you have drunk out of it . 8 . Ask how you do ; and your Brothers drink to each other . 9 . Ask what Lodge they were made Freemasons at .
N . B . In the Third of King Henry the Sixth , an Act of Parliament was pass'd , whereby it is made Felony to cause Masons to confederate themselves in Chapiters and Assemblies . The Punishment is Imprisonment of Body , and make Fine andEansom at the King ' s Will . E I N I S .
The above is an exact reprint of the very original document in Bro . Dr . Eawlinson ' s volumes . It does not need much comment , but we may remark , especially , one or two glaring absurdities in it , such as the meridian being " found out , " by the sun leaving the South , and breaking in at the West end of the Lodge ; Arch being derived from
Architecture ; and also in the " Signs to Know a True Mas * on ; " the expression in . No . 2 , " as if hewing ; " the extraordinary and rather difficult way of making a triangle in No . 3 , viz ., with the two feet ; the idea of a grip in No . 4 , & c .
If some of the signs herein described were really signs whereby Freemasons recognise each other ( independently of their publication in the shape of a pamphlet ) , they are really so very palpable , that they would not long be secret at all . The above reprint is only one of the many absurd attempts of
ignorant pretenders to expose what they dislike , and envy because they do not understand it , and is also one of the standing proofs that Masonic secrecy is a mysterious thing , and that Freemasons ' secrets , be they few or many , will still remain secrets , unknown to those who , while curious to discover them , fear the truth of the old story of the red-hot poker or gridiron , and so never entering the portals of a Lodge , will remain in their ignorance .
"So Much For Buckingham."
" SO MUCH FOB BUCKINGHAM / 5
BY BBO . KEY . THEODORE A . BUCKLEY , M . A ., F . S . A . "A TRAOiCAXi motto , " no doubt , says some admirer of Shakspeare ; "but , " add we ourselves , " it need not end in a tragical story , " and we hope it will not prove so in the present instance . We have nothing to do with decapitated dukes , or decapitating tyrants , but with a little town where we have spent many pleasant hours and
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The other w $ l answer , God greet well the Masters and Fellows of the Worshipful Company from whence you came . 6 , Stroke two of your Fore-Fingers over your Eye-Lids three Times .
7 . Turn a Glass , or any other Thing that is hollow , downwards , after you have drunk out of it . 8 . Ask how you do ; and your Brothers drink to each other . 9 . Ask what Lodge they were made Freemasons at .
N . B . In the Third of King Henry the Sixth , an Act of Parliament was pass'd , whereby it is made Felony to cause Masons to confederate themselves in Chapiters and Assemblies . The Punishment is Imprisonment of Body , and make Fine andEansom at the King ' s Will . E I N I S .
The above is an exact reprint of the very original document in Bro . Dr . Eawlinson ' s volumes . It does not need much comment , but we may remark , especially , one or two glaring absurdities in it , such as the meridian being " found out , " by the sun leaving the South , and breaking in at the West end of the Lodge ; Arch being derived from
Architecture ; and also in the " Signs to Know a True Mas * on ; " the expression in . No . 2 , " as if hewing ; " the extraordinary and rather difficult way of making a triangle in No . 3 , viz ., with the two feet ; the idea of a grip in No . 4 , & c .
If some of the signs herein described were really signs whereby Freemasons recognise each other ( independently of their publication in the shape of a pamphlet ) , they are really so very palpable , that they would not long be secret at all . The above reprint is only one of the many absurd attempts of
ignorant pretenders to expose what they dislike , and envy because they do not understand it , and is also one of the standing proofs that Masonic secrecy is a mysterious thing , and that Freemasons ' secrets , be they few or many , will still remain secrets , unknown to those who , while curious to discover them , fear the truth of the old story of the red-hot poker or gridiron , and so never entering the portals of a Lodge , will remain in their ignorance .
"So Much For Buckingham."
" SO MUCH FOB BUCKINGHAM / 5
BY BBO . KEY . THEODORE A . BUCKLEY , M . A ., F . S . A . "A TRAOiCAXi motto , " no doubt , says some admirer of Shakspeare ; "but , " add we ourselves , " it need not end in a tragical story , " and we hope it will not prove so in the present instance . We have nothing to do with decapitated dukes , or decapitating tyrants , but with a little town where we have spent many pleasant hours and