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1. Histoire de la Monarchie Prussienne, VI. 76.
2. Lecouteulx de Canteleu, op. cit., p. 105.
3. Ibid., p. 106; Lombard de Langres, Les Sociétés Secrètes en Allemagne, p. 67.
4. Monsignor George F. Dillon, The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization, p. 24
(1885).
5. Brother Chalmers I. Paton, The Origin of Freemasonry: the 1717 Theory Exploded, p. 34.
6. Lecouteulx de Canteleu, op. cit., p. 107; Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy, p. 27; Dillon, op. cit, p. 24;
Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 148.
7. Preston's Illustrations of Masonry, p. 209 (1804); Brother Chalmers I. Paton, The Origin of Freemasonry,
etc., p. 12.
8. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXV. p. 31. See account of some of these convivial masonic societies in this
paper entitled " An Apollinaric Summons."
9. Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages, p. 373. A " Past Grand Master," in an article entitled
" The Crisis in Freemasonry," in the English Review for August 1922, takes the same view. " It is true...
that the Craft Lodges in England were originally Hanoverian clubs, as the Scottish lodges were Jacobite
Clubs."
10. Dr. Anderson, a native of Aberdeen and at this point period minister of the Presbyterian Church in Swallow
Street, and Dr. Desaguliers, of French Protestant descent, who had taken holy orders in England and in
this same year of 1717 lectured before George I, who rewarded him with benefice in Norfolk (Dictionary of
National Biography, articles on James Anderson and John Theophilus Desaguliers).
11. The Free Mason's Vindication, being an answer to a scandalous libel entitled (sic) The Grand Mystery of
the Free Masons dicover'd, etc. (Dublin, 1725). It is curious that this reply is to be found in the British Museum
(Press mark 8145, h. I. 44), but not the book itself. Yet Mr. Waite thinks it sufficiently important to
include in a " Chronology of the Order," in his Encyclopdia of Freemasonry, I. 335.
12. Gentleman's Magazine for April 1737.
13. Dates given in A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. pp. 11, 12, and Deschamps, Les Sociétés Secrètes et la Société, II.
29. The Writer of the paper in A.Q.C. appears not to recognize the authorship of the second work L'Ordre
des Franc-Maçons trahi; but on p. XXIX of this book the signature of Abbé Pérau appears in the masonic
cypher of the period derived from the masonic word LUX. This cypher is, of course, now well known. It
will be found on p. 73 of Clavel's Histoire pittoresque.
14. The British Museum possesses no earlier edition of this work than that of 1797, but the first edition must
have appeared at least thirty-five years earlier, as A Free Mason's Answer to the suspected Author of...
Jachin and Boaz, of which a copy may be found in the British Museum (Press mark 112, d 41), is dated
1762. This book bears on the title-page the following quotation from Shakespeare: " Oh, that Heaven would
put in every honest Hand a Whip To lash the Rascal naked through the World."
15. The author of Jachin and Boaz says in the 1797 edition that in reply to this work he has received " several
anonymous Letters, containing the lowest Abuse and scurrilous Invectives; nay some have proceeded so
far as to threaten his Person. He requests the Favour of all enraged Brethren, who shall chuse to display
their Talents for the future, that they will be so kind as to pay the Postage of their Letters for there can be no
Reason why he should put up with their ill Treatment and pay the Piper into that Bargain. Surely there must
be something in this Book very extraordinary; a something they cannot digest, thus to excite the Wrath and
Ire of these hot-brained Mason-bit Gentry." One letter he has received calls him a Scandalous Stinking Pow
Catt (sic)."
16. A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 34.
17. Ibid.
18. Mackey also thinks that R.A. was introduced in 1740, but that before that date it formed part of the Master's
degree (Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 299.
19. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 437.
20. Review by Yarker of Mr. A.E. Waite's book The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry in The Equinox, Vol.
I. No. 7. p. 414.
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