The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history (1906)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Hughan, William James, 1841-1911, Singleton, William Reynolds, 1819-1901. History of the symbolism of freemasonry, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite and the Royal Order of Scotland · New York : Masonic History Co. · leaf 143
ng of names, and confusion of persons, such as were common andmight be expected in manuscripts written in that uncultured age,and by the uneducated craftsmen to whom we owe these old manu-scripts. ^ I assign this era because the Halliwell poem, which is the exemplar of the olderLegend, is evidently… … CHAPTER XIX SUMMARY OF THE LEGEND OF THE CRAFT I HE Legend of the Craft, as it is presented to usin what I have called the later manuscripts, thatis to say, the Dovvland and those that follow itup to the Papworth, begins with a descant on theseven liberal arts and sciences.* I have alreadyshown…
