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 39
is, besides, internal evidence in the English manuscripts ofboth French and German interpolations. The reference in the Le-gend to Charles Martel connects it with the French Masonry of the12th century, and the invocation to the Four Crowned Martyrs*in the Halliwell MS. is undoubtedly of German… … ♦ THE OLD MANUSCRIPTS \^ The importance of this Legend in the influence that it ex-erted for a long period on the Craft as the accredited history ofthe Institution makes it indispensably necessary that it shouldform a part of any work that professes to treat of the history ofMasonry. For this…
