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 60
is a copy of the so-called OldYork Constitutions. From all these considerations, I think that we are justified inassigning to the Halliwell poem and to the other later manuscriptstwo different sources. The former is of Germanic, and the latter ofFrench origin. They agree, however, in a general… … .ci^tTKK^^/r^^S^, J H E Legend of the Craft, as it has been given inthe fourth chapter of this work from the exem-plar in the Dowland MS., appears to have beenaccepted for centuries by the body of the Frater-nity as a truthful history. Even at the presentday, this Legend is exerting an influence in…
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