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 287
s, whowere not monks but professional architects, for Masonry had forsome time been passing away out of the hands of the ecclesiastics inthose of the laity and the guilds. The guilds, or trade corporations, in France began about thistime to take an active existence and to exert a powerful interest… … EARLY MASONRY IN BRITAIN ROM the time of the conquest of Britain byClaudius to the final evacuation of the islandby the Romans in the beginning of the 5thcentury, a period of about three hundred andfifty years had elapsed. During this long occu-pation the Romans had held, if not undisputed,at least…
