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 316
nglo-Saxons whichis of too much importance to be passed over without an extendednotice. I allude to the establishment of Guilds. These were con-fraternities which, as will hereafter be shown, gave form and feat-ure to the organization of the modern Masonic Lodges. But this is a subject of so much… … CHAPTER VIII THE ANGLO-SAXON GUILDS GUILD signified among the Saxons a fraternit}or sodality united together for the accompHsh-ment by the co-operative exertions of the mem-bers of some predetermined purpose. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxonverb gildan, to pay, and refers to the factthat…
