The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history (1906)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Singleton, William R. (William Reynolds), 1819-1901, Singleton, William R. (William Reynolds), 1819-1901. History of the symbolism of freemasonry, Hughan, William James, 1841-1911 · New York : the Masonic History Company · leaf 232
yed, no matterwhat was its original meaning, to designate a superior class. I thinkit may justly be considered as referring to the fact that the personscalled Freemasons were men of superior abilities, who, by beingaccepted into the fraternity, had become free of the guild or corpo-ration. Masons… … THE FREEMASONS AND THE ROUGH MASONS 785 who were employed in labors of a less artistic character, were not per-mitted to work with these Freemasons—were not accepted intotheir fraternity; in other words, were not made free of the guild. A writer in the London Freemason says : Originally the…
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