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 122
in his Memorials, p. 8. The Grand Chapter, he says,was purely a defensive organization to meet the wants of the regular brethren and to pre-vent their joining the Ancients. ^Dunkerleys ritual was Christian in its character, and his principal symbol, ihefoun-dation stone, was made to allude to the… … J. i\I. RAGON ORIGIN OF THE ROYAL ARCH 1263 and the Grand Chapter and vested the presiding officers of bothbodies in the same persons, was adopted. Hence, the Duke of Sussex,who had been elected the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, became,by virtue of his office, the chief Principal of the Grand…
