2012, ISBN: 1130569187

[EAN: 9781130569186], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… Plus…

[EAN: 9781130569186], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: .my good and kind friend, the late Mr. William Sharp, who knew perhaps more about the masons and masonry of his native town than anyone else, give any information on the subject. I mention the report nevertheless, as it is only by continued searching and watching that we may ever hope to find and rescue papers which may throw a flood of light on the history of the craft. The entries referring to Freemasonry in the diary of Elias Ashmole were not printed until 1717, in a small edition which has now become comparatively scarce. They were not noticed by Anderson in the first edition of the Book of Constitutions issued in 1723, the fact being, perhaps, as other matters are also omitted, that it was not until he prepared the second edition, in 1738, that he had made any search for definite records bearing on Freemasonry. Indeed the 1723 Constitutions is what it was probably intended to be--a somewhat superficial and general history of the building art. In the second edition Anderson has extended the information and produced a larger book, utterly useless for the purpose, for which the Old Charges of masonry were originally intended.19 After the time of the publication of the entry in Ashmole s diary relating to the lodge of freemasons at Warrington, it has often been more or less correctly repeated, but the subject as to the real character of the lodge has rarely been seriously discussed. Much has been based on the statement in an edition of William Preston s Illustrations of Masonry that Ashmole was elected a fellow as a singular favour; chapter and verse for such a conclusion it would have been as difficult then as now to produce. It has also often been stated, following incorrect copies, that fellow crafts are mentioned, but no 19 See .<

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