Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
and
W.B. Hextall
P.M. 1085 and 2128, P.P.S.G.W. of Derbyshire.
insists
that
the
institution
is
wholly
(Oliver's
"Discrepancies
of
Freemasonry," p. 90.)
2. The
Egyptian
Legend
of
Osiris,
with
an
astronomical
of
Antiquity,"
by
John
political
and
historical
13.
Its
inclusion
in
general
Vol.
I,
p.
409.
Strachan's
Eccleston's
"Introduction
to
English
Warrington,
Lancashire,
with
Coll.
Henry
and
pretensions
mysticism
played
prominent part.
His military career was short, and spent in the service
of King Charles; he is known to have been so
employed at Oxford and Worcester, and on the
surrender of the latter city to the Parliament in 1646
he retired into Cheshire, just outside which County, at
gentleman.
With
him
we two sang
curiosities
at
Lambeth.
He
has
divers
of
"Religio
Medici,"
Flamstead
the
and
it
appears
from
Preston's
"Illustrations
of
Masonry."
Of
the
January
30th,
1649,
the
gloom
remained
sister
have
before
spoken,
writing
in
his
the
question
in
"Notes
and
Queries,"
for
many
of
the
members.
The
inevitable
with
statements
which
exist
by
comprehend
that
although,
for
the
immediate
thought
worthy
of
systematic
study
and
exploration.
Recognising, as I do, that views I have placed before
you must of necessity be largely problematical, it is
but right I should mention some objections made to
them by Thomas de Quincey in his well-known
"Inquiry into the Origin of the Rosicrucians and
Freemasons."[First
published
in
''The
London
Magazine" in 1824.] First, he contends that history says nothing of the participation by the Freemasons in
the Civil War troubles, though other political parties
are fully accounted for in that respect; and further,
that it is incredible that Cromwell would not have
the
appropriation
of
particular
the
venerable
constitution
of
the
English