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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Berners , the translator of Froissart , when at the court of the Emperor Charles V . as ambassador from Henry VIII . * in a letter to the Cardinal , says , " if your Grace remember me with some crampe rynges ye shall do a thing much looked for ; and I trust to bestow thaym well , with God's grace . " Ancl Dr . Magnus gravely writes to the same
Cardinal , in 1526 , as follows : " Please it your Grace to understand that M . Wiat , of his goodness , sent unto me for a present certain crampe rings , which I distributed , and gave to sundry mine acquaintance at Edinburgh ; amongst others , to Mr . Adam Otterburne , who with one of them relieved a man of the cramp in the presence of much people . Since
which time many requests have been made unto me for crampe rings at my departing there , and also since my coming from thence . May it p lease your Grace , therefore ,
to shew your gracious pleasure to the saicl M . Wiat , that some rings may be kept , ancl sent into Scotland , which , after my poor opinion , should be a good deed , remembering the power and operation of them is known ancl proved in Edinburgh , ancl that they be greatly required for the same cause both by great personages ancl other . " f
I have been thus copious in describing the prevailing rao-e of those times for occult practices , for the purpose of shewing that Speculative Masons were no more to blame for entering into the profound enquiries which occupied the attention of all ranks of mankind , than the literati of the nineteenth centurywho make a liberal expenditure of time
, and money to promote universal knowledge ; and benefit the uneducated classes , by patronising philosophical societies and mechanics' institutions , which assume the same position as the study of natural magic occupied some centuries ago . Nor would it be reasonable to affirm that these investigations
constituted the principal employment of the Craft in their private Chapters ; for we are assured that theoretical architecture occupied their attention in a very hi g h degree : yet
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
Berners , the translator of Froissart , when at the court of the Emperor Charles V . as ambassador from Henry VIII . * in a letter to the Cardinal , says , " if your Grace remember me with some crampe rynges ye shall do a thing much looked for ; and I trust to bestow thaym well , with God's grace . " Ancl Dr . Magnus gravely writes to the same
Cardinal , in 1526 , as follows : " Please it your Grace to understand that M . Wiat , of his goodness , sent unto me for a present certain crampe rings , which I distributed , and gave to sundry mine acquaintance at Edinburgh ; amongst others , to Mr . Adam Otterburne , who with one of them relieved a man of the cramp in the presence of much people . Since
which time many requests have been made unto me for crampe rings at my departing there , and also since my coming from thence . May it p lease your Grace , therefore ,
to shew your gracious pleasure to the saicl M . Wiat , that some rings may be kept , ancl sent into Scotland , which , after my poor opinion , should be a good deed , remembering the power and operation of them is known ancl proved in Edinburgh , ancl that they be greatly required for the same cause both by great personages ancl other . " f
I have been thus copious in describing the prevailing rao-e of those times for occult practices , for the purpose of shewing that Speculative Masons were no more to blame for entering into the profound enquiries which occupied the attention of all ranks of mankind , than the literati of the nineteenth centurywho make a liberal expenditure of time
, and money to promote universal knowledge ; and benefit the uneducated classes , by patronising philosophical societies and mechanics' institutions , which assume the same position as the study of natural magic occupied some centuries ago . Nor would it be reasonable to affirm that these investigations
constituted the principal employment of the Craft in their private Chapters ; for we are assured that theoretical architecture occupied their attention in a very hi g h degree : yet