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of them which wore ordained to be Mastes and Governs of this work . And there was a King of another Region that men called Hiram , and he loved well King Solomon , and gave him Timber for his work : and he had a son that was

named Ajuon , and he was Maste of Geometrie , and he was chief Maste of all his Masons and Mastes of all his Graveing and Carving works , and of all other Manne of Masonry thatt belonged to the Temple , and this is Witnessed in the Bible in Libro

Rogum prio Cap . 5 th . And this same Solomon confirmed both charges and mannes which his Father had given to Masons , and after this manne was thatt worthy Craft of Masonry confirmed in the coiuitry of Jerusalem and many other Kingdoms . Glorious

craftsmen walking intoe diverse countrys , some because of Learning more craft , and some to teach their craft , and soe it befell that there was a curious mason named

Namius Greecus thatt had been att the makeing of Solomon's Temple , and came into France , and he taught the craft of masonry to the men of France . And soe there was one of the Royal Lyne of France that was called Charles Martiall , and was a

man that loved well such a craft , and drew to him this Naimiis Greecus abovesaid , and learned of him the craft and took upon him the charges , and afterwards by the Grace of God was elected King of France . And when he was in his stall he took to him

many Masons and made Masons there that were none , and set them on work , and gave them both charges and manners which he had learned of other Masons and confirmed them a Charter from year to year to hold their Assembly , and cherished them much ,

and thus came the craft into France . England all this time stood void of any charge of Masonry , xmtill the time of St . Alban , and in his time , the King of England thatt was a Pagan and he walled a Town that is now called St . Albonsand in

, thatt St . Albons was a worthy Knight which was chief steward to the King and Governe of the Realm , and alsoe of making of the Town Walls and he loved Masons Well , and cherished them , and he made their pajnmt riht good standing as ' the

g pay , Realm did require , for he gave them every week , Three shillings sixpence , their double wages befor thatt time , tlnmighout all the Land a Mason took butt a penny ye day and meat until the time that St . Albon

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amended it , and gave them a charte of the King and his Councill , and gave it the name of Assembly , and thereatt he was hhnselfe and made Masons and gave them a charge as you shall hear afterwards . ( To be continued . )

A Point Of Masonic History.

A POINT OF MASONIC HISTORY .

We have a great many discussions now-a-days , about questions of Masonic archeological interest , ranging back sometimes through several centuries ; but I propose to call attention to-day to a much later dateand to a fact in

, our annals , about which Upriori , we might have thought there could not be much great difficulty , and certainly not any discrepancy among our Masonic histoians .

The date 1715 , is familiar to us all , as the era of what is often and commonl y called the " Masonic Revival , " ' and to which some brethren would also apparently limit the real antiquity of our Order , though most unwisely in my

opinion . Well , even about this memorable date , several discrepancies exist in our Masonic historians , and practically the proper date in all probability should be 1716 or 1717 .

Smith hi his Freemasons' Pocket Companion , 1736 , gives us no account whatever of the Revival , though he adopts Anderson ' s history of the Order

in the Constitutions of 1723 ; and says , that at the date of his publication , 1736 , "the number of Lodges" had " prodigiously increased within these few years in Great Britain and Ireland . " Anderson in his 1723 edition , says

nothing of the Eevival , but in his edition of 1738 , gives us for the first time a history of that transaction . According to him in 1716 , four lodges met at the Apple Tree , " constituted themselves a Grand Lodge" " revived the

, Quarterly Communication of the Officers of Lodges called the Grand Lodge , " and "resolved to hold the animal assembly and feast , and then to choose a Grand Master from among themselves . "