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A Curious Masonic Tract.
A CURIOUS MASONIC TRACT .
BY MASONIC STUDENT . THIS curious Masonic tract was picked up accidentally out of a second-hand bookseller ' s catalogue in London . I had myself never seen it before , though it is mentioned b y Oliver , ancl 1 do not so far meet with any one who has a copy of it . It is not alluded to by Kloss , ancl is therefore a "find . "
I commend it to the notice of the curious , and the studious in Masonic archeology and rarefies ! THE SECRETS OF THE FREE-MASONS REVEALED BY A DISGUSTED BROTHER . Containing an ingenuous Account of their Origin , their Practices in the Lodges , Signs and Watch-Words ; Proceedings at the Making , and the
Method used to find a Mason , when in a foreign Country , & c , & e ., as it ever was , and ever will be , To which is added the favourite Songs of the Masons , as sung in every Lodge ; ancl an exact List of all the regular Lodges . The Second Edition . London : Printed for the Author , ancl sold by J . Scott , at the Black-Swan , in Pater-Noster-Row , ancl all the Booksellers in Town and Country . M , DCC , LIX .
THE SECRETS OP THE FREE-MASONS REVEALED , & C . THE world , no doubt , will ask my reason for this candid and ingenuous discovery of the whole secrets of Free Masonry . I answer , in very few words , that having closely applied myself for a considerable time to the study of its principles and precepts , at length I became introduced as a Principal at the
* * * e , where I continued some months . But ( as I have learned since ) the Decrees of this * * * * e were ever arbitrary and uncontronlable , which occasioned the decline of the lodge , so , upon its revival , they took care not to deviate , from their predecessors ; and finding myself illused , contrary to all the laws and regulations of the fraternity , I quitted them with a full determination to be revenged for the affronts I received , by unravelling to mankind the whole mystery of the Free-Masons ; their beginning , their transactions in the Lod ges , & c , & c , & c ., as it ever was , arid ever will be ; which have remained a profound 2 i
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Curious Masonic Tract.
A CURIOUS MASONIC TRACT .
BY MASONIC STUDENT . THIS curious Masonic tract was picked up accidentally out of a second-hand bookseller ' s catalogue in London . I had myself never seen it before , though it is mentioned b y Oliver , ancl 1 do not so far meet with any one who has a copy of it . It is not alluded to by Kloss , ancl is therefore a "find . "
I commend it to the notice of the curious , and the studious in Masonic archeology and rarefies ! THE SECRETS OF THE FREE-MASONS REVEALED BY A DISGUSTED BROTHER . Containing an ingenuous Account of their Origin , their Practices in the Lodges , Signs and Watch-Words ; Proceedings at the Making , and the
Method used to find a Mason , when in a foreign Country , & c , & e ., as it ever was , and ever will be , To which is added the favourite Songs of the Masons , as sung in every Lodge ; ancl an exact List of all the regular Lodges . The Second Edition . London : Printed for the Author , ancl sold by J . Scott , at the Black-Swan , in Pater-Noster-Row , ancl all the Booksellers in Town and Country . M , DCC , LIX .
THE SECRETS OP THE FREE-MASONS REVEALED , & C . THE world , no doubt , will ask my reason for this candid and ingenuous discovery of the whole secrets of Free Masonry . I answer , in very few words , that having closely applied myself for a considerable time to the study of its principles and precepts , at length I became introduced as a Principal at the
* * * e , where I continued some months . But ( as I have learned since ) the Decrees of this * * * * e were ever arbitrary and uncontronlable , which occasioned the decline of the lodge , so , upon its revival , they took care not to deviate , from their predecessors ; and finding myself illused , contrary to all the laws and regulations of the fraternity , I quitted them with a full determination to be revenged for the affronts I received , by unravelling to mankind the whole mystery of the Free-Masons ; their beginning , their transactions in the Lod ges , & c , & c , & c ., as it ever was , arid ever will be ; which have remained a profound 2 i