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Description Of A Masonic Ms.
DESCRIPTION OF A MASONIC MS .
BY ' MASONIC STUDENT . THIS is a curious MS . in the British Museum , among the Additional MS . It is practically the history of Coustos ancl the Inquisition in MS ., with some additions , and certain other MS . not Masonic . Coustos ' s book was published in 1746 . The MS . also contains the history of the evil morals of the
Inquisition , which is found in " The Bloody Tribunal , " by John Marchant , 1756 . It is not original , as it appeared in Gavins " Master-Key to Popery . " Where Gavin got it from he does not say . But as we have here a translation of Coustos ( aud Coustos ' s life and sufferings have been often published in French ) , the probability is we have here a translation of the story as it is in Gavin ' s " Master-Key . " Of course the MS . is after 1754 .
TITLE : " Procedures curieuse de Tinquisition de Portugal contre le francsmacons , 1754 .
Begins : ¦ — Je suis ne a Bern en Suisse et aujourd'hui lapidaire de profession mon pere m ' en mena des ma tendre enfance dans un pais bien eloigne de ma chere patrie comme il etoit chirurgien . * * * * At fo . 36 : — " Je terminal ma justifications par les quatre vers suivant qui ont ete faits
par un macon . " Here follow two fanciful devices within which are written two sentences , the one beginning "Nous suivons tous des sautiers peu batus , nous cherchons a batir : et tous nos edifices sont des temples pour les vertus ou bien des cachots pour les vices . " The other : " J ' ajoutai a ce quatrain la celui qui suit mais du contraire helas seraije convaincu je vois l'inexorable et cruelle injustice sa charnes a poursuivre en ces lieux la vertus pour mieux faire briller le triomphe du vice . " Fo . 57 b . The first portion appears to end here with these words : —
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Description Of A Masonic Ms.
DESCRIPTION OF A MASONIC MS .
BY ' MASONIC STUDENT . THIS is a curious MS . in the British Museum , among the Additional MS . It is practically the history of Coustos ancl the Inquisition in MS ., with some additions , and certain other MS . not Masonic . Coustos ' s book was published in 1746 . The MS . also contains the history of the evil morals of the
Inquisition , which is found in " The Bloody Tribunal , " by John Marchant , 1756 . It is not original , as it appeared in Gavins " Master-Key to Popery . " Where Gavin got it from he does not say . But as we have here a translation of Coustos ( aud Coustos ' s life and sufferings have been often published in French ) , the probability is we have here a translation of the story as it is in Gavin ' s " Master-Key . " Of course the MS . is after 1754 .
TITLE : " Procedures curieuse de Tinquisition de Portugal contre le francsmacons , 1754 .
Begins : ¦ — Je suis ne a Bern en Suisse et aujourd'hui lapidaire de profession mon pere m ' en mena des ma tendre enfance dans un pais bien eloigne de ma chere patrie comme il etoit chirurgien . * * * * At fo . 36 : — " Je terminal ma justifications par les quatre vers suivant qui ont ete faits
par un macon . " Here follow two fanciful devices within which are written two sentences , the one beginning "Nous suivons tous des sautiers peu batus , nous cherchons a batir : et tous nos edifices sont des temples pour les vertus ou bien des cachots pour les vices . " The other : " J ' ajoutai a ce quatrain la celui qui suit mais du contraire helas seraije convaincu je vois l'inexorable et cruelle injustice sa charnes a poursuivre en ces lieux la vertus pour mieux faire briller le triomphe du vice . " Fo . 57 b . The first portion appears to end here with these words : —