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Simancas have to do with the state papers of England ?* Courage my lords of the Treasury , English state papers may yet be , and will be found in China or Shina ! f But to Mr . Brewer . " To the difficulty arising from a general absence of

dates in papers of this early period must be added the uncertainty in the different modes of calculations adopted by different nations . Some states followed the Roman , some the old style . Some commenced the year on Christmas day , some at tho variable feast of Easter . In some instances the same writer followed no rule , but

wavered between both styles ; some adopted tbe style of tho place where they chanced to be staying , or of the correspondent to whom their letters were addressed . " " This uncertainty in tho chronology of tho times involved the necessity of numerous researches . " " It was indispensable to arrive at some certain data for

determining the shifting dates of uncertain papers- " "At last hy one method or another" " the date of each separate document was determined with tolerable exactness , " ( p . xi ) .

Accordingly the history of the 16 th century is not dependent on state records , but to "shifting dates of uncertain papers by one method or another" adjusted to tall y with admitted modern chronology—pray who manufactured modern

chronology ? What are sensible , people to think of William the conqueror , and John with his Magna Carta , & c . Oh ye Masons what have ye done ? But leaving Masonry out of the question . With all the self conceit of this age , it is impossible lo

believe that documents purporting to be written by Kings , Bishops , and chiefs of enli ghtened men in Henry the Sth ' s reign , were those of men who did not know what they themselves meant when writing—and that Mr . Brewer does know what

. they intended to mean . Oh clever age . Clever Mr . Brewer prophet of the past , and still more clever Lords of the Treasury ancl Master of the Rolls . Probably the oldest English writer , or rather

probably the most ancient English printed book is "The Pastyme of People , " b y John Rastell "bravely copylyd and emprynted in Chepesyde , at the sygne of the meermayd next to Poll y ' s-gate . "

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This work is historical of England and very scarceand was reprinted b y Mr . Dibden in 1811 . In theadvertisement , Mr . Dibden says that , " In BastelFs impression tho several histories are so ' confusedly arranged that the reader finds himself at

Rome , Paris , and London in the same page , and mixingwith foreigners and Englishmen before ho knows wherehe is , or can remember preceding events . With all theeditor ' s well-known attachment to ancient lore he conceived that adherence to antiquity in these particulars would be both blind and productive of confusion . "

( p . v ) . A patched up affair then must be chronological history whether obtained from state records or tlie most ancient English authors . Now from what has been shewn it may be suspected that the priestly

Masons in ancient days managed these clerical ! matters , and that esoteric celestial fable has been in ignorance , accepted by exoterics as historical fact .

The Pope And The Freemasons.

THE POPE AND THE FREEMASONS .

The following article appears in the Free Lance of April the 3 rd , a serio-comic paper published at Manchester : — " Almost side by side in last week ' s papers appeared the two following paragraphs : —

"' THE EABL OF ZETLAND AOT TUB FEEEJIASOXS . —The present year completes the quarter of a century during which the Earl of Zetland has held ! the office of Grand Master of the Freemasons of England , and his lordship having intimated his intention to retire from the office at the close of the year

, the Freemasons are getting up a testimonial to him , which promises to reach the sum of £ 5 , 000 . His lordship lately declared that he would not apply the testimonial to any personal object or to any of the existing Masonic charities , and it now appears that it is his intention to invest the money in the names

of trustees , and devote the interest to the relief of distinguished brethren who may become distressed , and their widows or other relations depending upon them . '

"Having looked on that picture let us look on this . The writer is giving the general tenor and contents of a letter of his HolinessPius IS . '" Among other things the letter expresses again " affliction and astonishment " that the Archbishop should have been present at the obsequies of Marshall

Magnan , Grand Master of the Freemasons . The Freemasons , indeed , are very heavily denounced . "They are , " tlie letter says , "sects of impiety , bound only by complicity in odious crimes ; full of perverse manoeuvres and diabolical artifices ; corrupters of moralsand destroyers of every idea of honourtruth

, , , or justice ; propagators of monstrous opinions , disseminators of abominable vices and unheard-of wickedness ; reversers of all authority of the Catholic Church and of civil society ; and capable , if possible , of driving God himself out of heaven ! '

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1869-04-17, Page 6” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 24 March 2023, www.masonicperiodicals.org/periodicals/mmr/issues/mmr_17041869/page/6/.
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SKETCHES OF NOTABLE MASONIC WORKS. Article 1
EARS OF WHEAT FROM A CORNUCOPIA. Article 2
MASONIC CELESTIAL MYSTERIES. Article 4
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THE POPE AND THE FREEMASONS. Article 6
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 7
P.M.'S AND THE WORKING BRETHREN OF LODGES. Article 8
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 10
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS. Article 11
INAUGURATION OF THE NEW MASONIC HALL AND BUILDINGS. Article 11
METROPOLITAN. Article 15
PROVINCIAL. Article 15
CHANNEL ISLANDS. Article 16
SOUTH AFRICA. Article 16
ROYAL ARCH. Article 17
MARK MASONRY. Article 17
MASONIC FESTIVITIES. Article 17
Poetry. Article 19
MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED SOCIETIES. Article 20
LIST OF LODGE, &c., MEETINGS FOR WEEK ENDING 24TH APRIL, 1869. Article 20
MASONIC LIFEBOAT FUND. Article 20
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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Simancas have to do with the state papers of England ?* Courage my lords of the Treasury , English state papers may yet be , and will be found in China or Shina ! f But to Mr . Brewer . " To the difficulty arising from a general absence of

dates in papers of this early period must be added the uncertainty in the different modes of calculations adopted by different nations . Some states followed the Roman , some the old style . Some commenced the year on Christmas day , some at tho variable feast of Easter . In some instances the same writer followed no rule , but

wavered between both styles ; some adopted tbe style of tho place where they chanced to be staying , or of the correspondent to whom their letters were addressed . " " This uncertainty in tho chronology of tho times involved the necessity of numerous researches . " " It was indispensable to arrive at some certain data for

determining the shifting dates of uncertain papers- " "At last hy one method or another" " the date of each separate document was determined with tolerable exactness , " ( p . xi ) .

Accordingly the history of the 16 th century is not dependent on state records , but to "shifting dates of uncertain papers by one method or another" adjusted to tall y with admitted modern chronology—pray who manufactured modern

chronology ? What are sensible , people to think of William the conqueror , and John with his Magna Carta , & c . Oh ye Masons what have ye done ? But leaving Masonry out of the question . With all the self conceit of this age , it is impossible lo

believe that documents purporting to be written by Kings , Bishops , and chiefs of enli ghtened men in Henry the Sth ' s reign , were those of men who did not know what they themselves meant when writing—and that Mr . Brewer does know what

. they intended to mean . Oh clever age . Clever Mr . Brewer prophet of the past , and still more clever Lords of the Treasury ancl Master of the Rolls . Probably the oldest English writer , or rather

probably the most ancient English printed book is "The Pastyme of People , " b y John Rastell "bravely copylyd and emprynted in Chepesyde , at the sygne of the meermayd next to Poll y ' s-gate . "

Ar00602

This work is historical of England and very scarceand was reprinted b y Mr . Dibden in 1811 . In theadvertisement , Mr . Dibden says that , " In BastelFs impression tho several histories are so ' confusedly arranged that the reader finds himself at

Rome , Paris , and London in the same page , and mixingwith foreigners and Englishmen before ho knows wherehe is , or can remember preceding events . With all theeditor ' s well-known attachment to ancient lore he conceived that adherence to antiquity in these particulars would be both blind and productive of confusion . "

( p . v ) . A patched up affair then must be chronological history whether obtained from state records or tlie most ancient English authors . Now from what has been shewn it may be suspected that the priestly

Masons in ancient days managed these clerical ! matters , and that esoteric celestial fable has been in ignorance , accepted by exoterics as historical fact .

The Pope And The Freemasons.

THE POPE AND THE FREEMASONS .

The following article appears in the Free Lance of April the 3 rd , a serio-comic paper published at Manchester : — " Almost side by side in last week ' s papers appeared the two following paragraphs : —

"' THE EABL OF ZETLAND AOT TUB FEEEJIASOXS . —The present year completes the quarter of a century during which the Earl of Zetland has held ! the office of Grand Master of the Freemasons of England , and his lordship having intimated his intention to retire from the office at the close of the year

, the Freemasons are getting up a testimonial to him , which promises to reach the sum of £ 5 , 000 . His lordship lately declared that he would not apply the testimonial to any personal object or to any of the existing Masonic charities , and it now appears that it is his intention to invest the money in the names

of trustees , and devote the interest to the relief of distinguished brethren who may become distressed , and their widows or other relations depending upon them . '

"Having looked on that picture let us look on this . The writer is giving the general tenor and contents of a letter of his HolinessPius IS . '" Among other things the letter expresses again " affliction and astonishment " that the Archbishop should have been present at the obsequies of Marshall

Magnan , Grand Master of the Freemasons . The Freemasons , indeed , are very heavily denounced . "They are , " tlie letter says , "sects of impiety , bound only by complicity in odious crimes ; full of perverse manoeuvres and diabolical artifices ; corrupters of moralsand destroyers of every idea of honourtruth

, , , or justice ; propagators of monstrous opinions , disseminators of abominable vices and unheard-of wickedness ; reversers of all authority of the Catholic Church and of civil society ; and capable , if possible , of driving God himself out of heaven ! '

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