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Show [ 44 ] as old Mafons have tranfmitted it by Tradition, when the noble Perfons her Majesty had commiflioned, who had brought a fufficient Pofte with them at Tork on St. JoM Day, were once admitted into the Lodge, they made no XJie of Arms, and return'dthe Queen a rnoft honourable Account of the antient Fraternity, whereby her politi-cal Fears and Doubts were difpelled, and ibe let them a-lone, as a People much refpeaed by the Noble and the Wife of all the polite Nations, but negkaed the Art all her Reign. 6. In an old Record of Mafons there is the following Paragraph, viz. T h e Company of Mafons, being other-wife term'd Free Mafons of ancient ftaunding and good Reckoning, by Means of affable and kind Meetings di-verfe Times, and as a loving Brotherhood fhould tife to do, did frequent this mutual Affembly in the Time of King Henry V. the twelfth Year of his rnoft gracious Reign, and the faid Record defcribing a Coat ot Arms, much the fame with that of the London Company of Freemen Mafons, it is generally believed that the faid Company is defcended of the antient Fraternity ; and that in former Times no M a n was made free of that Company, until he was inftall'd in fome Lodge of Free and Accepted Mafons, as a ncceffary Qualification.. But that laudable Praaice feems to have been long in DifTuetude. • The Brethren in foreign Parts have alfo difcovered, that not only the Orders of Warlike Knights, but the Religious too, with fevcral other noble and ancient Societies of Men, have derived their Charge>s and Regulations from the Free Mafons. But how many Mimicks of this rnoft honourable Society do w e find acted in thefe Days 5 for Men becoming more and more loofe in their Principles, endeavour to bring into Contempt thofe whom they fee living up to the Principles of moral Virtue, who for that End, as well as others, have let themfelves a-part. THE |