The Genius of Masonry Or a Defence of the Order Containing Some Remarks On the
The Genius of Masonry Or a Defence of the Order Containing Some Remarks On the
Samuel L Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
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36 During the long and disastrous wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, all the Lodges were suspended, and the fraternity were only found in private meetings. They had sworn to banish par- ty feuds from their borders, and they shut up their Lodges in order to preserve themselves pure from this charge. Henry the 7th when he came to the throne of England, was so fully convinced that it had been efficaicous in softening the calamities of civil war, that ho called the fraternity together, ...and enrolled himself among them, and became a true friend to them. Masonry was in favor with Henry the 8th, and when that great child of honor, Car- dinal Woolsey was at the zenith of his power, - he was installed Grand Master, and gave the fraternity hon- ors commensurate with his own. By the Craft he built the Colleges he founded. He was accquain- ted with the orders of knighthood which had been auper-added to masonry at the close of the eleventh century, and the commencement of the twelfth. With the fraternity Woolsey had enrolled most of the learned men in the kingdom, and then the first masonic lectures were given ; I mean those public lectures which were given at Oxford on the scien- ces.
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