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Essays and addresses

Premier Grand Lodge in 1717.

Ma- sonry, whenever introduced into Eng- land, whether under Aethelstane or Edwin or before or since all of which lies in the realm of myth and conjecture was in the hands of separate Lodges, each a law unto itself and with its own ceremonies There never was a more daring I had almost said, impudent act than the assertion by any body of men call- ing themselves by any name, Grand infrequently quoted as Col

The unhappy "John Remingtor Attorney-at-law," in this Petitioi said that he "was unfortunately d( luded and drawn into the idl Diversion of performing the Cert mony of making a free Mason i Order to which a Sport called Sna Dragon was prepared, at which th Petitioner was persuaded to b present.

" (He does not say who d( luded, drew or persuaded him : but i was, of course, "the other fellow") Then, "unhappily, some of the burr ing Spirit used in this Sport wa thrown or spilt on the breast of on Daniel Rees which so burnt or scalde him that in a few days after, the sai Daniel die" Apparently the cand: date was lying down.

After telling of the conviction c Dr Jones as "Principle," and himsel.