Excerpt from A Brief Inquiry Into the Origin and Principles of Free Masonry
But Mr. Lawrie was not the first who rejected the opinion that Masonry was founded by a fraternity of architects; The Spirit {of Masonry, several years before this, had been published with the approbation of the Grand Lodge' of England, under the aus-i pioes of Lord petrie, Grand Master, by Mr. Hutchinson, Mas ter of the Barnardcastle Lodge of Concord. In this book, which.
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