Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
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But it is not so clear.
That Cromwell was the first, as Lefranc thinks, to blend that brotherhood with the real Freemasons.
The ancient guild of working masons had existed in Great Britain and in Europe for many centuries previous to his time.
They were like every other guild of craftsmen, a body formed for mutual protection and trade offices.
But they differed from other tradespeople in this, that from their duties they were more cosmopolitan, and knew more of the ceremonies of religion at a period when the arts of reading and writing were not very generally understood.
They travelled over every portion of England and Scotland, and frequently crossed the channel to work at the innumerable religious houses, castles, fortifications, great abbeys, churches, and cathedrals which arose over the face of Christendom in such number and splendor in the middle and succeeding ages.
To keep away interlopers to sustain a uniform rate of wages, to be known amongst strangers, and above all amongst foreigners of their craft, signs were necessary, in which
And these signs could be of value only in proportion to the secrecy with which they were kept within the craft itself.
They had signs for those whom they accepted as novices, for the companion mason or journeyman, and for the masters of the craft.
In ages when a trade was transmitted from father to son and formed a kind of family inheritance, we can very well imagine that its secrets were guarded with much jealousy, and that its adepts were enjoined not to communicate the
them to anyone, not even their wives, lest they may become known to outsiders.
The Masons were, if we accept the clockmakers and the jewelers, the most skilled artisans of Europe.
By the cunning of their hands they knew how to make the rough stones speak out the grand conceptions of the architects of the Middle Ages, and often the delicate foliage and flowers and statuary of the fanes they built, remind us of the most perfect eras of Greek and Roman sculpture.
So closely connected with religion and religious architecture as were these brothers Masons, Friar, Fra, or Freemasons, they shared to a large extent in the favor of the popes.
They obtained many and valuable charters, but they degenerated.
The era of the so called Reformation was a sad epoch for them.
It was an era of church demolition rather than of church building.
Wherever the blight of Protestantism fell, the
The beauty and stateliness of church architecture became dwarfed, stunted, and degraded whenever it was not utterly destroyed.
The need of brothers masons had passed, and succeeding Masons began to admit men to their guilds who won a living otherwise than by the craft.
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