THE OLD CHARGES OF BRITISH FREEMASONS.
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Good Brethren and Fellowes our purppose is to tell you how and in what manner
worthy craft of Masonry was begun And afterwards how it was upholden maynetained
by many worthy ICings and Princes and other worthy men And also to them that bee here
we shall declare the charges that belon^eth to every Free Mason to Keppe for it is a science
that is worthy to be kept for a worthy craft and vertuous science for it is one of the seven
II.
this
Liberall Sciences
a
a
man
man
to
speake
And
these be the
and
and in
faire
names
The First is Grammar tliat teacheth
The Second is Ehethorick and that teacheth
termes The third is Dialectica that teacheth a man
to write truly
subtill
of them.
:
:
:
and know truth from falsehood
to decerne
man
:
to speake truly
:
The fourth
is
Arrithmetike
And
teacheth
it
Geometrye and it teac