THE OLD CHARGES OF BRITISH FREEMASONS.
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need be no hesitation in accepting the
"
Cooke
"
MS.
as the
document from which Dr Anderson
It is not so easy to decide as to the first excerpt, especially as far as it seems to be
for such particulars are to be found in the majority of the
actually taken from some old ]\IS.,
which has
scrolls.
Passin", however, to the second edition of the "Constitutions" (1738),
quoted.^
been denominated by
me
follow
many
"
writers,
Masonic Histoiij" I must ask my readers to
and his masonic history from
the basis of
a little farther before relieving t