Freemasons Monitor (1853)

FREE MAsONRY denotes a system of mysteries and secrets peculiar to free and accepted Masons. The origin of its history is no doubt ancient, as I have attempted, and I trust successfully, to show in the foregoing pages, although I have no authentic source from which to date its_com-mencement, or what could have been the reason for the formation of a society under the tide of Masons, in preference to any other mechanical profession