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Knights Templars.
persecution ; they retired into Scotland , and refused to acknowledge John Larmenio as Grand Master , and pretended that they had re-established the Order . This pretension was refuted by a Chapter of legitimate Knights ; after this the new Chief issued his diploma in 132 [ - / and his successors have followed his example , on attaining the dignity of Secret Grand Master of the Order of Templars in France . The List of Grand Masters until the 1776 has been pubiisiiedPhilide Bourbon
year . p , Duke of Orleans , was G . M . in 170 . 5 ; Louis Aug . de Bourbon , Duke of Maine , 1724 . ; Louis Henri de Bourbon , Con ' de , in 1737 ; Louis Francis de Bourbon , Conti , in 17-1 , 5 ; Louis Hen . Timolion de Cosse , Bnssoe , in 1776 ; and Bernard Raymond Fabre became Grand Master in 1814 .
"The Knights Templars who retired into Scotland founded an Establishment in 1314 , under the protection of Robert Bruce ; their objects and their measures were the same , and they were concealed under the title of Architects . " It appears from this statement , which I believe to be substantially correct , that from 1313 or 14 , the date of James de Molai ' s immolation , there have existed two distinct Orders of Knights Templars , independent of and not acknowled
, ging each other , but equally using a secret system of initiation ; whereof one is , and the other is not , connected with the Society of Freemasons . With the history of the perpetuation of the Order , under John Mark Larmenio , I became long ago acquainted from the late Mr . Charles Mills ' s interesting works on Chivalry and the Crusades , whose vindication of the Order from the slanderous charges made against them , procured for him the honour of admission into the t Order
Secre , ( not the Masonic one . ) Indeed , he does not appear to have been acquainted with the existence of the Masonic Order of Kni ghts Templars . I was about to forward this statement of Llorente to you , hoping to elicit some further information relative to " the Knights who retired into Scotland , " which I thought might possibly he furnished hy some member of the " Militia Templi " in that country , but was prevented doing so at the time I first met with it by other occupations , and in the meantime I found the following passage in an excellent article on Freemasonry , in the "Encyclopedia Metronolitana . " which is to t . hR
purpose . " The Knights Templars were much connected with the Masons , and are supposed to have been frequentl y initiated among the Syrian fraternity . On the dissolution of their Order in the fourteenth century the Provincial Grand Master of Auvergne , Pierre D'Aumont , with two Commanders and five Knights , fled , disguised as Masons , to one of the Scottish Isles , where they found the Grand Commander , Hamptoncourt and other members
of their Order ; and they resolved to preserve the institution , if possible , although in secret , and adopted many of the forms of the Freemasons , to conceal their real designs . They held a Chapter of . St . John ' s day , 1313 , when D'Aumont was chosen Grand Master ; in 1361 their seat was removed to Aberdeen , and by degrees the Order spread , under the veil of Freemasonry , over great part of the continentthough its rank and were at end "
, power . After mentioning that "in some of the churches formerl y belonging to the Templars , strictly Masonic emblems are found , as at Erfurt , Schoengrabern , Prague , & c , " there follow many interesting particulars ' from which I extract these . " The Scotch Masons claim their origin as a body from the time of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Knights Templars.
persecution ; they retired into Scotland , and refused to acknowledge John Larmenio as Grand Master , and pretended that they had re-established the Order . This pretension was refuted by a Chapter of legitimate Knights ; after this the new Chief issued his diploma in 132 [ - / and his successors have followed his example , on attaining the dignity of Secret Grand Master of the Order of Templars in France . The List of Grand Masters until the 1776 has been pubiisiiedPhilide Bourbon
year . p , Duke of Orleans , was G . M . in 170 . 5 ; Louis Aug . de Bourbon , Duke of Maine , 1724 . ; Louis Henri de Bourbon , Con ' de , in 1737 ; Louis Francis de Bourbon , Conti , in 17-1 , 5 ; Louis Hen . Timolion de Cosse , Bnssoe , in 1776 ; and Bernard Raymond Fabre became Grand Master in 1814 .
"The Knights Templars who retired into Scotland founded an Establishment in 1314 , under the protection of Robert Bruce ; their objects and their measures were the same , and they were concealed under the title of Architects . " It appears from this statement , which I believe to be substantially correct , that from 1313 or 14 , the date of James de Molai ' s immolation , there have existed two distinct Orders of Knights Templars , independent of and not acknowled
, ging each other , but equally using a secret system of initiation ; whereof one is , and the other is not , connected with the Society of Freemasons . With the history of the perpetuation of the Order , under John Mark Larmenio , I became long ago acquainted from the late Mr . Charles Mills ' s interesting works on Chivalry and the Crusades , whose vindication of the Order from the slanderous charges made against them , procured for him the honour of admission into the t Order
Secre , ( not the Masonic one . ) Indeed , he does not appear to have been acquainted with the existence of the Masonic Order of Kni ghts Templars . I was about to forward this statement of Llorente to you , hoping to elicit some further information relative to " the Knights who retired into Scotland , " which I thought might possibly he furnished hy some member of the " Militia Templi " in that country , but was prevented doing so at the time I first met with it by other occupations , and in the meantime I found the following passage in an excellent article on Freemasonry , in the "Encyclopedia Metronolitana . " which is to t . hR
purpose . " The Knights Templars were much connected with the Masons , and are supposed to have been frequentl y initiated among the Syrian fraternity . On the dissolution of their Order in the fourteenth century the Provincial Grand Master of Auvergne , Pierre D'Aumont , with two Commanders and five Knights , fled , disguised as Masons , to one of the Scottish Isles , where they found the Grand Commander , Hamptoncourt and other members
of their Order ; and they resolved to preserve the institution , if possible , although in secret , and adopted many of the forms of the Freemasons , to conceal their real designs . They held a Chapter of . St . John ' s day , 1313 , when D'Aumont was chosen Grand Master ; in 1361 their seat was removed to Aberdeen , and by degrees the Order spread , under the veil of Freemasonry , over great part of the continentthough its rank and were at end "
, power . After mentioning that "in some of the churches formerl y belonging to the Templars , strictly Masonic emblems are found , as at Erfurt , Schoengrabern , Prague , & c , " there follow many interesting particulars ' from which I extract these . " The Scotch Masons claim their origin as a body from the time of