The "Langdale " Masonic Ms.

( truly and lo w ) rite truly fhe leeond is llcthorickc and that ( te-. iehe ) th A man to speak faire in lubtile tcrmes the tied is Dialitick and thai teacheth a man to del ' c ( ern ) or to know ( ruth from fall hood , the fourth is Arith nielick it y t- tc ( ach ) e ( h A man to reckon and eo ( unt ) all manner of Numbers . The fifth is Geomitrie & ( if )

teacheth A man lo mot and mealhre heights and all other things . fhe sixt Iciencc is called Mul'ickc and yt teacheth A man the craft e of liinges and uoicfe . of lb JJ gs organs harp and trnmpet . the sencnth Iciencc is filled Astronomic yt ieachelh A man to know the courl ' e of lhe lim moon and liars , these be the 7 liberal 1

Iciences flic which 7 be all found by on Iciencc that is cald Geoinitrie and thus may a man prone yt all y'' Iciences of the world he found by Gcomifrie lii Geomitrie teacheth to met and mealure pondcralion and weight of all manner of things in fhe earth for flier is no man yt workelh any

craft but he workelh by Ionic met or nicalure nor no man biiveth or t ' elcth but he doeth b y some in ea lu re . or weig ht &¦ all this is is done by Geomitrie all Christian men merchants plowmen and tilers of ground and all manner of grains and feeds nines planters and lelers of fruits is all grounded on geomitrie nor in none

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of all lhe 7 lihcrnll Iciences can A man liude met or incline w "' oiit Geoinitrie wberefor inelhiiiks that Iciencc ought to be accounted alamo any other of the 7 Iciences . And how this Iciencc was first begun I f'hall you tell before Noahs Hood ther was A man yt was cald Laiiiech as it is written in ve llh chap ; of Genilcs and lit :

had 2 wifes lhe on wil ' s name was Aday the other Zillah by ye first wife Adah he got 2 senilis the name of the 011 was . laball A- the other . liiball it by / jilluh he got A lim ami A daughter < t these •1 children found the beginning of all ( he crafts of ( he world .

And lhe olesl lone . laball loiind lhe craft of Geoinitrie and he pled flocks of I'hcep and lands in the field and first built houl ' es of stone and his brother . luball found ( he craft of mul'ick tongs of toitng harp and organ and the : 5 rd brother Tnball found the linilh craft of working in gold silver < v copper Iron it fieele and the daughter Naainah found the craft of weaning and thel ' c children

knew well y t god would take ucngc , " ce for the films of the world cither by lire or water . Whercfor they wrote the Iciences yt they found in 2 pilars of ston that they might be found afterward the on ston was marble becaufe it will indurc fire the Other was Lateren becaufe it will fwim on the face of the water .

Now ouor intent is to tell . you truly how & , what manner thefo stons were found yt ye Science was written in the great Hci'mcrus yt was Cubis lime the . which Cubis wass Ionics Ion who was Noahs lone this same hermcris was afterwards cald hcriues the father of the wife men he found on of yc 2 p illars of stone and found the feience written thereon and he taught it to others .

And at the making of the tower of Babcll " ther was Mal ' ons much made of & ye King of Babilon yt was cald Niinbroth was A Mafon himtclfe « fc loued well the craft as it is I'd and when the master of the East should be made the King of Babilon lent other Masons at yc Request of ye King of Nineveh his Cozen & when he tent them forth he gaue them A' charge on this maimer ] '' yt' they' | lhould be true one

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to another it yt they should seme ther lord truly for ther pay lb yt ye masters might haue worfhip and all yt belongetli to him and other charges he gave unto them and this was the first time yt every Mason had his charge given him Morouci when Abraham and Sara bis wif went into Kgip '

ther he taught the 7 Sciences to ye Egiptinns and had A worth y Scholar that was cald JSuclid and he lernd ri ght well and was A Master in all tin 7 liberal ! Sciences and in his days it befell y ' ye Lords A- ye El ' tats of the realm had lb many fons yt they had gotten tonic by their wifes and Ibme by other

ladys of the Realme for yt land is a bote land and ' plenteous Generation it they had not Competent El tats to find their living withall wherfor the King " ' ye land cald together his Coiinl ' ell and parliament to know how they might find ther children honestly and as a Gentlemen & they might find no manner "I way it and then they made A Cry throughout the la 111 '