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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: type--on all these matters I dare no more decide than on the making
of the Trojan Horse, the birth of Romulus and Remus, or the
incarnation of Vishnoo.
All I dare say is, that Freemasonry emerges in its present form into
history and fact, seemingly about the beginning of George I.'s
reign, among Englishmen and noblemen, notably in four lodges in the
city of London: (1) at The Goose and Gridiron alehouse in St.
Paul's Churchyard; (2) at The Crown alehouse near Drury Lane; (3) at
The Apple Tree tavern near Covent Garden; (4) at The Rummer and
Grapes tavern, in Charnel Row, Westminster. That its principles
were brotherly love and good fellowship, which included in those
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