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With his concentrate on THE UK, Scotland, and Ireland, mentioned masonic scholar William Hughan cites numerous types of early Lodge minutes, to be able to show a direct link with and prove that the Freemasons of today are lineal descendants of these operative builders from the 17th century and perhaps moreover, descendants of early speculative people, often noblemen, who normally had no reference to the physical labor of the masonic craft. This, he asserts, rather than the frequent declare that the fraternity started in the a lot more recent yr of 1717.
