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	The Old Charges
		These manuscripts are traditional and legendary in form and are therefore not to be read as histories are, nevertheless a careful and critical study of them based on internal evidence sheds more light on the earliest times of Freemasonry than any other one source whatever.
		In 1889 an exact facsimile of this famous manuscript was published in Volume I of the Antigrapha produced by the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Research, and was edited by the then secretary of that lodge, George William Speth, himself a brilliant authority, who supplied a glossary that is indispensable to the amateur student.
		The Regius Manuscript is the only one of all the versions to be written in meter, and may have been composed by a priest, if one may judge by certain internal evidences, though the point is disputed.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /history/old_charges.html (3336 words)

	Encyclopedia: Halliwell Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The manuscript was recorded in various personal inventories as it changed hands until it came into possession of the Royal Library.
		The manuscript was donated to the Library of the British Museum in 1757 by King George II.
		The text of the document states that Freemasonry was brought to England during the reign of King Athelstan from 924 to 939.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Halliwell-Manuscript (223 words)

	THE OLD CHARGES OF FREEMASONRY
		THE TWO OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS In 1757 King George II presented to the British Museum a collection of some 12,000 volumes, the nucleus of which had been laid by King Henry VII and which came to be known as the Royal Library.
		Phillipps read a paper on the manuscript before the Society of Antiquaries in 1839, and in the following year published a volume entitled Early History of Freemasonry in England (enlarged and revised in 1844), in which he incorporated a transcript of the document along with a few pages in facsimile.
		This manuscript was known as "The Halliwell", or as "The Halliwell-Phillipps" until some fifty years atfterwards Gould rechristened it, in honour of the Royal Library in which it is found, the "Regius", and since then this has become the more familiar cognomen.
	www.freemasons-freemasonry.com /oldcharg.html (3025 words)

	ipedia.com: Freemasonry Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A more historically reliable (although still not unassailable) source asserting the antiquity of Freemasonry is the Halliwell Manuscript or Regius Poem, which is believed to date from ca.
		The manuscript itself refers to an earlier document, of which it seems to be an elaboration.
		It seems reasonable to suppose that, whatever its precise origins, Freemasonry provided a haven for the unorthodox and their sympathizers during a time when such activity could result in one's death, and that this has something to do with the tradition of secret meetings and handshakes.
	www.ipedia.com /freemasonry.html (4221 words)

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