[298.] Mr. Sidney Klein in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXXII. Part I. pp. 42, 43.
[299.] John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, pp. 195, 318, 341, 342, 361.
[300.] Ibid., p. 196.
[301.] Official history of the Order of Scotland quoted by Bro. Fred. H. Buckmaster in The Royal Order of Scotland, published at the offices of The Freemason, pp. 3, 5, 7; A.E. Waite, Encyclopædia of Freemasonry, II. 219; Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 330; Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 267.
[302.] Baron Westerode in the Acta Latomorum (1784), quoted by Mackey, op. cit., p. 265. Mr. Bernard H. Springett also asserts that this degree originated in the East (Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon, p. 294).
[303.] Chevalier de Bérage, Les Plus Secrets Mystères des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie dévoilés, ou le vrai Rose Croix (1768); Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 3.
[304.] In 1784 some French Freemasons wrote to their English brethren saying: "It concerns us to know if there really exists in the island of Mull, formerly Melrose ... in the North of Scotland, a Mount Heredom, or if it does not exist." In reply a leading Freemason, General Rainsford, referred them to the word [Hebrew: **] (Har Adonai), i.e. Mount of God (Notes on the Rainsford Papers in A.Q.C., XXVI. 99). A more probable explanation appears, however, to be that Heredom is a corruption of the Hebrew word "Harodim," signifying princes or rulers.
[305.] F.H. Buckmaster, The Royal Order of Scotland, p. 5. Lecouteulx de Canteleu says, however, that Kilwinning had been the great meeting-place of Masonry since 1150 (Les Sectes et Sociétés Secrètes, p. 104). Eckert, op. cit., II. 33.
[306.] Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 267.
[307.] Clavel, op. cit., p. 90; Eckert, op. cit., II. 27.