[308.] A.E. Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 8.
[309.] "Our names of E.A., F.C., and M.M. were derived from Scotland."--A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 40. Clavel, however, says that these existed in the Roman Collegia (Histoire pittoresque, p. 82).
[310.] Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages, p. 372.
[311.] The Spirit of Islam, p. 337.
[312.] Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon, p. 181 (1922).
[313.] See, for example, Bouillet's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire et de Géographie (1860), article or Templars: "Les Francs-Maçons prétendent se rattacher à cette secte."
[314.] Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 185.
[315.] Findel, Geschichte der Freimaurerei, II. 156, 157 (1892 edition). Dr. Bussell (op. cit., p. 804), referring to Dupuy's work, also observes: "An editor of a later edition (Brussels, 1751) undoubtedly was a Freemason who tried to clear the indictment and affiliate to the condemned Order the new and rapidly increasing brotherhood of speculative deism."
[316.] The Royal Order of Scotland.
[317.] Manuel des Chevaliers de l'Ordre du Temple, p. 10 (1825 edition).