[397.] Gould, History of Freemasonry, III. 241.
[398.] See the very important article on this question that appeared in The National Review for February 1923, showing that Carlyle was assisted gratuitously throughout his work by a German Jew named Joseph Neuberg and was supplied with information and finally decorated by the Prussian Government.
[399.] Executed in 1746 as a partisan of the Stuarts.
[400.] Gould, op. cit., Vol. III. pp. 101, 110; A.Q.C., Vol. XXXII. Part I. p. 31.
[401.] A. E. Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 296, 370, 415.
[402.] Clavel (Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 185) says it was afterwards discovered that "the Pretender, far from having made de Hundt a Templar, on the contrary was made a Templar by him." But other authorities deny that Prince Charles Edward was initiated even into Freemasonry.
[403.] Lecouteulx de Canteleu, Les Sectes et Societes Secrètes, p. 242; Clavel, op. cit., p. 184.
[404.] Gould, op. cit., III. 100.
[405.] Ibid., III. 99, 103; Waite, Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 289: "The Rite of the Stricte Observance was the first masonic system which claimed to derive its authority from Unknown Superiors, irresponsible themselves but claiming absolute jurisdiction and obedience without question."
[406.] Histoire de la Monarchie Prussienne, V. 61 (1788).