[417.] RO. State Papers, Foreign, France, Vol. 243, Jan. 2 and Feb. 19, 1752.
[418.] John Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopædists, Vol. I. pp. 123-47 (1886).
[419.] Gould, op. cit., III. 87. Mr. Gould naïvely adds in a footnote to this passage: "The proposed Dictionary is a curious crux--- is it possible that the Royal Society may have formed some such idea?" The beginning already made in London was of course the Cyclopædia of Chambers, published in 1728, and Chambers, who in the following year was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, if not himself a Mason numbered many prominent Masons amongst his friends, including the globe-maker Senex to whom he had been apprenticed and who published Anderson's Constitutions in 1723. (See A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 18.)
[420.] Papus, Martines de Pasqually, p. 146 (1895).
[421.] Evidently a reference to the seven liberal arts and sciences enumerated in the Fellow Craft's degree--Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy.
[422.] In 1767 Voltaire writes to Frederick asking him to have certain books printed in Berlin and circulated in Europe "at a low price which will facilitate the sales." To this Frederick replies: "You can make use of my printers according to your desires," etc. (letter of May 5, 1767). I have referred elsewhere to the libels against Marie Antoinette circulated by Frederick's agents in France. See my French Revolution, pp. 27, 183.
[423.] Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p 407. The rôle of Freemasonry in preparing the Revolution habitually denied by the conspiracy of history is nevertheless clearly recognized in masonic circles--applauded by those of France, deplored by those of England and America. An American manual in my possession contains the following passage: "The Masons ... (it is now well settled by history) originated the Revolution with the infamous Duke of Orleans at their head."--A Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry, p. 31 note.
[424.] Papus, Martines de Pasqually, p. 150.
[425.] Benjamin Fabre, Eques a Capite Galeato, p. 88.
[426.] Souvenirs du Baron de Gleichen, p. 151.