[515] Ibid., pp. 201 et seq.
[516] Ibid. Although offered to the public with every show of confidence, Robison’s list was largely chimerical. He had depended upon isolated references in the papers of the order, many of which he must have misread. Doubtless in numerous cases he took the hopes of the ambitious leaders of the order as sober statements of fact. The importance of the reference to America will, of course, appear later.
[517] Ibid., p. 272.
[518] Ibid., p. 286.
[519] Ibid., p. 290.
[520] Robison, op. cit., pp. 315 et seq.
[521] Ibid., p. 322.
[522] Ibid., p. 321.
[523] Ibid., p. 317. “All the Archives that were found were the plans and lists of the members, and a parcel of letters of correspondence. The correspondence and other business was managed by an old man in some inferior office or judicatory, who lived at bed and board in Bahrdt’s house for about six shillings a week, having a chest of papers and a writing-desk in the corner of the common room of the house.” (Ibid.)
[524] Ibid., pp. 291, 296, 297.