a ij This is a signature mark used by early printers to help bookbinders assemble the pages in the correct order.

A decorative woodcut headpiece consisting of a rectangular frame filled with ornate scrollwork, foliage, and crossed floral motifs. In the center is an oval medallion featuring a profile portrait of a classical figure wearing a crown or laurel wreath.

HISTORY

OF THE ORIGIN

OF

MASONRY.

This Order was instituted by Godfrey of Bouillon Godfrey of Bouillon (c. 1060–1100) was a leader of the First Crusade. The text’s claim of 1330 is anachronistic, as he died over two centuries earlier, but such legendary histories were common in 18th-century Masonic rites., in Palestine, in 1330, after the decline of the Christian Armies, and was only communicated to the French Masons some time later, and to a very small number, in reward for the obliging services they rendered to several of our English and Scottish Knights, from whom true Masonry is derived. Their Metropolitan Lodge The "Mother Lodge" or primary governing body. is situated on the mountain of Heredom Written here as "Hérédon." This refers to a mythical mountain in Scotland central to high-degree Masonic tradition, specifically the Royal Order of Scotland., where the first Lodge was held