In 1846, Morgan joined the Fraternal Order of Freemasons, at Daviess Lodge # 22, Lexington, Kentucky.

Angered by the rejection, Morgan said he was going to publish a book entitled Illustrations of Masonry, critical of the Freemasons and describing their secret degree work in great detail.

Jasper Ridley indicates that Morgan was probably killed by Freemasons, all other scenarios being highly improbable, and Henry Paul Jeffers also indicates that this is the more credible scenario.

In his novel The Craft: Freemasons, Secret Agents, and William Morgan ( 2010 ), the author Thomas Talbot presents a fictional version of the William Morgan kidnapping.

In 1826, Spencer served as a special prosecutor to investigate the disappearance of William Morgan who was arrested, kidnapped and murdered for exposing secrets kept by Freemasons, thus sparking the Anti-Masonic movement.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

It was established in 1850 by Rob Morris, a lawyer and educator from Boston, Massachusetts, who had been an official with the Freemasons.

In ecclesiastic affairs he issued the first papal decree against the Freemasons on 28 April 1738, it was titled In eminenti.

" He was also a member of the Freemasons and Sons of the American Revolution.

Some people feared the Freemasons, believing they were a powerful secret society that was trying to rule the country in defiance of republican principles.

It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson, that the Templars went underground among masons in England and later developed into Freemasons.

The first version of the rules for the modern game was drawn up over a series of six meetings held in the Freemasons ' Tavern from October till December.

Their eighteenth-century maul with its 1827 inscription claiming that it was used by Wren for the foundation stone of St. Pauls, belonging to the Lodge and on display in the Freemasons ' Grand Museum, corroborates the story, which is debatable mainly because it would have been in the interests of the Lodge and the Craft to fabricate it.

Such theories usually claim that the Eye of Providence ( found, in the Seal, above the pyramid ) is a common Masonic emblem, and that the Great Seal was created by Freemasons.

Furthermore, contrary to the claims of these conspiracy theories, the Great Seal was not created by Freemasons.

Dallas resumed the practice of law, was attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1835, and served as the Grand Master of Freemasons in Pennsylvania in 1835.

In 1863, he wrote to Bell's Life newspaper proposing a governing body for football, and this led to the first meeting at the Freemasons ' Tavern where the FA was created.

He was also a member of the Freemasons and in 1811 founded the Order of Charles XIII, a Swedish order of chivalry awarded only to Protestant Freemasons.

From 1913 through the 1950s, the Ward-Stilson Company was one of the country's largest producers of uniforms, regalia, furniture and props for the Freemasons, the Odd Fellows and dozens of other U. S. fraternal organizations.

( The Freemasons equated the seven known planets with the several liberal arts of which the fifth, Geometry, was considered the most important ).

The pug dog was a symbol adopted by the ' Society of the Mopses ', a European pseudo-Masonic organisation of both male and female Freemasons.

The Hall was built in 1889 in a mock Tudor style and was built as a meeting hall for the local Freemasons.

It was influenced by Freemasonry through its rituals and organization, and several members aside from Bonifacio were also Freemasons.

Delano's run was characterised by his political satire, taking on late 1980s and 1990s tropes such as with city financiers being literal demons, and Constantine meeting with Freemasons from the Houses of Parliament.

He was also a part of the Cuban Freemasons.

As described by modern historian Malcolm Barber in The New Knighthood: " It was during the 1760s that German masons introduced a specific Templar connection, claiming that the Order, through its occupation of the Temple of Solomon, had been the repository of secret wisdom and magical powers, which James of Molay had handed down to his successor before his execution and of which the eighteenth-century Freemasons were the direct heirs.

In fact, Gloucester's tomb is in St Albans Abbey and was restored by Hertfordshire Freemasons in 2000 to celebrate the millennium.

Amongst them the new banner of Vincennes was conspicuous, bearing the inscription in red letters on a white ground, “ Love one another .” A balloon was then sent up, which let fall at intervals, outside Paris, a manifesto of the Freemasons.

Formal dinners are hosted by organisations such as Burns clubs, the Freemasons or St Andrews Societies and occasionally end with dancing when ladies are present.

This is a common scenario in conspiracy theories that focus on the alleged machinations of Jews, Freemasons, or the Catholic Church, as well as theories centered on Communism or international capitalists.

Sheik Sadeq Abdallah bin Al-Majed, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, issued a fatwā that prohibits vaccination of children claiming it is a conspiracy of the Jews and Freemasons.

Bacon's alleged connection to the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons has been widely discussed by authors and scholars in many books.

Washington also joined the Freemasons fraternal association in Fredericksburg at this time.

Their controversy attracted much attention among Freemasons.

Some of the ritual traditions of the guilds were conserved in order organizations such as the Freemasons, alleging deriving from the Masons Guild.

He began to collect statistics on the number of Jews, Freemasons, and enemies of the party, and following his strong need for control, he developed an elaborate bureaucracy.

The three founders, William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia ( S. R. I. A .).

Recent historical research by Bob James in Craft, Trade or Mystery ( 2001 ) puts forward the view that trade unions are part of a broader movement of benefit societies, which includes medieval guilds, Freemasons, Oddfellows, friendly societies, and other fraternal organisations.

Members of labor organizations and those perceived to be affiliated with groups ( religious, political, social and otherwise ) that opposed the regime, or were seen to have views contradictory to the goals of the Nazi government, were rounded up in large numbers ; these included clergy of all faiths, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, Communists, and Rotary Club members.

The references to these few occasions indicate that these were special meetings held for the purpose of performing unusual ceremonies, probably by visiting Freemasons.

However, there were no documented lodges of Freemasons on the continent during those years.

He instead announced that his revelations about the Freemasons were fictitious.

), a Freemason of Batavia, New York, who had become dissatisfied with his lodge and intended to publish a book detailing the secrets of the Freemasons.

* July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge opens in what will become the United States of America.