DOCSLIB.ORG

2 the Mysteries of Popery Unveiled Affective Language in John Coustos’S and Anthony Gavín’S Accounts of the Inquisition

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
2 the Mysteries of Popery Unveiled Affective Language in John Coustos’S and Anthony Gavín’S Accounts of the Inquisition Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 10/11/2014; 3B2 version: 10.0.1465/W Unicode (Dec 22 2011) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/SPF_RAPS/ApplicationFiles/9781138828162_text.3d 2 The mysteries of popery unveiled Affective language in John Coustos’s and Anthony Gavín’s accounts of the inquisition Giovanni Tarantino Persons are not only forbid to save Hereticks; but are obliged to discover them, tho’ a father, brother, husband, or wife; and this upon pain of excommunication; of incurring a suspicion of heresy; and of being obnoxious to the rigours of the Tri- bunal in question, as fautors or abettors of Heresy. How innatural, how cruel is such an injunction!1 What must that Tribunal be, which obliges parents, not only to eraze from their minds the remembrance of their own children; to extinguish all the sensations of tenderness and affection, which nature inspires for them; but even to extend their inhumanity so far, as to force them to become their accusers, and consequently the cause of the cruelties inflicted on them.2 For Mary was in a flood of tears, but Father Joseph, who was a learned man, with great boldness and assurance, said, what, do you call yourself holy fathers of pity and compassion? I say unto you, that you are three devils on earth, fathers of all manner of mischief, barbarity and lewdness. No inquisitors were ever treated at such a rate before.3 The freemason and the inquisitor At a meeting organized by the Grand Lodge of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1942, a previously unknown document, dated 1751, was presented by A. S. Hall- Johnson, Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut. The speaker claimed that it had recently been found among the papers of an old masonic family from New England. According to Hall-Johnson, the document was a detailed account of a New England mason’s visit to a London lodge in 1750. It started by describing an odd and rather inconclusive dispute that took place in the presence of the American visitor. The bone of contention was whether or not it would be fitting to commission the printmaker William Hogarth to design some jewellery for the freemasons. Although he was himself a freemason, Hogarth had shown no qualms about pouring scorn on prominent masons in his etchings.4 Interestingly, the letter then made mention of what was an emblematic example of eighteenth-century anti-Catholic literature, in which the role of hero and martyr of the freedom of conscience was taken on by a Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 10/11/2014; 3B2 version: 10.0.1465/W Unicode (Dec 22 2011) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/SPF_RAPS/ApplicationFiles/9781138828162_text.3d 36 Giovanni Tarantino mason – in other words, by a representative of a secret society, reserved for men only,5 in which social and religious barriers and enmity appeared to dissolve, and where emphasis was placed on rational inquiry into natural phe- nomena, the promotion of science, a disregard for religious affiliation, the pleasure of conviviality, mutual solidarity, and a benevolent, charitable attitude towards the needy. In fact, the letter describes the initiation of a new affiliate to the London lodge, a sea captain dressed in a blue coat with large silver buttons. After the Ancient Charges had been read out to him, he was invested with a white apron and gloves, and presented with a book called The Sufferings of John Coustos. A diamond cutter by trade, John (or Jean) Coustos had been detained by the Inquisition in Portugal about eight years previously for non-observance of the papal bull on freemasonry.6 The lodge master, so the letter said, recom- mended that the new brother should emulate the constancy of Bro. Coustos and remain loyal to his obligation. I should now warn the reader – as Hall-Johnson must also have done in his presentation, aimed to captivate, not to bamboozle his audience – that the document is not authentic, but a fake produced by Hall-Johnson himself and made somewhat plausible by close examination of eighteenth-century sources and specialist studies cited in the footnotes.7 The plausibility of the letter, though, is evidence of the continuing popularity, in masonic circles, of the steadfastness shown by John Coustos before the Inquisition.8 John Coustos was born sometime around 1703 in Berne, Switzerland, the son of a physician named Isaac Coustos, a Huguenot exile from Guienne, France, and his wife, Marie Roman. His grandfather had been a Huguenot preacher, possibly with Jewish ancestors.9 After leaving Switzerland, the family spent time in Milan, The Hague, Leiden, and Rotterdam, before finally moving to London in 1716, where Isaac and his son became naturalized citizens. John trained to be a stone cutter and set up as a jeweller and dealer in precious stones. He married Alice Barbu, born in London but of French descent, and the couple had four children.10 Coustos was initiated as a freemason in 1730 during a lodge meeting at the Rainbow Coffee House (later Britannic Lodge), a well-known haunt of French intellectuals who came to London, generally via Holland, after the edict of Nantes had been revoked in 1685, and for prominent English freethinkers such as John Toland and Anthony Collins. In the same year, Coustos was one of the founders of a lodge meeting at Prince Eugene Head’scoffee house in St Alban’s Street.11 In 1735, he moved to Paris to work as a cutter of precious stones in the Louvre Palace galleries. In the French capital, he served as worshipful master of the lodge later known as Coustos-Villeroy.12 Five years later, in 1740, Coustos moved to Lisbon, attracted by the prospect of securing permis- sion to go to Brazil, where diamonds had been discovered in 1729. Although the Portuguese authorities turned down his request, he decided to stay on in Lisbon, where he established a lodge and was elected worshipful master. In 1738, however, Pope Clement XII had issued his bull In eminenti apostolatus condemning freemasonry on two grounds: its religious toleration, and its oath Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 10/11/2014; 3B2 version: 10.0.1465/W Unicode (Dec 22 2011) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/SPF_RAPS/ApplicationFiles/9781138828162_text.3d The mysteries of popery unveiled 37 of secrecy, both of which were considered offensive. Evidently, freemasonry was perceived as a form of sociability that allowed unacceptable emotional ties with the ‘wrong’ sort of people. So as soon as a woman disclosed Coustos’s masonic affiliation in the confessional, he was arrested on the grounds that masonic lodges superseded confessional and social barriers, and on 14 March 1743 he was handed over to the Inquisition: Afterwards calling to my mind, that grief would only aggravate my calamity, I endeavoured to arm my soul with patience; and to habituate myself, as well as I could, to woe. Accordingly I rouz’d my spirits; and banishing for a few moments, these dreadfully-mournful ideas, I began to reflect ser- iously, on the methods how to extricate myself from this labyrinth of horrors. My consciousness that I had not committed any crime which could justly merit death, would now and then soften my pangs; but immediately after, dreadful thoughts overspread my mind. … I consider’d that, being a Pro- testant, I should inevitably feel, in its utmost rigours, all that rage and barbarous zeal could infuse in the breast of monks; who cruelly gloried, in committing to the flames great numbers of ill-fated victims, whose only crime was their differing from them in religious opinions.13 ‘Monks’ were thus effectively depicted as bonding emotionally through the act of inflicting torture and as embodying a distinguished form of sociability based on hierarchy, fear, and forced inclusivity. Protestant readers, generally accus- tomed, admittedly with innumerable contradictions, to putting the dictates of conscience before dogmatic ‘uniformity’, must have been alarmed at the thought of being exposed to the Catholic threat of an annihilation which, if not yet physical, was psychological and cultural. Coustos reported that he was tortured nine times in the space of two months, and was repeatedly told that if he died in the torture chamber the fault would be his alone (‘guilty, by my obstinacy, of self-murder’).14 Despite everything, he refused to disclose the secrets of the craft, and was sentenced to four years in the galley (not a ship, as the name suggests, but a kind of riverside workhouse). In the auto-da-fé into which he walked on 21 June 1744, eight prisoners were sentenced to execution by burning. For the others, not being given the same sentence made this moment a space for shared feelings of unexpected relief: ‘We thought ourselves the happiest persons upon the earth, tho’ we had little to boast of. However, we were now together, and breath’d the fresh air; we enjoy’d the light of the sky, and had a view of a garden: in a word we knew that we should not be put to a death; all which circumstances prov’d a great consolation.’15 Moreover, Coustos was a British subject, which prompted the British Min- ister in Lisbon to intervene, and in October 1744 he was freed on condition that he left Portugal. After arriving back in England on 15 December, he wrote, possibly in French, an account of his captivity. Entitled The Sufferings of John Coustos for Freemasonry and for His Refusing to Turn Roman Catholic, in the Template: Royal A, Font: , Date: 10/11/2014; 3B2 version: 10.0.1465/W Unicode (Dec 22 2011) (APS_OT) Dir: //integrafs1/kcg/2-Pagination/TandF/SPF_RAPS/ApplicationFiles/9781138828162_text.3d 38 Giovanni Tarantino Inquisition at Lisbon, it was published in an English translation in 1746, the year in which he died, aged forty-three.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Newton.Indd | Sander Pinkse Boekproductie | 16-11-12 / 14:45 | Pag
    omslag Newton.indd | Sander Pinkse Boekproductie | 16-11-12 / 14:45 | Pag. 1 e Dutch Republic proved ‘A new light on several to be extremely receptive to major gures involved in the groundbreaking ideas of Newton Isaac Newton (–). the reception of Newton’s Dutch scholars such as Willem work.’ and the Netherlands Jacob ’s Gravesande and Petrus Prof. Bert Theunissen, Newton the Netherlands and van Musschenbroek played a Utrecht University crucial role in the adaption and How Isaac Newton was Fashioned dissemination of Newton’s work, ‘is book provides an in the Dutch Republic not only in the Netherlands important contribution to but also in the rest of Europe. EDITED BY ERIC JORINK In the course of the eighteenth the study of the European AND AD MAAS century, Newton’s ideas (in Enlightenment with new dierent guises and interpre- insights in the circulation tations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In Newton of knowledge.’ and the Netherlands Newton’s Prof. Frans van Lunteren, sudden success is analyzed in Leiden University great depth and put into a new perspective. Ad Maas is curator at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands. Eric Jorink is researcher at the Huygens Institute for Netherlands History (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences). / www.lup.nl LUP Newton and the Netherlands.indd | Sander Pinkse Boekproductie | 16-11-12 / 16:47 | Pag. 1 Newton and the Netherlands Newton and the Netherlands.indd | Sander Pinkse Boekproductie | 16-11-12 / 16:47 | Pag. 2 Newton and the Netherlands.indd | Sander Pinkse Boekproductie | 16-11-12 / 16:47 | Pag.
    [Show full text]
  • Maty's Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated
    Statistical Science 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1, 109–136 DOI: 10.1214/088342306000000268 c Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2007 Maty’s Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented David R. Bellhouse and Christian Genest Abstract. November 27, 2004, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of Abraham De Moivre, best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution, whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit Theorem. De Moivre was one of the great pioneers of classical probability the- ory. He also made seminal contributions in analytic geometry, complex analysis and the theory of annuities. The first biography of De Moivre, on which almost all subsequent ones have since relied, was written in French by Matthew Maty. It was published in 1755 in the Journal britannique. The authors provide here, for the first time, a complete translation into English of Maty’s biography of De Moivre. New mate- rial, much of it taken from modern sources, is given in footnotes, along with numerous annotations designed to provide additional clarity to Maty’s biography for contemporary readers. INTRODUCTION ´emigr´es that both of them are known to have fre- Matthew Maty (1718–1776) was born of Huguenot quented. In the weeks prior to De Moivre’s death, parentage in the city of Utrecht, in Holland. He stud- Maty began to interview him in order to write his ied medicine and philosophy at the University of biography. De Moivre died shortly after giving his Leiden before immigrating to England in 1740. Af- reminiscences up to the late 1680s and Maty com- ter a decade in London, he edited for six years the pleted the task using only his own knowledge of the Journal britannique, a French-language publication man and De Moivre’s published work.
    [Show full text]
  • Heredom, Volumes 1–26, 1992–2018 Prepared by S
    Combined Index Heredom, Volumes 1–26, 1992–2018 Prepared by S. Brent Morris, 33°, G\C\ Numbers 29°. See Kt of St Andrew Sprengseysen (1788) 9:259 1°. See Entered Apprentice Degree 30°. See Kt Kadosh Abi, Abif, Abiff. See Hiram Abif. 2°. See Fellow Craft Degree 31°. See Inspector Inquisitor Abiathar, priest of Israel 25:448, 450, 3°. See Master Mason Degree 32°. See Master of the Royal Secret 456 4°. See Secret Master Degree 33°. See Inspector General, 33° Abiram (Abhiram, Abyram), password, 5°. See Perfect Master Degree (Sacred 43°, Sup Coun. See Forty-third Degree, Elect of Pérignan 2:93 Fire, NMJ) Sup Coun Abiram (Abhiram, Abyram, Akirop), 6°. See Confidential Secretary Degree assassin of Hiram Abif 1:69; (Master of the Brazen Serpent, A 72–74; 2:90, 92, 95n5; 3:38, 43, 45; NMJ) A and G, letters, interlaced 3:29, 33, 36; 4:113, 118; 6:153, 164; 25:492; 26:230, 7°. See Provost and Judge Degree 26:251 232. See also “Masonic Assassina- 8°. See Intendant of the Building Degree “A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw, Of,” tion of Akirop” (David and Solomon, NMJ) R. Burns 26:62 assassination of by Joabert 12:58, 60 9°. See Élu of the Nine Degree (Master Aachen Cathedral, Eye of Providence killed in cave under burning bush of the Temple, NMJ) 20:187 3:40 10,000 Famous Freemasons, W. Denslow AAONMS. See Shriners meaning and variations of name (1957) 23:115 Aaron (brother of Moses) 1:79n; 2:95n5; 3:46; 4:119 10°.
    [Show full text]
  • Responses to the Treatise and Abstract in the Bibliothèque Raisonné
    Responses to Hume’s Treatise in the Bibliothèque raisonnée, 1739-41 David Fate Norton, McGill University Dario Perinetti, Université du Québec à Montréal The earliest response to Hume’s Treatise was a short notice of the work published in the French-language journal, Bibliothèque raisonnée des ouvrages des savans de L’Europe (BR) in its spring 1739 issue. One year later, the BR published a review of vol. 1 of the Treatise, and then in spring 1741, published the only known review of vol. 3. We undertake to show 1) that the author of the BR notice was Pierre Des Maizeaux (1673- 1745); 2) that the two BR reviews were very likely written by a single author; and 3) that the author in question was most likely Armand Boisbeleau de La Chapelle (1676-1746). After setting out our reasons for these conclusions, we offer brief accounts of these two founding members of the society of Hume scholars. A substantially abridged copy of this paper will be presented at the conference. Responses to Hume’s Treatise in the Bibliothèque raisonnée, 1739-41 Hume’s ascerbic summary of the reach of the Treatise of Human Nature is well known. The Treatise, he said, ‘fell dead-born from the Press; without reaching such distinction as even to excite a Murmur among the Zealots’12 But as research has shown, Hume’s claim is not the last word on the early reception of the Treatise. It is true that the work was not a publishing success, nor was it received as the revolutionary work Hume thought he had written, but it was certainly not entirely ignored.
    [Show full text]
  • 0711 Knights Templar Magazine
    VOLUME LVII JULY 2011 NUMBER 7 YORRIN_KTM_0311_Layout 1 12/30/10 8:56 AM Page 1 PRESENTING THE OFFICIAL CHAPTER, COUNCIL, COMMANDERY YorkYorkCRAFTED INRiteRite GOLD, SILVER & GENUINE RingRing ONYX A Limited Edition of just 5,000 Serially Numbered Rings. Reserved Exclusively for York Rite Masons. Solid 10KT Gold Commandery Crown & Cross on Genuine Onyx. Solid Sterling Silver Ring Body Finished in 23 KT Antiqued Gold. Royal Arch Masons of the Chapter & Cryptic Masons of the Council symbols sculpted in high relief. Inside ring shank engraved with owner’s initials and exclusive serial number. Remarkably priced at just $299*, or four interest-free payments of $74.75*. Reserve yours today to avoid disappointment. Satisfaction guaranteed or return within 30 days for refund NEW! or replacement. Shrine Nobles and YOU HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT Past Masters may have their emblem TO WEAR THIS SPECIAL in place of Masonic Square & Compasses. YORK RITE RING FREE CALL TOLL-FREE TO ORDER: 1-800-437-0804 FLAG PIN MON - FRI 9AM - 5PM EST. PLEASE HAVE RING SIZE AND CREDIT CARD READY WHEN ORDERING. WITH EACH ORDER. Mail To: York Rite Masonic Order Center, Two Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 120, Radnor, PA 19087 YES, I wish to reserve an Exclusive, Limited Edition York Rite Masonic Ring, engraved with my initials and serial number Name: ______________________________________ as one of only 5,000 rings ever to be issued. Address: OPTIONAL: I prefer to replace the Square & Compasses with: ____________________________________ Shrine Scimitar & Crescent, OR Past Master Jewel City: ___________________ State: _____ Zip: ______ My Initials (3): _____ _____ _____ Ring Size: ________ I NEED SEND NO MONEY NOW.
    [Show full text]
  • A Masonic a L P H a B
    The heart may conceive and the head devise in vain if the hand be not prompt to execute the design. A masonic alphabet............................ 1 Rev. Dr.James Anderson .....................1 Palmer Cox’s Brownies....................... 2 The golden mean .................................2 The Inquisition..................................... 2 Old Charges.......................................... 3 Lodge notes ......................................... 4 Our Grand Master’s itinerary............ 4 A masonic This portrait of the Rev. Dr . James An d e r son (1680-1739), compiler of the first Book of Constitutions, ap p e a r ed in Arthur Edward Wai t e ’ s Ne w Encyclopædia of Freemasonry in 1921. Bonus points for anyone who knows al p h a b e t what is wrong with this portrai t . A is for Antient. This spelling, been purged from most usages, a square and compasses, and Some masonic scholars have common enough in Scotland to this day the Canadian Wor k below the urn was a Bi b l e , pr oposed the theory that the and Ireland, comes down to us Installation found in our Fo rm s sq u a r e and compasses, colour of the Grand Lodge fr om a revisor of James and Cerem o n i e s refers to the in t e r twined with laurel. of ficers clothing was adopted An d e r s o n ’ s 1723 Co n s t i t u t i o n s Antient Charge s . C is for colour. The pred o m i - fr om the ribbon of the Most of Free m a s o n s , John B is for Broken Column.
    [Show full text]
  • John Locke on Conversation with Friends and Strangers Richard
    John Locke on Conversation with Friends and Strangers Author Yeo, Richard Published 2009 Journal Title Parergon DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.0.0157 Copyright Statement © 2009 ANZAMEMS. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30176 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au John Locke on Conversation with Friends and Strangers Richard Yeo John Locke did not write an ‘essay’ on the standard humanist topic of friendship; yet his letters, notebooks, and major works contain significant reflections on it, if not a systematic position. This article considers what Locke thought about the importance of conversation, often paired in humanist writings with the ideal of a perfect friendship between two equals. He entertained a version of this notion, asserting that best friends must be lovers of truth, but also valued informal exchanges with strangers as sources of new information and ideas. For Locke, conversation with both friends and strangers was a necessary instrument in the pursuit of truth. In 1702, shortly before his death, the English philosopher and physician, John Locke (1632–1704), suffered severe loss of hearing. He told Edward Clarke that ‘I have been little better than out of the world these last twelve months by a deafness that in great measure shut me out of conversation.’1 In a letter of 12 January 1705, Damaris Masham replied to Jean Le Clerc’s request for her memories of ‘our dead Friend’,2 reporting that Locke had once said that he would prefer ‘to be Blind than Deaf’.3 We can accept, then, that Locke 1 John Locke to Edward Clarke, 30 November 1702 (letter no.
    [Show full text]
  • Ric Berman, Espionage, Diplomacy and the Lodge: Charles Delafaye
    Ric Berman, Espionage, Diplomacy and the Lodge: Charles Delafaye and The Secret Department of the Post Office (Goring Heath: The Old Stables Press, 2017), 299 pages, ISBN 9780995756809. £20.00 Ric Berman’s latest offering provides a fascinating insight into the intelligence war waged by employees of the Whig government against the ever-present threat of Jacobite plots and conspiracies in Britain in the early to mid-eighteenth century. Berman approaches the theme via two related subjects: the freemason, spy-master, Justice of the Peace, Whig and pro-Hanoverian under-secretary for the Northern and Southern departments, Charles Delafaye (1677-1762); and a key tool in the Hanoverian anti-Jacobite arsenal, the aptly named ‘Secret Department of the Post Office’ and its Deciphering Branch. Berman begins by demonstrating how Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723 saw important changes introduced into Freemasonry, including new Masonic ritual passages that reinforced loyalties to the government and monarchy. Berman explains how the formation of Grand Lodge in 1717 (a date challenged by some historians) was in large part a political reaction to the extant Jacobite threat and, in particular, to the Stuart’s attempted restoration of 1715. The illustrious Horn Tavern lodge (and several other London lodges) are shown by Berman to be bastions of pro-Hanoverian loyalty and he identifies several brethren such as Charles Delafaye, Thomas Pelham-Hollis (Secretary of State for the Southern Department) and John Lefebure (Head of the Secret Department of the Post Office) occupying senior positions within Walpole’s Whig government (Robert Walpole was himself a freemason). These posts were concerned with national security, intelligence gathering, counter-surveillance, spying and the opening and decryption of suspected Jacobite or criminal correspondences.
    [Show full text]
  • Jane Clark, 'For Kings and Senates Fit', the Georgian Group Report & Jounal, 1989, Pp. 55–63
    Jane Clark, ‘For Kings and Senates Fit’, The Georgian Group Report & Jounal, 1989, pp. 55–63 TEXT © THE AUTHORS 1989 FOR KINGS AND SENATES FIT Jane Clark f—j-^he 3rd Earl of Burlington’s architectural masterpiece, Chiswick House (Fig. 1), mystified his contemporaries. Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, who went there in 1727, .A. echoed the sentiments of many visitors when he found it ‘rather curious than convenient’.1 Lord Burlington has come down in history as a remote aesthete and staunch Whig, who dedicated his life and fortune to the Arts, and his ‘curious’ house, which was not lived in during his lifetime, has been explained away as an abstract architectural exercise. If this view is accepted many aspects of Burlington’s life, and of the artistic and literary tributes made to him, demand explanation. The Earls of Burlington owed their title to Charles I’s Queen, Henrietta Maria, who decided to confer the honour on the 3rd Earl’s great-grandfather when she arrived, alone, at Burlington Bay with arms and money during the Civil War.2 The 1st Earl’s loyalty to the House of Stuart appears never to have wavered. He did not die until the 3rd Earl was four years old. Burlington’s mother was a member of another Royalist family, the Noels. Both the Boyles and the Noels played a part in the restoration of Augustus in the form of Charles II, and it seems that the restoration of Augustus in the form of James HI, and later his son, Prince Charles Edward, was a major concern of ‘Burlington Architectus’.
    [Show full text]
  • Catalogue 186
    WEBER RARE BOOKS 186 CABINET OF CURIOSITIES & SCIENCE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES & SCIENCE CATALOGUE 186 This is the third catalogue to feature material from the OPTICS & MICROSCOPY library offered in the last science catalogues. Featured: Babbage, De Moivre, Desaguliers, Digby, Ercker, Huygens, Joblot, Kirby, Kircher, Lagrange, Newton, Niceron, Quetelet, Schott, Simpson on Laws of Chance, Struve, etc. Photos sent on request. www.WeberRareBooks.com On the site are more than 10,000 antiquarian books in the fields of science, medicine, Americana, classics, books on books and fore-edge paintings. The books in current catalogues are not listed on-line until mail-order clients have priority. Our inventory is available for viewing by appointment Terms are as usual. Shipping extra. [2017] RECENT CATALOGUES: 179: Jeff ’s Fables (127 items) 180: The Physician’s Pulse-Watch (138 items) 181: Bookseller’s Cabinet (87 items) 182: Orientalia (48 items) 183: Early Opticks, Microscopy (35 items) 184: Richard Francis Burton & Explorers (71 items) 185: Foundations of Medical History (241 items) COVER::FLUDD $15 Jeff Weber & Mahshid Essalat-Weber J E F F W E B E R R A R E B O O K S 1815 Oak Ave, Carlsbad, California 92008 TELEPHONES: 323–344–9332 ; 323–333–4140 e-mail: [email protected] www.WEBERRAREBOOKS.COM SUPPORTER OF BOSCOVICH 1. AMBSCHELL, Anton [Antonio]; Martin JEELL. Dissertatio de Centro Gravitatis in Subsidium Suorum Discipulorum. [With]: Assertiones ex universa Physica et Mathesi Elememtari [sic] quas in aula Academica archiducalis gymnasii Labacensis ex praelectionibus Martini Jeell ... Antonii Ambschell ... mense Augusto ... anno MDCCLXXIX. propugnabit ... Wolfgangus Muha Carn. Corgnial.
    [Show full text]
  • UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title The Style and Form of Authority Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g31034x Author Mannies, Whitney Publication Date 2017 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE The Style and Form of Authority A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science by Whitney Mannies June 2017 Dissertation Committee: Dr. John Christian Laursen, Chairperson Dr. Georgia Warnke Dr. John Medearis Copyright by Whitney Mannies 2017 The Dissertation of Whitney Mannies is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside Acknowledgements Writing a dissertation is an individual effort that is only possible because of the consistent and generous support of others. I have benefitted from a loving family and intelligent and funny friends. I am grateful for the opportunity to sort out my not-yet coherent ideas with my graduate school colleagues who fostered friendship and collaboration, especially Steven Cauchon, Andrea Silva, Andrew Flores, Diego Esparza, Nosh McTaggert, Kevin Pham, and Dylan Rohr. I am also very lucky to have landed at the University of California, Riverside, where the faculty so often combined brilliance with generosity—a rare feat in academia. Also, the students I have taught along the way at UCR, Pitzer College, and Pomona College have been a constant reminder of the purpose of education and the enduring significance of political theory (really!). This dissertation would not have been possible without them. My sincerest thanks go as well to the Political Science Administrative Assistant, Sara Palmer, who so patiently shepherded me through many a kafkaesque situation.
    [Show full text]
  • The Pocket History of Freemasonry
    THE POCKET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY By FRED L. PICK (P.A.G.D.C., P.P.G.W., P.M. of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, 2076 Manchester Lodge for Masonic Research, 5502). & G. NORMAN KNIGHT (M.A., Oxon., Barrister-at-Law, P.M. of Old Bradfield Lodge Member of Correspondence Circle, Quatuor Coronati Lodge, Manchester Association for Masonic Research). CONTENTS Chapter I The Origin of Freemasonry 9 II Medieval Operative Masonry 16 III The Old Charges 28 IV Pre-Grand Lodge Freemasonry 44 V Grand Lodge Period until 1750 73 VI English Freemasonry, 1751 to 1813 94 VII United Grand Lodge Freemasonry, 1813 to 1952 116 VIII History of Irish Freemasonry 136 IX History of Scottish Freemasonry 164 X Freemasonry in the Forces 188 XI Freemasonry Overseas, other than in U.S.A. 199 XII Freemasonry in the U.S.A. 218 XIII The Holy Royal Arch 250 XIV Mark and Royal Ark Freemasonry 259 XV The Additional Degrees 268 Short List of Books Recommended 280 Some Useful Masonic Dates 281 Index 285 PREFACE In its inception this little work was to have been undertaken by the Rev. Herbert Poole in collaboration with the present junior author. On Brother Poole’s premature passing on the 14th February 1951, which deprived Masonic research of one of its foremost lights, he had completes only a few rough notes towards the project. Fortunately Brother Pick was willing to step into the breach. In condensing the whole of the history of Freemasonry in all its aspects into 283 pages, the chief difficulty has beer this very task of compression and much fascinating detail has perforce had to be omitted.
    [Show full text]