It was called Warder
Castle from the conserving there the ammunition of the West.
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Sir William Dugdale told me, many years since, that about Henry the
Third's time the Pope gave a bull or patents to a company of Italian
Freemasons to travell up and down over all Europe to build churches.
From those are derived the fraternity of adopted Masons. They are
known to one another by certain signes and watch-words: it continues
to this day. They have severall lodges in severall counties for their
reception, and when any of them fall into decay the brotherhood is to
relieve him, &c. The manner of their adoption is very formall, and
with an oath of secresy.
Memorandum. This day, May the 18th, being Munday, 1691, after Rogation
Sunday, is a great convention at St. Paul's Church of the fraternity
of the adopted Masons, where Sir Christopher Wren is to be adopted a
brother, and Sir Henry Goodric, of the Tower, and divers others. There
have been kings of this sodality.
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At Pottern, a great mannour belonging to the Bishop of Sarum, is a
very faire strong built church, with a great tower in the middest of
the crosse aisle. It is exactly of the same architecture of the
cathedrall church at Sarum, and the windowes are painted by the same
hand, in that kind of Gothick grotesco. Likewise the church at Kington
St. Michael's, and that at Sopworth, are of the same fashion, and
built about the same time, sc.
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