It has been suggested by some that stonemasons have no connection whatsoever with modern Freemasonry.
For example: The second one, that medieval stonemasons developed the Craft for their own moral improvement, is a theory that has found acceptance in virtually every quarter, Masonic and non-Masonic.
Nevertheless, despite the apparent logic of this idea and the large number of books that have promoted this idea over many generations we found it difficult to substantiate once we considered it in depth.
For a start, despite rigorous searching, we were completely unable to find any records to show the medieval stonemasons' guilds existed at all in England.
The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas
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2005 - THE OPERATIVE LEGACY WITHIN SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY - Bro ROBERT COOPER.
