Clavel, however, says that these existed in the Roman Collegia (Histoire pittoresque, p. 82).
- Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages, p. 372.
- The Spirit of Islam, p. 337.
- Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon, p. 181 (1922).
- See, for example, Bouillet's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire et de Géographie (1860), article or Templars: "Les Francs-Maçons prétendent se rattacher à cette secte."
- Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 185.
- Findel, Geschichte der Freimaurerei, II. 156, 157 (1892 edition). Dr. Bussell (op. cit., p. 804), referring to Dupuy's work, also observes: "An editor of a later edition (Brussels, 1751) undoubtedly was a Freemason who tried to clear the indictment and affiliate to the condemned Order the new and rapidly increasing brotherhood of speculative deism."