I. No. 7, p. 414.
- Encyclopædia of Freemasonry, II. 56.
- A.Q.C., Vol. XXXII, Part I. p. 23.
- Correspondence on Lord Derwentwater in Morning Post for September 15, 1922. Mr. Waite (The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 113) wrongly gives the name of Lord Derwentwater as John Radcliffe and in his Encyclopædia of Freemasonry as James Radcliffe. But James was the name of the third Earl, beheaded in 1716.
- Gould, op. cit. III. 138. "The founders were all of them Britons."--A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 6.
- "If we turn to our English engraved lists we find that whatever Lodge (or Lodges) may have existed in Paris in 1725 must have been unchartered, for the first French Lodge on our roll is on the list for 1730-32.... It would appear probable ... that Derwentwater's Lodge ... was an informal Lodge and did not petition for a warrant till 1732."--Gould, History of Freemasonry, III. 138.
- John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 462.
- Gautier de Sibert, Histoire des Ordres Royaux, Hospitaliers-Militaires de Notre-Dame du Carmel et de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem, Vol. II. p. 193 (Paris, 1772).
- This oration has been published several times and has been variously attributed to Ramsay and the Duc d'Antin. The author of a paper in A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I., says on p. 7: "Whether Ramsay delivered his speech or not is doubtful, but it is certain that he wrote it. It was printed in an obscure and obscene Paris paper called the Almanach des Cocus for 1741