Elias Ashmole A Celebrated English Antiquary and Freemason
It may be said that never in the annals of Freemasonry has so much been attributed by so many to one man: Elias Ashmole. Yet Ashmole’s own direct patronage of the Craft was minimal at best. Why then the attention? And, more intriguingly, why should a man of Ashmole’s standing become a Freemason in the … Read more