MDDM18: Automatickally a Member

[Dave Monroe]

   "Some of these Collegia, learning that Mason's Name
is Mason, claim to be Free-Masons of one Lodge and
another.  'Anyone whose name is Mason is
automatickally a Member, the first of your Name likely
having work'd as a Stonemason back inthe Era of the
great Cathedrals,-- as you are descended fro him, so
are Free-Masons today descended from hisGuild-Fellows.
 You are a Mason ex Nomine, as some might describe
it.'  Unless, of course, 'twas an elaborate scheme to
avoid paying for Drink."  (M&D, Ch. 29, p. 290)

'Twas it?  'Twas "Anyone whose name is Mason is
automatickally a Member," i.e., a Free-Mason?  Or are
these Collegia ...


Main Entry: colžležgižum  
Pronunciation: k&-'le-gE-&m, -'lA-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural colžležgia  /-gE-&/; or
-giums
Etymology: modification of Russian kollegiya, from
Latin collegium
Date: 1917
: a group in which each member has approximately equal
power and authority

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... not Free, but merely Cheap? Let me know ...

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