MDDM18: Automatickally a Member

[jbor]

on 22/1/02 5:51 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> "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 ...

I think it means that some of the local Tavern-dwellers use this spiel to
coerce Mason into buying rounds of drinks for the table.

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