Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 089

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The second Freemason’s Lodge in Chch was opened in Manchester St in a building somewhere near Coker’s present. The moving spirit was John William Oram, and it was a regular Cave of [illegible] and a house of refuge and reception for [illegible] of aspirants to Masonry who were sternly refused a passage over the threshold of the Select Home of the Craft.