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ANZMRC logo 2005 ANZMRC Touring Lecturer's book

"Freemasons Templars & Gardeners"

by Robert LD Cooper


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2005 tour book

With a Foreword by Graham Stead

Edited, indexed and typeset by Tony Pope
Cover design by Tony Pope

<>Published Melbourne, 2005 by  Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Council
ISBN 0 9578256 2 5

xii + 250 pp including 15pp of index, B5 format, softbound, illustrated.
Recommended Retail Price A$32.00


<>To purchase a copy please contact the ANZMRC Secretary - email secretary @ anzmrc.org
PO Box 332, Williamstown Vic 3016 , Australia

Table of Contents
Foreword ....................................................................................................................................   v
Illustrations .................................................................................................................................. viii
Preface ........................................................................................................................................  ix
Itinerary ....................................................................................................................................... xii

1. The Origin and Development of the Order of Free Gardeners ..................................................... 1
2. The Operative Legacy within Scottish Freemasonry .................................................................. 95
3. Aprons - Operative to Speculative .......................................................................................... 106
4. Why No Masonic Tartan? ...................................................................................................... 114
5. Introduction to The Illustrated Guide to Rosslyn Chapel .......................................................... 118
6. Introduction to Genealogie of the Saintclaires of Rosslyn ......................................................... 125
7. The Knights Templar in Scotland: the Creation of a Myth ........................................................ 141
8. A New Masonic Catechism: the Airlie Manuscript of 1705 ..................................................... 220
9. Last Thoughts ........................................................................................................................ 232

Indexes ..................................................................................................................................... 236

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