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The Lives of those eminent Antiquarians John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony a’Wood, Volume 2

Date:- 1772 -

UGLE Classification:- 1192 LIV - History (Non-masonic): Biography, Individual

WMLMT Classification:- Biography

Order:- Non-Masonic

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With an authentick account of their respective writings and Publications, from Original Papers.

Leland’s life is of importance Masonically because of the supposed connection of that antiqnary with the forged “Leland-Locke” MS., which, for a time, was so popular with the early school of Masonic critics (see Preston, Hutchinson, and others). This document is now “dead as a door nail.”