Egypt. After his release, Moray returned to Britain and
attended the Masonic Lodge in Edinburgh again in 1647
where he was a signatory to the initiation of the Doctor of
Fisek, William Maxwell. Sir Robert took part in the failed
Royalist uprising of Glencairn and Middleton and left
Scotland for the continent as a refugee where he sought
refuge in the Dutch Republic. Once there, he maintained his
masonic interests. In 1659 , Moray joined an operative
masonic lodge in Maastricht and is thought to have been one
of the negotiators for the return of Charles II in 1660. He
certainly travelled to France on his behalf in January 1660.
During this time, Moray communicated often with his friend
Alexander Bruce, 2 nd Earl of Kincardine, including much
about his Mason's Mark of the five pointed star. Moray went
on to become one of the founders of the Royal Society and
was its President or Secretary between 1661 - 1662. He also
developed close relations with Constantijn and Christiaan
Huygens as well as Sir William Davidson. Moray was also
apparently visited several times by Charles II. Thereafter Sir
Robert took on a role as an agent, some might say spy, for
John Maitland, 2 nd Earl of Lauderdale in Scotland in 1667
where he used his Masonic symbol as a code that he he had
used invisible ink, a subject Stevenson has expounded
greatly upon noting that "Moray thus plays the secret agent
with evident enjoyment and in doing so associates the
pentacle, and the stars with which it is equated, with secrecy
and hidden mysteries. It symbolises invisibility, which was a
major theme in Rosicrucian literature, and which is bracketed
with both the Rosicrucians and Masonry in the 1620 s poem
previously quoted - 'second sight' consists of 'seeing' events
in the future". Moray has been described as the proto-link
between Scottish and Swedish Freemasonry. Anthony Wood
described him as 'a renowned chymist, a great patron of the
Rosie-Crucians [Rosicrucians] and an excellent
mathematician' while Samuel Pepys also spoke highly of him
in his diary.
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[ 92 ]Index auctorum, et librorum, qui ab officio Sanctae
Rom. & vniuersalis Inquisitionis caueri ab ab omnibus &
singulis in vniuersa christiana republica mandantur, sub
censuris contra legentes, vel tenentes libros prohibitos in
Bulla, quae lecta est in Coena Domini expressis, & sub aliis
poenis in decreto eiusdem sacri officii contentis. Apud
Antonium Bladum impensis Cameralem, 1559.
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intsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad= 0 #v=o
nepage&q&f=false[ 93 ]Common people: They were the most numerous class.
Ninety per cent of the European population were peasants
who lived on the land of the lords. Agriculture: The common
people were engaged in agricultural work. There were two
types of peasants: Villains: free men, they could marry and
leave the fief, although they did not own land. Serfs: they
occupied the lowest rung of society. They were not free,
could not marry without permission, nor leave the fief. They
worked with rudimentary tools, such as the hoe, sickle and
scythe, practised biennial rotation and cultivated mainly
cereals, although they also grew vegetables, vines and some
garden crops, such as onions, lettuce and fruit trees. They
were self-sufficient, i.e. they fed themselves with what they
produced.
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lase= 771246 &idcurso= 9868[ 94 ]The life of Robert Owen by Owen, Robert, 1771 - 1858.
Publication date 1920. Owen, Robert, 1771 - 1858. Publisher
New York, A.A. Knopf. Language En-glish. xiii pages, ll.,
352 pages 17 cm. "Chief works of Robert Owen": pages 337 -
338.
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