Curiously, Duffield blamed most of the troubles at Moose on the dominance of the Masons, the secretive organization that had influenced the HBC's founding father, Prince Rupert, and many of the crowned heads of Europe. Duffield's journal contains the bitter complaint that he felt he had been "dropp'd down amongst a nest of free and accepted Masons, without being initiated by the brethren, but as an intruder on their laws, by virtue of the Companys authority: and therefore at all events I was to be hoodwink'd and kept from discovering their secret measures... such a scandalous society." [p. 217.]

"No Gestapo intelligence report would have been complete without a reference to those legendary enemies, the Jews, the Communists and the Freemasons." [p. 131.] "Freemasonry, however, was a real danger. 'English freemasonry gives the impression of being a much stronger movement than in Germany. One met them more often and more openly.... I knew a number of students who were masons at twenty. It was nothing out of the ordinary to be asked by fellow-students whether one was a freemason. A freemason’s lodge met in the Students Club, the main hall of which was decorated with Masonic emblems.'" [p. 132.] "If the Germans demanded billets or bicycles, it was the mayor and his staff who had to find them; if they wanted a list of Jews, or Freemasons, or Jehovah’s Witnesses, a harmless sect which the Nazis had singled out for persecution, he had to provide it...." [p. 167.] "One organization supressed in the Channel Islands which would assuredly have suffered the same fate in Great Britain was the freemasons, who numbered about 450,000. Many British people have expressed distrust of this supposedly powerful secret society, but Hitler’s hatred of it reached the dimensions of a phobia and he believed it formed a conspiracy second to his old adversary 'international Jewry'. Freemasonry, despite the links between the Grand Lodges in different countries, made no known contribution to rescuing the victims of Nazi oppression or to any resistance movement, but Hitler described it to his cronies in 1942 as an immense enterprise of corruption' and (without irony) as 'a handful of men who are responsible for the war'. A month later he returned to the subject, boasting that he had known 'little towns that were entirely under the dominion of masonry', and had himself once refused an invitation to a 'full-dress gathering' of a local lodge with the courteous response ’save your saliva. For me, freemasonry’s poison.' Its rituals, he considered, 'transformed men who were quite sane and sober in their ordinary lives into informed apes'. The movement had been suppressed in Germany shortly after Hitler came to power, and former freemasons could only become Nazis if he gave his personal approval, but, he told his listeners, 'I grant absolution only to men whose entire lives bear witness to their indisputably nationalist feelings'. Shortly after their arrival on Jersey the Germans closed the Masonic Temple and forbade the Provincial Grand Master, the local head of the order, from holding any further meetings, and in 1941 a task-force of no fewer than thirty Germans—another of those 'column-dodging' groups with a soft job which flourished within the Security Service—arrived to make a detailed photographic record of the temple and strip it of all its elaborate decorations, which, with the ceremonial regalia, were shipped off for exhibition in Berlin, apparently to prove that British freemasonry was under the control of the Jews. Thereafter one or two small masonic meetings were held in private offices but officially 'the craft', as its members called it, had ceased to exist on the islands. 'Most of us felt a great loss', recalls one Jersey freemason. 'It was like losing something that you had owned from boyhood. But I think there were other things that worried us more at the time.' The sequence of events would have been the same in England, for Section III at Gestapo headquarters had already laid down, on 26 August 1940, that 'a separate Commando Group' was needed to 'deal with English freemasonry, with special attention paid to the relations between England and France and the Balkan countries, which to a large extent involve freemasons'—further evidence of Hitler’s belief in an international conspiracy of which Germany was the victim." [pp. 197-98.] The Innocent Man
John Grisham
New York : Bantam Del, 2007. pb. "The town's reputation for lawlessness changed dramatically in 1909, when the locals finally got fed up with living in fear. A respected rancher named Gus Bobbitt was gunned down by a professional killer hired by a rival landowner. The killer and three conspirators were arrested, and an epidemic of hanging fever swept through the town. Led by the Masons, the upstanding members of Ada, a lynch mob formed early on the morning of April 19, 1909. Forty members marched solemnly out of the Masonic Hall on Twelfth at Broadway in downtown Ada and arrived at the jail a few minutes later. They subdued the sheriff, yanked the four thugs out of their cells, and dragged them across the street to a livery stable that had been chosen for the occasion. Each of the four had his wrists and ankles bound with baling wire, then each was ceremoniously hanged." [p. 98.] Although billed as nonfiction, this book by novelist John Grisham fails to provide any citation for his claims. In fact, to date no one associated with the lynching has been identified. Journals Kept In France And Italy, From 1848 TO 1852. With a Sketch of the Revolution of 1848
Nassau William Senior (1790-1864)
London : Henry S. King $ Co., 65 Cornhill, 1872, p. 69.
'I said that I was told that the distinction between noble and roturier existed in its full force in real life. '"Yes," said Tocqueville, "it does, meaning by noble, gentilhomme; and it is a great misfortune, since it keeps up distinctions and animosities of caste; but it is incurable—at least, it has not been cured, or perhaps much palliated, by our sixty years of revolution. It is a sort of Freemasonry. When I talk to a gentilhomme, though we have not two ideas in common, though all his opinions, wishes, and thoughts are opposed to mine, yet I feel at once that we belong to the same family, that we speak the same language, that we understand one another. I may like a bourgeois better, but he is a stranger." The "Jewish Threat" : Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Joseph W. Bendersky
New York : Basic Books / Perseus Books Group, 2000. 538 p. hc. pp. 65-66. ISBN: 0-465-00617-5 Chapter Two: Military Intelligence and International Jewry" 1917-1919 Despite Trevor’s* fairly accurate guess on the historical origins of the fraudulent Protocols, he seriously entertained the possibility of a different source of international Jewish influence. While researching the Protocols, his investigator had uncovered a source suggesting that

Freemasonry is, unknown to most of the craft, managed by five or six Jews who lend its influence in every possible way to the furtherance of the Anti-Christian movement that passes under the name of Liberalism. The constant influx into the English speaking countries of Jews and Continental Freemasons must necessarily impregnate the order with all the poison of the Continental sect. (53)

Under the authority of such an amendment, Congress could then pass an act inflicting imprisonment for life for the first offence, and some sort of lingering death for subsequent ones; and this, no doubt, would presently give us a rest. At the same time, the amendment and the resulting act and penalties might easily be made to cover various cognate abuses, such as the Annual Veteran-who-has-Voted-for-Every-President-from-Washington-down, and Walked-to-the-Polls-Yesterday-with-as-Bright-an-Eye-and-as-Firm-a-Step-as-Ever, and ten or eleven other weary yearly marvels of that sort, and of the Oldest-Freemason, and Oldest-Printer, and Oldest-Baptist-Preacher, and Oldest-Alumnus sort, and Three-Children-Born-at-Birth sort, and so on, and so on. [p. 410.]

"I had just commenced speaking when one of the men began to swear and use indecent language and made a rush for me with his fist drawn. I made a Masonic sign of distress, when to my relief and yet to my surprise, a planter pushed to my aid. He took the drunken men and led them out of the crowd and then sat by me during the rest of the sermon, thus giving me full protection. That man was a stranger to me but he was a good man and a true Mason." [p. 169.]

"It was toward the end of my time and one day as I was walking round and round the prison yard at exercise I noticed a man, another prisoner, signalling to me. He was a perfect stranger to me. I could see from his clothes — he was not in prison dress — that he was a prisoner on remand. I took no notice of him at first because at the time I was on the Governor's good books, Major Nelson had been very kind to me and I did not want to get reported for communicating with another prisoner in the exercise yard. It is a grave offence. I had been punished once before. But when he had again attracted my attention he made that Masonic sign to me which is known as The Sign of the Widow's Son. Which is an appeal from one brother mason to another when in direct distress which cannot be disregarded under any circumstances and must be responded to. So I was obliged to respond to the man and very fortunately escaped attracting the attention of the warders, but I was determined not to run the risk again, especially as it was quite out of my power to help the brother mason. I asked to see the Governor after I got back to my cell and I told him how I was placed between my desire not to break the prison regulations and my pledged duty to my order. I did not, of course, indicate in any way who was the man who had signalled to me. And a ruse was decided upon. If my eyes were bad and I couldn't see well I could not be expected to respond to Masonic signals. So next time I went out to exercise I had been fitted by the prison doctor with a pair of dark blue goggles, and after that the man left me alone."

"The Masonic third degree is the allegorical crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Hiram Abiff, the teacher, or guru, who is analogous to Christ. [p. 125.] "The gift of that name [I am that I am] —the Lost Word of Masonry—was the dispensation for the twelve tribes, who were destined to establish peace in America through their realization of the inner Christ consciousness, or the Masonic Hiram Abiff as the archetype of each one’s Real Self—the mediator between the soul and the universal Spirit." [p. 128.] "Estimates vary, but as many as fifty-three of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were Masons. All but five of the fifty-five members of the Constitutional Convention were Masons. All the leading generals in the Continental Army were Masons." [p. 131.]

"George Dixon's friend and executor of his estate Henry Willey successfully petitioned Mobile's probate court in February 1866 for permission to sell off the worldly possessions that Dixon left behind. Those items included various Masonic books, a flannel coat, a leather valise, a leather trunk, and Dixon's Confederate Army officer's uniform." [p. 205.] Sex in History
Reay Tannahall
London : Shere Books Ltd, 1989. ISBN: 0 7474 0522 0.
'It is occasionally argued that, to begin with, circumcision was used as a mark of the tribe, a sign that would distinguish the children of Israel from their polytheistic neighbors; if so, it was a singularly inconvenient one in a fully clothed society where "indecent exposure" was a cardinal sin. Nor did it permit evasion or denial of race when the circumcised fell into the hands of enemies. Something like the tikka mark of the Hindus, the sprig of herb stuck in a Highlander’s bonnet, or the characteristic handshake of the Masonic order, would have been a more satisfactory recognition symbol.' [p. 58.] "It was the old international conspiracy theory — usually applied to Jews, but also, at various times, to such sects as Freemasons and Rosicrucians...." [p. 374.] 'In 1906 Maximilian Harden, publisher of the Berlin periodical Die Zukunft, decided to open everyone's eyes to the danger of a Urnings' [aristocratic homosexuals] alliance. These people formed, he said, "a camradeship which is stronger than that of the monastic orders or of Freemasonry, which grips tighter and makes a link across all the walls of creed, state, and class, which unites the most remote, the most foreign, in a fraternal league of offense and defence.' [p. 374.] Sherman: A Soldier's Life
Lee Kennett
New York : HarperCollins Perennial, 2001. ISBN : 978-0-06-093074-5.
In the spring of 1829 Judge Sherman [Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman's father] was forty-one years old. He was holding court in the town of Lebanon on June 18 when he was suddenly taken ill. Friends sent to Cincinnati for the best medical help and dispatched an express messenger to Lancaster, a hundred miles away. As soon as she got word Mary Sherman started to Lebanon by coach. She had gone about halfway when a second messenger met her with word that her husband was dead. For Charles Sherman's widow and children [nine-year-old William and ten siblings] 1829 was a watershed year. Family and friends stepped in to help; money was taken up, and the Masons were particularly helpful. [p. 8-9] Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diaspora
Lynn Panl
New York : Kodansha Globe, 1997. ISBN : 9781568360324 Kodansha Globe Series Volume: no. 197. 432 p.
In describing the misnamed Chinese Freemasons : "The arcanum of freemasonry — secret signs, passwords, initiation ritual, symbolisms, oaths, and other form of hocus-pocus — had its fascinations and no doubt engendered romantic notions." [p. 20.] Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
Noah Andre Trudeau
New York: HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-059868-6
In the late autumn of 1864, in the closing months of the US Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman led a force of 62,000 Union troops on a five-week march across central Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah. Engaging in a scorched-earth policy, his army burned or demolished an estimated $200 million of public and private property, leaving a swath of destruction nearly 80 kilometres wide and 500 kilometres long.

Emma High's resourceful mother produced her husband's Masonic apron to back her request for help from any society member in the group of soldiers outside her home [in Madison, Georgia]. An officer stepped forward, took charge, and posted a guard." (page 141)

"Also on the target was Park's Mill. [....] The mill owner's wife played the Mason card, which secured a guard for her residence, though her smokehouse was emptied by the hungry Federals." (page 154)

[Robert Samber is known to masonic students as the author of Long Livers... and his claimed authorship of Albert-Henri de Sallengre's In Praise of Drunkenness. Further notes can be found in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum vol xi (1898). Sultana
Alan Huffman
Smithsonian Books / Harper-Collins, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-147054-7. p. 148.
From the prison diary of Pvt. Samuel Melvin, a 20-year-old Union soldier captured in Virginia during the US Civil War and held at Andersonville, the notorious Confederate military prison in Macon County, Georgia. He died of dysentery four months into his captivity and was buried there.

July 3 [1864] : Only think, tomorrow is the immortal 4th. If I were only in Boston my joy would be unspeakable. I can't imagine the joy if Dow and I were there, free and accepted, in all things as well as Masonry.

Periodicals Λ

After taking a trip to Paris, Dresden, Vienna, and Prague, he returned to Venice in 1755 and was imprisoned "for magic and for freemasonry."

"The group went by many names and descriptions, among them the broken Latin handle Dominus Obsequious Sororium, or DOS. It was a vow, a sorority, a secret society like the Freemasons, an elite talent agency or a "badass bitch bootcamp.""

"Mr. Raniere's status as the "grandmaster" overseeing the operation was hidden and outright denied to everyone but his most loyal fixers."

"In the 14th century the Spanish Inquisition began targeting "conversos," Jews who had converted to Catholicism but were believed to be still practising Judaism in secret. Of course, that wasn't enough. To protect the faith - whether it be Catholicism or wokeism - you have to ensure the orthodoxy is widespread and enforced. So the Inquisition then went after moriscos (Muslims who had converted), and then Lutherans, and then Freemasons. There was always a target."

Perfomance Λ

Lenny Bruce (1925/10/13-1966/08/03) gave a three hour and seven minute concert at San Francisco's Curran Theatre less than two weeks after his 8 November 1961 arrest for obscenity. Near the beginning of his performance, he makes two references to Freemasonry. Fantasy Records 34201-1(1971).

Radio Λ

Coast to Coast (2004)
A nationally sindicated political call-in talk show, Coast to Coast AM, broadcast on the 50,000-watt station, KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada, made several references to Freemasonry.

Television Λ

Cops Under Fire (2008)
In one sequence from this reality television show, a deputy sheriff's teenage son in Willoughby, Ohio speeds off after being pulled over for stealing from people's mailboxes. Filmed on a snowy day in December 2002, after the chase ends with the teenager's vehicle spinning off the road, the narrator says:

"These kids won't be going straight to jail however. But that's not because of any favoritism or, possibly, Dad's being in the masons, but because they both need to spend a lot of time in hospital first." [09:28:31]

The Fuzz! Cops Under Fire. youtube Uploaded by CopsCarsandCrashes on Nov 10, 2008 Global News Hour at 6 BC
As part of a news segment in Vancouver, BC, regarding a local restarant owner who refused to follow the BC Health Office COVID guide, one interviewee is noted:"One of the speakers at the rally was this women, a regular attendee of COVID protest rallies. Friday, she told us we need to investigate the role of the Freemasons in the lockdowns." globalnews.ca Accessed 2021/04/24. Shipping Wars (2012)
Shipper, Jarrett Joyce wins the bid to ship a new mini 18-wheeler for the Shriners of Khedive Temple in North Carolina. Executive producer: Jonathan Nowzaradan; co-executive producers: Elaine Frontain Bryant, Neil A. Cohen, Graham Davidson, Jeff Keels, David McKillop, Tom Mireles. Camera setup: Ryan Benton Miller. Starring: Roy Garber, Marc Springer, Jennifer Brennan, Jarrett Joyce, Christopher Hanna, Robbie Welsh. : "Jennifer's Arch" (Season 1, Episode 8)31 January 2012, Colour, Mono, 22 min., Megalomedia, A&E.