AND HIS

HIS SECRET SOCIETY.

AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT AND UNITE THE LOST LINKS
OF A LONG AND STRONG CHAIN.

BY MRS. HENRY POTT.

"Commend it, or amend it."

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY,

LIMITED,

St. Dunstan's House,

FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.

1891.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF
GEORGE RICHARD BLINN
SEP 10 1926

"GO. LITEL BOOKE, GODDE SEND THEE GOOD PASSAGE,

AND SPECIALIE LETTE THIS BE THY PRAIER,

UNTO THEM ALLE THAT THEE WIL REDE OR HEARE:

WHER THOU ART WRONG, AFTER THEIR HELP TO CALLE
THEE TO CORECTE IN ANIE PARTE ATTE ALLE."

-Chaucer.

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY FRANCIS J. SCHULTE.

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TO THE

"Young Schollars of the Universities,”

"SONS OF THE MORNING,"

I dedicate this Book,

Confident that they will not disappoint the prophetic hope of

FRANCIS BACON

that, in the "New Birth of Time,” his “Filii Scientiarum" would accomplish his work, and "hand

down the Lamp" to the Next Ages.