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It is historically certain that the Swedish lodges derived their origin
from England. In 1731, Count Sparre, Master of the Horse, was
initiated in Paris, and in 1735, founded a lodge in Stockholm, but three
years afterwards the practice of masonry was forbidden under pain of
death. This prohibition was, however, of short duration, and Frederick
the Great, of Prussia, received a deputation from the Swedish Lodges.
Between 1740-5 masonry extended so considerably that in 1746 a
memorial coin was struck. In 1753 King Adolph Frederick recognized
and became Grand Master of masons in Sweden. In 1765 the Grand
Master, Lord Blaney, granted a warrant to Charles Fullman, secretary
of the British Legation, dated the 10th of April, and in 1770 the Grand
Lodge of Sweden was recognized by the English Grand Lodge.
The Order of the Temple was introduced by Gustavus III., under the
denomination of "Eques a corona vindicata". He succeeded Baron
Hoepken in the Grand Mastership in 1771, which he transferred to his
younger brother, Duke of Sundermannsland, afterwards Charles XIII.,
and the royal princes declared by a rescript of Gustavus IV. to be for
ever born Masons.
In 1803 an edict against secret societies was promulgated, from the
operation of which, however, Masons were excepted.
Charles XIV. succeeded to the Grand Mastership as Duke of
Sundermannsland, and John Bernadotte, on the change of the royal
line, nevertheless assumed the Grand Mastership as a prerogative of
the Crown.
The Swedish Minister in London, Count Lagardge, attended the Lodge
of Reconciliation in 1813.
Charles XIV. resigned the Grand Mastership to Prince Oscar on
ascending the throne in 1818.
In 1844 King Oscar I. assumed the title of Vicar of Solomon, which his
father had reserved to himself out of the grant. Charles XV. assumed
the Vicariat of Solomon, appointing his brother Grand Master.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was initiated and installed in
the Temple by Charles XV. on his visit to Stockholm in 1869.
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