The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

SUPPLKM ENTALK\CYCLOPEDIAthe Conqueror, who, after taking it, razed it to the ground.It was only partially rebuilt, and suffered much by fire in1137. This city is celebrated for its traditional connectionwith Masonry in that kingdom. No topic in the history ofFreemasonry has so much engaged the attention of modernMasonic scholars or given occasion to more discussion thanthe alleged facts of the existence of Masonry in the tenthcentury at the city of York, as the prominent point of thecalling of a congregation of the Craft there in 926, of theorganization of a General Assembly and the adoption of aConstitution. "During the whole of the last and the greaterpart of the present century the fraternity in general haveaccepted all of these statements as genuine portions ofauthentic history." (A. G. Mackey.)Ziklag A city of Judah and Simeon, on the bordersof the Philistines, who held it until the time of Saul, whenAchish, king of Gath, gave it to David. Hither many otherrefugees from Judah resorted, and David was thus enabledto aid Achish, and to chastise the Amalekites, who hadsacked Ziglag during hisabsence.206